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Here's how WaPo and the Times
handled this.
The Times didn't mention the anti-Somali racism. WaPo simply said Trump "revealed his thoughts about Somalia."
WaPo cited Trump praising Hell's Angels without noting he did it while attacking "vicious people" from "the Congo."
An alternate universe
handled this.
The Times didn't mention the anti-Somali racism. WaPo simply said Trump "revealed his thoughts about Somalia."
WaPo cited Trump praising Hell's Angels without noting he did it while attacking "vicious people" from "the Congo."
An alternate universe
January 21, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Here's how WaPo and the Times
handled this.
The Times didn't mention the anti-Somali racism. WaPo simply said Trump "revealed his thoughts about Somalia."
WaPo cited Trump praising Hell's Angels without noting he did it while attacking "vicious people" from "the Congo."
An alternate universe
handled this.
The Times didn't mention the anti-Somali racism. WaPo simply said Trump "revealed his thoughts about Somalia."
WaPo cited Trump praising Hell's Angels without noting he did it while attacking "vicious people" from "the Congo."
An alternate universe
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The president is a mad king threatening war against America’s closest allies because he’s got a psychological fixation on an empty frozen island and a Nobel Peace Prize snub and the best the media or opposition can manage is “Trump changes America’s priorities, perhaps for the worse”
January 20, 2026 at 2:07 PM
The president is a mad king threatening war against America’s closest allies because he’s got a psychological fixation on an empty frozen island and a Nobel Peace Prize snub and the best the media or opposition can manage is “Trump changes America’s priorities, perhaps for the worse”
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People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
January 17, 2026 at 9:08 PM
People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
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#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1961: In his farewell address, President Eisenhower warns Americans about the growing power of what he called the “military-industrial complex,” cautioning that an alliance of industrial and military leaders was vulnerable to abuse of power. /1
Today in history, 1961: In his farewell address, President Eisenhower warns Americans about the growing power of what he called the “military-industrial complex,” cautioning that an alliance of industrial and military leaders was vulnerable to abuse of power. /1
January 17, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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My, how things have changed!
January 17, 2026 at 5:16 PM
My, how things have changed!
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Emmanuel Macron.
January 17, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Emmanuel Macron.
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I thought all the immigrant communities we're voting for Donald Trump to make the economy better? Which was a lie because when President Biden was President our economy was the envy of the world.
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January 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
I thought all the immigrant communities we're voting for Donald Trump to make the economy better? Which was a lie because when President Biden was President our economy was the envy of the world.
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January 17, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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This is actually the really simple story of the collapse of American democracy. You can explain America’s constitutional collapse in a single coherent sentence:
The Founders assumed that Members of Congress would jealously and zealously guard the powers and prerogatives of their branch of government against the grasping of an overweening Executive, and instead we got this supine GOP majority that yearns to lick the boot.
I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.
January 17, 2026 at 7:39 PM
This is actually the really simple story of the collapse of American democracy. You can explain America’s constitutional collapse in a single coherent sentence:
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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"Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes to mean "treating someone like an authority"
For some, "if you don't respect me, I won't respect you" means "if you don't treat me like an authority, I won't treat you like a person""
For some, "if you don't respect me, I won't respect you" means "if you don't treat me like an authority, I won't treat you like a person""
January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
"Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes to mean "treating someone like an authority"
For some, "if you don't respect me, I won't respect you" means "if you don't treat me like an authority, I won't treat you like a person""
For some, "if you don't respect me, I won't respect you" means "if you don't treat me like an authority, I won't treat you like a person""
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All of MAGA are snowflakes. Every last goddamn one of them. Never seen so many wusses in my 71 years on this rock.
January 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM
All of MAGA are snowflakes. Every last goddamn one of them. Never seen so many wusses in my 71 years on this rock.
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ICE needs to mask to protect their identities, but ICE will publicize the names of protesters
ICE demands to be addressed respectfully, or ICE will call you a "fucking bitch"
ICE demands to be treated civilly, or ICE will fly into a rage and kill more innocents
ICE, the biggest snowflakes of all
ICE demands to be addressed respectfully, or ICE will call you a "fucking bitch"
ICE demands to be treated civilly, or ICE will fly into a rage and kill more innocents
ICE, the biggest snowflakes of all
January 16, 2026 at 4:27 PM
ICE needs to mask to protect their identities, but ICE will publicize the names of protesters
ICE demands to be addressed respectfully, or ICE will call you a "fucking bitch"
ICE demands to be treated civilly, or ICE will fly into a rage and kill more innocents
ICE, the biggest snowflakes of all
ICE demands to be addressed respectfully, or ICE will call you a "fucking bitch"
ICE demands to be treated civilly, or ICE will fly into a rage and kill more innocents
ICE, the biggest snowflakes of all
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January 17, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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One of our neighbors has put this sign up repeatedly in their own yard and ICE keeps coming by and stealing it
January 16, 2026 at 3:56 PM
One of our neighbors has put this sign up repeatedly in their own yard and ICE keeps coming by and stealing it
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Sorry. I was being unfair. @ryanjreilly.com of course gets to all the problems with this -- including that right wingers are about to lay into Jack Smith for investigating Trump for LYING TO the Federal govt as a 1A problem (it's not).
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Will be quite the split screen when GOPers go after Jack Smith for his First Amendment analysis in Trump’s election subversion case at that hearing next week! www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, sources say
The Justice Department is investigating whether the two Democratic officials impeded immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, according to sources.
www.nbcnews.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Sorry. I was being unfair. @ryanjreilly.com of course gets to all the problems with this -- including that right wingers are about to lay into Jack Smith for investigating Trump for LYING TO the Federal govt as a 1A problem (it's not).
bsky.app/profile/ryan...
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The very dutiful transcription of the fact that DOJ is launching an investigation into Walz and Frey doesn't exhibit the least critical thinking about what the crime was.
CBS at least names it but ... think about this, folks.
Felony saying mean things?
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
CBS at least names it but ... think about this, folks.
Felony saying mean things?
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
January 17, 2026 at 10:13 AM
The very dutiful transcription of the fact that DOJ is launching an investigation into Walz and Frey doesn't exhibit the least critical thinking about what the crime was.
CBS at least names it but ... think about this, folks.
Felony saying mean things?
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
CBS at least names it but ... think about this, folks.
Felony saying mean things?
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
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the other day my 8yo said Spanish was his third language. then he counted "uno, dos, tres..." all the way up to "nueve" and then said "uh, i forget." i said "diez?" and this kid straight up replied "diez nuts"
January 17, 2026 at 5:49 AM
the other day my 8yo said Spanish was his third language. then he counted "uno, dos, tres..." all the way up to "nueve" and then said "uh, i forget." i said "diez?" and this kid straight up replied "diez nuts"
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Markets are watching the midterms as America's political divide deepens
January 17, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Markets are watching the midterms as America's political divide deepens
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“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…”
- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
January 17, 2026 at 8:58 AM
“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…”
- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman