Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC
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mattnegrin.bsky.social
omg can you imagine check's head on balance's body
mattnegrin.bsky.social
That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie
junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
mattnegrin.bsky.social
"I was published in the washington post" means as much as "I won a webby"
Washington Post op-ed by Marc Thiessen: "Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize"
"His Gaza agreement, though still fragile, adds to an unprecedented peacemaking record." "Not only does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but there has arguably never been an American president who deserved it more." "Furthermore, Trump maintains that he headed off a war between Serbia and Kosovo (the president of Kosovo backed Trump’s claim, saying that Serbia was planning to attack Kosovo in May before Trump intervened). And Trump also asserts that he prevented a military conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia in their ongoing dispute over a dam on the Nile. But even if we set those two aside, that is still one of the greatest peacemaking records of any administration in U.S. history." "And Trump is not done. He has not given up on his goal of ending Russia’s war in Ukraine, though bringing Putin to the peace table will require coercion in the form of increased military and economic pressure, not just persuasion. And if he succeeds in ending the Israel-Hamas war, then more Abraham Accords are almost certain to follow with Saudi Arabia and other Arab states. But this much is certain: From the Middle East to Africa, Asia, the Caucuses and Europe, no president has done more for the cause of peace than Donald Trump. If that does not earn him a Nobel Prize, the prize has no meaning."
mattnegrin.bsky.social
Bezos's op-ed defending his censorship of the Harris endorsement is one of the worst pieces of writing to ever be published in American history, kind of Cillizza-esque
Bezos: "Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right. By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it’s a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy."
mattnegrin.bsky.social
It’s obviously not a coincidence that state media is so poorly written that it feels like a chatbot used a worse chatbot
annabower.bsky.social
You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.
But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.
mattnegrin.bsky.social
I cannot stress how much I have tried to get people to say this every day
mattnegrin.bsky.social
A reliable fascism indicator is how many C-tier companies cave preemptively to the possibility of a benny johnson tweet with three sirens
stephentotilo.bsky.social
SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
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jamellebouie.net
really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield
atrupar.com
Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that
mattnegrin.bsky.social
tonight i'm announcing an operation that took out osama bin and jerrys
mattnegrin.bsky.social
wouldn't it be crazy if news outlets said that any officials who claim they don't know about a thing they clearly know about no longer possess the credibility to return to that news outlet ha just kidding see you next week same time
aliensupershow.bsky.social
TAPPER (showing Ron Johnson the sombrero video): Are you comfortable with your party leader posting things like this?
RON JOHNSON: I honestly haven't seen it, don't know what you're talking about

can we stop putting these fucking mendacious freaks on TV already
mattnegrin.bsky.social
they moved the "mark unread from here" option on the drop-down and replaced it with "show original" so now i'm accidentally clicking that which opens a new tab with a whole bunch of <ED793bYE97hE&00kLPR> code when all I wanted to do was not respond to an email until i'm ready to four years from now
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jamellebouie.net
this is incredible
idgordon.bsky.social
If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!
mattnegrin.bsky.social
journalists truly think they're "doing journalism" by reading white nationalists who profit from racist fear mongering a statement from a critic and saying "what's your response?" like it's the 1992 tim russert hour
atrupar.com
Stephen Miller: "The Black people in Chicago are thrilled that we're getting the illegal aliens out of their communities who are stealing their housing, jobs, and resources."
mattnegrin.bsky.social
Anyone know if there’s a word for this that’s not “a muscular expansion of executive powers”
kyledcheney.bsky.social
UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
mattnegrin.bsky.social
tiffany cross on alien super show announcing media criticism is legal again
aliensupershow.bsky.social
please stop reporting on our secret medbed technology it is not for you
mattnegrin.bsky.social
The media paradox is that ICE is simultaneously a newsworthy subject and a word that the news prohibits from being the subject of a sentence
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jamellebouie.net
also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)
jessicacalarco.com
Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude
mattnegrin.bsky.social
searching for a word for what this is for the headline and im being told by the editor in chief that it’s called patriotism and if i’ve ever heard of it
mattnegrin.bsky.social
if you know a rich dem please ask them to give us money to start a news media network that explicitly is not run by and loyal to republicans
atrupar.com
DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true--

ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!
mattnegrin.bsky.social
Are your kids going to consolidating control in the oval office parties
pbump.com
As far as normalization efforts go, it’s hard to top Axios’ repeated framing of Trump’s actions as “accelerating a trend.”
mattnegrin.bsky.social
without rich liberals funding an alternate media ecosystem the only media ecosystems that exist are default republican
joshtpm.bsky.social
This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.
mattnegrin.bsky.social
The speaker of the house just said he didn’t see the president tell the military to get ready to attack liberal cities and tomorrow’s headlines will be “Democrats Refuse To End Shutdown”
atrupar.com
MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.