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I don't think it's outlandish to claim that the editorial process used by The Free Press is almost certainly one that deliberately allows misleading or outright false information in accordance with the publication's social mission.
The most shocking thing about @SulkinMaya's blatant fabrication isn't anything to do with her personally.
It's that her video somehow made it through the editorial process at @TheFP and *nobody* noticed the error.
This is not a small error! She said that a speech was in Arabic when (excepting four words) that speech was entirely in English! What are you doing here???
I mean this as a very serious question for @EliLake, @bariweiss, and several of the other FP people who follow me: Does The Free Press have an editorial process? Like, at all? If so, can you describe it to me? Who was in charge of making sure Maya's claims were factually accurate? How could this possibly have slipped by? I do not understand how an organization with your level of money and scale could just whiff like that.
For those of you not deep in journalism world, this is not normal. At @TheArgumentMag, a publication with far less publicity, fewer employees and fewer paid subscribers, I have copy editors up my ass if I misstate a statistic by one percent or don't have a foolproof quote to back up every single claim I make in an article. I have been asked to provide documentation for claims like "Hasan is a Maoist dope" because my editors would not accept a throwaway joke without proof that Hasan might actually be a Maoist.
It's not my job to decide who the FP should employ, but I will note that at most publications this would get you fired and probably also get one or more editors fired.
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100% and they never want to engage with how post hoc all their arguments are. The Founding Fathers didn't make any of these arguments!
They were just trying to broker a compromise to get the smaller states on board with scrapping the Articles of Confederation.
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the school of thought that says "we shouldn't make it easier for the government to build things because the government might build bad things" has resulted in bad governments building bad things and good governments building nothing
it's time we tried something different
This week’s overwhelming blue wave election sent a clear message: Americans are fed up with an administration that raises costs through chaotic energy policies and puts corporate polluters ahead of the public interest.
As the Senate considers a possible vote during the lame-duck session, Congressional Democrats have a mandate to deliver relief on energy bills and level the playing field for clean energy.
As written, this bill achieves critical wins on transmission and potential emissions reduction. But those wins do not justify abandoning Tribal consultation, clean water safeguards, and wildlife protections, nor further enabling a rogue president that is waging a war on clean energy.
The Sierra Club supports updating and expediting clean energy permitting. But Congress must demand fundamental changes to protect public health, Tribal sovereignty, the environment, and communities’ ability to challenge unlawful projects.
As Sierra Club Executive Director Loren Blackford said, “They can and must fight for a better deal.”
Read the full statement: bit.ly/4fa7IUv
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they went right back to playing with their dolls without a second thought about why this happened to them
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Any time a candidate gets at least 20 votes, I suspect fraud. The chances are less than one in a million.
It's just not probable. Texas was stolen!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The post's calculation assumes 2.9 million voters all chose one candidate. In the 2026 Texas general election, about 9.9 million ballots were cast, with Democrats winning the Senate race 55.1% to 43.0% and Governor 52.8% to 45.7%. Both Republican candidates conceded. txelectionresults.com/2026-general-e… viewfromthegallery.com/breakdown/texa…
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been on this kick for a while, but i think the "money in politics" argument is way too obsessed with campaign spending
Elon buying Twitter clearly had way more impact on politics (both for and against his goals) than any PAC could ever hope for
There's a lot to focus on right now, but "The richest man to ever live just spent $200 million to support the Republican Senate candidate in Texas, and his man lost by double-digits in a statewide wipeout" is a completely insane sentence.
Put another way, the most expensive US Senate race before 2020 was $200 million. *One guy* spent that amount in Texas, and it doesn't seem to have made any difference. It might have hurt in a kind of Streisand effect way, in that the spending level was seen as obscene to people sympathetic to the argument that billionaires shouldn't "buy" elections.
The implications here seem pretty interesting! Especially re the limits of billionaire political power and/or the diminishing returns of money in politics.
When Nick Land packed his raving schizophrenia into long continuous screeds, it was great. Now that he delivers his capsules of madness in short little bursts on Twitter it doesn't seem so cool, anymore, huh?
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No, you dork. We don’t want you dead. We just think you’re a completely unserious person and we want you to take a job with Newsmaxxxx or Alex Jones or moderating a Reddit conspiracy forum and leave the legislating to functional adults who don’t tweet 200 times a day.
These are the people we should be targeting for deportation, by the way. The Lauren Chens and Steven Crowders. Easy pickings, and the benefit to society is clear-cut.
All of this in-fighting is very funny, and it is telling that Charlie Kirk now mostly exists as a pearl-clutching totem to drive emotional reaction. To that topic, it does appear to me that TPUSA is effectively dying rapidly as an organization without Charlie Kirk to helm it.
Chris this is horseshit. This has nothing to do with Charlie Kirk. It has to do with the TPUSA today. I didn't mention Kirk, Have not spoke ill of him since he was murdered, and I think 14 months later, it's perfectly legitimate to criticize TPUSA and the extended MAGA industrial complex -- which you are a part of and occasional apologist for --for the utter and complete ruin of the GOP and the failure to execute on the things TPUSA & Co. promised. You guys have repelled more young people and voters then you have attracted. You discredited ideas I care about dearly. And you have claimed to be doing it in the name of a more "serious" understanding of politics and power. Nixonmaxxing my ass.
I am sorry if people sincerely took this as an insult to Kirk or mockery of his heinous murder. But they are mistaken. I am not sorry for calling out the bullshit opportunism and bad faith of people projecting false motives on me in order to have a comfortable talking point to distract from their abject political and ideological failures on display this week.
This was very obvious to anyone who gave the original test to a rightwing libertarian.
Have you ever heard of the Political Compass?
Did you know the original website is designed to make you believe you should support far-left politicians?
My latest article is exactly about this! Pls check it out
counterpunch.org/2026/11/04/…
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90 day blackout? Did he buy a generator and spare fuel? Did he buy ecoflows and solar panels? Gas heaters? Or did he buy mostly guns, ammo, and tactical gear like he's going to shoot the darkness away or something?
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On Thursday I wrote about the 2014 injunction Russell Brand obtained against a woman who accused him of assault.
I've now obtained the final order. It's breathtaking.
She had no lawyer. No trial. Yet she was silenced for life - even barred from speaking to the police.
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Fundamental misunderstanding of what makes Pattinson compelling. Should be a Bond villain with another fuckass voice.
