Fred Vultee
@fredvultee.bsky.social
Journalism professor, longtime rimrat. Tar Heel by way of Mizzou. Framing, news practice, securitization theory, editing, cats, beer, banjos. Not all those who wander are lost, but TBF quite a few of them are really, really lost.
Somebody want to tell these guys that “Dr Strangelove“ is not a documentary?
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Somebody want to tell these guys that “Dr Strangelove“ is not a documentary?
Time for a nice juice box and a nap
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Time for a nice juice box and a nap
Well, I guess that settles it, then.
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Well, I guess that settles it, then.
Reposted by Fred Vultee
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
Hard to disagree with this point
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hard to disagree with this point
Nice bit of reporting
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Nice bit of reporting
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Reposted by Fred Vultee
Turns out personalist rule is geopolitically erratic and consequential! It’s much easier to find a Wilhelm II than a Napoleon.
open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...
open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...
The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History
A Case Study in the Historical Importance of Incompetence
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Turns out personalist rule is geopolitically erratic and consequential! It’s much easier to find a Wilhelm II than a Napoleon.
open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...
open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...
Reposted by Fred Vultee
Top stories at the #FoxNews homepage! ~9 p.m. Eastern US. you need a really major event to knock IMMIGRANT PERIL out of the top spot, and Trump conveniently provides it.
Is the second story an immigrant story? It could be! The fatal wreck itself was Monday, so the news peg here is … [more]
Is the second story an immigrant story? It could be! The fatal wreck itself was Monday, so the news peg here is … [more]
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Top stories at the #FoxNews homepage! ~9 p.m. Eastern US. you need a really major event to knock IMMIGRANT PERIL out of the top spot, and Trump conveniently provides it.
Is the second story an immigrant story? It could be! The fatal wreck itself was Monday, so the news peg here is … [more]
Is the second story an immigrant story? It could be! The fatal wreck itself was Monday, so the news peg here is … [more]
The cult is going all-in on the racism this week.
November 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The cult is going all-in on the racism this week.
The cult is deep into the autopen stuff today
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The cult is deep into the autopen stuff today
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Don’t you think he looks tired?
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Don’t you think he looks tired?
Stories 2-5 at the #FoxNews homepage Saturday morning. Fox appears to have gotten permission to mention Friday’s developments in unlawful orders at 7:21 a.m. (Eastern US).
November 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Stories 2-5 at the #FoxNews homepage Saturday morning. Fox appears to have gotten permission to mention Friday’s developments in unlawful orders at 7:21 a.m. (Eastern US).
Seems like an ominous way to start the weekend
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Seems like an ominous way to start the weekend
Commissar Hegseth sounds nervous.
You nervous, Commissar Hegseth?
You nervous, Commissar Hegseth?
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Commissar Hegseth sounds nervous.
You nervous, Commissar Hegseth?
You nervous, Commissar Hegseth?
Friday evening’s No.2 story at the #FoxNews homepage. Only development I’ve seen at Fox about any (hem) developments on the matter of (kaff) unlawful orders.
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Friday evening’s No.2 story at the #FoxNews homepage. Only development I’ve seen at Fox about any (hem) developments on the matter of (kaff) unlawful orders.
Reposted by Fred Vultee
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
Why, yes. This would be the Trump administration openly advocating ethnic cleansing.
(On Twitter itself, not the vanity platform His Majesty uses for the bulk of his rants.)
(On Twitter itself, not the vanity platform His Majesty uses for the bulk of his rants.)
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Why, yes. This would be the Trump administration openly advocating ethnic cleansing.
(On Twitter itself, not the vanity platform His Majesty uses for the bulk of his rants.)
(On Twitter itself, not the vanity platform His Majesty uses for the bulk of his rants.)
Today in unlawful orders
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today in unlawful orders
How’s the marketing over at Truth Social?
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
How’s the marketing over at Truth Social?
Looks like #FoxNews is still waiting for permission from the ketchup-smeared bunker before writing about Trump’s midnight ragefest. Drudge, on the other hand, seems to have noticed.
November 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Looks like #FoxNews is still waiting for permission from the ketchup-smeared bunker before writing about Trump’s midnight ragefest. Drudge, on the other hand, seems to have noticed.
they need to take his phone away at night.
November 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
they need to take his phone away at night.