One striking thing about Trump II news coverage is not cover-ups/lack of transparency, it's that we often don't know why things happen at all. No official explanation, too many things for journos to investigate, and the cause may be some obscure/shifting power dynamic even the WH isn't aware of

Good to see you. I am very, very gradually reconstituting my late-2010s Twitter list

This grows in part out of the culture of AI in general, which is focused on engineering/problem-solving, "whatever works," and often operates on the assumption that some pop-psych idea is self-evidently how the mind works

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

They appear to have taken the search/claim functions offline. Let's hope not permanently, I was hoping to file a claim too.

Her arc parallels, or is related to/subsumed in what Trumpism has done to conventional politics. I don’t think anyone really understands the scope and gravity of these changes

Perils of embracing a supposed vibe shift

(Safe assumption is that whatever they thought, they were afraid to report it, so ended up leaking it)

Another issue is, this happened on Friday, yet it took three days to be reported, by People. The AF1 pool did not think it was relevant?

My theory FWIW: Lee never had a publishable exposé. He bluffed Donald w/a brief clip of Betty Jo admitting one minor thing, and implied she told him everything, but she didn't. Otherwise, he had no documentation (the will) or on-the-record sources. He was right, but no editor would publish that.

Says a lot that it’s hard to think of even one high-profile executive policy action in 2025 that was based on reality/the public interest

There’s a lot of criticism of NYT headlines, but probably under-appreciated is the degree to which many are just straight-up trolling

Citation:
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And, of course, it should resonate! – this is a national issue with dire impacts for local communities