Jonathan Larsen
@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
Journalist.
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Here’s Sean Duffy dressing in nothing on national TV:
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Here’s Sean Duffy dressing in nothing on national TV:
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Excellent catch up and some original reporting just starting to make its way elsewhere via TFN @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
DOJ Investigating Venezuela Claims of 2020 Election Deniers
Report: Federal investigators are pursuing evidence and leads provided by election-conspiracy Venezuela hawks
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November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Excellent catch up and some original reporting just starting to make its way elsewhere via TFN @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
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It's another F'ng news Monday with @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social of TheFuckingNews.substack.com on the show, but today, there's really some good new to be thankful for. Join us LIVE 3ET/12PT at youtu.be/4jydeWnyVN0. nicolesandler.com, pod later, nicolesandler.substack.com
Another F'ng Monday with Gratitude & Jonathan Larsen on the Nicole Sandler Show - 11-24-25
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November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It's another F'ng news Monday with @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social of TheFuckingNews.substack.com on the show, but today, there's really some good new to be thankful for. Join us LIVE 3ET/12PT at youtu.be/4jydeWnyVN0. nicolesandler.com, pod later, nicolesandler.substack.com
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Trump Got Venezuela Intel from Team Behind 2020 Election-Theft “Witness” open.substack.com/pub/jonathan... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
Trump Got Venezuela Intel from Team Behind 2020 Election-Theft “Witness”
The two men who brought Sidney Powell her "holy grail" witness in 2020 are feeding Trump info to justify his Venezuela crusade
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November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Trump Got Venezuela Intel from Team Behind 2020 Election-Theft “Witness” open.substack.com/pub/jonathan... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
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Murphy: Trump Kept Dems in Dark About Rogue Intel Sources open.substack.com/pub/jonathan... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social "Congressional #Democrats have been complaining about inadequate briefings on the administration’s #Venezuela intelligence
Murphy: Trump Kept Dems in Dark About Rogue Intel Sources
EXCLUSIVE: Senator's office says Trump's team hasn't disclosed using Venezuela info from questionable sources tied to 2020 election-denial efforts
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November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Murphy: Trump Kept Dems in Dark About Rogue Intel Sources open.substack.com/pub/jonathan... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social "Congressional #Democrats have been complaining about inadequate briefings on the administration’s #Venezuela intelligence
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How Mamdani Did It open.substack.com/pub/thefucki... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social "Praise Trump — AS I’VE BEEN SAYING SINCE 2015 — for Good Things
You get Trump on your side by compartmentalizing. As you would with any child, don’t write them off no matter what they set on fire.
You get Trump on your side by compartmentalizing. As you would with any child, don’t write them off no matter what they set on fire.
How Mamdani Did It
The Muslim democratic socialist mayor-elect of New York City won over America's kleptocratic Christian nationalist president
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November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
How Mamdani Did It open.substack.com/pub/thefucki... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social "Praise Trump — AS I’VE BEEN SAYING SINCE 2015 — for Good Things
You get Trump on your side by compartmentalizing. As you would with any child, don’t write them off no matter what they set on fire.
You get Trump on your side by compartmentalizing. As you would with any child, don’t write them off no matter what they set on fire.
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Excellent catching up on the news with cogent commentary and tons of lulz☮️💜
via @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
via @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
What a Fucking Loser
Trump hits bottom by upping the ante with death threats to compensate for his shrinkage
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November 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Excellent catching up on the news with cogent commentary and tons of lulz☮️💜
via @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
via @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
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this is the world's most confusing day for centrist Democrats who just voted to condemn socialism and tried to sink Mamdani's campaign for months
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
this is the world's most confusing day for centrist Democrats who just voted to condemn socialism and tried to sink Mamdani's campaign for months
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Amazing Gallup finding reported by @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social today:
“The U.S. is stronger as a nation because it has people from different races, religions and cultures: 84%.”
MSM can’t get enough of “concerns” about multiculturalism. So how bout reporting this?
“The U.S. is stronger as a nation because it has people from different races, religions and cultures: 84%.”
