I've always blamed the Jonathan Chaits and David Brookses and the NYT more than the hard right like Rufo because without them helping push it, Rufo's propaganda wouldn't escape containment and be taken seriously other than in the fever swamps.
"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better."
The Defense Secretary calling for a billionaire ally of the government to take over a media outlet & make it more pro-government. This is what authoritarianism looks like. But in other countries they try & hide it.
These are the stories media needs to be covering. Every time an infant dies of a refusal, tell the story. Use those words. The NYT has some of the most abysmal, sympathetic coverage of the AV movement because it can’t bring itself to offend, so we get writing implying we don’t know why it’s grown🤷🏻♀️
Just once I'd love for one of these MAGA dupes to admit the fault with getting duped by the lowest-rent con man of the century lies with them.
Unfortunately Fetterman will be there for another two years and nine months.
On Saturday, Trump told us the attack on an elementary school in Iran that killed 175 people – mostly children – “was done by Iran.”
Now the U.S. military admits it was a U.S. strike.
If they are lying about something as obvious as this, what else are they lying about?
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Anyone who believed this was not paying attention.
Imagine the days when you had to win this to get into NCAAs.
From the "didn't realize he hadn't died" files.
“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory
mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...
After the 2020 U.S. presidential election, conspiracy theories alleging that President Trump’s reelection victory was “stolen” proliferated. @noupside.bsky.social explains the five major foreign-interference conspiracy theories of 2020, what was actually claimed, and why none of it was true.
Indeed.
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X is a fascist propaganda website.
Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.
Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves
We are not at war with Iran, although we have been for the last 50 years.
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
The word you are looking for, Tom, is "bad." A demented authoritarian illegally and immorally bombing a foreign country is bad.
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
Why did they let him be anonymous?
I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.
I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
From bad to much worse.
The US under 'antiwar' Trump has now also launched military operations in Ecuador too:
Ten goddamn years of the US right insisting it hates Middle East military adventures just to snap back cheering for the next step in the “Axis of Evil”
