OK just Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones, News Corp and a couple of WSJ reporters.
Friday, July 18, 2025
Check The Doodle Kerning
Right wingers will keep throwing anything against the wall until they find something that sticks.
Some Lies Are Good
I don’t think it matters much if I shun these people, and no one who "matters" is likely to.
On July 11, the New York Times Magazine ran a deeply reported piece on how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has prolonged the war in Gaza for political reasons. In addition to showing a prime minister so maniacally obsessed with maintaining his own governing coalition, and thereby avoiding jail, that he is willing to kill tens of thousands of Palestinians (and counting), sacrifice the lives of Israeli hostages, and turn his country into an international pariah, the piece serves as another exhibit in the prosecutorial brief against the Biden administration’s handling of the war. U.S. President Joe Biden is portrayed in turns as feckless and cranky, pushing Netanyahu to change course and believing him when he says he will and then getting mad when Netanyahu inevitably doesn’t. Over and over and over and over
Pertinent
Trump knows how to do a "good enough for the New York Times" document dump. Maybe he will even bring Bill Barr in to tell them how to write it up.
Birthday Bestie
Gramps is raging.
The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly “Donald” below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.
The letter concludes: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret."
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Thursday Happy Hour
I appreciate that our president is always incredibly open and honest about his health issues.
What Enrages Dash Sulzberger
When you consider what is happening at the moment and consider the agenda journalism the NYT is currently engaged in - anti-Mamdani, still on the anti-trans beat - and the agenda journalism it largely eschews (masked agents of the state kidnapping people and disappearing them) - you can draw some obvious conclusions about top management at that fucking paper.
If I Did It
Whatever else one can say about Trump/Epstein, he clearly did not get the services of a skilled celebrity crisis management PR firm..
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
All We Have To Do Is Keep Talking
Never stop.
The end is nowhere in sight, as the president’s supporters — from MAGA influencers and Republican politicians — continue to raise hell over the Justice Department’s memo announcing the administration’s belief that Epstein killed himself in prison, and that it was effectively closing its case on the convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker. The melodrama has clearly eaten away at the notoriously mercurial president’s patience. “They won’t shut the fuck up about it,” Trump privately vented — referring to conservative influencers and media types lashing out over the Epstein memo — according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
Unabombed
Sure why not
Donald Trump delivered a rambling speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he made several improbable claims and appeared to forget names.Trump falsely asserted that his late uncle, Dr. John Trump, taught Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, at MIT, despite Kaczynski never attending the institution.He also claimed to have discussedKaczynski with his uncle, which is highly unlikely as his uncle died in 1985, years before Kaczynski was identified as the Unabomber
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