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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11h

I mean, I think the fact that the NYT employs Douthat full-time to launder the views of fascists for their readership is kind of the point.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11h

The fact that Ross Douthat is employed by the New York Times, the most important "liberal" media institution in the country and that Chris Rufo is one of their favorite sources, should probably illustrate the problem.

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 5h

You don't have to link to them either.

Seriously, cancel your NYTimes subscription. Don't pay for and then spread their propaganda, even as "hate reads."

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 5h

I would buy your tell-all book on this so fast.

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 5h

Nazis gonna Nazi. The NYTimes is what it is and that is Nazi.

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 5h

Do you, though? You work for the paper pushing white nationalist lies via highly paid columnists. And your own desk - criminal justice! - keeps running cover for Gestapo-like masked secret police.

If you work for a Nazi paper, you're a Nazi. And you aren't Oscar Schindler.

Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah. That's how they dupe otherwise decent people into paying for Ross Douthat to advance the causes of white Christian nationalism.

If you don't want to advance white Christian nationalism, you shouldn't subscribe to or read the New York Times, not even the occasional good sentences.

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Diesel Bug Has An Irrational Amount Of Freedom @dieselbug1137.bsky.social · 7h

If the only thing that's fully funded by the government is the police. Then you live in a police state. That's just how numbers work. It's fair to judge a society by how it chooses to allocate resources.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 5h

The Saturday Night Massacre was an illegal set of politically motivated firings done by the Nixon administration.

The phrase "____ night massacre" is broadly understood to mean corrupt, illegal firings by a president.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 6h

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 9h

The people put in power by Trump’s MAGA movement are sadists, who actually *enjoy* hurting people they see as their lessers. And that often includes their own followers.

Psychopathic sadists drunk on real power.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Lawrence Bailey @lawrencembailey.bsky.social · 12h

'In Fascist America, Drugs Pay You!'

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10h

the president of the united states who has access to unprecedented levels of intel and up to the minute daily briefings is instead making statements based on fox news broadcasts from 2020 that his staff has convinced him is happening right now

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 13h

My comment was somewhat facetious. While I do honestly think we need to remove the Republicans from SCOTUS because they are lawless and anticonstitutional, I also think court expansion is good.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 20h

every dollar you spend for a subscription to a major publication like the times or wapo is better spent on propublica and local and independent media

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 20h

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 21h

70-something white people who watch too much Fox News probably believe this shit because propaganda works extra well on aged brains that are slowing down.

So we should be worried that 80% of the Democratic caucus in the Senate also might believe it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

i feel like everything bari weiss does is treated like she's a network exec in 1973 when she's really just a LARPer at the helm of a particularly irrelevant brand while TV news is dying.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 1d

I honestly think the reason is even simpler than that. Stephen Miller just likes murdering people.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics.

“Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i’ll never get over this

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

This seems not great.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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