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Important context. Thank you.

Musk on 22/6/2025 to his 36M “followers” He’s at war with reality and democracies around the world.

BONUS: aligned and boosted by Medvedev.

Elon Musk
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The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people
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Dmitry Medvedev
Exactly

12/6/2025

December 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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American democracy is under siege, yet Editorial Boards are silent on the remedy of impeachment (and calls for resignation).

The Founders would be appalled at such timidity.

The Publisher of the Sentinel shared insights into his outlets process and rationale.

Please read the full interview.

MAD: If you could communicate with the influential New York TImes Editorial Board, what would you tell them? Does it matter if they called for impeachment as compared to the Sentinel?

DP: While newspapers across the nation have shied away from and even discontinued “house editorials” for fear of appearing partisan or angering part of their readership, we feel that controversial news and opinions are not partisan but pragmatic. Not only do newspapers endanger their credibility by dodging controversial stories and opinions, they undermine our valid arguments that Trump’s impeachment is a national question, not a partisan one. By ignoring hard questions on either side, supporting or dismissing Trump’s impeachment, newspapers can appear complicit.

December 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM

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#ShouldBeFrontPage
Today #Musk is openly at war w/the EU. In the last year, the most powerful media oligarch in the world has campaigned for right wing anti-democratic movements around the world UK, Germany, Japan…
(It’s nearly 3yrs since NYT Jeremy Peters “critics say..” it’s time for an update).

X post.

Elon Musk
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The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people
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Dmitry Medvedev
Exactly

NYT
Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It's Not So Simple.

Dec. 10, 2022

December 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM

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AGSulzberger leads a $10 billion market cap media property w/cash on hand. They are one of the few companies that could afford to do meaningful interviews. Healy et. al CHOOSE not to. Instead settle on performative “man on the street” interviews that the Onion &small local papers do. #infotainment

New York Times:
Co
NYSE: NYT
Follow
64.75 USD
Stock price per share.
Graph upwards.

December 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM

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Will Nick Kristof ask Barak about Virginia Giuffre? Epstein?

Will Sorkin ask about Charlie Kirk’s racist and trans-hate speech and actions?

Or about TPUSA’s role in the assault on free speech and thought on campuses? Oklahoma U?

November 10, 2025
The New York Times Announces Lineup at
Annual DealBook Summit on Dec. 3
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Join Andrew Ross Sorkin for a day of unguarded interviews with some of the world's most consequential people. Live on stage.

The New York Times
• Company
- Alex Karp, co-founder and C.E.O. of
Palantir
— Erika Kirk, C.E.O. and chair of the board of Turning Point USA
— Gavin Newsom, governor of California

Company
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The Global Re-Order moderated by Nicholas Kristof, Times Opinion columnist, and featuring:
- Ehud Barak, former prime minister of Israel

An Oklahoma college student flunked her gender studies paper.
Now Turning Point is leading her academic fight
The university placed the instructor on leave as it conducts a 'full review' of the matter
Kelly Rissman in New York
• Tuesday 02 December 2025 12:24

December 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM

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We agree @gtconway.bsky.social

It would be helpful if leading newsroom editors emphasized the larger context - the boat strikes are illegal. Period.

December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM

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@anntelnaes.bsky.social
was ahead of the curve.

“Editorial cartoonists are democracy’s canary in a coal mine”
- Telnaes

Cartoon by Ann Telnaes depicting oligarchs - Bezos, Soon-Shiong, Altman, Zuckerberg, Disney (Mickey Mouse) kneeling before Trump statue. Offering money bags.

Her WaPo Editor rejected the cartoon. Telnaes courageously quit recognizing the threat to her / Press Freedom at WaPo January 2025. That editor subsequently quit the Post too.

December 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM

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It’s an editorial choice to describe the legitimate criticisms of Vinay Prasad’s as being about his “leadership style” rather than his demolition of the institution and menace and harms he poses to the health of Americans.

