Dan Mitchell
@danmitchell.bsky.social
Reporter based in Oakland. An American, Chicago-born.
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Trump: "I gave them as you know unlimited water, Biden came back with a rigged election, and he immediately restricted the water again. But I came back in and immediately unrestricted it again. So now you have unlimited water to clean your damn dishes."
As always, I'm astonished far less by Trump himself than I am by the tens of millions of Americans, powerful and not, who are essentially pretending this is all normal. It's like the court martial judges saying "well, maybe they DID steal his strawberries" and making Queeg Secretary of The Navy.
Remember, though: many of the top editors, and the owners, who enthusiastically hired these people and employed them for years as they hacked it up all over the place, producing vast piles of toxic garbage, are in New York. The whole enterprise is corrupt.
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Remember, though: many of the top editors, and the owners, who enthusiastically hired these people and employed them for years as they hacked it up all over the place, producing vast piles of toxic garbage, are in New York. The whole enterprise is corrupt.
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
Also, editors LOVE[D?] her, despite all of us constantly telling them how awful she was, and how obvious it was anyway. The news media is now utterly corrupt, top to bottom.
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Also, editors LOVE[D?] her, despite all of us constantly telling them how awful she was, and how obvious it was anyway. The news media is now utterly corrupt, top to bottom.
I love crullerpunk novels.
The year is 3025. The American empire has fallen. In its place a loose confederation of confections emerged. This is Donut world.
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I love crullerpunk novels.
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Writing about my wife’s naked political corruption like a Dan Brown novel
This is a lot, but (allegedly) Olivia Nuzzi sent a secret recorder with a sketch artist to tape Trump at Mar-a-Lago so she could feed campaign intel to RFK, where [pauses to take a breath] something Trump said about his assassination attempt “would shatter our understanding of recent history”??
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Writing about my wife’s naked political corruption like a Dan Brown novel
If he does get it built, tearing the fucking thing down will amount to a national cleansing, should that happen.
Exclusive: President Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design a White House ballroom over the size of the project, reflecting a conflict between architectural norms and Trump’s grandiose aesthetic.
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
wapo.st
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
If he does get it built, tearing the fucking thing down will amount to a national cleansing, should that happen.
Trump Might Be Running a Fascist Government, But Does That Make Him a Fascist?
-- By the editorial board.
-- By the editorial board.
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Trump Might Be Running a Fascist Government, But Does That Make Him a Fascist?
-- By the editorial board.
-- By the editorial board.
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Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
Good lord. The presence of Dreyfuss really hurls this over the line. If it wer just the other two...meh.
I love the constant mentions (including in the title of the thing) that they are "centrist" and "moderate." Note: they are in fact right-wing loons. They're just not MAGA.
I love the constant mentions (including in the title of the thing) that they are "centrist" and "moderate." Note: they are in fact right-wing loons. They're just not MAGA.
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Good lord. The presence of Dreyfuss really hurls this over the line. If it wer just the other two...meh.
I love the constant mentions (including in the title of the thing) that they are "centrist" and "moderate." Note: they are in fact right-wing loons. They're just not MAGA.
I love the constant mentions (including in the title of the thing) that they are "centrist" and "moderate." Note: they are in fact right-wing loons. They're just not MAGA.
I first noticed this guy from his great living thread on Twitter of reactionary-centrist wantwits telling everybody to stop worrying about stuff. But he is increasingly one of those guys, if not on that very specific thing. He's Yglesias.
Bluesky: “Obviously the housing crisis is the only reason anyone would choose to live outside of NYC”
Actual Americans: “Vegas, baby!”
Actual Americans: “Vegas, baby!”
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I first noticed this guy from his great living thread on Twitter of reactionary-centrist wantwits telling everybody to stop worrying about stuff. But he is increasingly one of those guys, if not on that very specific thing. He's Yglesias.
"I don't want to offend you. You're pretty."
The world is run by unsocialized cretins. One less now, I guess, but still.
The world is run by unsocialized cretins. One less now, I guess, but still.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"I don't want to offend you. You're pretty."
The world is run by unsocialized cretins. One less now, I guess, but still.
The world is run by unsocialized cretins. One less now, I guess, but still.
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I’ll have what she’s having
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’ll have what she’s having
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There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
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Reminder that UK libel law sucks compared to the First Amendment & Times v. Sullivan, and this is why Trump in his first term said he wanted to "open up" U.S. libel law.
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 7:58 PM
Reminder that UK libel law sucks compared to the First Amendment & Times v. Sullivan, and this is why Trump in his first term said he wanted to "open up" U.S. libel law.
It looks like this *might* be the administration deporting Leavitt’s brother’s ex for personal reasons.
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
It looks like this *might* be the administration deporting Leavitt’s brother’s ex for personal reasons.
It often pays to read the alt text.
Here’s an unedited picture I just took of my asymmetrical, 45-year-old face with no makeup and weird lighting.
Which I am showing y’all because I need you to understand that Emil Bove is younger than I am.
Which I am showing y’all because I need you to understand that Emil Bove is younger than I am.
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It often pays to read the alt text.
Today’s 21-year-olds were 12 when Trump was first elected. This is the only world they’ve ever known: one were Trump is normal and Joe Biden is corrupt and unfit for office.
Kids these days just have to believe us that it never used to be acceptable for the president to threaten his political opponents with execution every day while stealing billions of dollars.
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Today’s 21-year-olds were 12 when Trump was first elected. This is the only world they’ve ever known: one were Trump is normal and Joe Biden is corrupt and unfit for office.
Nearly 20 years ago, I had lunch with an NYT editor (in the business section) whom I'd worked with. He talked about three things: the people at the paper whom he had decided were "affirmative action hires"; how he'd sneaked peeks at the hot chicks in high school; and how much he liked Josh Barro.
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Nearly 20 years ago, I had lunch with an NYT editor (in the business section) whom I'd worked with. He talked about three things: the people at the paper whom he had decided were "affirmative action hires"; how he'd sneaked peeks at the hot chicks in high school; and how much he liked Josh Barro.
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i would say that twitter is eating barro’s brain but he’s always been like this
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
i would say that twitter is eating barro’s brain but he’s always been like this
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
"active shooter preparedness industry"
From the new HBO documentary Thoughts & Prayers that looks into the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"active shooter preparedness industry"
Nothing about mental debilitation in the display copy, at least. Huh.
“..Trump in his second term has started scheduled events in the afternoon on average, at 12:08 p.m. .. The number of Mr. Trump’s total official appearances has decreased by 39 percent.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Nothing about mental debilitation in the display copy, at least. Huh.
So much of the reaction to this has been faux-cynical posturing, as if this were just a silly celebrity-sex-romp scandal. These people are all in the upper reaches of politics and media, and this story goes to the heart of media corruption and incompetence in particular.
I actually think it’s okay to take a ridiculous scandal seriously when it involves a wingnut conspiracy theorist in charge of things like vaccine policy and pandemic preparedness
Sorry to be a wet blanket 🤷🏻♀️
Sorry to be a wet blanket 🤷🏻♀️
She never misses a beat, of course, but Marina's first paragraph this week is *chef's kiss*
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
So much of the reaction to this has been faux-cynical posturing, as if this were just a silly celebrity-sex-romp scandal. These people are all in the upper reaches of politics and media, and this story goes to the heart of media corruption and incompetence in particular.
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My dream is for a reporter to ask a politician, "What would you do to reduce immigration?" and for the politician to answer, "Why the fuck would I want to reduce immigration?"
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
My dream is for a reporter to ask a politician, "What would you do to reduce immigration?" and for the politician to answer, "Why the fuck would I want to reduce immigration?"