A lot of people angry and outraged about the jerks attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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#Via Andrew Weinstein / andrewjweinstein
5:33 PM · Apr 25, 2026"You cannot claim to be the watchdogs of democracy while sharing champagne and hors d'oeuvres with the very people trying to dismantle it."
@_L1vY_ Never confuse lapdogs begging for scraps with watchdogs prepared to take a presidency down if that’s where the story leads.
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@_L1vY_ Never confuse lapdogs begging for scraps with watchdogs prepared to take a presidency down if that’s where the story leads.
@raganwald There were pool reporters COVERING the event, but there did NOT need to be reporters attending as guests, gushing and fawning and lending credibility (while posting puff pieces and apologetics). This was not early Woodward-and-Bernstein dynamics.
Someone pointed out this event was set up most like the ending scene in Cabaret and that looks about right.
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@raganwald There were pool reporters COVERING the event, but there did NOT need to be reporters attending as guests, gushing and fawning and lending credibility (while posting puff pieces and apologetics). This was not early Woodward-and-Bernstein dynamics.
Someone pointed out this event was set up most like the ending scene in Cabaret and that looks about right.
@_L1vY_ CW: Business journalists and PR flacks identify with CEOs, not with customers. Political journalists and PR flacks identify with politicians, not with citizens.
And do it goes with tech journalists, automotive journalists, and so many other industry journalists who identify with the subjects of their coverage, not their readers.
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"Suspect, 31, Apprehended in White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting"
Suspect, 31, Apprehended in White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting
The president referred to him as a “whack job.”
The Daily Beast (www.thedailybeast.com)
#Via Noam Law / noamlaw
12:49 PM · Apr 26, 2026"release the manifesto, you cowards
oh wait the NYP already did"
Exclusive | Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner suspect Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto
In the 1,052-word missive obtained by The Post Sunday morning outlined Allen's "rules of engagement" for the shooting and stated he believed it was his...
New York Post (nypost.com)
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@_L1vY_ CW: Business journalists and PR flacks identify with CEOs, not with customers. Political journalists and PR flacks identify with politicians, not with citizens.
And do it goes with tech journalists, automotive journalists, and so many other industry journalists who identify with the subjects of their coverage, not their readers.
@raganwald Just as Hunter S. Thompson warned
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#Via Noam Law / noamlaw
12:49 PM · Apr 26, 2026"release the manifesto, you cowards
oh wait the NYP already did"
Exclusive | Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner suspect Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto
In the 1,052-word missive obtained by The Post Sunday morning outlined Allen's "rules of engagement" for the shooting and stated he believed it was his...
New York Post (nypost.com)
I wonder why NOT Patel?
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@mattmaison I was not surprised but still disappointed and disgusted
Yeah, disappointed is a better word for it.
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#Via Noam Law / noamlaw
12:49 PM · Apr 26, 2026"release the manifesto, you cowards
oh wait the NYP already did"
Exclusive | Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner suspect Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto
In the 1,052-word missive obtained by The Post Sunday morning outlined Allen's "rules of engagement" for the shooting and stated he believed it was his...
New York Post (nypost.com)
#Via Dan Mielcarz
@mielcarz
3:06 PM · Apr 26, 2026"Instead of relying on a count of the alleged shooter's likes and reposts, you can just browse his profile here. Seems like a pretty typical Bluesky poster. Nothing he reposted from any of the listed accounts in the skeet going around is a call for political violence."
c👁ldF👁rce (@coldforce.bsky.social)
Hi! I'm a random Californian guy with posts about American politics, support for Ukraine, and observations of small creatures. "I choose my own battlefields. Not through my blood, but with my heart. I stand on the battlefield to protect what I want."
Bluesky Social (web.archive.org)
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I wonder why NOT Patel?
@Bette @L1vY@mstdn.social I mean... have you seen him? He's got enough going on.
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Another day with the champagne still sitting in the fridge
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I wonder why NOT Patel?
@Bette
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@Bette
I think Patel's getting the "ain't shit" treatmentAh, that makes sense!
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#Via Jessica Ellis
@baddestmamajama
11:25 PM · Apr 25, 2026"If you get traumatized while voluntarily attending a leisure event run by Nazis a possible downside is a lack of sympathy."
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