This is fucking insane! It’s a huge story and he knows it and he just won’t print it up because it would hurt Trump

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · yesterday

New — Editor Patrick Healy explains to me NYT’s omission of the new rape details shared by Beatrice Keul in their story about the new House Judiciary Dems report released this week:

And that so much in political donations have nothing to do with party or candidate, but which person who is important to your business deals asked you to attend or contribute (a huge benefit for GOP as rich and powerful who you want to placate are Repubs)

People don't realize that there's been essentially no in-depth journalistic coverage of Republicans for the past thirty years. And no, the occasional ProPublica scoop once every five years isn't the same. Republicans are terrorists who terrorized the media into submission. It's kind of that simple.

Eric Blair@protecttruth.bsky.social · 5h ago

Jeff Zucker, friend of Trump, ran CNN in 2015 and tilted it pro-Trump. Then in 2022 CNN was taken over by David Zaslav, a Republican chosen by board head John C Malone, a GOP activist billionaire. Now CNN is being taken over by the GOP Ellisons. CNN has been a Repub network for more than a decade!

She and McMorrow are both my reps and there are miles of difference between them. As you mentioned above, a lot of people don't realize how thin Steven's resume was before AIPAC backed her over Andy Levin. She's really gotten to exist in a bubble and develop no actual political instincts.

Jeff Zucker, friend of Trump, ran CNN in 2015 and tilted it pro-Trump. Then in 2022 CNN was taken over by David Zaslav, a Republican chosen by board head John C Malone, a GOP activist billionaire. Now CNN is being taken over by the GOP Ellisons. CNN has been a Repub network for more than a decade!

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 6h ago

Under discussed on here because most of us don't watch cable television news anymore but CNN has been arguably way worse than FOX News wrt its coverage of Michigan— every single panel is headed by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash and has 3 conservatives for every 1 liberal.

The new Ben Rhodes essay does a very good job of describing just how delusional most of these people are on a institutional level. In order to become powerful in this context you are literally obliged to dumb yourself down.

gotta say, the contrast between Haley Stevens’ unhinged crashout and Francesca Hong being a no-drama good sport and supporting Dems up and down the ballot is crazy

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 7h ago

When the Times asked if Haley Stevens wanted Dr. Abdul El Sayed to win, she was more circumspect. "I think he's going to win, she replied. Asked again if she wanted Dr. El-Sayed win, she dodged again. "I don't know why you'd ask me that, she said.

I just can’t get over how someone who was an elected Democrat in Congress not only thought it was a good idea to attack AES now, but said “our close ally Israel” and quoted Greenblatt about antisemitism. This is like a child saying “soda is healthy, look this ad from Coke says so”

I am sanguine about a lot of Jewish opposition to AES and even Mamdani, in that it's basically the inevitable result of understandable communal politics--the same way I viewed Uncommitted and Arab opposition to Biden--but I really, truly hate these fucking professional philosemites.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · yesterday

There are plenty of Michigan Jews who will vote against El-Sayed for bad and racist reasons. But it's still weird that Haley Stevens, who is not Jewish, keeps appointing herself "voice of the Jews" without our consent. Particularly given that she ended the career of an actual Jewish Rep, Andy Levin.

if nothing else you can take away from this, it's that the NYT knows exactly how to do "full court press" coverage to create and push a scandal and chooses not to do it to Trump or to Republicans, even when their own reporters uncover ("exclusive!") something damning

Jamison Foser@jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 20h ago

I wrote about the New York Times’ multimedia full-court press on the dumb Alaska story — a dozen print, video, audio, and newsletter reports at last count — and the news media’s responsibility to cover things in proportion to their importance. www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york...

I wrote about the New York Times’ multimedia full-court press on the dumb Alaska story — a dozen print, video, audio, and newsletter reports at last count — and the news media’s responsibility to cover things in proportion to their importance. www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york...

supporting a republican when you are a disability rights attorney is fucking insane

This is correct. Good 🧵

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 18h ago

part of the deal with the NYT is they only like scandals that are theirs.

