Randall Patnode

To report credulously on such nonsense is journalistic malpractice. Stop it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/u...

The problem with reporting "$5 billion" is many readers will think the matter is a serious one. It's not. Trump might as well have declared "a bazillion dollars," like an 8 year old. The "threat" is just a way the old man showing his cranky pants. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

This reflecting pool thing is getting out of hand.

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

NEW from me: News headlines adopted Trump’s deceptive framing of his new $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund presswatchers.org/2026/05/news...

8 children shot dead in Louisiana is lead story in the Guardian's U.S. edition at this moment. The NYT stashes the story a long scroll down under "More news" and leads with more "Trump sez." They just can't quit this bad boyfriend.

Joke/no joke. .. “If it doesn’t happen, I’m blaming JD Vance,” Mr. Trump said to laughter of Mr. Vance trying to secure a deal at an Easter lunch earlier this month. “If it does happen, I’m taking full credit.”

That‘s the headline: “Donald Trump telegraphs war crimes in profanity-filled Easter Sunday Iran threat” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

The ultimate in NYT credulity-granting. They actually felt compelled to interview a physicist about this. Putting The Onion out of business.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... "We spoke with three young women about the appeal of the MAHA ethos and how it has changed their daily lives." No misrepresentative influencer trend is beyond the interest of the mighty Times.

...and, apparently, no fad too banal for the NYT to write about.

Imagine that everything he promised his base turning out to be a lie. Shocking. Just shocking.

Attempting to win while losing. Trump gives more money to ICE grifter in the form of a do-nothing job.

😡😡😡😡

Who decided it was OK for Finland and USA to wear same color uniforms???

So much bad stuff happens that news outlets have to distinguish the new bad stuff from the previously reported bad stuff.

These boat strike stories are down to 5 paragraphs in NYT, and likely unremarked on in other news. How do we allow our government to execute people without proving they deserve to die? SCOTUS has held that dealing drugs is insufficient a crime for the death penalty. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Now We Know What All Those People Got From Epstein www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o... What we see is how these apostles of meritocracy leverage their status for advantage. And their loyalty can be bought for the price of underwear.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

This is ok tho

Shocking!

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Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

It's easy for news outlets to adopt the catchphrases of political actors, but doing so normalizes them without critique. To think that there is an overarching philosophy or doctrine behind Trump's actions is absurd. He's little more than a baby crying to be fed.

President Goodbrain can't remember what he said five days ago.

Humanity’s principal conflict at this moment in history is not GOP v Dems or despots v democrats but rather the rich v everyone else.

All Kimberley-Clark needs to do is send Trump $16 million and he'll stop talking smack about Tylenol. In fact, he'll probably call it a miracle drug, on par with Ivermectin.

Would be a shame that we spent 250 years building the greatest country on earth only to have a petulant child destroy it because somebody was mean to him.

This frames the issue as political strategy -- a game to win or lose --- but it's really about power and whether Trump sending National Guard is legal. Headline writers take note.

No point in repeating this claim unless you back it up with, “How so?”

I do wish newsfolk would stop calling it the "art of the deal" and just say what it is: extortion.

This is how "Team Meritocracy" wants the world to operate: "Hire my buddy's kid!" DEI for the rich.

Whether you support DEI or not, the caving of private companies is among the greatest collective acts of cowardice in recent times. Especially galling when media companies, like Gannett, which should defend free speech, self-censor out of self-interest. www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/gann...

Mr. President, what are five things you did this week to further democracy?

I honestly wonder how much creativity is lost in having to constantly authenticate and locate particular tools in so-called "productivity" suites (I'm talking about you, Microsoft).

How can it possibly require six grown men to talk about highlights during halftime?

What if a social media platform were owned by a billionaire head of a country who was using his platform to propagandize the platform's users in support of his plan to use military force to invade other countries. Would we also make a law to force divestment?

Completed the peaceful transition of power from "there" to here.

From here on I plan to pay only 1/3 of my financial obligations, citing the New York appeals court.

All part of the free media that news media have been giving Trump for the last decade. The above-the-fold coverage suggests that these are serious thoughts of a serious person. You should make him buy ads. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/u...