avatar
Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social

pretty incredible indictment of NYT’s news judgement that Wyden just comes out and says the real news, while the NYT story is framed all about the posturing and buries the lede

jul 17, 2025, 6:07 pm • 2,552 607

Replies

avatar
Danes Inc. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @danesinc.bsky.social

And the Democrats shouldn’t let go of the Epstein case.

jul 17, 2025, 6:31 pm • 0 0 • view
avatar
Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social

NYT racking up indictments faster than Trump himself

jul 18, 2025, 7:13 am • 0 0 • view
avatar
karina916.bsky.social @karina916.bsky.social

Holy shit!

jul 17, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
avatar
VineyardSplash @chefinthevineyard.bsky.social

ALFA Bank, follow the money : www.newyorker.com/news/news-de... krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/laws...

jul 17, 2025, 6:33 pm • 3 0 • view
avatar
John Gage @johngage.bsky.social

It's almost like the people (money?) that control what the NY Times publishes don't want the Epstein information to be made public.

jul 17, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
avatar
Stephen Lynch @slynch.bsky.social

Might also be A-B testing, though?

jul 17, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
smol bolz @groboudo.bsky.social

Donald Trump wants to hide the Epstein files because he’s surely implicated in them as a child trafficking predator. Others want this hidden more likely because Epstein was a key figure in international money laundering?

jul 17, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
scary baby @oldbaby.bsky.social

the headline frames him as a loony lefty

jul 17, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
avatar
Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social

Hey! They made it less stupid!

image
jul 17, 2025, 6:16 pm • 64 0 • view
avatar
Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social

I wonder if people will be horribly disappointed if this is the thing they’re hiding. Not a tape with Trump on it but Trump protecting some rich guy. The MAGA who care about ‘the scandal’ probably won’t care about that. Anything complicated no matter how corrupt doesn’t interest them.

jul 17, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social

I think we're really in pretty unknown waters about how this will play out. On the one hand, this fits cleanly into a long line of conservative conspiracy theorizing (as Nicole Hemmer pointed out on @gregsargent.bsky.social 's Daily Blast). So I think they'll be inclined to push beyond just $ data.

jul 17, 2025, 6:35 pm • 2 0 • view
avatar
Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social

On the other hand, I think Trump's unusually powerful in terms of his grip on Fox News and a lot of the conservative media sphere. Hard to tell if he can dampen things enough for us until things blow over.

jul 17, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social

On the (third?) hand, corruption is often a matter not of breaking the law or crossing a bright line, but of violating particular moral standards (is what I did bad *relative to those like me*?) But there are very few standards as widely shared as "exploiting young girls for sex is bad."

jul 17, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social

So it would really matter if it turns out to be *that* or something like it, and not just financial improprieties.

jul 17, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social

yeah that’s better, although the story still really winds its way to the money

jul 17, 2025, 6:17 pm • 21 0 • view
avatar
Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social

Oh, yeah, but it is the NYT, after all...gotta be patient... 🙄

jul 17, 2025, 6:19 pm • 2 0 • view
avatar
zdubya83.bsky.social @zdubya83.bsky.social

It happens to the best of them. WaPo is still hypothesizing why Maurene Comey was fired.

jul 17, 2025, 6:17 pm • 6 0 • view
avatar
Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social

Exactly. To them the story is about a political fight over facts, not the facts themselves or what they might mean.

jul 17, 2025, 6:17 pm • 13 0 • view
avatar
peggyrose.bsky.social @peggyrose.bsky.social

Christ… he’s doing the job the shitty NYT should be doing.

jul 18, 2025, 12:40 am • 0 0 • view
avatar
Chris Williams @gaffa.bsky.social

Whenever I see something like this, I always wonder how many members of The New York Times editorial board were on the material in Jeffrey Epstein safe. www.yahoo.com/gma/fbi-agen...

jul 17, 2025, 6:29 pm • 13 3 • view
avatar
Rob Clive @crobruncato.bsky.social

NYT and most mainstream media is trash.

jul 17, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
avatar
Diane R @dianenyc.bsky.social

HATE their headline. Unreal

jul 17, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social

If I were a hacker of some skill, I’d infiltrate NY ACS’ case management system and release any and all documents related to child welfare investigations into NYT execs. I bet you there’s some real juicy shit in there.

jul 17, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
avatar
Jeff Bjanes🫐 @jeffbjanes.bsky.social

I can’t believe all those save the children MAGA\Q types have all of a sudden became fine with such heinous crimes… frozen basically… let it go, let it go… full Disney princess attitude towards something they said was so important for forever…

jul 17, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
Lizzy Stone @eliseabril.bsky.social

