“You can be in the service of informing people or the business of provocation but audience tolerance for trying to do both and claiming one has nothing to do with the other is waning.”

“News organizations that produce good journalism but also publish incendiary, bigoted, and/or offensive "opinion" content is like a trauma hospital running a gun store in their lobby… cont

I keep finding better writing than mine on the subject of the mainstream media’s freakout over Mamdani. From Heather Bryant:

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

It’s extremely rare for a grand jury to decline to take indictment. Twice in the same case suggest prosecutors can’t read the room—this grand jury is refusing to indict their ham sandwich. That doesn’t bode well for their Subway sub.

Democrats have discovered state legislatures!

$5 trillion to the national debt 😅

Hot take: the best journalists are, in a way, activists.

If your journalism isn't guided by a desire to make the world kinder and fairer through access to factual information, you're simply a stenographer for the status quo.

This is not going to end up being an outlier, folks. MAGA doesn't care if anything makes you sick including deadly pesticides. When oligarchs like Jeff Bezos say they are embracing Trump because he's anti-regulation, this is what they are talking about: No govt rules stopping bad stuff.

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...