Steve Burd
@stephenburd.bsky.social
Senior Writer and Editor in New America's Education Policy Program. Views expressed here are mine alone.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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My statement on McMahon's plan to dismember the U.S. Department of Education.
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
My statement on McMahon's plan to dismember the U.S. Department of Education.
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
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Remember when Trump insisted that there were riots on the streets of Portland? It's because Fox News deliberately spliced footage of the 2020 riots into contemporary footage.
It's kinda funny, but the fact that the most powerful man in the world can be so easily manipulated is a bit 😬
It's kinda funny, but the fact that the most powerful man in the world can be so easily manipulated is a bit 😬
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Remember when Trump insisted that there were riots on the streets of Portland? It's because Fox News deliberately spliced footage of the 2020 riots into contemporary footage.
It's kinda funny, but the fact that the most powerful man in the world can be so easily manipulated is a bit 😬
It's kinda funny, but the fact that the most powerful man in the world can be so easily manipulated is a bit 😬
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The Jeffrey Epstein emails are astonishing not so much for the chumminess he enjoyed with elites even after he’d served time for soliciting prostitution with a minor but for their flagrantness, their casual disregard, and their indifference to consequence.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
The Corrupt Roots of America’s Elite Run Deep
It’s the Impunity, Stupid In reviewing a portion of the 20,000-plus Jeffrey...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The Jeffrey Epstein emails are astonishing not so much for the chumminess he enjoyed with elites even after he’d served time for soliciting prostitution with a minor but for their flagrantness, their casual disregard, and their indifference to consequence.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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… and The Onion had no choice but to admit it was bested by reality and shut down.
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
… and The Onion had no choice but to admit it was bested by reality and shut down.
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Will the Trump-Epstein connection ever break through to MAGA?
There is some evidence that at 30-40% "incongruent information", people turn against their candidates.
But below that, doubling-down is strong. Cognitive dissonance is hard for people to handle.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
There is some evidence that at 30-40% "incongruent information", people turn against their candidates.
But below that, doubling-down is strong. Cognitive dissonance is hard for people to handle.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Will the Trump-Epstein connection ever break through to MAGA?
There is some evidence that at 30-40% "incongruent information", people turn against their candidates.
But below that, doubling-down is strong. Cognitive dissonance is hard for people to handle.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
There is some evidence that at 30-40% "incongruent information", people turn against their candidates.
But below that, doubling-down is strong. Cognitive dissonance is hard for people to handle.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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i don't think this is what lolita is about
Interesting email here from Elisa New, Harvard professor and wife to Larry Summers, to Epstein, reflecting on Lolita.
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
i don't think this is what lolita is about
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GOP Rep. Bacon: "I do think this was a PR disaster for the White House. When you tell everybody you're going to release everything, that you have the names of all the clients, and then you then you come back and say, 'oh, there was none.' This was a self-inflicted wound by the White House."
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
GOP Rep. Bacon: "I do think this was a PR disaster for the White House. When you tell everybody you're going to release everything, that you have the names of all the clients, and then you then you come back and say, 'oh, there was none.' This was a self-inflicted wound by the White House."
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I find it highly ironic that the party that bemoaned the deep state and alleged the cover-up of pedophiles is now embroiled in defending the party that has the largest pedophile cover-up in American history.
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I find it highly ironic that the party that bemoaned the deep state and alleged the cover-up of pedophiles is now embroiled in defending the party that has the largest pedophile cover-up in American history.
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
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“My work is not done — despite my best efforts, there are still children alive and well in the state of Texas.”
Fuck everything today, but especially this man.
Greg Abbott announces reelection campaign for record fourth term as Texas governor
Gov. Greg Abbott formally announced his fourth gubernatorial run in Houston on Sunday. The incumbent Republican, who currently has around $87 million in his campaign war chest, will face two opponents...
www.kut.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“My work is not done — despite my best efforts, there are still children alive and well in the state of Texas.”
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Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."
For once, I believe him.
For once, I believe him.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."
For once, I believe him.
For once, I believe him.
I wonder how much the moderate Dems who caved to the GOP were worried about losing the filibuster. I have a feeling that this threat played a bigger role than is being reported.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I wonder how much the moderate Dems who caved to the GOP were worried about losing the filibuster. I have a feeling that this threat played a bigger role than is being reported.
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Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
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my parents were in town this weekend and I played catch with my dad for like 30 minutes and just talked and it was the absolute best time.
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
my parents were in town this weekend and I played catch with my dad for like 30 minutes and just talked and it was the absolute best time.
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These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
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If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.
someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.
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Powell: "Higher tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods, resulting in higher overall inflation."
October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Powell: "Higher tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods, resulting in higher overall inflation."
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Social media is this guy's entire lifeworld. Terminal brain poisoning.
DON JR: I was one of the early people calling out Twitter 1.0. Yesterday I was getting 5,000 RTs a post. Today I got 5. Something changed. I do my own social media.
EISEN: Maybe it was a bad post
DON JR: I can tell when it's a bad post. Sometimes I hit that send button, I know it's a banger.
EISEN: Maybe it was a bad post
DON JR: I can tell when it's a bad post. Sometimes I hit that send button, I know it's a banger.
October 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Social media is this guy's entire lifeworld. Terminal brain poisoning.
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Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"
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The whole time on the Jan 6 committee, every republicans talking point to the media was “It’s just time to move on and look forward.” Now they are obsessed and on their SECOND investigation of the investigation and of course are at a brick wall
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The whole time on the Jan 6 committee, every republicans talking point to the media was “It’s just time to move on and look forward.” Now they are obsessed and on their SECOND investigation of the investigation and of course are at a brick wall
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This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:
"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."
"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."
October 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:
"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."
"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."