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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1h

the average trans person online has more understanding of how journalism works than a us attorney

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6h

Rule of law is not in effect if they can violate your rights and then just lie about it

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

DHS just got caught telling multiple lies about federal agents shooting a US citizen multiple times

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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bumpintheroad.bsky.social @bumpintheroad.bsky.social · 1d

Feathers McGraw

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 7h

"If you cannot trust the [NYT] to be honest about the president [of the US] posting a depiction of himself dropping a load of literal shit on the American people, you can never trust the [NYT] to fully detail Trump's misdeeds." @jamisonfoser.bsky.social www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york...

But the news media's coverage (or lack thereof) of Trump's video demonstrates not only their normalization of Trump's insanity, as Jacob put it, but their dishonesty as well. The New York Times knows damn well what the "brown liquid" in Trump's video was. It was not subtle, as either visual or metaphor. By pretending there was some ambiguity about what Trump was dropping, the Times lied to its readers. If you cannot trust the New York Times to be honest about the president of the United States posting a depiction of himself dropping a load of literal shit on the American people, you can never trust the New York Times to fully detail Trump's misdeeds. This is not a complex tax proposal about which it is difficult to draw definitive conclusions. This is a video of Donald Trump shitting on America, posted by Donald Trump. There is no uncertainty here, except that invented by the New York Times for the purposes of soft-peddling the man's cruelty and the dangerously incomplete deck of cards with which he is playing.

One of the most common defenses people inevitably offer for bad coverage by big media companies is that they're just giving the people what they want -- they cover things that get clicks, and don't cover things that don't. This would be a lousy defense even if it was true, as journalism should be about covering the important, not merely the popular. But it isn't really true, either, and the New York Times' coverage of this weekend's events demonstrates that. I'm pretty sure there's an audience for high-quality coverage of mass demonstrations that draw millions of Americans to protest their unpopular president. And, for better or worse, there's definitely an internet audience for "President Posts Video Of Himself Shitting On American People."

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 9h

You go into a store to buy a 2-litre bottle of milk at the supermarket and pay $3. But the person in front of you in line paid $3.50. And the person behind you paid $2.

Surveillance pricing is the practice of monitoring consumer data to charge you the most they think you will be willing to pay.

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Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 9h

Grijalva not being sworn in means she doesn’t have access to funds as a member of Congress, which means she can’t help her constituents. She has repeated this multiple times and Mike Johnson knows this but he’s going to keep lying about it anyway.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/a...

The delay is impacting Grijalva and her constituents here in ordinary but important ways. Her office has no money because running it would require a congressional allowance and access to taxpayer funds, which she does not have. She can't log on to her government computer because she doesn't have the right password, and she has to wait in line with tourists to access the U.S. Capitol.
"I don't have a budget. The budget is a big deal," Grijalva told MSNBC on Friday. "I actually had people reach out and say, 'I went to your dad's office and nobody's there, because that office was closed on the date of my election, so those services are done."

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 11h

The pathetic final stage of Megan McArdle -- total bootlicker -- is what happens to someone with no job prospects in a free marketplace of ideas.

Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 1d

The definition of “viewpoint diversity” that figures like this promote implies *censorship* (the “must” part): curbing some forms of expression to boost others. It’s an invention of orgs who advocate government censorship of teaching/research + restrictions on protected political speech in colleges.

Opinion
Opinion by Megan
McArdle
The sweetheart deal is over for academia
Universities must restore public trust, starting with viewpoint diversity.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Tolkien had a lot to say about this.

“The way of the Ring to my heart is through pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good…”

The Ring is money.
The antidote is democracy and distributing power— giving power to the People, and taking it from billionaires.

The powerful, such as Gandalf and Galadriel, desire to take the Ring, but they also fear the consequences of wielding its power. When, despairing of his ability to destroy the Ring, Frodo offers it to Gandalf, the wizard immediately refuses because he recognizes the danger: "the way of the Ring to my heart is through pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good!" Because the Ring is evil, the wizard knows that any attempt to
wield it for good purposes will be corrupted. Galadriel admits, "For many long years I have pondered what I might do, should the Great Ring
come into my hands." The power of that temptation

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 23h

Tolkien was a fairly conservative Catholic, and you can see this thread in the books too. But this concept, of Gandalf rejecting the opportunity to seize great power, shows that Tolkien was at root also anti-fascist and anti-king.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

every time I hear about one of the Palantir oligarch types, I wonder if they actual read this part of Lord of the Rings.

It's the most important quote in the whole trilogy!

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Tolkien had a lot to say about this.

“The way of the Ring to my heart is through pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good…”

The Ring is money.
The antidote is democracy and distributing power— giving power to the People, and taking it from billionaires.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

Make of that what you will, but it's both bad journalism and bad business to report the news and pay effectively zero attention to a really, really major story. If you, institutionally, don't think it's a big deal, then have some stones and say why.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.

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Urban Land Rent🚰 @handle.invalid · 1d

Democratic leadership is looking a lot like GOP leadership in 2010-2016 rn where there is just this massive chasm between their priorities and that of their party’s base.

The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeaj

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 1d

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre
Andrew Harding
Paris correspondent, at the scene

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Trump posting a video of himself dropping a huge shit on America is probably the most accurate public statement he has ever made.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to America’s Turd Reich

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

your analysis of this political moment is going to fail if you keep using reductionist labels like "wine mom". first of all, there are dozens of factions just within that one term, from whiskey women to chardonnay chicas, and understanding their unique informal coalitions can take decades of study

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eddi vulic ☀️🌙🌬️🌧️ @zidaya.bsky.social · 1d

OH YEAH!

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eddi vulic ☀️🌙🌬️🌧️ @zidaya.bsky.social · 1d

Very likely! Would be happy to meet up before the next protest!

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

Gf is out of town, you know what that means. It’s time to eat some pizza, drink a few beers, and fall asleep reading about the bolshevik revolution by 10pm

Box with a slice of new york style pizza and a slice of detroit style. a dog smiles from below the box with hope

Closer up of the pizza. You see the mozzarella and ricotta on the slices. The dog is barely visible, his nose sniffing and his eyes full of hope

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

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