We’ve petitioned AGSulzberger and NYT to bring back the Public Editor…

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He agreed that the case reports needed to be opened to further scrutiny.
"I would not be surprised if the attributions turn out to be debatable, as these cases are often quite complex," Dr.
Marks said after reading the memo.
Dr. Prasad, whose leadership style has rankled some people internally and outside the agency, complained in the memo of staff members who disagreed with agency's direction and new policies, saying they were leaking information. He then outlined how employees could submit their resignations. The memo follows a recent missive exhorting staff members to refrain from publishing "obviously erroneous work" instead of work that furthers the agency's mission.
Christina Jewett covers the Food and Drug Administration, which means keeping a close eye on drugs, medical devices, food safety and tobacco policy.
See more on: U.S. Politics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump

November 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM

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Irresponsible normalization and sanewashing of unqualified antiscience COVID vaccine denialist Retsef Levi “M.I.T. management expert”
to lead a panel on COVID vaccines.

Sabotaging vaccine research and increasing vaccine “hesitancy” will kill Americans.

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Wikipedia Retsef Levi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retsef_Levi

On June 11, 2025, Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, announced that he appointed Levi as one of the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). [61 However, Levi did not have
medical, epidemiological, or immunological training, experience, or background.

November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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False equivalence enables antiscience.

These are editorial choices.

Excellent quotes from established experts like Drs. Offit, Osterholm and Marks are introduced later in the piece rather than frame the piece, the introduction or headline.

“anti-vaccine” makes an appearance later on

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Mr. Kennedy's team has issued new policies that are limiting access to the shots to people 65 and older as well as to younger people with underlying medical conditions.
Public health experts have vociferously disputed assertions by Mr. Kennedy and health officials in this Trump administration that the Covid vaccines are dangerous. Previous federal health officials have acknowledged serious but rare side effects from the shots, including the incidence of myocarditis among teenage boys and young men.
But those public health experts have also pointed to the number of lives saved by the shots and to the fact that the virus caused more than a million deaths among
Americans. About 2,100 children have died of Covid since the pandemic began, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The findings of the new F.D.A. review have not been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a critic of Mr. Kennedy's vaccine policies, called the memo an example of science
"by press release."
He said the memo was devoid of context such as the number or rate of deaths from the virus itself among vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
Dr. Offit said children with vaccine-related myocarditis showed up at the hospital, with cases that resolved quickly.
"On the other hand, we saw children admitted to our hospital with myocarditis from the virus," he said. "It was quite severe and caused admissions to the intensive care unit."

Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a critic of Mr. Kennedy's vaccine policies, called the memo an example of science
"by press release."
He said the memo was devoid of context such as the number or rate of deaths from the virus itself among vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
Dr. Offit said children with vaccine-related myocarditis showed up at the hospital, with cases that resolved quickly.
"On the other hand, we saw children admitted to our hospital with myocarditis from the virus," he said. "It was quite severe and caused admissions to the intensive care unit." (COrrect traming +1)
Some of Mr. Kennedy's anti-vaccine allies have been pressuring the government for years to delve deeper into the agency's database that includes unverified reports of harmful effects from the Covid shots. The memo said the analysis of deaths reported to the agency was led by Dr.
Tracy Beth Hoeg, a senior F.D.A. adviser and a vaccine Skeptic, and reviewed by a team at the agency.
In his memo, Dr. Prasad also announced changes to vaccine oversight and approval, saying there would be a requirement for randomized studies to include all subgroups, such as pregnant women. In addition, he labeled the annual framework for choosing the flu vaccine as a "catastrophe of low-quality evidence," and said it would also be re-examined.
Dr. Prasad's memo is landing just before next week's meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's influential vaccine committee. Mr. Kennedy's handpicked panel includes supporters of the so-called medical freedom community, who often eschew vaccines and oppose mandates.

November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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“another sharp u-turn” ??

Grotesque euphemism to describe acts that will kill people by subversion of established science and reality.

Alternatively do the NYT and author doubt vaccine science?

They are not “critics” they are science deniers.
4/

Dr. Prasad declined to be interviewed for this article.

