Nothing better illustrates the corporate media's priorities -- maintaining access and attention for themselves, instead of fighting for the truth for us -- than the goddamn White House Correspondents Dinner. The country is going to hell, but they've got a fancy dinner to attend! HashtagNerdProm! - ThreadSky

kevinmkruse.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Nothing better illustrates the corporate media's priorities -- maintaining access and attention for themselves, instead of fighting for the truth for us -- than the goddamn White House Correspondents Dinner.

The country is going to hell, but they've got a fancy dinner to attend! HashtagNerdProm!

Reposted from Marc Elias

The fact that the corporate legacy media is even having this event shows how little they understand the moment we are in and how little they intend to fight back.

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deepwatermike.bsky.social•1 day ago

This should NEVER have been a thing, and even less so now. The press and the government should be adversaries 24/7.

paresisting.bsky.social•19 hours ago

All owned by fucking evil, greedy republicans. They got us here and they don’t care

josphusanderson.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Corporate america should be living in absolute fear. It is time to turn the table. Attack the media outlets, rise. The people vs the corporation.

myanulrich.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Don’t be surprised if Trump goes and sucks the oxygen out of the room with a 2 hour tirade.

michaelf617.bsky.social•1 day ago

Featured speakers: Merrick Garland and the Uvalde Police

vg-plus.bsky.social•23 hours ago

That room should be empty. Except for the sloppy drunk contingent from Fox.

agileaussie.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Any journalist worth their salt will boycott the dinner, regardless of the # of tables their employer buys. Lots of empty seats will send a message. Hopefully Trump is not invited.

kathry.bsky.social•1 day ago

bayla5280.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's going to be a dear leader dinner. All the media will show up because they don't want to offend/snub 47. As for the celebs at the tables, well good news for Mel Gibson, Sly Stallone, Kid Rock, Cheryl Hines.

jlrlawton.bsky.social•1 day ago

Has Trump has attended one since 2011? Amber Ruffin isn't one for pulling punches, and Trump has barred his staff from attending before.

bayla5280.bsky.social•1 day ago

Great point, but even if he's not there, he'll be taking attendance.

lisafarrar.bsky.social•1 day ago

#RomeIsBurning
#Let'sParty

esluke.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Would be hysterical if they didn’t invite anyone from administration but instead invited people from previous administrations. Like reality series all-stars. Trump would lose his mind

experimental22.bsky.social•1 day ago

Are they going to seat Schumer next to Trump . . . so they can yuck it up again.

thelionseye.bsky.social•1 day ago

they're going to "guantanamo" @amberruffin.bsky.social

metacapitalism.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Corruption of the media is one of the steps toward dictatorship and is now mostly fulfilled by the evil Trump regime.

nowsentient.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Stick a fork in it … it’s done!

jettblackheart66.bsky.social•23 hours ago

stopped expecting corporate media to do the right thing bc they are owned billionaires and run by propagandists.

mlamb.bsky.social•1 day ago

These journalists won’t even stand up for their own (AP) cowards and clout chasers all of them.

billygreg.bsky.social•22 hours ago

deMoCrAcY DiEs iN dArKnEsS!

mandytru.bsky.social•15 hours ago

💯

frankwlewis.bsky.social•23 hours ago

It should have ended after the year W showed photos of him looking for the weapons of mass destruction behind the curtains in the Oval Office and everybody laughed. “ha ha, it’s true, we went to war for no reason and people are dying, brilliant!”

granitehull.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not nerds but turds

unpersoned.bsky.social•22 hours ago

The stenographers of the media have so much to lose and they're too wrapped up in "access" to even see it. Will they stand up and denounce the regime as they're being jailed for criticizing Dear Leader? The time to do so is now, not when you're standing on the scaffold.

suzynuze.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Trump doesn’t even attend, but I guess there are still fascist mingling opportunities to parlay into a scoop.

ledonneessential.bsky.social•1 day ago

Has the AP purchased a VIP table yet?

https://www.ap.org/media-center/ap-in-the-news/2025/ap-again-seeks-end-of-its-white-house-ban-saying-the-trump-administration-is-retaliating-further/

hortonsis.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Wtf?

debaurah.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Absolutely shameful.

themjl.bsky.social•23 hours ago

"The Yearbook Committee Prom"

mark-s-blevins.bsky.social•23 hours ago

did you ever attend #NerdProm #WHCD, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social? just wondered

cklarock.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Future historians (if we’re lucky enough to have any) will paint them as complicit.

kipwilliams.bsky.social•1 day ago

Just everybody tell jokes about unnamed disgusting rapists.

