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Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Bari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy | Margaret Sullivan
Weiss ought to cut her losses, green-light the piece, and try to start acting like an editor – not like a cog in the machine of authoritarian politics and oligarchy
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
Maybe that a) the piece was ready and b) the reporters made normal efforts to get comment from the administration?
sallyjenx.bsky.social Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 27d
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
bmgall.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals
Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency feature
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
A depraved and decadent Trump WH dinner for MBS was a stunning low for an American ruling class that's stopped pretending to carry a moral compass

It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil
For America’s deeply corrupt billionaires, time heals all wounds — even from a murderous Saudi prince’s bone saw.
www.inquirer.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
Trump's British Maga allies - and his suit against the BBC. My column.

on.ft.com/4i6z6mR
Trump’s little British helpers
[FREE TO READ] Nobody should be surprised that the US president has the BBC in his sights
on.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
The Epstein emails have damaged Trump beyond repair, because the public has now seen the gross moral rot behind Trump's presidency and the elites who prop it up (and fawned over a convicted sex creep)

Take your money out of AI and into pitchforks. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...
Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it
If the evil banality of the world's most powerful people exposed in the Epstein emails doesn't cause a revolution, nothing will.
www.inquirer.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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radartabs.bsky.social
Bev Turner holding Trumps feet to the fire…
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
Just read transcript of GB News interview with Trump. North Korean broadcasting standards. Bev Turner is not a journalist. Her sycophancy was shameful.
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The release of thousands of documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has set off a frantic political fight in Washington. In today’s daily newsletter, Jessica Winter writes about what the latest e-mails reveal. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VJssjY
Trump and the Epstein E-mails
From the daily newsletter: the link between the President and an alleged sex trafficker.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
November 10, 2025
November 10, 2025
Last night, the Senate advanced a measure to end the government shutdown, which at 41 days today is the longest in U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
New gift link (previous one expired). Comments have been disabled, which demonstrates my point..
on.ft.com/47oS8kI
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
"You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." My column on the suppurating neo-Nazism on America's right. on.ft.com/4oxjjQj
Don’t blame the left for US antisemitism
[FREE TO READ] The anti-Jewish threat in America today comes largely from the right
on.ft.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
Belatedly watched 60 minutes Trump interview. OMFG. This isn't journalism.
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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rapsheet.bsky.social
Falcons owner Arthur Blank’s foundation is making a $50 million donation to four HBCUs in the Atlanta area today - Spelman, Morehouse, Morris Brown & Clark Atlanta. Good stuff.
October 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
bmgall.bsky.social
If Frum is not immediately fired by @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social @theatlantic.com …… it tells you all you need to know about The Atlantic
October 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...
Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy
Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier
www.ft.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
Folks had no idea who owns their local TV stations - until large, faceless corporations, Sinclair and Nexstar, said they can't watch Jimmy Kimmel because of politics

This is why they've been warning us: media consolidation is a threat to democracy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jimm...
Kimmel blackout is what happens when your TV isn’t locally sourced
When most Americans weren't looking, a handful of companies seized control over what you see on your local TV channels.
www.inquirer.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
"Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next fourteen?" My column. www.ft.com/content/a284...
America’s accelerating exit from itself
After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease
www.ft.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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willbunch.bsky.social
Pa.'s 2 senators, including alleged Dem Fetterman, picked the wrong week to tell Americans not to talk about fascism, Hitler

The shredding of the 1st Amendment that led to gov't coercion to silence Jimmy Kimmel is fast becoming our own Reichstag fire

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jimm...
Kimmel yanked: Sen. Fetterman, can we call it ‘fascism’ yet? | Will Bunch
Trump regime shredded the First Amendment in forcing Jimmy Kimmel's off the air. Our 'leaders' still don't get it.
www.inquirer.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
The Washington Post was the paper of my teen dreams -- whose courage helped convince me to chose a life in journalism. Monday's firing of the Post's moral beacon, Karen Attiah, proved that a newsroom I'd believed in is now dead to me

Why I finally ditched the Post www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The Washington Post has broken my heart | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, the best Democrat in America right now.
www.inquirer.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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blklibrarygirl.bsky.social
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk.
September 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
bmgall.bsky.social
Here’s a good NYT column that puts this issue in perspective for me

Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
September 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
bmgall.bsky.social
Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
bmgall.bsky.social
A few lazy media members trying to sanitize the actual words of Kirk because he couched his long history of spewing racist & hateful tropes by “being civil” & saying “it’s not who I am”. Yes, he has said enough damning things to confirm who he actually WAS 🙄.
sallyjenx.bsky.social Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · Sep 13
A lot of it is trolls seeking to blow the winds harder and amplify viral crap. Some of it is folks who fear that a call for mere accuracy risks sanitizing him. He said enough damning things on his own without having to distort them.
September 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
bmgall.bsky.social
Exactly. I think it is a much more disturbing media malpractice to discount his spewing of a racist trope because he couched it by saying “..but that’s not who I am”. In context, and based on his long history of racist and bigoted comments, that IS who he was. But sure, he was “civil” 🙄
nopipbutcpip.bsky.social It's a Pip! @nopipbutcpip.bsky.social · Sep 13
No, he's offering it as his own sentiment. The rest of the quote makes it quite clear. "I don't wanna think that way" -- but he DOES. He's arguing, pretty clearly, that the existence of affirmative action means that he automatically questions the qualifications of anyone non-white he sees.
KIRK: That's not an immediate … that's not who I am. That's not what I believe. NEFF: It is the reality the left has created. KIRK: I want to be as blunt as possible because now I'm connecting two dots. Wait a second, this CEO just said that he's forcing that a white qualified guy is not gonna get the job. So I see this guy, he might be a nice person and I say, "Boy, I hope he's not a Harvard-style affirmative-action student that … landed half of his flight-simulator trials." KOLVET: Such a good point. That's so fair. KIRK: It also … creates unhealthy thinking patterns. I don't wanna think that way. And no one should, right? … And by the way, then you couple it with the FAA, air-traffic control, they got a bunch of morons and affirmative-action people.
September 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM