Reed McMaster

Kind of funny, in an Ancient Greek Hell kind of way, that this guy handed Trump the presidency in 2016, and as a reward Trump is kicking him in the teeth forever. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

To folks who follow me on Bluesky & appreciate the journalism I do. Can you please read the EPA story and post on social media platforms if you are so moved. This kind of work is important. But it only matters if people read it and engage with it. Here's the link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Consolidation is killing our industry. The Gamergaters who make money off the rage game will have you think this is a victory. This is purely a loss. A loss of work and art and fun and expression in a space that desperately needs it. Massive fucking bummer.

With the election looming, the GOP is calling in the big guns. Which means having a megachurch freak named Timmy dispatch an army of walleyed 23yo home-school casualties with YouTube diction to opposing candidates' rallies, where they will demand those candidates reject and denounce the WNBA.

"A giant loss. CNN’s brand has largely been built on our international presence, thanks to people like Amanpour," a CNN source tells me. "It’s what sets us apart. This brain drain will be hugely detrimental. And yes, everyone believes it’s merger related. And that it won’t be the last defection."

Never been a clearer grift www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... bsky.app/profile/atru...

i think it is fun when people write things that are just totally in tension with easily observable reality. like, this is “charlie brown had hoes” levels of nonsense: “in his first term Trump largely respected the cultural consensus of the Obama years.” www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

Scoop from @timmarchman.bsky.social & I: New WH press secretary Katie Zacharia never passed the bar, despite calling herself an attorney. She was, however, once part of a multi-level-marketing fitness program that she described to us as "sort of a pyramid scheme" www.wired.com/story/white-...

boy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market

New from me: Ramaswamy Campaign Ad Accidentally Featured a Sex Offender www.thebulwark.com/p/ramaswamy-...

I am going to say this until the Cows Come Home! Republicans misread why "Kamala is for They/Them" worked because they told voters Democrats cared more about social issues than the economy. Now? Republicans are talking trans when beef is expensive. thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/democrats-...

MAGA media figures demanded and even teased immigration action against Rep. Ilhan Omar — and then DHS raided her home www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso...

These fucking people. If you want to save humanity, save it *here* and *now*. Bezos could easily move the needle on climate change if he wanted to try.

If you push out a rumor that turns out to be 100% bullshit, you didn't "break a story."

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85

Much to consider

I just see these ads and very late pivots like they're trying to back up the Titanic after it collided with the iceberg

David Zaslav bids farewell to industry he helped destroy

Man I'm gonna miss this brief period where movies seemed like they were back.

Beyond the fact most people don't know who Piker is, a big problem for doing the "you're associating with this bad person" politics is that the right has openly embraced people like Loomer

I don't see her losing but 1) I think it'd be funny if she underperformed the GB and 2) It's a genuine question if she's actually something voters want or just the "not Joe Kent" option

…seem to earnestly believe this was a “gift” to them in their campaigns this cycle, is merely one hilarious,, miserably online symptom of how deeply screwed the GOP and President trump likely are on Election Day. we’ll see what happens. A lot could change, some polls could be wrong. On to November

It's honestly going to be really funny when the admin inevitably picks him to be one of the sineaters to explain why the Iran war was a comical failure

There's still so much more to watch www.ms.now/news/maha-su...

This administration appears intent on making the entire country hate it. Now, they are kicking 750,000 people off their health insurance. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/h...

Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron

Happy Sea Otter Awareness Week!

thing about fox news is they know where their bread is buttered. if other networks are getting banned, they know they'll get banned too.

The comedic irony of the popularists is that their key examples of good Dems are always the ones who backstab the party

Come January 3, 2027, Dick Durbin will very likely be replaced by Juliana Stratton. Stratton ran on expanding the Supreme Court as well as on enacting term limits for justices.

“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.

A very public rendition of how insane this all looks literally just happened. Robert Kraft going after Macklemore, claiming it's to combat antisemitism but not saying a peep about Kanye West who's currently touring

"ICE arrested 50,000 people in July, and another 50,000 in August, eclipsing the monthly arrests made during the peak of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, Operation Catahoula Crunch in New Orleans, and Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota." www.turtlediaries.net/p/ice-is-sti...

who is ready for… DATA CENTER OIL SPILLS!

ICE is so unpopular these days it’s creating the kind of corporate replies that I can only compare to the corporate ass covering in public statements re: trump in 2015

More from Campanile in his lengthy social media post. "Making matters worse is the cadre of self-described influencers and on-line opinionists who market themselves as “journalists”. Some have been given control of our most precious reporting institutions — including CBS News."

you could derail the entire steelers offense by showing them a globe

i think much of the democratic party's low ratings reflects a palpable sense that it is institutionally incapable of standing up for itself or going on the hunt