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Yeah kinda "shocked" this story hasn't gotten much more play from more big pubs because it is the easiest layup against Trump's "they're all criminals" argument when he's shipping people to El Salvador. Oh right.
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4/ consequences on his companies. I'd love it if Musk had failed. But he didn't. He achieved a massive amount and he's still the muscle behind DOGE. I think this is all to throw people off Musk's scent.
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3/ I think the idea that he "failed" is the work of some crisis communications team which is trying to end scrutiny into Musk and his companies. If he failed, you don't need to worry abt him anymore, keep scrutinizing all the contracts he hovered up for his companies, keep trying to exact ...
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2/ a slew of criminal laws. And he tired of it when his antics started running existential risks for his companies. There's no morality tale here about Washington being a harder beast to tame or whatever other bullshit. He's a destructive crook and he needs to be held accountable.
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I've been thinking the same thing all day. there was a real journalistic failure how little discussion there was of how dubious the legality of this was. and the vast number of potential litigants with clear standing.
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Oh he said that?
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Musk is upset he did not get every government contract during his time working for Trump is painted as a normal reason to be upset rather than absurd corruption (NYT did not list the $billions he did allocate to himself).
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NYT chose to print obvious lies from Musk & Miller, to demonstrate their access, rather than print truth of Musk’s failure to find fraud/waste, dangerous ideological cuts that will harm all of US (have already killed many), paint his corruption has normal, and note fact he actually cost US money.
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It's bracing, even now, to see just how *transparent* the NYT's access journalism is. Musk tells the journalist he's cultivated that he's "disappointed" and "frustrated" and that goes straight to print.
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Not gonna keep posting the whole thing but this feels like one of the core sicknesses of mainstream media that got us here: The refusal of journalists to assess claims on the merits.
Yes, RFK Jr. "questions the system" like many on the left but he is also fucking wrong! That distinction matters!
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3/ advocates mean by DEI includes ease of use and access initiatives like this. The piece reads that it was written by more than one person and not in the sense of a collaboration but different people plugging in different and contradictory assertions.
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2/ And to be clear, I'm baffled on it even on its own terms. To say money was "wasted" is a pretty strong editorial term for a straight news piece. But then she suggests it wasn't wasted at all. And while some stuff that goes under DEI might be caricaturable. It's certainly true that DEI's ...
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Good christ, that's the second of a two-post thread. This is the first. Just total, willful, purposeful credulousness by the Post. Not even a hint that what Musk is saying is complete bullshit.
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The WaPo piece references neither of these events. 🤡
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Free speech is the most important right there is. Also, we’ll deport you if you echo opinions about Israel recently expressed by a former prime minister of Israel.
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here, trump and mainstream political media is largely in alignment: the job of president is to answer questions from political reporters
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Also can we stop saying stuff like this? This is not a conflict between Harvard and the government, it is a government attack on Harvard. The article, which is generally not bad, lists 14 actions taken by the government against the school, none in the other direction www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...