How about you call up the president and have him reverse the tariffs.

I don’t know who this Jack person is but it seems like you know a lot about someone you don’t want to know anything about. Also have never heard of “truth broker” but that sounds like something to avoid as much as an “influencer”. Do people wear this title willingly?

But I would agree that a lot of once-respectable or thought-to-have-been-respectable outlets have been twisting headlines for clicks. The New Republic is one that I subscribe to for what I thought was valuable reporting but every day it’s just full of narrative-enforcing click bait, similar to what you’ve described. Time to unsub.

The greater problem is that responsible journalism has a hard time staying in business when it competes with 15 seconds of rage bait. Our attention spans are minuscule and we don’t want or are unable to pay for anything that promotes authenticity. Nervermind “the algorithm” pushing salacious content over informative content and how you have little control over what you take in.

And it’s just going to get worse as time goes on. John Stewart and Amanpour were talking a bit about this on Monday’s show.

Holy ever living fuck - this is some of the worst click bait I’ve ever read.

Karoline later shared another quote that read, “What a privilege it is to have your bed taken up by a small human who thinks it’s the safest place in the world to be,” and wrote “crying” over it.

She’s fucking “crying” at the thought of her child sleeping in a safe place. She’s “crying” about the privilege of being a mother.

There is nothing at all in this article about her crying about burnout. This entire article is about her having a good time then quoting some completely random psychologist making assumptions about the stress someone must live with in this position (no fucking doi).

Jesus. This article is like getting through a recipe blog. The first third (at leas, I didn’t make it further) is about the author’s knowledge of pennies.

I can only assume, as a person with a functioning brain who has lived on planet earth for nearly 50 years, that the pennies are not in fact trash but perfectly legal tender. I was hoping to find a line in this story to contradict its initial bold claim but…

The initial draft of the story I filed for a popular New York City–based publication was 20,000 words long. (Sadly, all of the best parts everyone would have loved were cut by my psychotic editor, whose No. 1 passion in life was removing 13,000 perfect words from my first drafts; I’m not worried about him reading these words, because a low-class butcher like that doesn’t possess enough humanity to subscribe to The Atlantic—though, if you happen to know William, I would thank you not to send him a gift link to this article.) And what I learned was that there was no sane reason why.

This article should be title: Journalism is Trash.

Yes. It was. But you go ahead and cherry-pick the content that fits your narrative. I’m just trying to tell you you’re wasting your time responding to me.

My statement was in regard to PBS not including a photo of the thing the story is about.

Not sure you’re responding to the right person. Maybe get some sleep, boss.

I do agree with you. But on the other hand…

people not knowing things and then doing something when they find out get caught is… ?

Disappointing that the linked article doesn’t include a photo of the tattoo. When a report lacks important relevant information, the reader has a choice to take it for its word or seek out supporting facts. So, when I searched for Planter Nazi Tattoo, there are plenty of articles taking the opposing tone - in that he knew what the tattoo was.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/21/2349761/-Not-one-diary-or-mention-about-Graham-Platner-s-Nazi-tattoo-Really This sounds more like he has been aware of what the tattoo represented and he hasn’t really cared about it until now. Which I personally find much more believable. Good on him for getting it covered up but, ehhh. Maybe don’t believe every word a politician exhales.

I don’t know this person or anything about Maine. I don’t really care either. But journalism needs to be held accountable. I expect more from PBS / AP.

During an exchange in the Oval Office, Real America’s Voice correspondent Brian Glenn showed Trump a photo of a trans flag currently on display in Washington, DC, and claimed that “a lot of people are very threatened” by it.

Dear motherfucker, what are you going to do about those of us who feel threatened by the American Flag?

Reading this article, I have never in my nearly fifty years of life witnessed anything like this. Jackson is calling to detain all transgender people. Loomer is calling to designate transgender people terrorists.

These people - I’ll say all conservatives - are so pathetic and dysfunctional that they’re unable to observe reality and deal with it in a responsible manner. Instead, they choose to turn something difficult or uncomfortable into an enemy or a cancer and deal with things as an immature child would - just stomp on it.

That enforces my point. Why should anyone care about some other person who, some may say, should have been spied on?

I just want to ask on behalf of people who don’t care about this, “why should I care about this”?

Because every time I bring up how much we’re being spied on by the government or Amazon or Google, et al, people just shrug it off. At best, they’ll admit it’s a problem - for people who should be worried about it. Meaning, “I’ve got nothing to hide”. If nothing else, Americans lack (or choose to reject) the basic concept of a shared society. If there’s a threat that the government is spying on people, we believe it’s the “other” people, not “us”.

Threats to our privacy is largely hypothetical for the majority of people. I’d even argue that the whole premise of privacy is no longer what it was just 15-20 years ago. I’ve even had people argue with me that they ‘want’ to be tracked so the ads they see are relevant to them.

So, I could see some Americans read this story and be in full support of this. They believe in a spy state as a means of protection. Ironically, these are also often the same people flying “Don’t Tread On Me” flags.

I don’t know if you’re serious or not.

Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was shot and killed by law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as she attempted to climb through a barricaded door to the Speaker’s lobby near the House chamber.

In May, the government agreed to pay Babbitt’s family nearly $5 million as part of a settlement.

The lawsuit alleged that the officer, who was not in uniform, failed to deescalate the situation and did not give her any warnings or commands before opening fire.

Remember this when the conservatives scream about “rioters” and the “thin blue line”. Fucking traitors and hypocrites.

How was it awful?

Could you tell me what the heck this yellow blob shape is supposed to be?

From a purely graphic design perspective, the classic logo is too busy and doesn’t scale well. The only thing it has going for it is the weirdness of the shape and the distinct color combination. It’s technically a really bad logo. You may not prefer the new logo but, technically, it’s a whole lot better. It’s far more adaptable to newer platforms while stilling being recognizable. Now, as far as being an effective representation of the brand and if that’s a corporate concern, I don’t know that I can comment on that.

Yes. It was.

the left is resorting to the same half-facts that has made the right so powerful.

This is nothing new. But it’s always said that, effectively, the left’s half facts are for the sake of the good. Which may be true but it still gives the right a reason to distrust the media and they’re right to do so. Meanwhile, you have people begging the Democrats to fight like MAGA does - which we’re seeing Newsom dabble with - but it’s not going to help restore any of what little trust and decorum that may have existed. Everything is spiraling towards shit.

Rich people don’t care about their privacy as much as they have their own IT department to do the work for them (source: I’ve been their IT department).

Their devices are just as secure as you would imagine any high profile CEO. Their home networks can cost up to $100k and are super secure with constant monitoring. They all have “normal” devices but they’ll usually have a VPN tunnel.

But, stuff like their Facebook logins, etc they’re still pretty bad with passwords, from my experience. I’d say less than percent of the people I’ve worked with have asked serious questions about their cyber security.

Owning more wealth than the majority of the country while keeping employees on food stamps is fine. Come after the king, you’re cancelled.

I don’t see a way out of this idiocracy.

I live in a building where these contactless and cashless washing / drying units are provided for residents to clean their clothes.