A lot of people angry and outraged about the jerks attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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#Via Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
9:43 AM · Apr 26, 2026"About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner ..
Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN:
'This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma.' "
@_L1vY_ @MacFarlaneNews Real journalists are in mortal danger. I couldn't care less that Nazi bootlickers had their dinner interrupted.
Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths - Committee to Protect Journalists
Key findings Introduction At a time when armed conflict has reached historic levels around the world, journalist killings also reached an all-time high primarily due to the actions of one government: Israel was responsible for two-thirds of all journalist and media worker killings in 2025, driving the total number killed worldwide last year to a...
Committee to Protect Journalists (cpj.org)
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@nini Especially given his abysmal "ratings" lately due to the economy and the war.
@L1vY@mstdn.social If even his most ardent fans are calling this staged then I'm not sure what happens next but I feel it won't be good.
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#Via Noah Frank / noahafrank
9:09 PM · Apr 25, 2026"If this was, in fact, an active shooter situation, treating it like a minor inconvenience so you can go back to your fancy dinner is the most end-stage American capitalism display I could possibly imagine."
@_L1vY_ Having seen Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, I am prepared for the dining to continue unabated.
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#Via Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
9:43 AM · Apr 26, 2026"About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner ..
Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN:
'This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma.' "
#Via Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
12:46 PM · Apr 26, 2026"The man arrested with guns at the White House reporters dinner got nowhere near Trump.
My latest reporting:"
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@_L1vY_ Why is it not a good thing? Stinky and his mafia need to know no one is buying their bullshit.
@RIJim Because it means we are in a widespread post-truth crisis. A fascist atmosphere of "nothing is true therefore nothing matters" AKA the Zone of Shit.
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I also think it's interesting that no one seems to care.
Another day with the champagne still sitting in the fridge
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@_L1vY_ they are using this as a justification and need for the WH ballroom.
@JoBlakely Yes, I just haven't had a chance yet to do another thread on that whole massive ridiculous arc
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I was shocked to see so many people there...
@mattmaison I was not surprised but still disappointed and disgusted
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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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