(EDIT implementation of antivax agenda)

His missive represents another sharp U-turn by federal authorities under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation's health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic who has frequently described

In contrast, health officials in the first Trump administration, when the vaccines were developed during the pandemic, and in the Biden years, strongly endorsed the Covid shots as lifesaving measures.

November 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM

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This report sanitizes and normalizes the profound assaults on the FDA/CDC and the inevitable harmful impacts (morbidity and death) of antiscience.

The first paragraphs are pure stenography devoid of context or critical analysis.

This opening is as much a press release as it is a “scoop”.
3/

By Christina Jewett
Nov. 28, 2025, 10:26 p.m. ET
The director of the Food and Drug Administration's vaccine division said in a memo to agency staff on Friday that a review had found that at least 10 children had died
"after and because of" getting a Covid vaccination.
Dr. Vinay Prasad, the director, suggested in the memo that the deaths were related to myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle.
The memo, obtained by The New York Times and not publicly released, did not provide details such as the ages of the children, whether they had any other health problems or how the agency determined the vaccine-death link. Nor did it disclose the maker of the vaccines involved.
"This is a profound revelation," Dr. Prasad wrote in a memo to staff members. "For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children."

November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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NYT occupies a central hub of the news ecosystem. With collapse of funding for journalism more media orgs rely on NYT reporting either by syndication or reporting “The NYTimes reports…”.

Its failures are impactful.

See how NYT is the head of an information centipede: NYT-
Reuters-MSN
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Screenshot msn
Reuters
US FDA memo links 10 child deaths to COVID vaccines, New York Times reports
Story by Reuters • 11h

November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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A🧵
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.

The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n

The New York Times
(edited headline subbed )
Without proof, vaccine denialists leading
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children's Deaths to Covid Vaccines
The agency's top vaccine regulaith said hui deniew had found
that the children were likely to have died "because of" the shots.
But public health experts want to examine the data.
are skeptical given his established anti-vaccine agenda.

November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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Aware of this.

We consider this post an alert and share our concerns about the future. Yes, we know it's less than optimal that we are writing this to you on Substack, however because of these systemic concerns, the Media and Democracy Project plans to transition off of the platform.

November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM

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Can anyone explain why AGSulzberger’s @nytimes.com
Includes references to Roger Stone’s social media propaganda?

(It’s by Shawn “Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost NY” McCreesh)

“Mr. Stone, … claimed on social media that Mr. Hernández had been "trapped" and was a "victim of a conspiracy" “

Mr. Stone, the political operative, has publicly defended Mr. Hernández. He has claimed on social media that Mr. Hernández had been "trapped" and was a "victim of a conspiracy" tied to the U.S. government — implying the extradition and prosecution were politically motivated.

November 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM

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NYT regularly euphemizes Trump’s racist xenophobia / yrs as a white supremacist.

AGSulzberger +Joe Kahn have a new darling Shawn McCreesh who has:
-normalized demolition of WH
-wrote the infamous “Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York”

-now: “invokes tropes”…

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...

But the ferocity of his response was in keeping with his longstanding views on immigration, race and national identity and what he sees as a direct link from those factors to crime, national security threats and economic distress - even though those links, where they exist, are often tenuous and more complex than he makes out.

Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost
New York
The disgraced financier's recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone.

The way Mr. Trump talks about immigration invokes tropes, not all of which are supported by the facts, about out-of-control crime in big cities and about foreign invaders who take advantage of American hospitality with no intent to assimilate to an American way of life. He repeatedly brings up the Biden administration's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and its border and refugee policies, which Mr. Trump had said all along would result in catastrophe.

November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM

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NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against
Tyrannical Government
An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been

November 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM

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Agreed @anntelnaes.bsky.social
He is retconning epic fails.

Legacy media stretched the Overton Window for Trump: from “normalization” to “sanewashing” to now “democracywashing” Trump’s fascism.

Also Baron in his “Collision of Power”: "I had to resist expressing what I genuinely thought…”

What??

