lolgopThis site is too normal and useful. Where are the crying billionaires and his fans screeching because I'm not paying $8 a month to put a clown nose on my bio?
Jon Cryer
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If you float, you’ll burn
Robert ReichReminder: Raising the debt ceiling does not increase spending or the federal debt. It simply allows the government to pay bills it has already taken on— and defaulting on the debt would be catastrophic.
What could possibly go wrong?
Texas ObserverToday, a group of concerned contributors to the New York Times and allies issued an open letter about that outlet's consistent, dangerous #transphobia. Both our Editor in Chief @gabrielarana and Digital Editor Kit @oconnell signed on: https://nytletter.com
Previously, Kit O'Connell wrote about the Times' dangerous attacks on #trans rights in this 2023 GLAAD Media Award nominated story: https://www.texasobserver.org/emily-bazelon-transgender-healthcare-debate-new-york-times/
#LGBTQIA #NYTimes #trans
#LGBTQ+ #media #journalism #News #politics
Jay RosenClown car hearings exploit a weakness in mainstream journalism's source code, which gives no clear instructions for how to report truthfully on events that are themselves false, meaning they spring from a propagandistic intent and taking them seriously only furthers the scam.
And yet: They can't be ignored because they show what the Republican party does with its power.
Former Twitter execs tell Republicans they erred on Hunter Biden laptop story
Former Twitter executives told a Republican-led U.S. House committee on Wednesday that they made a mistake by blocking tweets about a laptop said to belong to President Joe Biden's son Hunter but said government officials were not involved.
Thomas A. Fine 
It's not always easy to untangle
@emptywheel 's articles, because she dares to write about things that can't be explained in a headline.
But it's always worth it. Here, she shows how Columbia Journalism Review trusted a claim FROM RUSSIA to form one of its central conclusions about Hillary.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/02/08/jeff-gerths-undisclosed-dissemination-of-russian-intelligence-product/
Jeff Gerth's Undisclosed Dissemination of Russian Intelligence Product - emptywheel
Jeff Gerth spends 23,000 words lecturing other journalists they need to be more transparent. But he doesn't reveal that one of the key pieces of evidence in his narrative that Hillary pushed a "conspiracy theory" that "there was a secret alliance" between Trump and Russia was a Russian intelligence product, a product the reliability of which not even spooks managed by John Ratcliffe would authenticate.
David CornSCOOP: Here's a wild story. The arrest of FBI agent Charles McGonigal is tied to the bizarre case of a GOP lobbyist being paid by a mysterious Russia-linked shell company to help a right-wing Albanian political party win support in the US. Is secret Russian money influencing American politics and policy? From me, Dan Friedman, and Hannah Levintova.
Please read and share:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/how-the-case-of-arrested-fbi-agent-charles-mcgonigal-is-tied-to-a-russia-linked-influence-effort/
L O L G O PSure, Twitter is down. But if you have Twitter Blue, you get to pay $10 a month for the pleasure of Twitter being down.
Eliza Orlins 
There is no “justice” system.
Today, Trump Org CFO Weisselberg is being sentenced to five months jail.
On a five month sentence, he'll serve approximately 100 days.
As a public defender in Manhattan, I represented a man who was sentenced to 3-6 years (and will serve 1500+ days) for stealing a jacket.
The final episode of this podcast is one of the most inspiring pieces of audio I’ve ever heard.
One of the all time great long form podcasts.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/proof-a-true-crime-podcast/id1611647977