maryhear.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Chumming around with the people you are supposed to challenge is capitulation. A free press isn’t the freedom to pretend you’re one of the elite. It is a responsibility to challenge power, to show how & question why the powerful came to that power. Amber Ruffin will go Michelle Wolff on their asses.

seamiracles.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I am NOT advocating violence here, but merely recalling a parallel to the scene in Inglorious Basterds where Hitler and his elite had to have their big movie screening. See, genocide and necropolitics are fun, but psychos need other little entertainment distractions too.

kevinmkruse.bsky.social•1 day ago

Looks like Amber Ruffin has the gig. She is very funny and very direct, which means that the WHCA will spend the two weeks after the event scornfully shaking their heads that she said something slightly mean about Big Balls or someone.

Decorum Uber Alles.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/amber-ruffin-white-house-correspondents-dinner-011652

mr-el-guapo.bsky.social•23 hours ago

At least it wasn't Gutfeld.

martinkroeger.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Still mad about how they did Michelle Wolf dirty for telling the truth 😡

benfields.net•22 hours ago

Smokey Eye forever

mysterybutter.bsky.social•23 hours ago

God help her. Hope she's got her own security detail.

jerdem.bsky.social•23 hours ago

She’s also on CNN. Curious if the higher ups there have a public POV on this.

h2o-lily.bsky.social•21 hours ago

If I were her I’d be minding my own black business. She better be ready for what’s coming unless she is a Trump fan. I mean this is too easy for her to fall for but pple are not learning fast!

datadefender.bsky.social•1 day ago

Love Amber Ruffin....I'll tune in just for her.

erikepost.com•1 day ago

I already love Amber, but my admiration would be eternal if she pulled a Colbert at the dinner.

theagentsculder.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hope she takes it to them like Stephen Colbert did. Still one of the most bad ass things I've ever seen.

kaboosemoose.bsky.social•1 day ago

The irony is that some say Seth Meyers’ (not Obama’s) roasting of Trump at the Correspondents’ Dinner inspired him to run.

shaidorsai.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I hope she eschews comedy entirely and her whole set is just straight talk about how they've utterly failed their profession and country.

Unlikely, but I can dream.

rockwils1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ahh, comedy in the fascist era, side splitting.

evphoto.bsky.social•11 hours ago

The NYT makes up stuff by reporting a judge is blocking Trump.

The fact is the judge ruled against Trump.

Zero evidence Trumps actions are blocked.

alexis8.bsky.social•13 hours ago

We must all boycott it @marcelias.bsky.social

epluribus.bsky.social•1 day ago

We have to stop picking apart our own. There is value in continuing traditions and showing we have no fear. Behind the scenes we should be moving like a MF.

jakemadtown.bsky.social•22 hours ago

This tradition of DC Insider BS should have died a long time ago.

jaywilliams.pro•1 day ago

#They’rePartOfTheProblem

mwf38.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Can they call it State Run Media dinner?

mwf38.bsky.social•23 hours ago

🤮

nursepixie.bsky.social•12 hours ago

They should RSVP yes and just...not show up. A ballroom full of empty seats would certainly be an image.

cardcatcher.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Almost as disgusting as the "Al Smith Dinner". You remember, where Trump regaled Cardinal Dolan and Chuck Schumer with stories of Arnold Palmer's "Manhood". How Catholic of them.

thatac.bsky.social•1 day ago

Its going to be an entire evening of praising dear leader & trying to not throw up the mcdonalds.

southernconetravel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Colbert should host it again.

realdreadpirate.bsky.social•23 hours ago

IMO this extends to the still-smiling late night hosts, and SNL whose collective response seems to be the equivalent of a smirk, and eye-roll, and a shake of the head. All of this normalizes the situation.

tedremington.bsky.social•23 hours ago

This event always seemed cringeworthy, but never more so than now.

dhumph.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Are the decent media boycotting? They're not given access, derided and lied to on the daily. Why attend a dinner like this?

axellycan.bsky.social•1 day ago

This Court of Versailles reboot sucks, I want to get off this ride.

amdesq1.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Stephen Colbert re: the Press in 2006: "But, listen, let's review the rules. ..The President makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home."

johncluverius.bsky.social•1 day ago

don't want to miss those selfies with Kid Rock.

kenpurcell.bsky.social•23 hours ago

They should still have the dinner, just do not invite any of the administration.

blueistheonlyway.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Protest it!

followtruth.bsky.social•1 day ago

In less than two weeks, we can flip two congressional house seats blue in Florida if everyone helps candidates @joshweil.bsky.social and @gayforcongress.bsky.social

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