Mark Jacob
@markjacob.bsky.social
Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 10 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe! It's free.
Nate Silver insults Heather Cox Richardson in a desperate bid to steal a fraction of the attention she's earned. But my favorite Silver tweet remains this 2022 classic:
“I still think Eric Adams would be in my top 5 for ‘who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden?’"
“I still think Eric Adams would be in my top 5 for ‘who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden?’"
December 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Nate Silver insults Heather Cox Richardson in a desperate bid to steal a fraction of the attention she's earned. But my favorite Silver tweet remains this 2022 classic:
“I still think Eric Adams would be in my top 5 for ‘who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden?’"
“I still think Eric Adams would be in my top 5 for ‘who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden?’"
ABC apparently thinks everything is a matter of opinion, including the U.S. Constitution.
December 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
ABC apparently thinks everything is a matter of opinion, including the U.S. Constitution.
This is the guy who said his daughter made him promise not to date anyone younger than her. His daughter was 17 at the time.
December 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is the guy who said his daughter made him promise not to date anyone younger than her. His daughter was 17 at the time.
One good thing about the NY Times story is that they called Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election a “lie.” I’m pretty sure NYT editors are programmed to get an electric shock whenever they try to put “Trump” and “lie” in the same sentence. Great job fighting through that! 3/3
December 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
One good thing about the NY Times story is that they called Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election a “lie.” I’m pretty sure NYT editors are programmed to get an electric shock whenever they try to put “Trump” and “lie” in the same sentence. Great job fighting through that! 3/3
The New York Times lead says “Peters was convicted of a state crime that falls outside the president’s traditional clemency powers.” Why the word “traditional”? It falls outside his powers, period. 2/3
December 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The New York Times lead says “Peters was convicted of a state crime that falls outside the president’s traditional clemency powers.” Why the word “traditional”? It falls outside his powers, period. 2/3
I knew we could count on the New York Times to write a normalizing headline about Trump’s fake “pardon” of Colo. voting machine tamperer Tina Peters. The headline makes it seem as if Trump knows it’s only “symbolic”; Trump didn’t say that when he ridiculously claimed a power he doesn’t have. 1/3
December 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I knew we could count on the New York Times to write a normalizing headline about Trump’s fake “pardon” of Colo. voting machine tamperer Tina Peters. The headline makes it seem as if Trump knows it’s only “symbolic”; Trump didn’t say that when he ridiculously claimed a power he doesn’t have. 1/3
Does this look like a president or a dictator?
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Does this look like a president or a dictator?
A president doesn’t get to decide which news you watch.
But a dictator does.
But a dictator does.
December 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A president doesn’t get to decide which news you watch.
But a dictator does.
But a dictator does.
The New York Times says it’s “inexplicable” why Trump called his chief of staff “Susie Trump” instead of Susie Wiles. I have an explanation: His brain is broken.
December 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The New York Times says it’s “inexplicable” why Trump called his chief of staff “Susie Trump” instead of Susie Wiles. I have an explanation: His brain is broken.
Here’s the birth of Christ being defiled by masked federal thugs who think terrorizing marginalized people is funny.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
December 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Here’s the birth of Christ being defiled by masked federal thugs who think terrorizing marginalized people is funny.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
Dan Bongino didn’t say it was just his “opinion” that the J6 pipebomb plot was an FBI inside job.
He said he had a confidential source and was certain: “I’m telling you this was an inside job. Cash the freakin’ check and take it to the bank.”
He said he had a confidential source and was certain: “I’m telling you this was an inside job. Cash the freakin’ check and take it to the bank.”
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Dan Bongino didn’t say it was just his “opinion” that the J6 pipebomb plot was an FBI inside job.
He said he had a confidential source and was certain: “I’m telling you this was an inside job. Cash the freakin’ check and take it to the bank.”
He said he had a confidential source and was certain: “I’m telling you this was an inside job. Cash the freakin’ check and take it to the bank.”
