Eric Alterman
@ericalterman.bsky.social
the man, the legend....
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November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Good Fast Times article on New York Times headlines. I was interviewed. One thing I should have noted: the rage-bait comes increasingly from the opinions section.
www.fastcompany.com/91450316/nyt...
www.fastcompany.com/91450316/nyt...
Annoyed by a 'New York Times' headline? It seems like that's increasingly the Gray Lady's goal
Several ‘New York Times’ headlines in 2025 have earned severe social media backlash. Is it happening on purpose?
www.fastcompany.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Good Fast Times article on New York Times headlines. I was interviewed. One thing I should have noted: the rage-bait comes increasingly from the opinions section.
www.fastcompany.com/91450316/nyt...
www.fastcompany.com/91450316/nyt...
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What a pathetic tiny little man
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
What a pathetic tiny little man
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Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Nice to see a Democrat outright defend the humanities and the arts rather than taking the right-wing assault on them at face value.
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Nice to see a Democrat outright defend the humanities and the arts rather than taking the right-wing assault on them at face value.
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Our convicted felon president, who pardoned Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, wants to charge Mark Kelly, a decorated war veteran and astronaut, with seditious conspiracy.
That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.
That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Our convicted felon president, who pardoned Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, wants to charge Mark Kelly, a decorated war veteran and astronaut, with seditious conspiracy.
That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.
That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.
"To Say Nothing of Dimentia... Literally"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"To Say Nothing of Dimentia... Literally"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
The "Even the Liberal New Republic..." New Republic lives on, undead, in Jonathan Chait's Atlantic columns.
"Fox News was founded in 1996 on the perfectly valid premise that mainstream media bears a liberal bias."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
"Fox News was founded in 1996 on the perfectly valid premise that mainstream media bears a liberal bias."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse
Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The "Even the Liberal New Republic..." New Republic lives on, undead, in Jonathan Chait's Atlantic columns.
"Fox News was founded in 1996 on the perfectly valid premise that mainstream media bears a liberal bias."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
"Fox News was founded in 1996 on the perfectly valid premise that mainstream media bears a liberal bias."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
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but that line is a fact. Objectively true.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
but that line is a fact. Objectively true.
This is at Columbia and so, alas, registration is necessary
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is at Columbia and so, alas, registration is necessary
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social, @nytimes.com
GET OUT NOW! THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
GET OUT NOW! THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social, @nytimes.com
GET OUT NOW! THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
GET OUT NOW! THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
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While Josh Shapiro is ditching the Northeast climate agreement, Abigail Spanberger (no radical liberal) is preparing to join it. @gurleygg.bsky.social explains why.
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Josh Shapiro Ditched the Same Climate Pact That Abigail Spanberger Is Joining - The American Prospect
To seal a state budget deal, Pennsylvania is departing the RGGI emissions control program, but Virginia is jumping back in.
prospect.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
While Josh Shapiro is ditching the Northeast climate agreement, Abigail Spanberger (no radical liberal) is preparing to join it. @gurleygg.bsky.social explains why.
prospect.org/2025/11/24/j...
prospect.org/2025/11/24/j...
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Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
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If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.
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R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff
Jimmy Cliff - Vietnam [Live 2005]
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November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff
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Comedy is legal again
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Comedy is legal again
Dude could have given Kennedy some pointers of how to write a dirty love letter to Ms. Nuzzi
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02...
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James Joyce’s Love Letters to His “Dirty Little Fuckbird” by Nadja Spiegelman
February 2, 2018 – On Nassau Street in Dublin, on June 10, 1904, twenty-two-year-old James Joyce saw (as clearly as he could see, since he was not wearing his
www.theparisreview.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Dude could have given Kennedy some pointers of how to write a dirty love letter to Ms. Nuzzi
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02...
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Remember when Joe Biden was president and U.S. citizens didn't have to worry about being kidnapped by federal police agents?
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Remember when Joe Biden was president and U.S. citizens didn't have to worry about being kidnapped by federal police agents?
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Once again, I remind you that this woman cannot be allowed anywhere near the strategy or leadership of the Democratic Party:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.
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Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.
Slotkin: "He's trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, the Epstein files and economy. He's tweeting 'the economy is the best it's ever been' -- amazing considering the public isn't stupid. It reminded me of Joe Biden. Biden tried to tell us for a year that the economy was great."
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Once again, I remind you that this woman cannot be allowed anywhere near the strategy or leadership of the Democratic Party:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.