John Hardy

Damn good question.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

We are waiting, @patrickhealynyt.bsky.social - multi-decade subscriber here asking you why.

can you confirm receipt @patrickhealynyt.bsky.social?

Huge headlines around the world. In major US media, unreported. Something's fishy here.

Clarity.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

There's nuance here about "how do we use platforms owned by the fascists". You *have to understand the political purpose of the platforms* in order to use them to subvert authoritarians. For the most part, Americans simply do not. Centrists (including DNC consultants) do not. Major media does not.

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

The most important political task in America is clawing back wealth from the very rich. The most important ballot measure in America is the California billionaire tax. Oligarchy is at the front door. Time to stop fucking around. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...

this is total gobbledygook? the process to decide who should be certified as the winner is the election, and there is no federal law that says the courts get to decide who that is.

right? i asked because sometimes it's free slurpee day. if she was just being nice i was gonna be like "i'll buy that kid's donut and mine if you'll give our freebies to any other kids that come in," and she was just like, "no, this place sucks." i told my son to savor all the fuck-the-man sprinkles

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

So psyched about the newest episode of my podcast 'Known Associates' featuring the brilliant Steve Jenkins, director of the Bob Dylan Center. Tune in for an amazing talk about Tulsa, Woody Guthrie, the mission and the fact that Bob will never enter his own museum. southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

Complete bullshit. The body cam footage shows nothing of the kind. It shows a bunch of cops rushing a car over alleged shoplifting, and a driver trying to flee. It’s an easily disproven lie, strikingly similar to the DHS lies about Renee Good and others. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/22/s...

How is this brand of political engagement and advocacy entitled to any non-profit tax-exempt status? How is this is any difference than the messaging from a political organization or PAC? How the fuck how?

Consider this www.youtube.com/watch?v=M472...

I think Congress should ask Zuck what happened. And also what happened in Brazil. If Stephen Miller asked him to throttle it, THEN it becomes a big deal.

They both did it, it was a joint effort, it’s one of the crazier things to happen in the national security space (which is really saying something) and every government should be scrambling to reduce dependence on—and as soon as possible get off—Starlink/shield or any Musk product, including the US.

Here's that yowza reporting from @nlanard.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Ted Cruz's former intern and organizer for the largest conservative youth summit in Texas has just confirmed he voted for James Talarico.

Democrats are competitive in Texas. Talarico leads in Senate polls, Pulido's a favorite to flip a House seat, and Hinojosa narrowly trails for governor. If any win—esp. Talarico—it won't only shift institutional power, it'll be a psychic shock to the right. No wonder they're nervous. My latest:

Just disgusting: Sen Elissa Slotkin made routine comments about the need for a Dem Congress to impose real accountability on the Trump administration, especially mid-tier enablers, and MAGA ginned up a two-minute hate over it. But she's 100% correct. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.” @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Read @josephcox.bsky.social story here: www.404media.co/dhs-said-the...

A climate change-denying Energy Secretary fits right in with the Trump crime family. All the agency heads he’s installed are working to destroy the agencies they “lead.”

Right-wing propaganda has turned ordinary Americans into cult members willing to endorse any cruelty in service to a twisted vision of god's will.

Awesome assessment!

With friends like these...

When this story published, was unaware of Ramaswamy's campaign using Acton's estranged mom in ad to deny her own account of sexual abuse For all MAGA's transphobia, Islamophobia, & ugly racism targeting Haitians, Somalis & Indians this election cycle, it's also embracing explicit, ugly rape denial

This is a disinformation campaign funded by billionaires to get a billionaire elected. This is class warfare.

ICE agents tackled a U.S. citizen riding his bike, tased him, and broke his arm. Note the reaction from Trump’s attorney. No contrition. No sympathy for the victim. Just ire for the congressman who had the audacity to criticize the agents.

Notably, Acton's brother has already endorsed her and said she protected him growing up. This is just abuse. Fuck Ramaswamay.

If you're an originalist, you have a responsibility to know things about the founding era. Maybe not everything. But some things. Basic things. Like, for example, that it did not take place during the colonial era. bsky.app/profile/audr...

This part is gold: the sulky teen whose weekly allowance has been curtailed by global forces, in Alberta’s case. Time for some truth and some tough love.

Hear, hear!!

People love to insist Trump is being blackmailed by various people but also that he's blackmailing people, and it's all to avoid admitting a bunch of shitty white people are shitty of their own volition.

I’m glad alito put in writing that originalism has nothing to do with rigorous historical research and is in fact just him talking to his imaginary friends bsky.app/profile/audr...

This is despicable. He’s basically admitting Putin is in the drivers seat

Actually I'm glad that his people are allowing him to be out in public making a fool of himself. It helps to make it very clear that this individual besides being a malignant narcissist and a pedophile is delusional and deranged.

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

Spot on!

Latest Slow Horses ep is a work of art of telling.

Oooops. Tune: open.spotify.com/track/2uHJDe...

Saturday night oldtime, after a day spent on a beautiful regenerative livestock ranch in paradisiacal Marin County. Burnt October there now, but when the California seasons swing…ranch sublime. No sunburn, and had 15 Tomales ersters before 11, with a paper cup of good java…😁

Biden never was this incoherent.

Exclusive: Hear Bari Weiss' handpicked foreign editor warn CBS News journalists that "insubordination" is "legal grounds for firing." Watch the full episode of Power Lines on YouTube: youtu.be/RcDzn1QP_G4

Putin's Trojan Horse The survival of the free world is locked in a zero-sum war of attrition: either Donald Trump is permanently stripped of power, or American democracy is extinguished. Trump's presidency is not politics — it is an unprecedented foreign infiltration of the Oval Office... 1/2

Despicable, and soaked in a hatred he can’t even comprehend. The Deplorables & their wretched smelly king…