There’s some odd technical thing happening — the link works for me sometimes, doesn’t sometimes.
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
There’s some odd technical thing happening — the link works for me sometimes, doesn’t sometimes.
Pete Hegseth is a bloodthirsty war criminal, and proud of it.
December 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Pete Hegseth is a bloodthirsty war criminal, and proud of it.
It was heartening to see University of Chicago professor Robert Pape, an expert on political violence, say in the NYT story that this is the kind of rhetoric that leads to violence. 3/🧵
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It was heartening to see University of Chicago professor Robert Pape, an expert on political violence, say in the NYT story that this is the kind of rhetoric that leads to violence. 3/🧵
No true follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ could support this person. But a lot of fake Christians do.
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
No true follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ could support this person. But a lot of fake Christians do.
The New York Times highlights a reader question asking Exec Editor Joe Kahn, “How do you find time to care for yourself?” Really? Out of all the questions you got from readers, you choose one asking Kahn how he copes with his hard job? Suck it up, Times. 🧵 4/4
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The New York Times highlights a reader question asking Exec Editor Joe Kahn, “How do you find time to care for yourself?” Really? Out of all the questions you got from readers, you choose one asking Kahn how he copes with his hard job? Suck it up, Times. 🧵 4/4
NYT Exec Editor Joe Kahn gets the “what keeps you up at night?” question and takes a swipe at “partisans,” as if the Times’ headquarters on Neutrality Island is the utopia for “independent journalism.” Independent of what? Of the ability to confront Trump’s authoritarianism and criminality? 🧵 3/4
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NYT Exec Editor Joe Kahn gets the “what keeps you up at night?” question and takes a swipe at “partisans,” as if the Times’ headquarters on Neutrality Island is the utopia for “independent journalism.” Independent of what? Of the ability to confront Trump’s authoritarianism and criminality? 🧵 3/4
The NYT’s Patrick Healy asks a ridiculously both-sides question in which he tars critics as partisans who want the Times to “referee the news.” How about telling readers clearly that Trump is dismantling democracy? You offer the evidence. You’re just afraid to draw the conclusion. 🧵 2/4
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The NYT’s Patrick Healy asks a ridiculously both-sides question in which he tars critics as partisans who want the Times to “referee the news.” How about telling readers clearly that Trump is dismantling democracy? You offer the evidence. You’re just afraid to draw the conclusion. 🧵 2/4
What the hell is Jared Kushner doing in high-level talks with Russia — other than finding ways to cash in on the misery of Ukrainians?
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
What the hell is Jared Kushner doing in high-level talks with Russia — other than finding ways to cash in on the misery of Ukrainians?
Next thing you know, Hegseth will be blaming Admiral Bradley for Signalgate too. And “standing by him.”
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Next thing you know, Hegseth will be blaming Admiral Bradley for Signalgate too. And “standing by him.”
After World War II, 3 German U-boat crewmen were sentenced to death for machine-gunning Allied sailors who were clinging to life rafts after their boat was sunk.
It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.
It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
After World War II, 3 German U-boat crewmen were sentenced to death for machine-gunning Allied sailors who were clinging to life rafts after their boat was sunk.
It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.
It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.
He means “non-white countries.”
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
He means “non-white countries.”
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
Homeland Security‘s social media gets more unhinged and master-race-y every day. Today they want us to believe that terrorizing immigrants is “the fight for western civilization.”
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Homeland Security‘s social media gets more unhinged and master-race-y every day. Today they want us to believe that terrorizing immigrants is “the fight for western civilization.”
Stephen Miller is of Jewish descent, yet he pushes the same “they won't assimilate” argument used by antisemites for millennia. Stephen Miller is a racist monster, and so is his boss.
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Stephen Miller is of Jewish descent, yet he pushes the same “they won't assimilate” argument used by antisemites for millennia. Stephen Miller is a racist monster, and so is his boss.