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Mahtin @mahtininthesky.bsky.social · 18h

LMAO, what a moron.

I have no doubt that Posobiec and his white supremacist ilk think the anti-fascists were the main villains in Weimar Germany, rather than the Nazis. It boggles my mind though that he's too much of an idiot to know he should keep that thought to himself in a public setting.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Mahtin @mahtininthesky.bsky.social · 20h

Rubenstein later accused the NYTimes of having two tracks for op-eds. His own recounting, however, makes it really clear that the paper was doing this as a way of *prioritizing* conservative op-eds that might not withstand the rigorous factchecking required of pieces form other perspectives.

Mahtin @mahtininthesky.bsky.social · 20h

He ended up getting pushed out after doing some really shoddy work in connection with the infamous Tom Cotton op-ed advocating for violence against racial justice protestors.

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Mahtin @mahtininthesky.bsky.social · 20h

From the moment he arrived, he operated as a right-wing troll. Invoking a right-wing culture war symbol like Chick-fil-A and and then pretending to be offended when people pushed back is a classic conservative troll move. So too falsely conflating voter suppression (real!) with voter fraud (nope).

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Mahtin @mahtininthesky.bsky.social · 20h

All of this is pretty much there if you read between the lines of Rubenstein's own account of his time at the NYTimes.

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Mahtin @mahtininthesky.bsky.social · 20h

Rubenstein's journalism arc is very reminiscent of Weiss's. He was a right wing troll at the NYTimes until he got pushed out due to incompetence, then he complained about mistreatment when circumstances suggested that conservatives were being given special treatment.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 2d

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Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

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Mahtin @mahtininthesky.bsky.social · 1d

Been saying this for a while, but one of the ways Dems could make other powerful actors and institutions reconsider capitulating to / collaborating with the regime and its lawbreaking is by promising accountability.

The attitude of "look forwards, not back" gives license to collaborate.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

So, imagine a 2028 that ends with a normal election and a Democratic president.

Does that president punish CBS? Does he kick it out of the Brady room's front row? Does his FCC go after its licenses? Does his FTC probe the Skydance deal?

No, probably not. No fear of reprisal if power shifts back.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

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Mahtin @mahtininthesky.bsky.social · 1d

Dem leaders need to understand that policy and rhetorical concessions to the right won't move the needle, because these people aren't responding to real-world conditions, and the media entities will continue to lie about both what is happening and what Dem politicians are doing about it.

Mahtin @mahtininthesky.bsky.social · 1d

CNN isn't even one of the worst offenders! People who watch Fox News or Newsmax or the local Sinclair affiliate (and probably CBS viewers in the near future) are being fed nonstop propaganda that the (Democrat-run) cities are dystopian hellscapes and Dem politicians only care about trans immigrants.

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Mahtin @mahtininthesky.bsky.social · 1d

Something I think well-intentioned people need to understand is a huge portion of the populace is living in a fictionalized world. They don't go to places like Portland (or LA or NYC) on a regular basis and have no clue what conditions are actually like. except what they see in reporting.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Mahtin @mahtininthesky.bsky.social · 2d

This should be a national scandal. Shutdown or not, Speaker Johnson should not be depriving the people of Grijalva's district the representation they're entitled. That he is doing it in service of shielding GOP congressmembers from taking an Epstein file release vote is especially gross.

The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 3d

Updating this chart because the prior version is out of date. With Mike Johnson refusing to convene the House, the soonest Democrat Adelita Grijalva can get sworn in—and provide the 218th signature to force a vote on the Epstein files—is now three weeks after winning the #AZ07 special election.