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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1h

Did the New York Times have an editorial meeting where they said something like “these are trustworthy people, we should take their word, put it headlines, that’s good journalism.”

Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”?

Or do they just sorta do it?

“U.S. Strikes 2nd Boat in Pacific as Antidrug Operation Expands”

New York Times headline, October 23, 2025.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/trump-drug-boat-strike-colombia.html

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 47m

"It's a neo-Nazi hellhole" is not a phrase that can have a "but" afterwards

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

man

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 10h

Updating my LEGO White House

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Dr. Friedmanstein's Monster🇺🇦 @silkscreenfiend.bsky.social · 1h

And our habit of treating his crimes like just Donald-being-Donald sends a strong message to voters that they must not be crimes, because if they were, we'd be treating them as crimes. His trick is committing them in the open, which sets the stage for this bizarre situation.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

Good: Jamie Raskin tells me he's formally demanding any/all internal communications between WH and DOJ on Trump's $230 million payoff.

More Dems should talk this way about Trump's criming. He's turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...

Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse

It’s bad enough that Trump wants—and DOJ will likely fork over—this tribute payment. Now, get this: It can probably be done at first without even being revealed publicly.

newrepublic.com

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h

One of the most photographed buildings in the world, this should be a cinch

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 10h

Seems like a great moment for some magazine to do a big spread of photos of the East Wing throughout its history, driving home exactly what kinds of spaces have been taken from the people.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 43m

When they are civil and flattering to *you*, it is entirely too easy to let that do its work on you and decide that, you know, this one guy isn't THAT bad and maybe has some good points and maybe you shouldn't be SO harsh about these people, you'll hurt your friend's feelings

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 46m

Back when I was infiltrating early Nazi Telegram, I very quickly came to the conclusion that it is outright DANGEROUS to cultivate on-background relationships with Nazis as sources.

Because I encountered too many researchers who were clearly compromised as a result of that sort of contact.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Sep 18

Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.

GROSS: After you profiled Kirk, and I think that was published back in February, you stayed in touch with him. And I think you were texting each other the day before he was killed.

DRAPER: That's correct. I'll tell you also, Terry, that the story, as you say, was published in February of this year. But I would say for a full year prior to that, Kirk and I had been getting to know each other, and he would often reach out to me. And I thought this was an interesting aspect to Kirk, that he would reach out to me just to run things by me. Not asking so much for my opinion - because, as a journalist, I couldn't give it - but just as a reality check, he'd say, I'm hearing from the right that this particular viewpoint is prevalent from the left. Am I just living in a bubble, or is that true?

GROSS: How would you respond to that?

DRAPER: Well, sometimes I would say, you know, I think what you're hearing you're hearing from the right-wing media ecosystem, and it's not supported by reality as I understand it. And he would take that and be grateful for it. There was also a time I reached out to him, I remember, to say, I'd like to talk to you off the record about the religious context in which so many people in the MAGA community are viewing Donald Trump. Can you explain to me how they see him as this sort of flawed vessel, like King David or something? And he was very fluent in describing that to me.

And so we had that kind of back-and-forth well predating the publication of the story, and continued to since then. I had dinner with him in D.C. once, I think, a couple of months before he was killed, and I remember he brought security with him. They sat at the bar. And he seemed very casual about it, which is not to say that he was utterly unconcerned. But it was essentially the cost of doing business, that that was just the world that we were in.

I was texting with him the day before the assassination because I wanted to come to Arizona and have dinner with him and his wife to catch up on various things. But also, there's a major magazine project that I'm beginning. And I wanted Kirk's thoughts about it, but not on the phone and not in writing. It just required a face-to-face. And he wrote back saying, absolutely. We would love to have you over for dinner. Just pick a date in September. And I think I sent, a few hours later, the text, how about September 23? And obviously, I never heard back.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 10h

had to put this one together from the archives but: called it again

Twitter conversation:
kthorjensen: Didn't know that Matt Gaetz's fiancee is VR soy-pepe Palmer Luckey's sister. I guess pedophiles really do stick together
palmerluckey: Is there a reason you think I am a pedophile, or are you just an idiot?
kthorjensen: Just playing the odds

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors

Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 14h

Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling

The Trump administration plans to open whole swaths of the East and West Coasts to offshore drilling, including areas previously protected for environmental reasons, documents show.

www.yahoo.com

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 13h

Turns out "Sopo Japaridze" is an alias: her real name is Teona Henderson and while she is 'Georgian', that's Georgia via Atlanta, not Sakartvelo.

Russian shills always use the same playbook.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

if I was one of the leftists obsessed with Stancil I might take a moment and think "why I am siding with a Nazi harassment campaign?"

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

I am hardly the only person being subjected to this treatment, although I think I'm in a small population that gets the worst of it. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that these people are trying to have me murdered. I suspect that unless one of these institutions takes steps, they will succeed.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

It's maddening, watching so many institutions - the government, Apple and Google, the media - pretend this isn't happening, because they're scared of Musk and afraid to say what he has become. There is a huge community that is trying to kill me and others. How do I stop it? Apparently, I can't.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

I am hardly the only person being subjected to this treatment, although I think I'm in a small population that gets the worst of it. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that these people are trying to have me murdered. I suspect that unless one of these institutions takes steps, they will succeed.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

This is the neo-Nazi who Twitter employees banned - and who Elon personally unbanned, shortly afterwards. Musk talks to him frequently, promotes his material. He is overtly a Nazi, hates Jews, supports the massacre of Jews and nonwhites. He is very clearly trying to get me killed.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

This is a huge story - the richest man on earth, who regularly promotes and talks to neo-Nazis on his self-owned forum, now using his neo-Nazi friends to use that forum to target their enemies. Let's be clear: these people absolutely intend for their anonymous far-right psycho buddies to kill us.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

At one point recently, a Twitter employee banned several extremely prominent neo-Nazis who had done this (50k+ followers). Musk personally intervened to unban them.

It is unconscionable that Apple, Google, and Microsoft leave this app listed. Musk is out of control and someone is going to die.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

Donald the Dove

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 15h

US bailing out the Argentine peso, bombing Colombians, plotting regime change in Venezuela and expropriation of the Panama canal, beefing with Brazilian exporters, destroying its own supply chains in Mexico, disappearing American Latinos into Salvadoran concentration camps

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 15h

thoroughly nazified american industry lol

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 17h

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 17h

You guys, the person exercising the powers of the presidency is constitutionally disqualified from holding the office and he’s having the White House bulldozed. This is true and it’s happening, right? I’m not dreaming this?

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23h

like Lovett voted for Warren in 2020, he's not a dirtbag left guy. but when you're marinating in Nazi algo slop for hours a day, a lil ole SS tattoo seems like nbd

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 1d

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 1d

Its so cool (derogatory) that we were specifically told that this would be an addition tacked onto the existing East Wing

I don't know why I didn't think they'd lie about something like that, but there you have it

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

Oh okay. So, they just destroyed the fucking entire East Wing of the White House. Sick. Awesome.

Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing captures the current state of U.S. democracy as accurately as this (real) picture of the White House.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

The first time the Confederate flag ever paraded through the US Capitol was on January 6, 2021.

The first time the White House was damaged in over 200 years since the US rebuilt in the 1820s after the British burned it in the war of 1812 was mid October, 2025.

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