"Every day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and Fox News pulled off. They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps."
NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors and white men
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This is a real ad the Paxton campaign is running right now
Democrats will caution Talarico to pivot to Ken Paxton's repugnant ethical and moral corruption. It's Texas after all! I understand the instinct. (When was the last time an anti-bigotry campaign won in Texas?) But I don't think they should reflexively chicken out. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
"Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. We went deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...
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Bari Weiss with Nick Bilton for nepo Ellison:
"A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral"
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"same appeal as Bari Weiss:
As a member of traditionally liberal demographic let me explain to you why all these right wing talking points are the actual truth liberals are afraid of"
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"entire career is based on
says things that old men like to hear"
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the entire paxton campaign is just gonna be republicans calling talarico gay over and over then offering coy denials when called on it and accusing the libs of being to sensitive when they call it out bsky.app/profile/came...
The easiest way to end up in the NYT Opinion section is to be someone they perceive as “progressive” arguing that progressives actually have to capitulate to the right on x issue
The new Republican taunt, calling James Talarico trans, is (yes) bait designed to trap or divide the left. But it's also a witch hunt in the classic sense of the term. A dangerous escalation of degenerate MAGA politics. And something Dems should address muscularly. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
To me it's worse than swiftboating and even birtherism (though the bigotry is similar). Those worked on the level of innuendo, and weren't generalizable. This is an attack on all trans people, and also any future cis Dem the GOP wants to sic a lone wolf or mob on. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
How is it an escalation? They smirk so people will think it's harmless trolling. But they're doing at the level of national politics what they've tried to foment in communities: vigilantism against people they hate. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
Dave Weigel
Brian Beutler
NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors and white men
NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors and white men
NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors and white men
Just use the F slur already this is taking all day.
Brian Beutler
Adam Serwer
thank you to James Talarico for being a lightning rod to prove me correct on a national stage
There's just a certain fin de siecle absurdity of someone whose only achievement in life is having opinions on the internet ending the career of someone who managed to get into Kyiv in 2022 in the middle of the initial Russian invasion to interview Zelensky.
