it’s really weird when this account breaks character and decides rather than imitating the NYT it says its real feelings which is just speak-and-spell “feckless loser dems” podcaster clout farming
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I just decided to mute it. If mute works properly, this could be one of the last normal mentions I shall see. But there will always be screenshots.
aug 29, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
wasn't dougj's original online home balloonjuice founded by a republican, much as mediamatters4america was?
aug 29, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
i couldn't tell you
aug 29, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean, I guess, but I would say that Republican (John Cole) had one of the clearest Road to Damascus moments I've ever seen, as complete a reversal as Bill Kristol
aug 29, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view
i was talking about john cole (whom i always confuse with frequent c. 2003 talkingpointsmemo correspondent juan cole) & david "lil bit nutty, lil bit slutty" brock, not bill kristol.
aug 29, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Also the guy that runs pitchbot was close with that nut Steven Thrasher and together they essentially pushed soft vax narratives from the left that helped undermine our public health institutions that are getting destroyed for reals and likely forever now.
aug 29, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 0 • view