MSM can’t get enough of “concerns” about multiculturalism. So how bout reporting this?
Jonathan Larsen (@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social)
Journalist.
jonathanlarsen.substack.com
jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Amazing Gallup finding reported by @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social today:
“The U.S. is stronger as a nation because it has people from different races, religions and cultures: 84%.”
MSM can’t get enough of “concerns” about multiculturalism. So how bout reporting this?
“The U.S. is stronger as a nation because it has people from different races, religions and cultures: 84%.”
MSM can’t get enough of “concerns” about multiculturalism. So how bout reporting this?
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"It’s cultural erasure, a rollback of DEI promises, and loss of platforms where Black and underrepresented voices are heard. The exact places where we created spaces are being dismantled." www.refinery29.com/en-us/black-...
Where Have All The Black Journalists Gone?
In the wake of the Teen Vogue layoffs and the rollback of DEI initiatives in media, we have to ask: what necessary perspectives do we lose, and what questions go unasked and unanswered, when Black jou...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"It’s cultural erasure, a rollback of DEI promises, and loss of platforms where Black and underrepresented voices are heard. The exact places where we created spaces are being dismantled." www.refinery29.com/en-us/black-...
The Nazis, KKK, and Confederacy killed far more Americans than Al Qaeda did.
Is the Al Qaeda flag “potentially divisive,” too?
Is the Al Qaeda flag “potentially divisive,” too?
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The Nazis, KKK, and Confederacy killed far more Americans than Al Qaeda did.
Is the Al Qaeda flag “potentially divisive,” too?
Is the Al Qaeda flag “potentially divisive,” too?
Can we stop worshiping authenticity now?
Q: What did the president mean when he called a reporter "piggy"?
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Can we stop worshiping authenticity now?
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On the brighter side
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
On the brighter side
Not even mayor yet already he’s doing sharia law wrong…
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Not even mayor yet already he’s doing sharia law wrong…
This bystander attitude in Congress is so baffling.
How do YOU propose fixing it?
What are YOU doing to build political support for your fixes?
What are you doing other than posts you could be posting no matter who you were?
How do YOU propose fixing it?
What are YOU doing to build political support for your fixes?
What are you doing other than posts you could be posting no matter who you were?
Trump should spend less time building a multi-million dollar ballroom and more time figuring out how to fix this.
U.S. grocery prices have hit a record high — the monthly cost for a family of four is now $1,030.
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This bystander attitude in Congress is so baffling.
How do YOU propose fixing it?
What are YOU doing to build political support for your fixes?
What are you doing other than posts you could be posting no matter who you were?
How do YOU propose fixing it?
What are YOU doing to build political support for your fixes?
What are you doing other than posts you could be posting no matter who you were?
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This could also be about journalism. The idea of fighting back against the smears was rarely taken seriously, capitulation was widely accepted and treated as both inevitable and right
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This could also be about journalism. The idea of fighting back against the smears was rarely taken seriously, capitulation was widely accepted and treated as both inevitable and right
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This guy didn't really expect a hard campaign. He wanted a coronation
But @aftynbehn.bsky.social has other ideas
But @aftynbehn.bsky.social has other ideas
VAN EPPS: “I fully support ICE”
TN-7 candidate Matt Van Epps (R) makes it clear he will be a rubber stamp for Trump’s lawless masked racial profiling army currently terrorizing brown people across the country a grabbing people with no due process, including citizens
TN-7 candidate Matt Van Epps (R) makes it clear he will be a rubber stamp for Trump’s lawless masked racial profiling army currently terrorizing brown people across the country a grabbing people with no due process, including citizens
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This guy didn't really expect a hard campaign. He wanted a coronation
But @aftynbehn.bsky.social has other ideas
But @aftynbehn.bsky.social has other ideas
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Heckuva ethics probe on Rep. Cory Mills.
he may have: failed disclose required info, violated campaign finance laws, received special favors, engaged in misconduct with respect to allegations of sexual misconduct and/or dating violence, and/or misused congressional resources.
he may have: failed disclose required info, violated campaign finance laws, received special favors, engaged in misconduct with respect to allegations of sexual misconduct and/or dating violence, and/or misused congressional resources.
