NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors

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"empathy for the DoW"

This is besides the point but this tech bro baby talk (“I don’t think I’d react great”/“I think we need to help them”) is so normalized that we don’t even notice how it obscures specificity and responsibility.

Ray saying daaamn that answer could use some work

i’m getting really tired of tech people doing a whoopsiedoodle “am i the baddies” instead of either a) standing for literally anything or b) saying “yeah i don’t care about the ramifications of my actions”. just admit that you care about money and power more than morals! it’s ok! stop gaslighting me

No doubt Mike Johnson hasn’t seen the war.

Imagine the conclusion you would draw if you came out of a coma to see we’re at war again and the East Wing of the White House is rubble.

You were so sad when mean old Biden took Afghanistan away, nice Mr. Trump decided to give you a shiny new war to thank you for helping elect him president for the second time.

Related point, if you are in misinformation research and have been launching study after study to see what Uncle Fred thinks after seeing misinformation PLEASE listen to what @katestarbird.bsky.social and I have been saying for years: effects on elite and official action is what matters most.

Who cares what uncle Fred believes when you've got a bunch of people in power who cooked their brains on social media, a bunch of people in power afraid of people who cooked their brains on social media & bunch of news stations that have to produce news attractive to ppl with cooked brains.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.

* and to attempt to justify an unconsitutional war against Iran.

John Solomon of JustTheNews here was literally paid to work with Mike Benz (aka Frame Game) to say we were like secret CIA agents colluding with DHS and the FBI to steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump.

Greg Greene on X: "Anyone remember how multiple outlets gave John Solomon, the bad penny of the D.C. press corps, the deference due a top-flight reporter — rather than treating him as the right-wing hack he always was?" / X Anyone remember how multiple outlets gave John Solomon, the bad penny of the D.C. press corps, the deference due a top-flight reporter — rather than treating him as the right-wing hack he always was?

Old enough to remember when John Solomon, a veteran propagandist and hack, got prestige posts at the Washington Post and AP because his presence provided an appearance of ‘balance.’

What the Donald Trump of 2016 would think of the Donald Trump of 2026 will never be known. But they are starkly different figures when it comes to overseas intervention. A

It’s the same guy you dumb shit

(Dumb shit = @peterbakernyt.bsky.social)

R THE RACKET = Except for one problem: We already know what Donald Trump would do with war and the military-industrial complex if given the chance. You may have forgotten this but: He was actually president before. Not only did Trump do a lot of killing in that time, but through his unique blend of belligerence and incompetence, he helped set the stage for most of the major crises roiling the world today. Trump's supporters like to say there were "no wars" when he was president. (Trump himself started promoting that line in the primaries.) This is such an obvious lie I don't even know where to start. He

Sorry, @peterbakernyt.bsky.social, I’ve run completely out of fucks. You’re incompetent! Give me your job. I wrote this in 2024. theracket.news/p/donald-the...

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally

If Tillis, Murk, Collins, Massie, and Bacon wanted to stop this it would already be over.

the really funny thing is you can swap in any set of names you like for that. i picked the obvious suspects. but the shame inheres just as much on the nonobvious ones.

Katie Britt loves a soft-focus mainstream media profile but she doesn’t have the guts god gave a goat.

Tillis and Cornyn are getting dog walked out of office by Trump’s party but they won’t stop kissing the foot that kicks them.

I could probably do this specifically for two hundred and seventy names if I knew enough lol

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

Never forget who you fight for 🫡

GribblesGoBag @GribblesGoBag Follow .•• Smascbyjeffchastair Remember who we are fighting for! 10:42 AM • Feb 28, 2026 • 2,893 Views

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

In January we reported on how CT assets were repurposed to manufacture threats to support ICE operations.

Right wingers calling everything George Orwell 1984 for a decade only to do it for real themselves

This is some next-level swiftboating