@maxpotter.bsky.social
Writer-editor @protectdemocracy.org Contributing Editor @vanityfair.com NYT & WSJ Best Wine Book: “Shadows in the Vineyard” http://amzn.to/2H5ikFW Ghost in some memoirs. Facts are facts. My opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/maximillianpotter
We live in an America, a world, when the culture of justice, decency, honor, love…reality… is under so many unrelenting attacks. With efforts underway to triage as best we all can, but I fear we underestimate how widespread, pernicious and enduring the manosphere generations are and will be.
… The fact that America and the world will be dealing with these generations of lost, warped young men for decades. The Gen Z-er toxic young men born into 9/11, Iraq & Afghanistan, Trumpism, COVID, AI, Epstein—who have been taught that being a man means misogyny, and that tenderness is weakness.
Louis Theroux’s doc provides excellent case studies of who/what the manosphere is for the majority of people who have no idea. Generations of young men are being “raised” by and within this pathetic, hateful, toxic “fraternity” of man-child grifter-losers. Implied but not specificity addressed is…
“We want to change the rules of the next election so Democrats don’t win anymore”
Part of what this guy is grappling with is how, after his term is up and he’s not in control, to prevent the tsunami of truths about all of his repulsive criminality from becoming public. We are seeing that he’s willing to start a war to avoid that. He’s willing to burn it all down if he has to.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage
It's true as the Post put it that "democracy dies in darkness," but it also can die in daylight, in plain sight ... we're watching it happen yet again with the Post.
Almost 20 years ago,The Rocky Mountain News shuttered near its 150th anniversary. I reported for months from inside the newspaper into its last day. The challenges then are still the core challenges now. This matters because there is no hope for democracy without journalism. 5280.com/all-the-news...
For #journalism to exist what's necessary is A) a non-profit approach, rooted in a commitment to support the pursuit of truth in the public interest B) culturally, we need to raise our children with a renewed appreciation for reading (yes *reading*) and an appreciation for the importance of facts.
A well reported recap of the Wash Post’s recent past into present. ... I get the value of data/metrics to inform decisions and the desire to at least break even, but there just doesn’t seem to be a “fix” here. For at least two decades now it seems that... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
God bless the friend who sends this link with no explanation.
Just the link. youtu.be/LGgqBk11u5M?...
How about Chewie?
A very well done piece on @jamestalarico.bsky.social who always cuts through the bullshit. "The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1 percent of the population. Undocumented people are 1 percent of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1 percent."
And this was *written* in the summer of 24, and here and there feedback was that we were catastrophizing; even got a “I don’t see it.”
Saying the quiet part out load. The Trump Admin wants their ally David Ellison to take over media to turn it into propaganda for Trump. And they've wielded govt power over the market to manipulate that outcome.
This is how Orban took over media in Hungary. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
I mean, who could have ever known that maybe it’s not the best idea to take advice from the cockroach-gross out-horse dewormer-instead-of-vaccination … “experience” guy … on ANYthing, never mind when he tells you to vote for a sexual-predator felon fake-boss dope for president.
Guy who made it “big” hosting a “reality” show where people competed in gross-outs by eating cockroaches is surprised the “reality” show star who got off on being a fake boss and performatively firing people whom he endorsed for president is not actually good at real job and creates crises.
EXCLUSIVE: During the Academy Awards, media watchdog group Free Press will "congratulate" David Ellison with a "rather brutal" billboard right outside the Dolby Theatre.
It's all part of a protest of the Paramount/WB merger on Hollywood Blvd. during the big show.
Read more: bit.ly/4dpkQVI
✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.
Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:
Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.
And recognized as such by the US Government.
From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
"Declaring that no quarter will be given" is specifically prohibited by Art 23 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, which means it is a war crime under US domestic law by virtue of the War Crimes Act (18 U.S. Code § 2441).
Especially when your nation is being run by corrupt jackasses.
But we should be reassured that Scott Bessent has “a teenager who's considering military service” and Scott says he would “trust my child's life in their hands.”
Hegseth: "Some in the press can't stop. Allow me to make suggestions. People look at the TV and they see banners, 'Mideast War Intensifies.' What should it read instead? How about, 'Iran increasingly desperate.' More fake news from CNN. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better"
Bet your bottom dollar on his cryptooooooh, come what may!
Sing it like Annie:
Tomorrow, tomorrow—Trump will end the war (he started) and the one Putin started, and there will be a Trump health care plan and not just a “framework”, and infrastructure week, and he will release his tax filings and America will be great and—the sun will come out tomorrow.
“All the key measures are moving in the wrong direction.”
You don’t say.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
Trump repeatedly called journalists “the enemy of the people,” “human scum,” “very dangerous and sick.”
Here is the painstaking work of a couple of #journalists doing the job of presenting facts, pursuing the truth for America & the world. So many journalists doing incredible work right now.
But what does it say about an “excursion”?