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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
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This piece from LGBTQ Nation highlights WaPo's attempt (and failure) to push that narrative www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/frie...
Friends of accused Charlie Kirk shooter say he never talked about trans issues - LGBTQ Nation
A new report undercuts the Trump administration's anti-trans narrative around Kirk's assassination.
www.lgbtqnation.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This piece from LGBTQ Nation highlights WaPo's attempt (and failure) to push that narrative www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/frie...
yes, for fuck's sake, progressives and all people who are not racists should always write racists off as beyond the pale what the actual fuck
there is never a time or a place where that is acceptable
how is this hard to understand, it's not complicated
there is never a time or a place where that is acceptable
how is this hard to understand, it's not complicated
i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.
December 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
yes, for fuck's sake, progressives and all people who are not racists should always write racists off as beyond the pale what the actual fuck
there is never a time or a place where that is acceptable
how is this hard to understand, it's not complicated
there is never a time or a place where that is acceptable
how is this hard to understand, it's not complicated
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ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?
December 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
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The document is extremely light on the “strategy” part, but is chock full of naked racism and Great Replacement rhetoric.
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-nati...
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-nati...
We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.
www.publicnotice.co
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The document is extremely light on the “strategy” part, but is chock full of naked racism and Great Replacement rhetoric.
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-nati...
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-nati...
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in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
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love it when the paper of record puts together a panel on journalism with no journalists lmao
![• The NYT announced the lineup for the Andrew Ross Sorkin-anchored
DealBook summit, which included one curious name: Erika Kirk. [NYT]
• A panel on journalism hosted by Michael Barbaro will include: Charlamagne Tha God, Jon Favreau, Amna Nawaz, David Remnick, Stephanie Ruhle, Andrew Schulz, and Ben Shapiro.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cvhu7p2bziajywpce7yrlevy/bafkreicn7lw6rvcuzeggxpnhbut62ogrvpbikaomwvfq2qsel3sx777uoq@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
love it when the paper of record puts together a panel on journalism with no journalists lmao
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You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.
I’m sorry, but a goofy looking guy who grew up a privileged son of a pediatrician and has a phd in social theory from the university of Goethe and started in tech by investing an inheritance left to him by his grandfather talking about being a “dude” is very, very funny to me.
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.
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sound on. I’m still laughing
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
sound on. I’m still laughing
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So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!
This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
October 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!
This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
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im tired of repeating this but
- trump is an addicted fox news watcher
- on fox, the "average" snap recipient is a poor black person. the kind of person the network mocks as a loud, fat, mooch screaming for their "obama phone"
- thats why trump and the other gopers say its a dem (BLACK) issue
- trump is an addicted fox news watcher
- on fox, the "average" snap recipient is a poor black person. the kind of person the network mocks as a loud, fat, mooch screaming for their "obama phone"
- thats why trump and the other gopers say its a dem (BLACK) issue
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
im tired of repeating this but
- trump is an addicted fox news watcher
- on fox, the "average" snap recipient is a poor black person. the kind of person the network mocks as a loud, fat, mooch screaming for their "obama phone"
- thats why trump and the other gopers say its a dem (BLACK) issue
- trump is an addicted fox news watcher
- on fox, the "average" snap recipient is a poor black person. the kind of person the network mocks as a loud, fat, mooch screaming for their "obama phone"
- thats why trump and the other gopers say its a dem (BLACK) issue
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working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
September 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
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You put your right claim in, you put your left claim in, you leave the context out and you turn yourself about. You do the okey dokie and you pat yourself on the back. That’s what it’s all about
Collect a claim from one side, collect a claim from the other, present them both to the reader with an awkward shrug and a "who can say?"
And the photo choice -- Noem's looking down ... on what? The reverse angle showed a small crowd and a quiet street. But can't show that, it's biased to one side!
And the photo choice -- Noem's looking down ... on what? The reverse angle showed a small crowd and a quiet street. But can't show that, it's biased to one side!
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
October 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
You put your right claim in, you put your left claim in, you leave the context out and you turn yourself about. You do the okey dokie and you pat yourself on the back. That’s what it’s all about
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Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
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The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.
I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now
I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
October 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.
I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now
I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now
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who could forget when TFP published a totally dishonest hatchet job on a youth gender clinic from a bilious transphobe that (again) turned out to be bullshit, and she refused to take that down too prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
The Useful Idiots Fueling the Right-Wing Transphobia Panic
Today on TAP: Prominent center-left journalists were swindled by obvious nonsense about a St. Louis gender clinic.
prospect.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
who could forget when TFP published a totally dishonest hatchet job on a youth gender clinic from a bilious transphobe that (again) turned out to be bullshit, and she refused to take that down too prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
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gonna go to my grave muttering about how this charlatan unironically cited an "Official Antifa" Twitter account in the NYT bsky.app/profile/jame...
perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
October 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
gonna go to my grave muttering about how this charlatan unironically cited an "Official Antifa" Twitter account in the NYT bsky.app/profile/jame...
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One of the consistent things I keep seeing, from news, punditry, social media, is demands that Dems do certain things, then simply disbelieving that Dems have already done or tried those exact things. B/c those things being successful is treated as a given, them not working means they weren't done
He cites Hillary’s ‘deplorables’ comment as an example of this but she went out of her way to say many of Trump’s supporters are good people! She was trying to separate voters with legitimate concerns from 4chan psychos and right wing media turned it into a gaffe. She was doing what he wants!
September 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
One of the consistent things I keep seeing, from news, punditry, social media, is demands that Dems do certain things, then simply disbelieving that Dems have already done or tried those exact things. B/c those things being successful is treated as a given, them not working means they weren't done
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really need to emphasize the small cities part. i have mentioned this before, but you'll see people on facebook talk about charlottesville like its ridley scott's mogadishu
the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me
September 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
really need to emphasize the small cities part. i have mentioned this before, but you'll see people on facebook talk about charlottesville like its ridley scott's mogadishu
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Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this?
A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?
A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?
The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.
Here’s a thought.
Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
Here’s a thought.
Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
September 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this?
A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?
A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?
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Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.
www.status.news
September 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...