Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
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yeah, it is kinda amazing that Biden being sick and honestly the issue was he *Sounded* old, not anything he said, just sounding old, was such a big problem
but Trump literally falling asleep while on trial was met with "we can't say he was sleeping" and then ignored after the first time
but Trump literally falling asleep while on trial was met with "we can't say he was sleeping" and then ignored after the first time
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
yeah, it is kinda amazing that Biden being sick and honestly the issue was he *Sounded* old, not anything he said, just sounding old, was such a big problem
but Trump literally falling asleep while on trial was met with "we can't say he was sleeping" and then ignored after the first time
but Trump literally falling asleep while on trial was met with "we can't say he was sleeping" and then ignored after the first time
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This is particularly ridiculous when 1)as a prominent reporter/podcaster with the Times these were basically the only topics Astead covered in 2024 (as part of a major drumbeat of coverage) and 2)he "mysteriously" lost interest in the subjects of presidential age and popularity in January 2025
November 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is particularly ridiculous when 1)as a prominent reporter/podcaster with the Times these were basically the only topics Astead covered in 2024 (as part of a major drumbeat of coverage) and 2)he "mysteriously" lost interest in the subjects of presidential age and popularity in January 2025
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"In being wrong, we were more right than ever before" ass post
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"In being wrong, we were more right than ever before" ass post
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they'd back off for a little bit and then drip drip drip and every lead up to a big speech it was like "old man Biden will show how dementia rattled he is and the plot will be exposed!" and then he'd do well
but no one can hit it out of the park every single time, and when he didn't...
but no one can hit it out of the park every single time, and when he didn't...
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
they'd back off for a little bit and then drip drip drip and every lead up to a big speech it was like "old man Biden will show how dementia rattled he is and the plot will be exposed!" and then he'd do well
but no one can hit it out of the park every single time, and when he didn't...
but no one can hit it out of the park every single time, and when he didn't...
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indeed while the media was clearly waiting (and wanting) a big moment to go absolutely apeshit about Biden's age, even without it the last year? of Biden's Presidency was an endless drip drip drip of the media "raising questions" and then Biden would break through with a speech or event
a lot of people see the debate (and the reaction to it) as some kind of singularity, but really I see it more as a starting gun on an event already set up, the media had been aggressively dripping poison about Biden's age and ability for months (years)
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
indeed while the media was clearly waiting (and wanting) a big moment to go absolutely apeshit about Biden's age, even without it the last year? of Biden's Presidency was an endless drip drip drip of the media "raising questions" and then Biden would break through with a speech or event
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i think that the Dems have *never* registered as a party who affirmatively rewards people with greater prosperity in either of our lifetimes, *despite the case that they consistently have done so, over both of our lifetimes*, and the abyss between episteme and reality here is exactly Will's point
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
i think that the Dems have *never* registered as a party who affirmatively rewards people with greater prosperity in either of our lifetimes, *despite the case that they consistently have done so, over both of our lifetimes*, and the abyss between episteme and reality here is exactly Will's point
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This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
![“I was so happy when I got there [to Babson],” Lopez Belloza said. “I was just living the college life — going to events, going everywhere ... everything there was really great. I really loved the school."
She and her father also had a special shared aspiration. With her business degree, Lopez Belloza was going to help her father open his own tailor shop, they hoped.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u6ajzyiqzkzbppp2x2y7fpfu/bafkreib33kpkgmvas4z6avgq62styxbzrzuawjufqyddtoynqgbiwnhtzy@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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I’d be more sympathetic to “Nuzzi and Lizza are uniquely bad and not at all representative of political reporters in general” if political reporters haven’t spent the past 10 years torching their own credibility all the way back to the full court press on Hillary’s emails.
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I’d be more sympathetic to “Nuzzi and Lizza are uniquely bad and not at all representative of political reporters in general” if political reporters haven’t spent the past 10 years torching their own credibility all the way back to the full court press on Hillary’s emails.
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Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
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Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
Sure, Nuzzi isn’t all journalists. Sure, Larry Summers isn’t all academics. Sure, Musk isn’t all CEOs. And also, if you don’t think their prominence & behavior tells us something about those professions & our National Conversation™️ in this authoritarian era, I don’t really know what to tell you.
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Sure, Nuzzi isn’t all journalists. Sure, Larry Summers isn’t all academics. Sure, Musk isn’t all CEOs. And also, if you don’t think their prominence & behavior tells us something about those professions & our National Conversation™️ in this authoritarian era, I don’t really know what to tell you.
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And it's not the first time that's happened either! Anyone remember Weigel's open misogyny getting papered over?
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
And it's not the first time that's happened either! Anyone remember Weigel's open misogyny getting papered over?
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I dunno personally I'm probably not going to trust many people in the media's assertions that this isn't a commentary on journalism or the state of media considering how half of media promoted/hired/wrote positively about Nuzzi, while a good number of journalists closed ranks around her.
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I dunno personally I'm probably not going to trust many people in the media's assertions that this isn't a commentary on journalism or the state of media considering how half of media promoted/hired/wrote positively about Nuzzi, while a good number of journalists closed ranks around her.
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I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
We proved Keynesianism is objectively true! And the voters rewarded this by returning the most manifestly unfit man to hold the White House to power!
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We proved Keynesianism is objectively true! And the voters rewarded this by returning the most manifestly unfit man to hold the White House to power!
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also, like, he was old, and he talked like old man, especially one that grew up with a stutter, to run at that full force and ignore the other drooling old man yelling awful things clearly was obscene, I don't know how any old people weren't offended to the point of not voting maga, but they did.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
also, like, he was old, and he talked like old man, especially one that grew up with a stutter, to run at that full force and ignore the other drooling old man yelling awful things clearly was obscene, I don't know how any old people weren't offended to the point of not voting maga, but they did.
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Look I don't want to say you're a rube if you fell for the "Biden's incompetent" trope but it was clearly a con coming almost exclusively from bad faith actors and had almost zero solid evidentiary basis.
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Look I don't want to say you're a rube if you fell for the "Biden's incompetent" trope but it was clearly a con coming almost exclusively from bad faith actors and had almost zero solid evidentiary basis.
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No matter how many times they acknowledge the manifest failures of the media or the endless lies of the GOP, they will ALWAYS believe an unnamed “Democratic consultant” in Axios. They don’t even have a moment’s pause to believe them.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
No matter how many times they acknowledge the manifest failures of the media or the endless lies of the GOP, they will ALWAYS believe an unnamed “Democratic consultant” in Axios. They don’t even have a moment’s pause to believe them.
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Oh dang the article that started the avalanche of Biden Old push notifications from every major news outlet was written by a woman who was sleeping with a *different* presidential candidate *at the time*?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Oh dang the article that started the avalanche of Biden Old push notifications from every major news outlet was written by a woman who was sleeping with a *different* presidential candidate *at the time*?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
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Now do y'all understand my absolute incandescent rage at "journalists" who respond with "I'm not going to do Free PR for Democrats!!!11!!!"?
Republicans get anyone and everyone in the media to line up to do their dirty work for them. Democrats can't get that.
Republicans get anyone and everyone in the media to line up to do their dirty work for them. Democrats can't get that.
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Now do y'all understand my absolute incandescent rage at "journalists" who respond with "I'm not going to do Free PR for Democrats!!!11!!!"?
Republicans get anyone and everyone in the media to line up to do their dirty work for them. Democrats can't get that.
Republicans get anyone and everyone in the media to line up to do their dirty work for them. Democrats can't get that.
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Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...