i love that this whole thing spiraled because he editorialized with that parenthetical, and then spent the resulting fallout acting as if he was being misattributed to some quote... when the parenthetical is what pissed everyone off.

y'know. the "context" that he felt the need to include.

March 31, 2026 - 21:17 UTC

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the main downside of social media is that I can't hand a draft back to someone marked up in red pen with a circle around a phrase and scribbling "ambig" in the margins
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Not an editorial, just paraphrasing the dumb logic of the far-right court.

His sin was not saying that logic was insanely dumb.
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wow if that was actually his intent then he probably should've used his Do Journalism Better Words to clarify that intent instead of *gestures wildly at his immediately-followed dogshit decisions*
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