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All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.
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Read a few of those leaked emails between illiterate billionaires and the first paragraph of the NYT glazing Nuzzi and you will be inoculated against impostor syndrome for the next 10 years. Do you have a halfway functioning brain? Congratulations you are a golden god
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Read a few of those leaked emails between illiterate billionaires and the first paragraph of the NYT glazing Nuzzi and you will be inoculated against impostor syndrome for the next 10 years. Do you have a halfway functioning brain? Congratulations you are a golden god
I think we have to start seriously reckoning with the idea that the "elite" class are some of the least elite people on the planet...and the rest of us are at their mercy.
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I think we have to start seriously reckoning with the idea that the "elite" class are some of the least elite people on the planet...and the rest of us are at their mercy.
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does this look like extremely buttoned down responsible journalism to you? or does it look like something else. and not in service of cutting corners to get a massive scoop
NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
Chris Rufo "a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal"
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NYT front page coverage all the time!
By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
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NYT front page coverage all the time!
By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
does this look like extremely buttoned down responsible journalism to you? or does it look like something else. and not in service of cutting corners to get a massive scoop
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here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
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and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc
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I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc
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A *ton* of autism focused groups are struggling financially this year as the federal government attacks the community. The Somali Parents Autism Network here in Minnesota supports Somali families in providing culturally competent resources on autism for them. They need $25,000 by year end.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A *ton* of autism focused groups are struggling financially this year as the federal government attacks the community. The Somali Parents Autism Network here in Minnesota supports Somali families in providing culturally competent resources on autism for them. They need $25,000 by year end.
This part. It's wild that people like Larry Summers and Ken Starr used their personal emails with their WHOLE GOVERNMENT NAMES to communicate with a convicted pedophile. I don't even put slightly critical comments about coworkers in emails...?
Look I've done a lot of tough reporting on Hollywood (and sometimes leaked emails have been my friend) but at least a percentage of industry people know not to send an email that boils down to "hey I had a fun time doing horrific crimes with you, want to circle back and do more crimes next week y/n"
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This part. It's wild that people like Larry Summers and Ken Starr used their personal emails with their WHOLE GOVERNMENT NAMES to communicate with a convicted pedophile. I don't even put slightly critical comments about coworkers in emails...?
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My newsletter for Assigned went out a little over an hour ago. It was a dissection of the position NYT is in currently, with a reputation in flux between its past as the most serious, respectable, elite paper in America and its present as the paper that asked Ms. Rachel if she was paid by Hamas.
Friendly reminder that the NYT asked Ms Rachel if she was paid by Hamas.
As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My newsletter for Assigned went out a little over an hour ago. It was a dissection of the position NYT is in currently, with a reputation in flux between its past as the most serious, respectable, elite paper in America and its present as the paper that asked Ms. Rachel if she was paid by Hamas.
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Yep. Some go into journalism to have access to power, to be power's handmaiden & PR. Others go into journalism to question & illuminate the operation of power & how some norms/systems hurt the powerless. Wolff just 1 of many examples showing--again--the former is very common& usu far more lucrative.
Aside from every other repulsive thing about these Epstein emails, they offer direct confirmation of Michael Wolff as one of the sketchiest creeps in a teeming universe of gross behavior
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Yep. Some go into journalism to have access to power, to be power's handmaiden & PR. Others go into journalism to question & illuminate the operation of power & how some norms/systems hurt the powerless. Wolff just 1 of many examples showing--again--the former is very common& usu far more lucrative.
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So, they're going after all the OTC pain relievers?
What's the strategy here?
A protection racket?
What's the strategy here?
A protection racket?
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
So, they're going after all the OTC pain relievers?
What's the strategy here?
A protection racket?
What's the strategy here?
A protection racket?
Ok done scrolling for the morning, I need my head to not explode
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Ok done scrolling for the morning, I need my head to not explode
Saw #FreeSarahKendzior... What the hell?
Bluesky finally gave her an explanation for the suspension and it’s bullshit
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Saw #FreeSarahKendzior... What the hell?
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I mean, yeah. But Trump was convicted of sexual assault, bragged about sexual assault, was convicted of fraud, etc, etc and ppl still elected him to be the president of these United States so maybe we’re dealing with a more systemic problem is all I’m saying
"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I mean, yeah. But Trump was convicted of sexual assault, bragged about sexual assault, was convicted of fraud, etc, etc and ppl still elected him to be the president of these United States so maybe we’re dealing with a more systemic problem is all I’m saying
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Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
this happened! this is a thing that happened!
this happened! this is a thing that happened!
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
this happened! this is a thing that happened!
this happened! this is a thing that happened!
A minor point. In the emails I've seen Epstein writes in simple but messy, hard to follow language. Not the sort to wax philosophical on parallels between himself and Gulliver, you know?
So...how did this quote come to be, I wonder? It's like Thomas interviewed a completely different person.
So...how did this quote come to be, I wonder? It's like Thomas interviewed a completely different person.
Here’s the excruciatingly bad puff piece that former NYT reporter Landon Thomas wrote, shortly after Epstein’s guilty plea in 2008
Gift link ⤵️
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www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/b...
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A minor point. In the emails I've seen Epstein writes in simple but messy, hard to follow language. Not the sort to wax philosophical on parallels between himself and Gulliver, you know?
So...how did this quote come to be, I wonder? It's like Thomas interviewed a completely different person.
So...how did this quote come to be, I wonder? It's like Thomas interviewed a completely different person.
Shocked, shocked to learn Larry Summers is full of contempt for women
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Shocked, shocked to learn Larry Summers is full of contempt for women
This is obscene. This is fucking monstrous.
Have a chronic illness that has been relatively under control for about 20 years. I'm going to lose insurance because the premium is going up to 1600/month. Talked to 2 case managers, both did research and said there will be no affordable options for me. I have no other options.
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
This is obscene. This is fucking monstrous.
James Watson was a truly horrible person who is now no longer here. 🤷🏾♀️
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
James Watson was a truly horrible person who is now no longer here. 🤷🏾♀️
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I read The Double Helix as an undergraduate. I was a science major at a women’s college taking molecular biology. Our professor taught us that Watson & Crick screwed Rosalind Franklin over.
So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
![“By choice [Rosalind Franklin] did not emphasize her feminine qualities.. There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black her, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents. So it was quite easy to imagine her the product of an unsatisfied mother who unduly stressed the desirability of professional careers that could save bright girls from marriages to dull men.. Clearly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. The former was obviously preferable because given her belligerent moods, it would be very difficult for Maurice [Wilkins] to maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA.. The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was another person’s lab”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:opitzjj6oapo6y3cr5ipwfdu/bafkreibj5i6hdhoinpdbtx5ij7e56lz5v6zg6d6aompkuvrxrdnmkfvj2m@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I read The Double Helix as an undergraduate. I was a science major at a women’s college taking molecular biology. Our professor taught us that Watson & Crick screwed Rosalind Franklin over.
So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
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UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
Mafia analogy is helpful—but as always for me the natural comparison is to how our media covers governments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, even Eastern Europe. We have no problem calling the same style of governance corrupt and tyrannical over there...
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Mafia analogy is helpful—but as always for me the natural comparison is to how our media covers governments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, even Eastern Europe. We have no problem calling the same style of governance corrupt and tyrannical over there...
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Concepts of a plan of a scheme of a shakedown
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Concepts of a plan of a scheme of a shakedown
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...