"Everything about Donald Trump," Baron writes, "starting with his campaign, told me that he had the makings of an autocrat." Lots more where that came from: "I had to resist expressing what I genuinely thought: Trump pursued power with the very purpose of abusing it. He was an aspiring authoritarian. My job, however, required me to be diplomatic."

November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM

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#Remigration
#ShouldBeFrontPage but isn’t

First they came for…
-the undocumented
-then those seeking asylum
-then those w/ongoing applications
-then those w/TPS status
-then those w/birthright citizenship
etc..
The fascists aren’t stopping. They must be stopped.
h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social 5/2025

The Handbasket > Posts >
State Department set to launch 'Office of Remigration'
State Department set to launch
'Office of
Remigration'
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
Marisa Kabas
May 29, 2025

Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump
As President I will immediately end the migrant invasion of America. We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries, terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals (CBP
One App), revoke deportation immunity, suspend refugee resettlement, and return Kamala's illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as
remigration). I will save our cities and towns in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and all across America.
MAGA2024!
2.19k ReTruths 7.01k Likes
9/14/24, 6:25 PM

Remigration
Article Talk
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration, " also called repatriation, 23) is a far-right and Identitarian political concept referring to the forced or promoted return of non-ethnically European immigrants, often including their descendants who were born in Europe, back to their place of racial origin, typically with no regard for their citizenship. 41[5) it is popular especially within the Identitarian movement in Europe 6117) Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some residents with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly-defined degree of assimilation into European culture. 8191(101

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
The stakes have never been higher, and the goal has never been more
clear:
Remigration now.
8:38 AM • Nov 28, 2025 • 241.1K

November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM

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Palestinians, Ukrainians and people on boats in the Caribbean are being executed with the world watching= Trump “foreign policy”.

Now would be a good time for legacy media assignment editors to run *series* on “war crimes”.
h/t editors at @theguardian.com @kyivindependent.com @washingtonpost.com

The guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/nov/28/moment-israeli-forces-shoot-dead-surrendered-palestinians-video-report

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-military-reportedly-executes-5-ukrainian-pows-2/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/

November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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Low literacy rates, defunded public education system, harmful and weaponized information systems (eg Fox, Salem, Prager… brainwashing people to believe up is down, down is up).

November 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM

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This is a useful dissection.

Would add The Wrap allows Healy to continue to promote the NYT trust-busting-delusion that criticism from “both” sides must be held as credible, in good faith, equivalent and valid.

thewrap.com
"We're just very aware of the pressure campaigns and activists from all sides who want the news media to referee and the Times to bend our standards and change our language in their favor, and President Trump and his administration are a big part of that," Healy said.

November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM

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With news of more pertussis / whooping cough deaths it’s necessary to highlight how much antiscience anti-vax content Substack promotes (and profits from).

1/2

Third infant in Kentucky dies of whooping cough as national cases stay high for second year in a row

What is in a
?
く
ABORTED FETAL TISSUE
Stop The Shots @stopthoseshots
STOP THE SHOTS
On a mission to raise awareness of the harms caused by the Vax. Stop ALL Shots they are damaging our children and future generatio...
SHOTS
Stop The Shots
3.3K+ subscribers

Annual Estimated Substack Earnings from top 10 Health Politics "Leaders"

Top 10 "Paid" "Bestsellers"
Subscribers

1 A Midwestern Doctor
286,000

2 Jeff Childers
195,000

3 Joseph Mercola
335,000

4 William Makis
127,000

5 Alex Berenson
235,000

6 Dr. Robert W. Malone
356,000

7 Peter A. McCullough
138,000

8 Steve Kirsch
258,000

9 Pierre Kory
125,000

10 eugyppius
68,000

Total subs 2,123,000

Anticipated Paying (5% conversion)
106,150

$84/yr ($7/month avg)
$84

Total Shared Revenue
$8,916,600

Substack 10%
$891,660

November 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM

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Understood.

Just flagging the scale to which they are actively normalizing and promoting large health disinfo accounts.

November 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM

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