Posts by gleick@mas.to
(DIR) Post #Ax2Xu3Q16HGcBFiZ7I by gleick@mas.to
2025-08-10T17:01:15Z
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You start a work of fiction by an author of a particular gender, and at some point you realize that the narrator is a person of a different gender. How do you feel about that?
(DIR) Post #AxITyO2b4uS20gvtFg by gleick@mas.to
2025-08-18T14:37:16Z
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@futurebird I’ve always thought most people missed the point about the tax returns. Some thought he could be embarrassed by the revelation that he pays so little. In fact, the full tax returns — including those for the many interlocking entities in his shifting web of shell companies — would enable journalists and other sleuths to trace decades of immense tax fraud that the IRS has been unable or unwilling to unravel.
(DIR) Post #AxZSuBwnIqqP4qyOAK by gleick@mas.to
2025-08-26T16:07:01Z
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Governor J. B. Pritzker of Illinois gave an eloquent and important speech yesterday. Everyone should hear it. I only know because of a newsletter from the historian Heather Cox Richardson.The New York Times quoted only a few sentences. They didn’t quote this: (1/6)
(DIR) Post #AyBUzwsloHFe0UROfg by gleick@mas.to
2025-09-13T01:14:39Z
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It is an undeniable fact that Charlie Kirk “spewed hate and racism on his show.” That was his brand. Apparently a Secret Service employee has been suspended for saying so. That is very different from celebrating his murder. Is this distinction too subtle for the NY Times?We need to be able to condemn his murder without celebrating his life. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/politics/charlie-kirk-shooting-firings-celebration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lk8.UAVT.j3Bl-Nfgieff&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AyImYzf8fN4oK8vyoy by gleick@mas.to
2025-09-17T15:57:41Z
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@futurebird Content Warning ⚠️
(DIR) Post #AyhrIRo8vz9qpPhWsK by gleick@mas.to
2025-09-29T18:16:31Z
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And now, an important message from the President of the United States.
(DIR) Post #AywlGZAUubCUivHABc by gleick@mas.to
2025-10-06T22:30:20Z
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Dear New York Times,Henceforth, forbid the tired formulation "both sides." Likewise the cliché "war of words."These should be red flags. They encourage laziness.Report what they say. And report what's true.Here, for instance, your reporters can establish that there are no protesters in Portland engaging in insurrection.They also see federal forces attacking protesters without provocation. Don't be lazy. Tell your readers what you know.
(DIR) Post #AzVGk42iu31apZp452 by gleick@mas.to
2025-10-23T11:39:46Z
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It’s unfortunate that “the White House" has become standard synecdoche for the president and his staff. Now we have newspapers saying with a straight face that the White House refuses to comment on its own demolition.#EpsteinBallroom
(DIR) Post #B05uhIMSekRd6iZtfE by gleick@mas.to
2025-11-07T23:40:53Z
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It's easy to hate journalists, it's easy to hate the mainstream media. Here's something that's hard, though: working in Venezuela, village after village, to find out who Trump and Hegseth have murdered in the name of fighting “narco-terrorism.” They were real people, with names, jobs, and families.Credit to Regina Garcia Cano and the Associated Press.https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-drugs-cocaine-trafficking-95b54a3a5efec74f12f82396a79617ea
(DIR) Post #B07MDweZHKtVG3ngUi by gleick@mas.to
2025-11-10T22:19:48Z
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The following is a technical explanation by the president of the United States. The subject: #magnets. Every word is guaranteed verbatim.“China was going to hit us with rare earth.Now, everybody says, oh, what is happening?Magnets.If China refused to get magnets, 'cause they have a monopoly on magnets, 'cause they were allowed to happen over a 32 year period.There wouldn't be a car made in the entire world. (1/2)
(DIR) Post #B0NttGQrD2oBjR254q by gleick@mas.to
2025-11-18T18:19:52Z
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Mobster on the left had the journalist Jamal Khashoggi murdered and dismembered with a bone saw.Mobster on the right says that’s just fine: “A lot of people didn't like the gentleman you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen.”They don't even bother to pretend.
(DIR) Post #B0O4xETtVJosKpY2SG by gleick@mas.to
2025-11-18T16:25:14Z
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The spectacle of 216 Republican members of Congress changing their minds overnight. Cover up for the notorious pedophile sex trafficker? Not me! Never!
(DIR) Post #B0rJKxqRbF9vOVCfCa by gleick@mas.to
2025-12-02T20:32:35Z
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They can't use the word, but this is a $14 billion tax fraud—theft from Americans who actually DO pay taxes—by our untouchable oligarch Elon Musk.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/elon-musk-foundation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k8.ObM-.eA2qGCNrJB2J&smid=url-share
(DIR) Post #B1JWowZhcozvyNsNhw by gleick@mas.to
2025-12-15T17:51:14Z
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The worst person in the world.
(DIR) Post #B1PqThImNWdSYTrlvE by gleick@mas.to
2025-12-18T17:40:24Z
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“Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband. Protect her.”—Marla Maples to the mother of a 14-year-old girl at one of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago bacchanals.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k8.lCbr.iiWKr9OvIMrg&smid=url-share
(DIR) Post #B1PqVwj9zvKSyYHIq8 by gleick@mas.to
2025-12-19T17:19:28Z
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These are workers removing the signage for Adolf Hitler street in 1945. This seems like a good day to remember.
(DIR) Post #B1W4N3hFY6e4l6YTwG by gleick@mas.to
2025-12-21T10:09:04Z
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Epstein-Trump photos "disappear." It's a mystery! Whatever could have happened?Or: Justice Department Flouts Law, Suppresses Evidence Of Trump-Epstein Collusion
(DIR) Post #B2eVli0bjiGqfWCAgi by gleick@mas.to
2026-01-24T23:12:42Z
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This is a brave man, with a phone camera in his hand, moments before he is tackled and murdered.
(DIR) Post #B2ebcyp0SMlNvozR56 by gleick@mas.to
2026-01-25T16:43:16Z
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@futurebird I think you're exactly right. And I think it was the same with Jonathan Ross’s murder of Renée Good. When she said, “That's fine, dude, I’m not mad at you,” it made him feel small. It showed him that she was brave and he was ineffectual. He couldn't bear it.
(DIR) Post #B2gvKhhrjqFP2L8HD6 by gleick@mas.to
2026-01-26T22:49:47Z
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The city that never sleeps (last night).