The way the media spins stories like this is “look how the dogged cops cleared this terrible quadruple-murder 34 years later” and not “oh by the way they totally accused and convicted the wrong guys before, oops lol” [www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/27/robert-eugene-brashers-yogurt-shop-murders/ ) [DNA testing links dead man to ...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/27/robert-eugene-brashers-yogurt-shop-murders/ )

I predict a troll two-step: this dipshit writes the column and then all the conservative outlets will run the next one bewailing how unfairly the column was treated and how the readings of it were in bad faith. RE:

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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)

I think the only surprise here is how quickly this is happening this openly. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/business/media/daily-caller-opini...

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Is DoJ‘s theory in the two counts of the indictment is that Comey lied to Congress when he said he had not “authorized someone else in the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports” about the Russia investigation of Trump, when in fact he authorized McCabe to do it? That’s a very hard case. /1

One of the things we’ll talk about is the extremely unusual case of vindictive prosecution this raises. Trump has made quite a record. RE:

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Don’t Have To Apologize For Being Popehat Anymore (@kenwhite.bsky.social)

Good thing we’re recording on Friday this week

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Good thing we’re recording on Friday this week

Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence. RE:

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Don’t Have To Apologize For Being Popehat Anymore (@kenwhite.bsky.social)

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

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If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian. https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p&cid=bafkreicd5nn4tx64tvy7hhwdxkkwfsenaj7gxhxxy5rwtydqbrsw3gv7zu

Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better. [reads any New York Times focus group] Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.