"The center's Trump-aligned staff left up a massive tarp that prevents the public from seeing the sign without Trump's name." can you believe this tarp has been up for two months- TWO MONTHS- to protect trump's ego from seeing the space where his name was torn off the building. good grief.
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 7h agoThe Kennedy Center's board voted to add President Trump's name below the institution's main sign and close most of the facility for renovations.
BREAKING: What just happened at the Kennedy Center board meeting is a slap in the face to the rule of law. We will see the president and his corrupt cronies in court. This will not stand. Official statements @repbeatty.bsky.social @democracydefendersaction.org & WLG👇
You can expect Republicans to start pretending to give a shit about this issue again on Jan 20th, 2029
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h ago“.. It’s a headache for President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ahead of midterm elections ..” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
i mean it's just an objective fact that they find elected officials plotting to violently overthrow our system of government to be less objectionable than, say, the president of harvard having sloppy citations in her phd thesis
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 18h agoRep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵
Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵
Didn't a story just drop that they used a bunch of you as decoys for Iranian missiles?
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
Eric remember when they banned the AP from the press pool because they didn't call it the Gulf of America?
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
Would it be too much to ask the mainstream media to cover the Trump administration with an attitude half as adversarial as they have for Mamdani and the Left?
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
This is what abusive relationships look like.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
Perhaps the best illustration ever of how access corrupts journalists into normalizing an authoritarian regime that is one big gaslighting operation. Read the replies. Read the quotes: bsky.app/profile/eric...
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
Well that certainly doesn’t entitle them to a public thank you from the press they abuse.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17h agoThis just goes to show the performative nature of Trump officials. When the cameras start rolling, they play the roles they've been assigned. We're living through a four-year season of The Apprentice, but this time it's in the Oval Office, with the future of the US at stake.
These people- republicans- are horrible vile people. They behave in ways you told your kids not to behave. Though I’m sure they teach their kids to be as cruel as possible. They certainly do by their public examples.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 20h agodeplorable -- Tom Emmer smears Peggy Flanagan as "a more masculine version of Tim Walz"
Former CDC Director: Every sentence Trump said about childhood vaccines was just not true. The idea these vaccines cause harm makes absolutely no sense. We've seen more cases of measles in the past 18 months than in the past 25 years combined.
Also they genuinely like the fascists (republicans) and hate the dems.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h agoI think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them
I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them
Sam Ulmschneider@samulmschneider.bsky.social · yesterdayNormally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
That’s great to hear! I guess because of this, you should do a puff piece about her with soft focus lighting where she talks about how the way people speak of her hurts her feelings without ever discussing the truth of the allegations made against her.
You're giving the Press Secretary praise for answering questions from the press? How low does the bar get?
Great question. Keep asking.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · 22h agoOn @outfrontcnn.bsky.social, @jreinermd.bsky.social asks a pretty good question here: “Why is it acceptable in this country at this time—in this perilous time—for the president of the United States to have a dramatic problem staying awake?”
@nicollewallace.bsky.social i’d argue this level of public Obsequiousness for an admin that is subpoenaing his colleagues and having officers snatch citizens off the street is very bad. I’ve never seen Joe Biden’s deputies thanked like this. Ask Jen Psaki.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
Why the holy fuck you think that matters? “Yes they are doing terrible things in public, but they are very helpful to me in private.” Hey Eric, as the saying goes…”and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
The press secretary for the administration that has masked secret police snatching men, women and children off the street and disappearing them is a good person really
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
No, I can't say that I find a NYT writer being obsequious to a member of Trump's orbit to be surprising.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
"The fascist administration treats me, a journalist, very well" is not the accolade you think it is.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
This is what happens in an abusive system: The slightest let-up from the dysfunctional and abusive behavior is mistakenly credited as decency.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
What good are Trump administration answers to your questions? They are lies crafted to serve their awful agenda, or hateful truths you as corporate media bend over backwards to normalize. You're concerned with access to powerful liars when you should be concerned with telling the truth.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
These people threatened and lied to you and I get that it's part of the job to keep engaging with them, but doing this feels like a setup for an op-ed about how people were mean to you online.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · yesterdayOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you