Tim Bresnahan
@tbres7.bsky.social
Editor, recovering sportswriter, ineffective Little League coach
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you cannot talk about U.S. opinions or polling or electoral beliefs without centering on the fact that the U.S. information diet consists of billionaire-funded corporate rigt wing agitprop and raw sewage
(the political press somehow does anyway)
(the political press somehow does anyway)
December 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
you cannot talk about U.S. opinions or polling or electoral beliefs without centering on the fact that the U.S. information diet consists of billionaire-funded corporate rigt wing agitprop and raw sewage
(the political press somehow does anyway)
(the political press somehow does anyway)
The Robert Kraft connection to the Kennedy Center name-change farce feels like a story that should be bigger in the Globe than just a Letter to the Editor and a throwaway aside (with a link to an NYT story, no less).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/28/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/28/o...
Looks like Robert Kraft had a front-row seat to Kennedy Center renaming - The Boston Globe
Among those who reportedly voted for this change is Dr. Dana Blumberg, a Trump appointee to the Kennedy Center board and wife of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The Robert Kraft connection to the Kennedy Center name-change farce feels like a story that should be bigger in the Globe than just a Letter to the Editor and a throwaway aside (with a link to an NYT story, no less).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/28/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/28/o...
A lot more elected Dems should be saying this, repeatedly.
Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.
December 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A lot more elected Dems should be saying this, repeatedly.
But if they did do that, it would absolutely be a bigger scandal than, say, a news outlet reporting on the planted fake. They can't make it all go away, as was the case with the CBS/Rather error.
Given how news cycles work and the dynamics of the Trump propaganda/conspiracy machine, I don't find it plausible that the DOJ knowingly planted fake evidence against Trump in the Epstein files so they could discredit it later.
December 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
But if they did do that, it would absolutely be a bigger scandal than, say, a news outlet reporting on the planted fake. They can't make it all go away, as was the case with the CBS/Rather error.
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Nothing Trump would love more than to "Dan Rather" Rachel Maddow.
1. Keep your eye on the ball, people
That Epstein-Larry Nassar letter has fake written all over it -- N. Virginia postmark, after JE's death, in a handwriting that appears not his own
It's hard not to think DOJ WANTED this out there to then be debunked and thus discredit every mention of Trump...
That Epstein-Larry Nassar letter has fake written all over it -- N. Virginia postmark, after JE's death, in a handwriting that appears not his own
It's hard not to think DOJ WANTED this out there to then be debunked and thus discredit every mention of Trump...
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Nothing Trump would love more than to "Dan Rather" Rachel Maddow.
I'm assuming this is a clever, elaborate forgery until it's proven otherwise. But if it's proven otherwise ... oh, man.
New doc: A letter Epstein appears to have sent from jail to Larry Nassar referencing "our president."
"Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I'm assuming this is a clever, elaborate forgery until it's proven otherwise. But if it's proven otherwise ... oh, man.
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
I don't think I'll love the answer, but we're going to have to ask ourselves what matters more: watching the NFL or maintaining a free, democratic society. The league's top two TV partners -- Murdoch and Ellison -- are clearly hostile to the latter.
December 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I don't think I'll love the answer, but we're going to have to ask ourselves what matters more: watching the NFL or maintaining a free, democratic society. The league's top two TV partners -- Murdoch and Ellison -- are clearly hostile to the latter.
Wow.
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Wow.
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People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.
JD Vance gets the biggest applause of his speech so far when he says "by the grace of God we always will be a Christian nation"
December 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.
Gabbo, with the emphasis firmly on the first syllable.
I like how he pauses and smiles here to be sure everyone caught what a racist piece of shit he is.
“Tee hee, I’m such a little stinker, tee hee”
“Tee hee, I’m such a little stinker, tee hee”
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Gabbo, with the emphasis firmly on the first syllable.
Nazi freaks.
DHS just shared this video to X with the caption "This Christmas, our hearts grow as our illegal population shrinks."
The video is set to a version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and has text that reads "Christmas after mass deportations." The end reads "Mirthnuke."
Evil shit.
The video is set to a version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and has text that reads "Christmas after mass deportations." The end reads "Mirthnuke."
Evil shit.
December 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Nazi freaks.
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
She's a special level of evil.
Loomer calls for Brown U to lose its federal funding for admitting a foreign student who, at some later date, allegedly committed murder.
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 AM
She's a special level of evil.
Lutnick and Giuliani could have spent the last 24 years as national icons, giving speeches, making some money, and forging legacies that largely would've papered over their pre-9/11 careers. Instead, they opted for total self-debasement.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Lutnick and Giuliani could have spent the last 24 years as national icons, giving speeches, making some money, and forging legacies that largely would've papered over their pre-9/11 careers. Instead, they opted for total self-debasement.
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These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
How many recordings did people need to determine that his Georgia behavior was outrageous and disqualifying?
NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
How many recordings did people need to determine that his Georgia behavior was outrageous and disqualifying?
I'm Cassandra, and I approve this message.
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
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December 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Yeah man. There's literally an audio recording of the man telling the GA officials to find votes and he's sitting in the Oval Office right now. Absolutely nothing happened to him.
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Yeah man. There's literally an audio recording of the man telling the GA officials to find votes and he's sitting in the Oval Office right now. Absolutely nothing happened to him.
I'm totally on board with Russia being banned from international sports. Same thing should apply to Israel. And if this buffoon invades Venezuela, the IOC should immediately kick the U.S. out of the Winter Olympics.
December 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I'm totally on board with Russia being banned from international sports. Same thing should apply to Israel. And if this buffoon invades Venezuela, the IOC should immediately kick the U.S. out of the Winter Olympics.
All of this. How you respond to this sort of blatant scapegoating is so telling.
Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
December 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
All of this. How you respond to this sort of blatant scapegoating is so telling.
Her dad took money to do an ad for a Boston bar after he got a liver transplant, so the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Real pieces of work, they are.
I don’t even know what to make of this level self-delusion, cognitive dissonance and moral cowardice
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Her dad took money to do an ad for a Boston bar after he got a liver transplant, so the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Real pieces of work, they are.
Perhaps the least credible thing I've ever read is Bob Kraft's anecdote about how, after his wife died, Trump was the steadfast friend who was always there for him. It's impossible to believe that the man has ever had a moment of compassion, grace, selflessness, or decency.
December 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Perhaps the least credible thing I've ever read is Bob Kraft's anecdote about how, after his wife died, Trump was the steadfast friend who was always there for him. It's impossible to believe that the man has ever had a moment of compassion, grace, selflessness, or decency.
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This is Trump celebrating the murder of Rob Reiner. That's what it is. That's what we should call it.
People who said this sort of thing about Charlie Kirk were fired, arrested and banned from the US.
People who said this sort of thing about Charlie Kirk were fired, arrested and banned from the US.
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is Trump celebrating the murder of Rob Reiner. That's what it is. That's what we should call it.
People who said this sort of thing about Charlie Kirk were fired, arrested and banned from the US.
People who said this sort of thing about Charlie Kirk were fired, arrested and banned from the US.
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People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.