Jim Naureckas

DoJ Released Much More on Epstein’s Israel Ties—But Media Still Aren’t Much Interested Only a few US corporate media outlets have referenced the latest Epstein/Israel revelations--and these framed them as at best conspiracy-adjacent.

If Jeffrey Epstein had been raising money for the Russian military, you would know all about it.

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Why Corporate Media Needed to Misrepresent Jesse Jackson The Rev. Jesse Jackson's kind of politics terrified an elite that thrives on keeping the 99 Percent divided and conquered.

Jesse Jackson served as a symbol of everything the Democratic Party needed to turn its back on to merit a seat at the grownups’ table.

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Colbert’s CBS Confrontation After CBS denied Stephen Colbert’s claim that he was barred from interviewing a Texas Democrat over FCC rules, Status has learned “The Late Show” comedian was set to deliver a “fiery” response to vie...

Colbert is set to issue a "fiery" response to CBS, @status.news has learned. Details here: www.status.news/p/stephen-co...

If there was one person who embodied establishment media's anxiety about race, class and democracy, it was the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

I Wish I’d Been Wrong About What ‘Control of the Border’ Would Look Like Sixteen years later, Ross Douthat has gotten the kind of sincerity on immigration control that he wanted. How does it look?

"I Wish I’d Been Wrong About What ‘Control of the Border’ Would Look Like," writes Jim @naureckas.bsky.social
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Minnesota, Hennepin County and Minneapolis need to start issuing arrest warrants--for John Does if need be. The murders will continue until local authorities stand up to the thugs.

Media writers who pretend they don't know who is lying are not journalists but propagandists.

On Trans Care, WaPo Rejects Experts and Invents ‘More Neutral’ Center The HHS report on transgender care is a sham--yet at the Washington Post, it's a "dispute" among people with "strong opinions."

It drives me nuts how establishment media think ignorance is strength when it comes to transgender care.

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New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up So Much? Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.

This piece does a good job laying out the case that landlords are using apps to engage in (probably illegal) anticompetitive activity.

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Lina Khan’s populist plan for New York: Cheaper hot dogs (and other things) Zohran Mamdani’s new aide will focus on “excavating the law” to lower prices, borrowing from her legal playbook at the Federal Trade Commission.

The involvement of Lina Khan in the Mamdani administration is a very positive development. Probably the biggest way New Yorkers could benefit from antitrust action is in stopping the collusion among landlords, which has a tremendous impact on inflating rents.

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Dick Cheney Doesn’t Deserve Your Heartfelt Eulogies Former Vice President Dick Cheney died Monday night. Now is not the time to whitewash his bloody legacy of war and destruction.

“'We don’t make them like this anymore,' Meacham said, implying this is a bad thing."

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Newsday headline: Zohran Mamdani Couldn't Identify Billy Joel's 'New York State of Mind'

Mamdani can't recognize a nearly 50-year-old pop song. But then, Newsday caption writers can't spell "Mamdani."

‘CBS Evening News’ Co-Anchor John Dickerson to Exit Network Dickerson, formerly the moderator of 'Face the Nation,' is the first high-profile exit at CBS following the hire of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief.

John Dickerson pays the price for questioning CBS's capitulation to MAGA:

“Can you hold power to account after paying it millions? Can an audience trust you when it thinks you’ve traded away that trust?”

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Cuomo, Mamdani rally forces in Queens as mayoral race enters final days With the city’s mayoral election racing into the home stretch, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo on Sunday held rallies in Queens to make pitches to vot…

The New York Daily News gave 13 of the first 14 paragraphs of its story to a Cuomo rally attacking Mamdani--before moving on to a Mamdani rally that drew 40 times as many participants.

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Fun fact: Tammy Baldwin, one of the four Democratic senators who the #NYTimes claims won because they were "moderates," has the 6th leftmost voting record in the Senate.

WaPo Says ‘Hard Math’ Means Europe Must Lower Its Quality of Life The idea that France may not be able to afford its social spending is a fantasy Washington Post reporters are presenting to their readers as fact.

The Washington Post is deceptively pushing policies that make it more likely that we will get fascism in Europe. More importantly for Jeff Bezos, they will make it less likely that the rich will have to pay more taxes.

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CBS’s Suck-Up to Barrett May Be a Taste of Propaganda to Come A softball interview with Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett provides a glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now.

A glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now that it’s controlled by MAGA billionaire Larry Ellison’s nepo baby and anti-“woke” ideologue Bari Weiss

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CBS’s Suck-Up to Barrett May Be a Taste of Propaganda to Come A softball interview with Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett provides a glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now.

Saying that “this administration always wins” when it makes emergency appeals to the Supreme Court was “obviously false,” CBS's Jan Crawford offered "one high-profile example"--there's only 2 to choose from--and she gets that one wrong.

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Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal After the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, Trump escalated his war on free speech, calling for criminalizing criticism of himself.

This is not a drill: Trump says that people who criticize him and his administration are responsible for "terrorism," and he's outlined a plan to prosecute this "conspiracy."

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YouTube Bends the Knee Welcome to the era of Big-Tech capitulation.

"These three companies alone have collectively paid Trump and his associates $59.5 million for the sin of enforcing the rules of their own privately held companies."

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When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooter—who was transgender—treating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.

The "trans shooter" meme illustrates a flaw in the way our minds work: We pay attention to things because they're unusual, then think they're common because we're paying attention to them.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him

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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him

@nytimes.com : "Mr. Trump and administration officials have long championed free speech, but their actions—as well as their promises since Charlie Kirk’s killing—to guarantee it have been replaced by efforts to quash criticism."

When did Trump administration actions guarantee free speech?

These performances of debate-unity only reach the NYT audience. Meanwhile, the leaders of the Right are signaling to their supporters that the time for a comprehensive crackdown on the “enemy within” has come. Klein isn’t doing anything to defuse the situation - he’s obscuring the problem.

I suspect the supposed text messages released by the FBI are a reconstruction of how the roommate remembers the exchange, created with the help of FBI interrogators. Thus the stilted language and the way it serves prosecutorial needs--without being something the roommate will disavow in court.

The actual politics of free speech is fueled by a right-wing political strategy. - Boston Review Nicole Hemmer responds to Alex Gourevitch’s “The Right to Be Hostile.”

”Self-professed defenders of free speech have become the most fervent advocates and agents of government censorship in the twenty-first century.” @pastpunditry.bsky.social

The leading voices of MAGA are ready to declare a police state over the killing of Charlie Kirk -- carried out, as it appears, by someone even further right than Kirk.

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