William Slothrop

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“I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.”

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William Slothrop

nobody should be posting right now. resist the urge to post.

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William Slothrop

What’s wild to me is that the people calling journalists thin skinned (and tbf, many are) are singling out people who routinely get death threats for what they write. They’re not thin-skinned; they just don’t have an obligation to come on this site and be punching bags for people’s frustrations

Correct, but also, why is Bouie such a whiny baby? Thinnest-skinned guy around…

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William Slothrop

are you fucking kidding me

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Michael Tae Sweeney

“News Analysis” desk as cursed as ever

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Buchman

Fair point, but it’s usually incompetence, which in some ways can be harder to deter.

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Holy shit, the NM judge in the Alec Baldwin case just dismissed the case with prejudice for discovery violations!

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First Wordle Problems

Love that film but no, there’s a lesson! There’s a specific lesson! It’s Brady! It’s always fucking Brady! It’s not a mystery!!! Disclose exculpatory evidence! Why is this always so hard for prosecutors??

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ryan cooper

He is carrying some truly rancid water these days

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14 years of Tory rule gives us this utterly horrifying graph:

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CindyLou

“This one goes out to the one I left behind.” I mean, it’s stingy, but at least he left something.

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William Slothrop

I'm no ivy league fail upward brunchlord news professional, but I feel it's generous to call conspiratorial fascism (managed by a sociopathic manbaby with a fourth grade reading level) "disruptive" that's kind of like saying nuclear annihilation is "modifying"

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the editor of the New York Times reacting to a potential Trump second term with “fasten your seatbelts” is so deeply vile i can’t wrap my mind around it. these people have detached themselves so completely from the things they cover that the rise of fascism becomes just something exciting to watch

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William Slothrop

I lack the words to convey the depths of my disgust

jeepers talkingpointsmemo.com/news/lies-le...

Lies, Lewd Texts, ‘Sexualized Relationship’ At Center Of Trump-Appointed Fed Judge’s Abrupt Resignationtalkingpointsmemo.com A Trump-appointed federal judge in Alaska abruptly and with no explanation resigned...

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Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.

In which the New York Times' top Supreme Court reporter says the court "enhanced the availability of abortion" this term www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/p...

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The New York Times

I’ve been ignoring the dogshit opinion page (and “News Analysis” garbage) for years out of respect for the news-gathering operation, but the last couple of weeks of deranged Biden coverage have brought shame on the entire organization. Fuck this, I am unsubscribing.

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William Slothrop

bye bye to the forward second pic is the last line of the piece. written by andrew cuomo

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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Wow amazing how the Saudis keep showing up in these stories where they offer illegal support to far right politicians.

Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia

Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabiaapnews.com The indictment of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia marked the far-right leader’s second formal accusation with more potentially in store.

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Seth Cotlar

It also appears this mendacious fool was lying about not voting. Which was publicly available information the fact checkers at the Times apparently failed to look for. bsky.app/profile/bubb...

he voted in 2020 and 2022 voteref.com/voters/MI/vi...

Voter Referencevoteref.com VoteRef.com is dedicated to ensuring transparent, accurate and fair elections in the United States of America.

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William Slothrop

History will recall that the New York Times, that bastion of "the liberal media," on July 4, 2024 chose to give prime space on their op-ed page to a theocratic absolutist who argued that people shouldn't vote, even though he himself has voted in the last 2 elections (but nowhere is that mentioned).

When I first saw this I thought "no, that can't possibly be true." But alas, the Times did indeed choose today of all days to publish a right winger's recycled piece about how they don't vote, failing to mention that the author basically thinks absolutist theocracies are cool.

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William Slothrop

Fireworks suck.

I witnessed a fireworks accident a few years ago that fired a mortar through a cluster of people watching, narrowly missing one spectator as it screamed past at face-height. Fortunately, it was a near miss instead of a fatality, but it immediately cured me of any interest in fireworks.

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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.

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As part of an official televised event to raise awareness for unhoused issues, sleep outside in public in Grants Pass, Oregon.

Okay, folks, who is putting together the list of the funniest crimes that Biden should be committing between now and election day to highlight the absurdity of today's immunity ruling? Not the stuff like assassinations. Just stuff to make a point.

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will any of the feckless idiots who have over the years repeatedly assured us of John Roberts' nobility and seriousness of purpose devote their next column to explaining how they came to so thoroughly misunderstand the precise thing their job is to understand, or nah?

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Correct. A prudent, law-abiding President who appoints qualified agency personnel to enact thoughtful regulations is going to see their agenda inevitably fail. A malicious, arbitrary President who runs around barking illegal commands at people will be rewarded.

So based on decisions from just this week, the President, as long has he has the gloss of officialdom, can basically do anything without legal restraint, whereas the President, acting via duly appointed agencies authorized by Congress, is more restrained than ever? What a coherent jurisprudence!

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William Slothrop

Can't be impeached because presidential impeachment has been a dead letter since parties came into existence. Can't be disqualified from office. And can't be prosecuted for crimes committed under color of office.