something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

Caroline Kennedy’s daughter Tatiana Schlossberg announces she has terminal cancer with a year to live in an essay in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

we really aren’t showcasing our best lately

I found the one exception to my belief that journalists should be paid for their work

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Other people out here doing the lord’s work: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Not only has he never looked at Don Jr. or Eric like this, he’s never been so happy to bask in JD Vance’s presence either.

He looks giddy. JOYFUL even.

Is Zohran a witch

it’s like if in American History X, Ed Norton’s character became president instead of going to prison.

Russiagate… the thing that sent Michael Flynn to prison because he was guilty as hell?

ready for baseball season

The House takes 2 months off & finally reports back to work & promptly spends the next week filing censure motions against each other & attending black tie dinners w/Saudis while the clock counts down for 24 million people to have their health insurance premiums spike in 42 days.

I know I'm weird in that I rattle off 3-4,000 mindless words a day, but what the fuck is Ryan Lizza doing that he couldn't have dropped Part 2 already. Christ.

the photo of MBS giggling in the Oval Office is my joker moment (of this week)

I’m furious that the first I’m learning about this is on here

All the tawdry details aside, between Nuzzi’s ethical lapses, the revelations from the Epstein emails of journalists withholding information, and Trump’s continued degradation of the press, what’s been reinforced is a crisis of elite control of journalism and of profound rot. That rot appears in journalists in different forms: debasing themselves at the feet of power because it’s rewarded; allowing themselves to be debased by the powerful to maintain status and access; and identifying more with their powerful subjects than regular people because they believe it will insulate them from retribution. Each scenario reinforces how people behave differently under crumbling institutions than in a stable democracy: As rot spreads across journalism, politics, academia, law, and more, achieving success has become more of a riddle than a road map.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...

One for the ages 😱

the party of Christian family values will be pulling families out of churches, which have always been safe havens from law enforcement.

American Canto; or The Mr. Big-ification of RFK Jr.

please do Craig. I will read every take on this.

never thought I’d be sitting here all day anxiously awaiting a Ryan Lizza piece…

the same people that shriek about states rights

Jeff Bezos bought Lauren Sanchez, the tackiest woman on the planet, the Met Gala.

this coming out in the context of all the new epstein emails is wild

now feels like a good time to remind people that RFK jr drove his ex wife to suicide and then moved her gravesite after denying her parents their wish for her to be buried in her hometown