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Heckuva ethics probe on Rep. Cory Mills.
he may have: failed disclose required info, violated campaign finance laws, received special favors, engaged in misconduct with respect to allegations of sexual misconduct and/or dating violence, and/or misused congressional resources.
he may have: failed disclose required info, violated campaign finance laws, received special favors, engaged in misconduct with respect to allegations of sexual misconduct and/or dating violence, and/or misused congressional resources.
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Thriving in independent media for 25 years, without a) getting hoovered into some larger media org & subsequently axed, b) getting ruined by some hedge fund guy, c) falling afoul of any short-lived "pivot to video" style trends, or d) going broke...
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
PHOTOS: TPM Celebrates Our 25-Year Anniversary in NYC talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/phot...
PHOTOS: TPM Celebrates Our 25-Year Anniversary in NYC
We rang in our 25th anniversary in style last week, hosting a...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Thriving in independent media for 25 years, without a) getting hoovered into some larger media org & subsequently axed, b) getting ruined by some hedge fund guy, c) falling afoul of any short-lived "pivot to video" style trends, or d) going broke...
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
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My Tom Steyer take?
He should take the tens (or hundred-plus?) millions of dollars he's going to waste on this campaign and instead buy / start the lib media org we've talked about: focus on hs & local sports, local biz, & Trump crime & corruption.
Tired of our rich people being so short-sighted.
He should take the tens (or hundred-plus?) millions of dollars he's going to waste on this campaign and instead buy / start the lib media org we've talked about: focus on hs & local sports, local biz, & Trump crime & corruption.
Tired of our rich people being so short-sighted.
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My Tom Steyer take?
He should take the tens (or hundred-plus?) millions of dollars he's going to waste on this campaign and instead buy / start the lib media org we've talked about: focus on hs & local sports, local biz, & Trump crime & corruption.
Tired of our rich people being so short-sighted.
He should take the tens (or hundred-plus?) millions of dollars he's going to waste on this campaign and instead buy / start the lib media org we've talked about: focus on hs & local sports, local biz, & Trump crime & corruption.
Tired of our rich people being so short-sighted.
Any Democrat running for president who doesn't just say we should provide health care for everyone is out of their minds.
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Any Democrat running for president who doesn't just say we should provide health care for everyone is out of their minds.
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Some internal tension on the White House Correspondents Association email listserv today. Some journalists are complaining that background info circulated to the group by a reporter working for Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya did not mention the murder of Jamal Khashoggi...
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Some internal tension on the White House Correspondents Association email listserv today. Some journalists are complaining that background info circulated to the group by a reporter working for Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya did not mention the murder of Jamal Khashoggi...
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We spoke w/ @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social about how Trump, Rubio and Hegseth are poised to go to war with Venezuela based on ridiculous intelligence from a couple of shadow warriors and threat fabricators financed by the Overstock CEO behind the “Kraken” election deniers soundcloud.com/user-8304426...
The Cast of Characters Feeding the Bogus Intel Trump is Using to Justify a War With Venezuela
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex
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November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We spoke w/ @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social about how Trump, Rubio and Hegseth are poised to go to war with Venezuela based on ridiculous intelligence from a couple of shadow warriors and threat fabricators financed by the Overstock CEO behind the “Kraken” election deniers soundcloud.com/user-8304426...
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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
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@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social’s 11.17.25 TFN is a good one!
Covering a lot of the current muck with some steal-worthy zingers!
tinyurl.com/3nvzkkt2
Covering a lot of the current muck with some steal-worthy zingers!
tinyurl.com/3nvzkkt2
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social’s 11.17.25 TFN is a good one!
Covering a lot of the current muck with some steal-worthy zingers!
tinyurl.com/3nvzkkt2
Covering a lot of the current muck with some steal-worthy zingers!
tinyurl.com/3nvzkkt2