Ben Wagner-Wilkins

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

hi dave portnoy i’m “the gay kid” in the video :) if i went to gaza i would killed by an israeli drone strike

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I think the vast majority of Americans would agree

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

top senate dem on foreign policy is actively whipping votes to continue sending bombs and bulldozers to israel. this is a 90/10 issue for democratic voters. shame on every israel first politician who violates the spirit of democratic representation so flagrantly!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is absolutely insane

A concerned resident in Illinois tries to voice her concerns about a Data Center

Joliet, Illinois councilman Pat Mudron immediately shuts her down saying she "cannot comment on that"

They won’t even let residents question them

She says “I’m gonna comment on it anyway. You have officially sold out every single resident in Joliet”

These people very clearly do not work for their residents

[Moshik Temkin @moshik_temkin]

It was amazing cause you spoke for over a day and no one can remember a single thing you said

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

There’s a bill to ban surveillance pricing in McMorrow’s legislature right now. She hasn’t sponsored it.

McMorrow’s own Congressmember, Rep. Tlaib, introduced a ban in grocery stores.

Sen. Gallego and Rep. Casar have economy-wide bans.

Bizarre to say she’ll “introduce a bill.”

[robyn @_robyn_smith]

Why does it cost less to build a base on the moon than high speed rail from sf to la

[Luke Goldstein @lukewgoldstein]

what people mean by the rise of the Epstein class in a graphic

[yc @yc]

The only belief Newsom holds is that he should be president lol

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

foreign policy is uniparty and totally removed from the demands and the needs of the masses.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

here was full quote for the nyt piece on the cuban aid mission. obviously it was too long for the piece but i wanted you to see it.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

cuban doctors told me they have to sew up patients mid surgery when the generators run out of gas but maga on here are too busy lying about the ppl that went out to cuba w aid to turn everything into a distractive spectacle. pure maga propaganda. you’re cattle if you fall for it.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

[Aidan Smith @aidan_smx]

Probably the most definitive proof of right-wing media bias is that “nonpartisan” CBS thinks a mayor’s wife’s Instagram likes are a major story while Republicans in Congress say stuff like this with no pushback:

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I don't know why, but @jaketapper has never corrected his now demonstrably false reporting on 10/7 sexual violence. Instead, he's out here sharing a ludicrous post that calls Drop Site "terror propaganda" and a "fake news site denying that there were any rapes on 10/7."

First of all, we don't say there were definitively zero. We say there is no credible evidence of any. Not a single independent investigation has turned up a single instance. If one eventually does, we will of course report it.

Tapper himself led the charge on some of the worst reporting in a generation, reporting that was used to launch a genocide before falling apart under scrutiny. Tapper, for instance, gave prominent voice to a first responder who claimed to have seen evidence of two SAs in Kibbutz Be'eri. Those high-profile allegations, as we've reported, have since been conclusively shown to have been false and even the Israeli government and the NYT have retracted them, but Tapper has never corrected his piece or even addressed it. It's fundamental to journalism that if we make a mistake, we correct the record transparently. He refuses to do so. And once Bari Weiss is his boss, if the Gulf countries don't back out of the deal, he won't ever have to.

He also relied heavily in his influential 2023 report on Shari Mendes, a volunteer at a morgue who infamously fabricated a horrifying crime, saying, "A baby was cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded and then the mother was beheaded.” There is no dispute: that did not happen. She also made all manner of lurid claims to Tapper and others that were shown to be false later. He has never addressed this.

The case he's citing here below has no corroboration and on the face of it stretches credulity. Tapper is sharing a post from a witness who claims several militants pulled a woman out of a car and "the terrorists sounded like they were drinking a cocktail at the beach. When they finished, they fired an RPG at her car and burned her."

So according to Tapper here, the victim was put back in a car and after that, they fired an RPG at the car and burned it. Think about that. It's utterly preposterous. They fired an RPG at a woman in a car from point-blank range? Wouldn't that also blow them up too? And they did all this with IDF helicopters bearing down on them? It's an impossibly absurd scenario, but to Tapper it's conclusive proof. Tapper finds that not just credible, but credible enough to call another news outlet "fake news" and "terror propaganda."

It's one thing for Jake never to correct his now-debunked reporting. It's another entirely to call us "terror propaganda" merely for honestly reporting on these claims.

I assume he's just salty that The Free Press scooped him on the story of the century, Mamdani's wife's instagram likes. But not too late to host a segment on her!

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

if another country bombed an elementary school in Alabama and then started saying shit like “they’re better off dead than growing up evangelical” while their executive branch was posting 2010 Marvel memes on their socials, what do you think the reaction would be?

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

US-Israel have hit 20 schools and 10 hospitals and killed 400 children in less than a week, but US media continues to take for granted they only bomb civilians in “error.” As with Gaza, how many civilians do they have to snuff out before we can entertain the idea this is policy?

[gen z superboy (official) @shin_kale_rider]

Levels of passive voice previously undreamt of

[john teufel @JohnTeufelNYC]

.@RubenGallego was one of the few Democrats giving concise and clear statements about why this war is so bad. But he's gonna vote to fund it, so all of those statements were just nom noms for gullible people desperately wanting some leaders of character. All lies.

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Oh my fucking god