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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 2:55 PM
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Bleak. But at least there's hope?
Me, on why and how Marco Rubio is actually the good guy on the Ukraine "piece" deal.
Yikes!
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Yikes!
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Marco Rubio in the Room
YouTube video by emptywheel
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November 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Bleak. But at least there's hope?
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We have gotten so used to Great Replacement becoming normalized that most people hardly noticed that a racist, antisemitic, xenophobic conspiracy theory popularized by mass shooters and 4chan trolls is now government policy.
The U.S. State Department is repeating a white nationalist conspiracy theory.
On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”
That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”
That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We have gotten so used to Great Replacement becoming normalized that most people hardly noticed that a racist, antisemitic, xenophobic conspiracy theory popularized by mass shooters and 4chan trolls is now government policy.
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That would be this, antisemitic and white nationalist activist, who was a cohost of The Charlie Kirk show.
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
That would be this, antisemitic and white nationalist activist, who was a cohost of The Charlie Kirk show.
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That's the brain worm talking I don't care what Nuzzi says.
“One day [trump] sat on the plane with me. We were talking about Syria, and he drew a map of the Mideast for me. And it was a perfect map,” Kennedy told me. “Then he drew in the troop strength of each country, and also the troop strength on various borders.”
NEW: When RFK Jr. first told Trump that Tylenol might cause autism, the president wanted to tweet out a warning. Kennedy told him not to do that. There was nuance, and the drug companies would push back. “I don’t give a shit about that,” Trump responded. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
That's the brain worm talking I don't care what Nuzzi says.
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You load 16 clues, what do you get? Higher blood pressure and a series of sexts.
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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god trump so clearly thinks mamdani is an alpha and is ingratiating himself
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Someone on here said - Trump endorsed Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did.
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Someone on here said - Trump endorsed Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did.
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What To Make of That Mamdani-Trump Meeting? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...
What To Make of That Mamdani-Trump Meeting?
So Trump didn’t rendition Mamdani. They appear to be huge friends now....
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
What To Make of That Mamdani-Trump Meeting? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...
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The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
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Aren’t they supposed to check on people’s identity before they arrest them, not after?
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Aren’t they supposed to check on people’s identity before they arrest them, not after?
Holy shit this is intensely incredible
oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Holy shit this is intensely incredible
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission first thing in the new admin
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission first thing in the new admin
Welp. This dumb catcher's-mitt-faced Nepo-baby has finally done it.
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Welp. This dumb catcher's-mitt-faced Nepo-baby has finally done it.
Oh god yes
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Oh god yes
Could someone please provide me with an example of her prose that doesn't suck ass?
In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Could someone please provide me with an example of her prose that doesn't suck ass?
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November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Current NYS HealthFirst (ACA) premium:
$316.64
New premium as of 1/1/26:
$1,073.12
FUCK.
YOU.
REPUBLICANS.
$316.64
New premium as of 1/1/26:
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FUCK.
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If Democrats release files showing that Trump was complicit in Epstein's pedophilia, and Trump tries to distract from it by starting a war with Nigeria or Venezuela, then Democrats will have blood on their hands.
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
If Democrats release files showing that Trump was complicit in Epstein's pedophilia, and Trump tries to distract from it by starting a war with Nigeria or Venezuela, then Democrats will have blood on their hands.
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May the history of the Daily News, when it is written, reflect that upon unanimous ratification of the first contract in more than three decades, the next words uttered in the Zoom call were those of street reporter Kerry Burke: “Okay, I got a homicide. I gotta go.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
May the history of the Daily News, when it is written, reflect that upon unanimous ratification of the first contract in more than three decades, the next words uttered in the Zoom call were those of street reporter Kerry Burke: “Okay, I got a homicide. I gotta go.”
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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It’s funny that Harvard has been a consistent target for reactionary campaigns, and not one has been dedicated to ousting Larry Summers, an openly political figure who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein; meanwhile, it’s a fine-toothed comb for *checks notes* Black women.
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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