Jeremy Venook

Really ties all the threads together, this one

No. In Woke 2 we’re not doing shit like this to defend people like Nuzzi.

this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”

these people were supposed to be the cream of the crop of the industry, btw

god damn it's the most tired genre possible to mine can you imagine the thinkpieces if obama called a woman reporter a piggie

I’m sure Catherine Laga’aia is also an excellent singer, but this does not do much to make me believe they will actually use this remake to showcase that

Also the singing sounds appallingly auto-tuned, when one of the things that was so impressive about the original was discovering how amazing Auli’i Cravalho sounded

Trump spent a lot of time on the campaign trail attacking Bush, Cheney, and the neocons for their military adventurism in Iraq and beyond. So naturally he’s getting dogwalked into an even more egregiously unjustified regime change war by exactly the same people.

Just before midterm elections, Trump claims he'll propose cutting middle class taxes 10 percent

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Reminder that he did this in 2018 as well, promising he’d drop a new tax cut right before the midterms

There remains a cottage industry in intentionally conflating “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point” with “I endorse everything this person ever said”

She’s lying, of course, but it is noteworthy that the feels like she has to lie and say these things. She’s a weathervane and this is a sign of the way the wind is blowing.

Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared.

"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"

i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak

He’s very close to going full Cockney rhyming slang for his nicknames

An absolute triumph for the "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards" set.

Marcy Park speaks SEVEN languages
I will die on this hill

The Venezuela boat strikes are even more galling when you remember that the Biden administration almost entirely ended drone warfare and not only received no credit but was subject from both sides to claims that “they’re going to send our young men overseas to die in foreign wars”

I'm Thomas Chatterton Williams, and as the reality of our entire political and cultural elite's deep enmeshment with pedophilia and sex trafficking goes from obvious to undeniable, I will be writing about how it's bad to have principles.

I’m old enough to remember when Charlize Theron was nominated for an Oscar for playing Megyn Kelly as a Me Too-era hero

Worth remembering that the impact of the “Access Hollywood” tape release was partly neutralized by Wikileaks dropping the first batch of emails Russian hackers had stolen from the Clinton campaign *29 minutes later*, which reporters treated as a scandal for Clinton, not Trump

Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!

another manifestation of this is when you criticize the right and somebody tsk tsks "they say the same thing about the left," like, yeah, somebody is lying, are you interested in who? because the answer is easily discoverable

Wild to watch playbook run cover for this particular Trump scandal

The folks who spun a grand conspiracy theory about a massive pedophilic cannibal ring over emails talking about pizza are here to inform you there’s not much there in these Epstein emails

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Here’s what is interesting about this answer: It is not a “no.” bsky.app/profile/just...

We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

Neutrality and objectivity are not the same thing and are, in fact, often contradictory goals. The objective truth is often not neutral in its political implications, and it would be a useless exercise if it was.