adam offitzer

someone at a white house press briefing should ask why the president consistently refers to his black american critics as “low IQ”

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Americans are still waiting on Trump's pledge of IVF treatment for all On the campaign trail, Donald Trump said the U.S. would be "paying for" IVF.

Oh you mean he lied about it, no way www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...

Thom Tillis voted to confirm Pirro -- proving once again he is a vote suppressor through and through. When will the legacy media stop falling for Republicans who falsely claim to be enlightened moderates...

Senate Confirms Election Denying Fox Host as DC US Attorney Senate Confirms Election Denying Fox Host as DC US Attorney

🚨BREAKING: Senate Republicans were undeterred by former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s election denialism. They confirmed her nomination to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on Saturday night by a 50-45 vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump has no way out of the Epstein problem; he can either continue to stonewall, which makes him look guilty, or he can release everything, which may make him look even guiltier. https://trib.al/7K8Q9eZ

greg gutfeld tells his audience that george floyd died from a drug overdose and donald trump never called white supremacists “very fine people” in charlottesville

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For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma In Gaza, where displaced children play games called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.

I wrote for The New Yorker about Gaza’s mental health crisis, and spoke with therapists and psychologists still trying to help others through relentless trauma, while they themselves are displaced, grieving, and surviving day by day. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

Trump Shoots the Messenger Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory

New, from me:
Trump just fired the head of the BLS, accusing her of rigging data.
The reality is that by shooting the messenger reporting on the negative effects of his economic policies, Trump pushed America further into banana republic territory.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-shoo...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity which funneled federal funds to public media outlets such as PBS and NPR, will wind down operations by Jan. 2026. Many in the general public have no idea how much programming will be hurt by this. https://loom.ly/zwzBIWI

Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.

Everyday is an attack on Americans. I'm just feeling this one because CPB (NPR + PBS) has always been about public good & public service... to inspire people to create, question and celebrate.

Those in power want that silenced.

www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...

Public media is really special. Shame, shame, shame on this regime and its campaign to make everyone scared, obedient, and stupid. They are stealing from all of us and from our futures. Despicable.

Inside the Crisis at the Anti-Defamation League The group used to believe the rights of Jews were inextricable from the rights of everyone else. Its war against anti-Zionism has changed everything.

In an internal memo to ADL staff, Jonathan Greenblatt calls my story about the group a "shallow hit piece."

The article has more than 40 sources. You can judge for yourself whether or not it's shallow or a hit piece.

I'll link to Greenblatt's memo in the thread.

nymag.com/intelligence...

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

this is a disgrace and a national shame

Jesus christ

The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

I am writing a book about Bernie Sanders And it's going to be really good

Some personal news: I am taking leave from The Washington Post for at least 5 months to write the definitive biography of Bernie Sanders

It's going to be a fascinating read about The Big Questions in America & you wont want to miss it; sign up to follow along

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Colbert isn’t the news! It’s a comedy show. It’s not in the news division.

Why We’re Worried About Electricity Prices Rob and Jesse take stock of all the trends threatening to push up power bills.

NEW SHIFT KEY

From tariffs to an LNG boom to a backed-up turbine supply chain, virtually every trend in the power grid is pointing toward more constraints.

@jessedjenkins.com and I broke down about why we fear a potential power cost crisis:

Listen anywhere: shows.acast.com/65bac3af0334...

really hoping that @thedailyshow.com will share this link to the full interview on Threads or IG so i can amplify there

Report: NYC Mass Shooter Used Palmetto State Armory AR-15 Palmetto State Armory is known for producing low-cost assault weapons, including AR-15 “pistols” with arm braces.

The gunman who killed four people in NYC used an AR-15 from Palmetto State Armory—a gun maker known for producing low-cost assault weapons and marketing them to extremists.

According to the company’s mission, “We want to sell as many AR-15 and AK-47 rifles as we can.”

"I keep busy in the daytime charging glowworms."

My conversation with Ryan Davis.

An album I love turns twenty this month. I wrote about death, time and "Spelled in Bones" over @aquariumdrunkard.com