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Dan Mitchell
Dan Mitchell
@danmitchell.bsky.social
Reporter based in Oakland. An American, Chicago-born. Here, documenting the mainstream news media's catastrophic dysfunction and total failure to meet the moment.
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“I mean, ‘Iraq,’ am I right? Is it eye-rack? Eye-rock? Eee-rock? It’s all very confusing to me and so we must bomb all of those countries out of existence. “What’s that? No, I think Central Asia is fine. Nothing difficult about ‘Kyrgyzstan.’l
JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"
Another, possibly bigger thing that makes so many of us feel discombobulated: people we always assumed were pretty smart are in fact also morons (at least when it comes to public issues and discourse). Look at the ranks of fingerdragging droolers in the opinion pages. And think about who hired them.
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I wonder where this came from. It could easily be just another of his weird, senseless hobbyhorses that formed in his jacked-up brain, but it's so particular that I suspect someone might have said it to him. For what reason, I have no idea.
Trump: "We will be officially BANNING the term, 'AI/Artificial Intelligence,' in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
Seems elementary. And yet.
Reporters who have access to people like Vance, I beg you: The necessary follow-up is "That's a pretty serious charge. Can you give us A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE of El-Sayed expressing 'anti-white racial bigotry'?" Asking for specifics from people like him is a magic accountability tool. Use it!
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I enjoyed all the people who were making fun of the many job-havers who said they'd never heard of these people. One guy said he was amazed that journalists were unfamiliar because they're supposed to be up on "culture," so not being familiar was a professional failing. They make "reaction videos."
For those just joining us, a (bafflingly) popular youtuber was found to be cheating on his wife. The internet has decided that an intern on his show was his mistress and is combing through clips finding "evidence" that she is a calculated stalker and malicious homewrecker.
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I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM
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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social
The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.
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We all remember when he said "brother Trump" was "an authentic human being," right?
“The nonprofit that helped get Cornel West on presidential ballots in 2024 received all of its funding that year through a conservative political network that has been bankrolled by Elon Musk, tax records reviewed by Sludge show.” 10/27/26 … 1/ share.google/s1Keh9Qx6ZDV...
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“The nonprofit that helped get Cornel West on presidential ballots in 2024 received all of its funding that year through a conservative political network that has been bankrolled by Elon Musk, tax records reviewed by Sludge show.” 10/27/26 … 1/ share.google/s1Keh9Qx6ZDV...
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That El-Sayed “Tommy” video might gave made the campaign. I bet many racist-lite people in the suburbs saw that and thought, “he kind of comes across as a regular white guy,” and saw how reasonable he was. He was polite, but absolutely gelded Tommy. It was perfect.
Michigan Polling: Senate: 🔵 El-Sayed: 51% 🔴 Rogers: 45% Governor: 🔵 Benson: 52% 🔴 James: 45% Glengariff / Oct 22, 2026
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House Democrats are publishing their own news now. This is precisely the kind of thing that, 10 years ago, they would have taken straight to the NYT. I guess they didn’t want it watered down and bothsides.
NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.
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In comments at a private police conference, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said backlash to the company wasn't "real" and the work of "bots." Also he said his wife advised him to never apologize. Read now: www.404media.co/in-leaked-au...
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Thomas, Alito, and lord knows how many other of the wetbrained justices when this gets there, "Yes, they are. "
Judge: “Can the president then offer on eBay to sell [official presidential papers], all of our national security secrets to the highest bidder?” Trump's DOJ: “they’re his property." (They're not)