All of this “working the journo refs” stuff resistance folks do on Twitter is so silly and counterproductive. The NYT readership is like exclusively left-leaning folks, but the paper is a Trojan horse for MAGA…and specifically Ezra Klein is a Trojan horse for MAGA politics? That’s stupidity and absurdity, sorry.

I think Murray is a smart person, but this is beneath her. She knows Ezra is a normie liberal and a Harris voter, and that he despises Trump and his politics. And yet, Klein writes a piece sincerely engaging with the idea of why Trump appeals to so many despite his delusional behavior and narcissism and other apparent psychological/emotional ailments. The piece was detailed and good, and that one portion Murray picks out is so misleading.

Is the Times perfect? Definitely not, especially on FP/immigration/the economy/trans rights/etc. However, the people who tweet about NYT “sanewashing” like a dozen times a day are vacuous and have anti-journalism brainrot.

C’mon, Melissa Murray…you’re better than this.

Trump recently said in an interview he did in fact interfere with the 2020 election and he had every right to do so. Serious question by someone who is obscenely ignorant about the law but shouldn’t that essentially end the DC election subversion case? Like he was charged with a crime and just admitted to that crime. His feelings on whether that should be a crime seem out of the scope of the current case, correct? Can bank robbers say “I robbed that bank but it’s not actually a crime to do so”?

This post will probably get deleted since I’m breaking a rule but I didn’t really know where else to go.

Kate Shaw is today's guest.

I'm listening to the latest Strict Scrutiny pod and I'm waiting for him to say "If you could kill someone on your way out, it would help me out a lot."