The Times is starting to remind me of Frank Zappa’s quote about music journalism: ‘People who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.’

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

On Veterans Day, @contrariannews.org sent me and @thecierastour.bsky.social to cover nationwide protests -- of Vets saying "hell no" to the Trump administration's militarization of U.S. cities.

We met some extraordinary defenders of democracy:

The Epstein Email Cache: 2,300 Messages, Many of Which Mention Trump An analysis of documents released this week by Congress shows President Trump was mentioned in more than half of the messages.

Incredible piece of data journalism here from @wsj.com.

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FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...

NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two newly hired senior FBI staff, exempting them from polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information, officials said.

I live in a time when "a cabal of pedophiles runs the country" and "the national media have been engaging in a multi a year long conspiracy to end democracy" are factual statements and I want a refund

Display about Black soldiers in World War II removed from US military cemetery | CNN Politics Decades ago, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old 1st Lt. Jeffersons Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers in, were tasked with burying the...

This is the same administration that has ordered the return of a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery--one which celebrates the "loyal slave" narrative as represented by the images of the "faithful mammy" and a body servant (slave) in Confederate uniform. 🗃️
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This article is from August 11th. Three months ago.

Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...

A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.

Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.

This article is from AUGUST.

He also claims that Grok is "more objective than woke" and my goodness his brain is cooked.

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

Wow sounds like Matt was the real victim in all this

'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.

A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here

the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes

Very sad to see professors (and journalists) falling for the argument that this policy is a real effort to remove "advocacy" or "ideology" from the classroom, and debating that point. That's like when they said they oppose affirmative action because it's racist. They. Are. Lying.

Attorney: Can 13-year olds consent to sex?

Republicans: CAN THEY EVER

police dressed as military in front of a police tank

police dressed in camo like soldiers like total knobs

cops dressed head to toe in camo like full kit wankers

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation

Major Newspapers' Clinton Email Coverage vs. Trump Headlines 22 October 29, 2016 - November 4, 2016 NUMBER OF ARTICLES 15 5 15 8 6 6 12 11 7 7 • Articles That Mention Clinton Email Server • Front Page Articles That Mention Clinton Email Server • Trump Headlines That Don't Mention Email Server Front Page Trump Headlines That Don't Mention Email Server 5 4 Los Angeles Times The New Hork Times 5 3 2 隻USA TODAY 2 THE The WALL STREET Washington JOURNAL. post MEDIAMATTERS MER

But her emails... 15 front page headlines in the New York Times

Were there multiple front page headlines about Epstein and Trump?

Emily, the problem is that people believe that Times was protecting Trump specifically. The fact that they published something about a different person, who wasn't Trump, is not really exculpatory. If anything it's worse, because it proves they *could* have reported it out, and chose not to.

They sat on it during the same time they published excerpts about a fake scandal from a Bannon book bsky.app/profile/real...

Not a peep about Trump and Epstein in the run-up to 2016.

Not. A. Peep.

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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

Ed Martin, director of DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group and also the U.S. Pardon Attorney, is tweeting in the middle of the work day about the Kennedy Center’s ballet programming.

The opinion desk is, with a few exceptions, staffed by dullards and reactionaries. Senior leadership has been on semi-open crusade against trans people. Star reporters covering Trump have seemingly held back info for books; those from the politics section openly launder right wingers as sources

I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons

BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...

According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.

Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.

Marco Rubio says U.S. visas can be denied for obesity, diabetes, cancer, and even retirement age because those people might “drain taxpayer resources. Amazing how that concern disappears when they’re blowing millions on luxury travel, parties, and renovations.