Reporter based in Oakland. An American, Chicago-born. Here, documenting the mainstream news media's catastrophic dysfunction and total failure to meet the moment.
"...it's an Arabric [sic] word. I don't know what it means. I don't, I don't really care. I DO know what it means."
Justin BaragonaI wouldn't exactly call this a correction or apology, but Newsmax's Rob Finnerty -- while in the midst of yet another Islamophobic rant about Abdul El-Sayed -- acknowledges that he falsely said the candidates is an immigrant from Egypt. At the same time, he blames El-Sayed for his mistake.
Also, if Jon Stewart spent less time trying to be Wolf Blitzer and more time trying to be the political satirist he once was, he'd know that he has become absolutely insufferable. Remember when he used to mock the idea of people coming to comedians for actual news?
The Tennessee Holler🤷🏼
I've come to believe that all the insanity -- not just political insanity, and not just among the fascists -- is due in substantial part to fatalism. Even if they "don't believe" in climate change, they know it's happening and they're freaking the fuck out, often without even realizing it.
George MonbiotMy column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is re: whether Haley Stevens was the better candidate. There are layers of perversity to this. The inner mind of a reactionary centrist is a barren place.
Tom NicholsI'm not sure that she is. But AES is likely going to be a problem for Democrats in other races in a way she won't.
Money is poring in to Kalshi on whether $2 gas will come before or after Trump releases his healthcare plan.
Aaron RuparTrump on gas prices: "We're gonna down into the $3s and maybe the $2s pretty soon per gallon"
Man, those Fall of Rome people were pikers.
talia janePerez Hilton live-streamed himself engaging in self-harm and clips of it are now circulating on social media.
This is just more of the “war on men.” Never mind that there isn’t anything like a female analogue to this. Quick: name four women of note that behave this way. And these are only the worst of the worst.
Rebecca SolnitIt's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.
The New York Times knows who he is, too. And yet.
Marc EliasDavid Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.
I'm starting to just unfollow people, no matter who they are, who put normal-seeming posts from assholes in my feed. It's not a matter of "he's right about some things." Lots of people are sometimes annoying, but not assholes. That's not who I'm talking about. I mean: no tankies, for starters. Jesus
My Christ, that paper sucks so bad now.
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)Who cares who Ellison voted for? His track record of appeasing Donald Trump speaks for itself including firing Trump critic Stephen Colbert & hiring unqualified Bari Weiss & watching her meddle in editorial content, sideline & fire journalists & wreck 60 Minutes. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
I've noticed that a lot of the people who said during Trump I that he wasn't as bad a president as [Andrew Johnson, Hoover, Reagan, Bush II, whomever] or that his administration wasn't the most corrupt aren't saying that anymore, though I still see it now and again.
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From ParamountCiting a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...www.propublica.orgI just recalled an editor I briefly worked with a decade or so ago. She had lived in Chicago for a time, years earlier. I'm from there, and I lived in a Hispanic neighborhood for a few years. Somehow, the fact that the word "bodega" isn't used much in Chicago came up. She INSISTED that it NEVER was.
