I did see this one very briefly on the front of nytimes.com, but I bet this is one all the news outlets instantly forget for some reason (it is already gone from nytimes.com).
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Our Friends In The North
You know what this is in reference to. Passifiume is the Toronto Sun's Ottawa Bureau Chief.
Voted Most Likely To Be Arrested After A Hard Drive Check 8 years in a row by his colleagues (maybe).
Depraved Murderous Liars
I know I can be too pithy sometimes, but I don’t think I need 1200 words to state: any journalism which obfuscates this about the Trumpers, which they themselves gleefully boast about regularly, consistently, does not prioritize informing readers. Instead, it is merely a kind of ritual peformance in which everyone acts their roles as scripted for some theater production of The President And His Journalists, with little interest in portraying actual reality.
Of course there are good journalists and good journalism, but almost all news gets filtered through politics these days.
There was no golden age, but that news is rarely just news, but is instead contested in the politics arena, with quotes from Both Sides, is, if not new, worse than it used to be.
Better Things Aren't Possible
A telling thing during the dipshit centrist mad struggle oppose Mamdani was how much they squealed and snorted with derision about any positive campaign promise. They would switch, between "this is bad," "this isn’t possible," and "sure this is a nice idea but in my back pocket I have a better plan for achieving it" as they always do.
But they made clear that what they oppose is doing good things unless it involves a means-tested refundable tax credit funneled through a McKinsey-blessed public/private partnership.
Progress is possible.
Gov. Hochul, Mayor Mamdani announce push for free child care for NYC 2-year-olds
The sustainable future of "blue" states and cities is making life better and easier. Universality - which isn't in this yet - has to be the goal.
Friday, January 09, 2026
One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against Trump
Not quite everyone, maybe not the hardcore MAGA (though plenty of conservative grifters), but all the journalists and pundits academic institutions and lawyers and businesspeople who have submitted.
America's Worst Humans
George Borjas
One of Borjas’s direct contributions to the Trump administration this past year was his extensive behind-the-scenes work on Trump’s overhaul of the H-1B visa system for highly skilled workers that added a $100,000 fee, according to three people familiar with his work and a White House official, who all spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to share internal deliberations. Borjas had previously written about the “well-documented abuses” of that program over the years.
Doing The Fucking News
NYT reporter (an actual reporter, not one of Dash's politics gang) informs CBS they don't know what they are talking about.
Rubio is no longer the acting administrator of USAID. He handed that to OMB director Russ Vought in August for Vought to finish the shutdown of the dismantled agency. Politico did a story on it, and we spoke to Vought’s office about it as well. https://t.co/9TCO9vlDuA https://t.co/O7fARtIpcw
— Edward Wong (@ewong) January 9, 2026
The Minority Whip
I know it's mosty a fake job in the Senate, but Dick Durbin is, actually, the Minority Whip.
7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election: Durbin Hassan Kaine King Klobuchar Shaheen Welch
— Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The Killer App
I suppose a subscription CSAM app might be the way MECHAHITLER manages to make money, but only if the company isn't treated like any other such company would be.
Thursday, January 08, 2026
As I Told Everyone Who Would Listen 20 Years Ago
We all talk about how left-leaning people should have been funding media outlets. We have all been talking about this for years.the fascist mouthpieces have a massive resource advantage. this is a way to chip away at that advantage: give valuable stuff to real journalists at real news outlets (and real independent journalists.)
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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But not everyone in "DC" has access to the funding button, of course. What they do have access to is information and "scoops."
Matt Drudge got big because journalists decided they had to pay attention to him.
Yes lefty media outlets need funding, too, but DC Dems have mostly not promoted the ones that do exist. Leadership runs to the Times and Politico with "scoops," not to the American Prospect.
There are various reasons for this, but one is they are largely uncomfortable taking questions from The Left, as their entire pitch is to "the Baileys" and those center-right journalists.
Funny Times
I don't think anyone has to hand it to Bill and I certainly don't support putting him in charge of anything, but of all the "NeverTrumper" types, he's the only one I think is genuine, not grifting, and not always angling.
I'd replace most of the Pod Save America guys with him, at least.
I'd replace most of the Pod Save America guys with him, at least.
That Could Be Me
I think empathy is normally talked about as the ability to understand someone else's experience and feelings - and therefore the ability to care - but the other part of that is it brings selfish awareness that their experience could be yours, that what is happening to them could happen to you.
ICE agents aren't committing violence only against immigrants or protesting libs, but people who lack empathy still can't imagine being affected by it.
Small consolation that almost everyone suffers and then (everyone) dies eventually.
ICE agents aren't committing violence only against immigrants or protesting libs, but people who lack empathy still can't imagine being affected by it.
Small consolation that almost everyone suffers and then (everyone) dies eventually.
Liars
That reporters are not willing to deal appropriately with regular lies and liars is not a new thing, but I do think what is new with the Trump administration is that they lie about everything. There is no interest in in attempting to lie plausibly, or even to stick to the truth when that would serve them just as well.
This isn't about lawyerly word choice or the usual exaggerations of politics. They just get up there and lie, constantly, in press conferences, in quotes to reporters, on MECHAHITLER THE CSAM APP.
You can't report on this administration by fronting the lies and having the rebuttal 3 paragraphs - or 3 days - later. That they lie constantly has to frame all coverage of them. Nothing is the truth.
I wrote "not willing" because this isn't hard. They - or their editors - just don't want to.
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