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Gleichschaltung, coming to an institution near you. Faster than you can learn to spell "Gleichschaltung."
thefred.bsky.social
While this may be technically correct under doctrine, his remaining lifespan does not leave much time for his penance for millions of people dead, billions of souls corrupted, and trillions of dollars stolen.
thefred.bsky.social
Did you actually read P2025? I did not, but I'm told they expected a lot more court fights than they got.
thefred.bsky.social
She can hire right-wing opinion writers, because that's what she's done. She actually doesn't know how to make a news division more ideological, because she has never worked in one, and network news is also different from print.

And she certainly has no idea how to stop losing viewers.
thefred.bsky.social
Do reporters know that the army, unlike the navy, cannot have appropriations lasting longer than two years?
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asharangappa.bsky.social
If James visits the home regularly then it is available to her for personal use, which means it is not a “rental investment property” as defined by the mortgage rider…and therefore negates the central claim of the indictment
annabower.bsky.social
NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Letitia James
Indictment
Read the Indictment
Timeline of Conflict
Indic
But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms. for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,
thefred.bsky.social
The fourth was always just an aspirational second.
thefred.bsky.social
It's a class thing for them. The third estate is not allowed to criticize the second.
thefred.bsky.social
Uh, more concretely, they haven't had time to write opinions, but she has time for a book tour?
thefred.bsky.social
Specifically, the magazine of few tens of thousands of people in the millionaire donor class. Weiss was more exclusive, with the goal of getting a buyout from one of a dozen billionaires.
thefred.bsky.social
This is correct, and the purpose was to entertain at most a few dozen people, who happen to control a few trillion dollars between them.
urban-achiever.bsky.social
The FP is only financially successful if we judge it as a project designed to entertain. If we view it through the lens of journalism, it isn't a success by any metric.
slooterman.bsky.social
Not here to ratio you, but I am here to respectfully disagree. Building something as financially successful as FP is genuinely impressive, but it doesn’t necessarily demonstrate competence at running a real newsroom with real reporting and real journalism standards.
thefred.bsky.social
So she's saying they're just lazy and incompetent instead.
atrupar.com
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
thefred.bsky.social
Someone needs to feel personal consequences. We can debate who the right people are. Ignoring or indulging them may have been viable when they were not being rewarded for openly hating us, but that is no longer viable.
thefred.bsky.social
I, for one, cannot imagine being a procuress for a hooker to a courtesan.
thefred.bsky.social
"It's a badge of honor when everyone tells me I shit my pants in public."
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drjackbrown.bsky.social
If human beings had a thousand souls, JD Vance would happily sell all of his. Then, sneering through his beard, he would tell you you're a loser for not doing the same.
thefred.bsky.social
It's not an opinion that Weiss does not do reporting. It is a falsifiable fact.
thefred.bsky.social
Sad to see the Atlantic laid off all its fact checkers.
tomscocca.bsky.social
Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence
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It’s a business story. [Highlighting begins] Everyone in journalism has known for years that there’s been a huge opportunity for a publication that employs the traditional methods of U.S. journalism—reporting, deep sourcing, fact-checking, fearlessness—to subjects that either don’t get covered enough or get covered only from a certain perspective. [Highlighting ends] If creating such an enterprise seems simple
thefred.bsky.social
Not a single person in the business thinks she was qualified or the acquisition was financially jusifiable. It was the second half of the bribe to get FCC approval.
thefred.bsky.social
And I wouldn't call being hired as a bribe to the president "triumphing over critics."
thefred.bsky.social
She has never written, covered, or sold news. She sells opinions.
thefred.bsky.social
You never swap social media handles. Take that to your grave.
thefred.bsky.social
It is important to remember that they are incredibly lazy, doing far less work than they used to.
thefred.bsky.social
That's the funny thing. The president regularly dines with $2,000,000,000,000. A senator should go for at least a billion.
thefred.bsky.social
Roman senators were still very rich.