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AStern

(696 posts) Sat Jan 10, 2026, 08:58 PM Yesterday

Centrist Pundits both-sidesing ICE murder

David Brooks "everyone is too blinded by ideology to see the truth of what the video shows"

This is insane. Brooks says everyone is too blinded by ideology to see the truth of what the video shows. Then the host asks him what it shows and he refuses to answer.

â€œLeft and right are equally to blame for everything all the timeâ€ is also an ideology!
— Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T23:02:29.534Z

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Thank you TCW for this instant classic of Harperâ€™s Letter sophistry, explaining that the categories "right" & "left" are unhelpful in understanding a campaign of kidnappings & assassinations undertaken by an ultra-right wing secret police force at the behest of an ultra-right wing political regime
— Jody Rosen (@jodyrosen.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T17:35:20.418Z

Caitlin Flanagan

Noting for the record that Thomas Chatterton Williams is not out on a limb on this one. In the University of Austin faculty lounge, it's all aboard the both-sides express
— Jody Rosen (@jodyrosen.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T18:54:37.648Z

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Centrist Pundits both-sidesing ICE murder (Original Post) AStern Yesterday OP

There's a reason Driftglass and Bluegal... regnaD kciN 23 hrs ago #1

Brook needs the Epstein files to go away every bit as much as Trump Johonny 23 hrs ago #2

Yeah hard to take him seriously now fujiyamasan 20 hrs ago #3

regnaD kciN

(27,477 posts)

1. There's a reason Driftglass and Bluegal...

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Sat Jan 10, 2026, 09:04 PM

23 hrs ago

…call him “David Fucking Brooks.”

Johonny

(25,506 posts)

2. Brook needs the Epstein files to go away every bit as much as Trump

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Sat Jan 10, 2026, 09:11 PM

23 hrs ago

so not expected.

I see an officer(s) not following procedure and a death resulting. Had ICE not been flood into the city without any obvious need, that woman would still be alive and that officer would not have killed anyone. This is all about Trump's really bad policy and inept leadership.

This is not what we paid billions for.

fujiyamasan

(1,234 posts)

3. Yeah hard to take him seriously now

Reply to Johonny (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 11, 2026, 12:48 AM

20 hrs ago

He was against releasing the Epstein files to protect his own ass.

If the New York Times had integrity they would have fired him.

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