@gregmeineke.bsky.social
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I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
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 3:55 AM
I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
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I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
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America should change its motto from, “In God We Trust” to “Somebody Should Do Something”.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
America should change its motto from, “In God We Trust” to “Somebody Should Do Something”.
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They're bad people doing bad things. We don't have to meet them halfway.
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
They're bad people doing bad things. We don't have to meet them halfway.
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Targeting more than half the population of the US for a political reason is treason. No elected official or a member of his staff has the right to punish the American people for who they vote for. Withholding money for states that voted for Harris is tyranny and must be stopped now.
October 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Targeting more than half the population of the US for a political reason is treason. No elected official or a member of his staff has the right to punish the American people for who they vote for. Withholding money for states that voted for Harris is tyranny and must be stopped now.
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It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.
October 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.
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We are here, in part, because guys like Schatz would never say this to "ezra klein" - a rich media guy - but somehow think "adam" is suppose to be dismissed and ignored but also do unpaid comms work for them
October 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
We are here, in part, because guys like Schatz would never say this to "ezra klein" - a rich media guy - but somehow think "adam" is suppose to be dismissed and ignored but also do unpaid comms work for them
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There is a simple and basic truth here which is that this is not how legitimate law enforcement agencies in a democratic nation state behave.
It’s simple and basic, so much so that it bears repeating again and again lest it slip away through the open Overton window.
It’s simple and basic, so much so that it bears repeating again and again lest it slip away through the open Overton window.
October 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
There is a simple and basic truth here which is that this is not how legitimate law enforcement agencies in a democratic nation state behave.
It’s simple and basic, so much so that it bears repeating again and again lest it slip away through the open Overton window.
It’s simple and basic, so much so that it bears repeating again and again lest it slip away through the open Overton window.
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The fun thing about power is that while you can use it to silence people smarter than you no amount of it can cure you of being a fucking dipshit
October 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
The fun thing about power is that while you can use it to silence people smarter than you no amount of it can cure you of being a fucking dipshit
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the centrists are willing to cede monarchical power to the right in exchange for a role as the second estate. it’s a position that’s directly opposed to the liberalism they claim.
What centrists are offering across the Western world is the opportunity for the right to consolidate their gains as hegemonic. They’re offering managerial competence in service to reactionary aims.
Dehumanisation as policy.
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...
September 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
the centrists are willing to cede monarchical power to the right in exchange for a role as the second estate. it’s a position that’s directly opposed to the liberalism they claim.
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Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
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Not true. You just need a sensible and reasoned discussion with the masked unidentified Federal officer hurling you into a pit where you explain that you left your original copy birth certificate at home and promise to return on Monday and present it.
September 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Not true. You just need a sensible and reasoned discussion with the masked unidentified Federal officer hurling you into a pit where you explain that you left your original copy birth certificate at home and promise to return on Monday and present it.
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There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
August 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
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The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
July 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
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The only proper term for these sites is "concentration camp."
Not "extermination camp." That is a Nazi parallel too far.
But they are straight-up concentration camps. That is what to call them.
Not "extermination camp." That is a Nazi parallel too far.
But they are straight-up concentration camps. That is what to call them.
Just because Trump, Republicans, and right wing media are embracing a nickname for this Everglades facility, should mainstream media do it too? I’m not alone in saying hell no. Call this swamp thing what it is: an American concentration camp. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
July 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The only proper term for these sites is "concentration camp."
Not "extermination camp." That is a Nazi parallel too far.
But they are straight-up concentration camps. That is what to call them.
Not "extermination camp." That is a Nazi parallel too far.
But they are straight-up concentration camps. That is what to call them.
Is James carville still telling democrats to not do anything?
June 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Is James carville still telling democrats to not do anything?
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do you ever think about how this is all happening for no reason at all?
June 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
do you ever think about how this is all happening for no reason at all?
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It’s incredibly disgusting how excited these goombas are to shoot and kill Americans. They hate America.
June 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
It’s incredibly disgusting how excited these goombas are to shoot and kill Americans. They hate America.
Tonight would be playing out totally differently if Twitter still existed
June 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Tonight would be playing out totally differently if Twitter still existed
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Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.
June 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.
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The LA protests will trigger a drumbeat of "law and order" messaging from the White House and their media allies as a prelude to invoking the Insurrection Act.
This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.
This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.
June 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The LA protests will trigger a drumbeat of "law and order" messaging from the White House and their media allies as a prelude to invoking the Insurrection Act.
This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.
This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.
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not trying to entirely absolve voters of their culpability here but at some point people in the media also need to reckon with why so many voters didn’t know that donald trump was planning to deport moms.
May 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
not trying to entirely absolve voters of their culpability here but at some point people in the media also need to reckon with why so many voters didn’t know that donald trump was planning to deport moms.
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This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand
Factions of capital in the second Trump administration
www.phenomenalworld.org
May 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...