Whenever I see one of these articles I immediately think of the Sander Levin Endorsement.

i think @marisakabas.bsky.social should try for an interview with Haley Stevens’ first husband

Eric Blair@protecttruth.bsky.social · 19h ago

Yes and before that, Stevens met her first husband when she called him to ask him for a campaign donation. They seemed like a cute couple. He was starstruck according to him. He was a high school teacher. They broke up a year after marriage

Re Haley Stevens: her first husband she met when she called him on a fundraising call. He was a high school teacher. They broke up a year after getting married. Now she is engaged to a Democratic “megadonor.” Abundance of mess

CZEdwards@czedwards.bsky.social · 22h ago

I did not know one woman could contain such an abundance of mess and not be famous for being on reality TV.

”Our close ally, Israel” John Fetterman took the tack Stevens is taking and he has scuttled any chance of winning re-election. Stevens is showing she’s a political fool here

The very first time I saw George W. Bush, my instant thought was "this guy is a dipshit" and I've trusted my instincts ever since.

“As for this story, it included a link to the report for people to read. Best, Patrick” LOL. He really believes what he said to Mark Jacob. A link buried in one Trump story is enough to excuse an avalanche of coverage of (much smaller) D probs. He believes in level, not proportional, coverage.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · yesterday

New — Editor Patrick Healy explains to me NYT’s omission of the new rape details shared by Beatrice Keul in their story about the new House Judiciary Dems report released this week:

“Our close ally, Israel” “The CEO of the ADL [Greenblatt!!] called it 'a case study in antisemitism.'” Ohhhh so Haley Stevens doesn’t understand the first thing about American politics or foreign policy.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · yesterday

This is the most atrocious and disgusting thing I've seen from a "endorser" maybe ever? She spends literally 90% of the statement criticizing Abdul and implicitly calling him a bigot, which she explicitly did during the primary. Why does anyone take this seriously?

There have been many bad NSAs, but Sullivan was part of some of the worst policy and national security calls of recent years. Biden was the man ultimately responsible, but Blinken and Sullivan were instrumental in the US arming ethnic cleansing and genocide, with almost no questions asked.

He said “status quo”!

Congressman Greg Casar@repcasar.bsky.social · yesterday

I respect Sen. Schatz, but I 100% disagree with him here. Even if we win the midterms, Democrats have far to go to win back the trust of working people. If Democrats don't understand that, we will sleepwalk into President Vance 2028. No one in America thinks the status quo is working.

Re Alaska

Oh my god it's this bad faith shit that drives me up a wall. You know exactly why people are pissed off and it has nothing to do with the NYT doing journalism. It's about them NOT doing journalism or only doing it when they feel like it depending on who's in office.

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d ago

People who think the Times shouldn’t report on who is behind a Potemkin candidate should really ask themselves if they’d feel that way if such a move might hurt a candidate they favored. This is not a “hit piece” or an “October surprise,” it is journalism.

And here is the cherry on top: Sullivan is literally the Kissinger Professor of Statecraft at Harvard right now. Irony is dead. Shame is over.

So many Obama era staffers have sold out to Big Tech and Wall Street. For ex: Jake Sullivan worked at Macro Advisory Partners, a risk advisory corp which “advised a number of companies incl Uber, Mastercard, Lego, and large investment groups such as Bank of America, Aviva, and Std Chartered…”

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Whatever happens next Tuesday or in November of 2028 - if Democrats go back to politics as usual during the Obama era - we are going to even more f**ked next time. This - from prominent Obama Dems - is certainly not the way.

Yes. And ppl like Turkish are defending a fantasy notion of Israel in their heads, one where it is a stable liberal democracy that they can visit and pretend is the US. In fact the real country is run by fascists and young Israelis (who Americans like Turkish identify w!) are leaving in droves

One of the things we should really leave in the past is "I am a member of a marginalized community and therefore I can behave like as much of an asshole as I want, because My Community is suffering."

“Turkish has gotten more involved in politics in the last five or six years. He has worked mostly with Michigan Democrats, but he has also donated to Republicans, including GOP Sen. Susan Collins, donating over $24,000 to her allied committees last year” He‘s not a Democrat, it’s that simple

The Detroit News@detroitnews.com · 3d ago

Jason Turkish, a Democratic mega donor, described his decision to back Republican Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed as "putting country before party."

We are at the beginning of the end of bad 'basket-of-polls' politics, where politicians don't do anything without a poll. See this exchange. The public is now seeing what's really driving this so-called popularism approach: people who want to stop change and protect the status quo.

Eric Blair@protecttruth.bsky.social · last wk.

Finally, we are seeing focus on the bad arguments people like Yglesias are using to reinforce the status quo that wealthy donors like. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social asked good questions and Yglesias answered directly.