I feel like lots of news orgs and journalists are focused on the drama angle these days, rather than the underlying news itself. “Trump says evil people ask questions about flood warnings” rather than “flood warnings save lives elsewhere and it seems insufficient ones were issued in TX”

jul 17, 2025, 6:25 pm • 2 0 • view
avatar
The Bob Collective @planetbob.bsky.social

image
jul 18, 2025, 3:06 am • 1 0 • view
avatar
Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social

sweeney thesis remains undefeated

jul 17, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social

This is an average of about $230,000 per transaction, which I seriously doubt is the amount that went to young women in Belarus. They could have spent a little time on who got what, I'd have read it.

image
jul 17, 2025, 6:30 pm • 6 0 • view
avatar
Colin Moore @colinmoore.bsky.social

NYT acts like publicists for powerful sex pests.

jul 17, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
avatar
frances 🖋️ @francesferguson.bsky.social

Incredible choice of framing on the Times’ part

jul 18, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
avatar
Ceramic.Atheist @zaphodbeeblebr0x.bsky.social

That’s a charitable interpretation

jul 17, 2025, 7:23 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
Diana Parker-Kafka @dianaparker.bsky.social

such sleaze

jul 18, 2025, 3:47 am • 0 0 • view
avatar
Donna Cohen, MLIS, MEd @civicsforall.bsky.social

I'm noticing more and more that "news" articles seem to emphasize a partisan angle over the actual facts of the article. It does a huge disservice to the public. And stokes more partisanship, imo! Agree, @jayrosen.bsky.social ?

jul 17, 2025, 6:20 pm • 5 0 • view
avatar
Mr. Christopher Hain @mrchrishain.bsky.social

How many mainstream media moguls are on the Epstein client list?

jul 17, 2025, 9:33 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
Real Benisons @realbenisons.bsky.social

"like many Republicans on the far right, Mr. Wyden..." smh okey dokey NYT

image
jul 17, 2025, 6:19 pm • 13 2 • view
avatar
The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social

I was half-expecting the NYT to run a headline saying something like, "Why we don't need the Epstein files" or "It's time to move on from the Epstein case". "This guy keeps insisting on investigating the Epstein case, isn't that craaaaazy?" is close.

jul 17, 2025, 7:40 pm • 3 0 • view
avatar
Pppatticake @pppatticake.bsky.social

NYT has become a gossip rag, Teen Vogue is the paper of record, now

jul 17, 2025, 6:51 pm • 11 0 • view
avatar
Simon Shapiro @simonshapiro.bsky.social

I would argue it is Teen Vogue that has done more hard hitting journalism in the last twenty years.

jul 18, 2025, 3:43 am • 2 0 • view
avatar
Pppatticake @pppatticake.bsky.social

We agree

jul 18, 2025, 3:37 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
steve-degenaro.bsky.social @steve-degenaro.bsky.social

Epstein was too big to fail I guess.

jul 17, 2025, 6:23 pm • 2 0 • view
avatar
Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social

it’s especially irksome because Goldstein’s reporting on Epstein has been great. and here’s a real revelation about what *specifically* Trump is hiding, and it gets buried in the story

jul 17, 2025, 6:10 pm • 88 7 • view
avatar
Grolaw 🌐🇺🇦🇲🇽🇨🇦 @grolaw-me.bsky.social

I’m all for a proper forensic audit of the Epstein business & personal accounts. It’s going to take someone like David Cay Johnston to get to the heart of the matter. I wonder if Epstein was an extortionist in addition to his sexual predator behavior? #CriminalPredator

jul 17, 2025, 7:14 pm • 5 0 • view
avatar
MariBean @maribean.bsky.social

Of course he was. He laundered and extorted and laundered the extortion money. He probably traded access to to the rich and famous to the rich and not famous. He collected people. Some to legitimatize his wealth, standing, others to play with, supply him, and later extort.

jul 17, 2025, 9:35 pm • 5 0 • view
avatar
outsidecounsel.bsky.social @outsidecounsel.bsky.social

Where else could he have piled up all that money?

jul 17, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
avatar
Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social

Fwiw they’ve changed the headline. It’s…better.

In Epstein Case, Follow the Money, Democratic Senator Says Senator Ron Wyden has found that four banks waited until Mr. Epstein's arrest on federal charges to flag $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions. Mr. Wyden wants the documents made public.
jul 17, 2025, 6:15 pm • 31 4 • view
avatar
Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social

Ninja-ed!

jul 17, 2025, 6:17 pm • 2 0 • view
avatar
Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social

A-B testing to piss off everyone.

jul 17, 2025, 6:21 pm • 5 0 • view
avatar
Lenoxus @lenoxus.bsky.social

Not by much!

jul 18, 2025, 12:40 am • 1 0 • view
avatar
partwave∴ @partickle.bsky.social

👀

jul 17, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view