The next post will have the whole unrolled thread (from Twitter) Quick summary: Trump was in business with John Rosatti and John Staluppi in the 1980s, just before the Colombo family exploded in a civil war. All three decamped for Palm Beach, where Cannon's husband worked for Rosatti 2011-2014. 2/

Trump's Mafia connections are back in the news: he posted a veiled threat to two judges using his tie to Gambino family murderer Sammy "The Bull" Gravino. The only judge in a Trump case not threatened is Aileen Cannon - whose husband worked for Trump's Colombo family mobster pal John Rosatti. 🧵 1/

Although to criticize just for a while: Even as a non-US, I think I have quite an understanding of the media landscape there and if I was in a position to get a job at the NYT but wanted to do actual journalism, I'd go where there is actual journalism done. Like www.propublica.org

Investigative Journalism and News in the Public Interest

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

The NYT is a billionaire-facilitator machine and I wonder how they still attract so many young, gullible and impressionnable writers that truly, genuinely think they will be able to reform what has been going wrong for what... three decades at least now ???

The free market of ideas does mean people can curate the ideas they receive to their liking. But billionaires can use their resources to force their curation on everybody else.

At this very moment Elon Musk is working with state AGs to encourage criminal investigations into Media Matters, which he's also suing for defamation, because they accurately reported that X shows advertisements alongside bigoted content. Musk quite obviously hates the "free market of ideas"!

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Oh, NYT. Elon Musk does NOT “think a free market of ideas will self-correct.” He thinks he can manipulate the market of ideas, relying on major players in that market—like you!—to uncritically repeat his transparent BS about in free speech. Do you want it to work, or are you just that easy a mark?

Memory lane in chicken and waffles from the camera roll. #endofyear#comfortfood#newyearseve

Two things that are simultaneously true: (1) I have big plans for 2024. I’m excited. It’s gonna be a good year. (2) Christ. A full year of resurgent Trump and Trumpism. The real, looming possibility that electoral democracy ends in the dumbest possible way. 2024 is gonna be a mess.

I'd love to see a quantitative paper that attempts to assess indices of the corruption of university values and their relation to international student fees and rich alumni donation power.

Two businessmen accused of corruption in separate high-profile cases -- Colombian Alex Saab and Malaysian "Fat" Leonard Francis -- were involved in a broad prisoner swap today between the US and Venezuela, the White House said