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Reporter based in Oakland. An American, Chicago-born.
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Give ProPublica a couple of billion and an endowment and let it cover politics and policy the way the NYT and WaPo are supposed to be doing.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

There is no way to move forward unless rich liberals find a real media operation

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Are there…two Newsoms?

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Well, you have to read the story. The headline is dead-accurate: these injuries might well have simply appeared, like a natural phenomenon, out of the aether. Like a storm or an asteroid. The call for police restraint and the injuries might not be linked at all. We have no way of knowing.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

I know this stuff is shocking for many of us, even with people like Tapper, whom we've always thought of as kind of a wanker. It has shocked even me, and I've been working in the media for 35 years. But we have to see reality: tons of people in the media are, at best, accepting of fascism.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

This is a good point, though we do have a big problem with fascists in the military.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Thank you for your service.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

While Trump blusters about "law & order," a reminder that his administration has dropped or halted nearly 150 corporate enforcement actions. And Trump himself has pardoned dozens of his supporters convicted of crimes like money laundering and bribery. The hypocrisy is staggering.

submitted 14 hours ago • 88 comments

Tell me again about my liberal bubble.

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

A thing I've noticed about the reactionary centrists outside the Democratic Parry: they don't even like their own kind in the party, where they dominate. They just don't like "Democrats." It doesn't actually matter what they do or say: The liberals are too liberal and the centrists are feckless.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

In three seconds, name the person you think of as the leader of the opposition against Trump. You either couldn't or you sighed and said something like "Chuck Schumer." This is a really big problem.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

I would love to see orders of magnitude more discussion about what "swing voters" should figure out, deal with, suck up, get a clue about, etc and orders of magnitude less discussion about how protestors should coddle random third party's hallucinations about this section of the electorate

submitted 16 hours ago • 26 comments

The guy created and managed a child-rape operation, with formalized procedures and co-conspirators.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I’m not even joking when I say that X is radicalizing our entire generation of journalists.

submitted 17 hours ago • 35 comments

I think the best way to deal with this is for Chuck Schumer to hold up an avocado and a can of beer and warn about inflation.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

I've been observing this regression for years, and I think it's now taking its final, inevitable form thanks to all of us escaping Twitter and leaving them all there together: the reactionary centrists, the Taibbi "left," and MAGA are becoming one. *quibble: many "leftists" aren't like this at all.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

"Civil protest is wrong" is the official position of the Atlantic. At the very least, the magazine believes that "protest is wrong" is a notion that's worthy of being widely heard and discussed, including and especially by the intellectual elite.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

If this place is such a bubble, how come I had to learn what Megan McArdle AND Thomas Chatterton Williams think this morning?

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

submitted 17 hours ago • 24 comments

Yet another thing shared by reactionary centrists, the Taibbi left, and MAGA: “I believe it because I believe it,” combined the the notion, explicitly stated or not, that “beliefs” are somehow above criticism. Theirs, anyway.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Pretty sure there was an election just a few months after those protests. So... the protests didn't affect THAT election, but did determine the outcome of the election more than 4 years later? Your logic is not logicing.

submitted 19 hours ago • 32 comments