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Judd Legum Profile picture
@JuddLegum
Aug 6, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1. You may be wondering WTF is happening at the New York Times.

Let me explain in plain English.
2. Google and Facebook are destroying the journalism industry. The legacy publications that have survived are under pressure to appeal to the widest possible audience.

When the NYT plays "both sides," it's not about journalism. It's about the business model.
3. The NYT does some amazing journalism but, in a lot of cases, it's poorly positioned to challenge people in power. It needs ACCESS to powerful people for its reporting. And it needs to be a comfortable place for powerful corporations to advertise.
4. The NYT times is happy to suck up your anti-Trump dollars with these "truth" t-shirts. But, as any Times reporter will tell you, they do not oppose Trump. It's a scam perpetrated by their marketing department.
5. Unfortunately, journalism that is aligned with power, rather than opposed to it, is becoming the norm. Local independent outlets are being bought up by huge corporations. Coverage is being neutered and homogenized.

usatoday.com/story/money/20…
6. If you are looking for an alternative model that is focused on taking on power, check out my newsletter, Popular Information. Our scoops come from primary source documents and ordinary people.

No ads, no wealthy donors, no BS.

You can subscribe at popular.info

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Nov 6
1. JD Vance dismissed Tuesday's election as “a couple of elections in blue states”

But there were contests nationwide, including in purple & red states

And voters everywhere rejected the MAGA agenda

Let's review

popular.info/p/six-election…
2. In Bucks County — Pennsylvania’s largest swing county, which Trump narrowly won in 2024 — Democrat Danny Ceisler was elected county sheriff after the Republican incumbent signed a deal to collaborate with ICE earlier this year.
3. In Texas’s third-largest school district, progressives won all three open board seats, giving them a 4-3 majority.

Over the last year, the incumbent board removed textbook chapters on vaccines, COVID and climate change, banned library books, and fired half of the librarians.
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Oct 27
1. Last week, there were 3 Trump corruption scandals in 4 days that would define any other presidency.

Most people are probably not even AWARE of all three scandals.

🧵

popular.info/p/3-scandals-i…
2. On Thursday, Trump pardoned Binance’s founder, CZ, who pled guilty in November 2023 to willfully violating anti-money laundering laws

CZ's actions “allowed money to flow to terrorists, cybercriminals, and child abusers” through Binance.
3. Trump's pardon for CZ came after Binance structured a $2 billion investment with USD1, a Trump-backed cryptocurrency.

The transaction is expected to result in tens of millions of annual profits for Trump and his family.
Read 8 tweets
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Oct 25
1. Here are some facts about the guy, Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million so Trump could pay the troops during the government shutdown.

🧵

popular.info/p/the-reclusiv…
2. In his self-published 2015 autobiography, Mellon writes that Black people have become "even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations" after social safety net programs were expanded in the 1960s and 1970s.
3. Mellon derided programs intended to lift people out of poverty as "Slavery Redux." Mellon claimed that in exchange for "delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cell phones, WIC payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on"
Read 6 tweets
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Oct 22
1. The Trump administration quietly DOUBLED the bailout of Argentina from $20 BILLION to $40 BILLION

Here is what is really happening

popular.info/p/update-taxpa…
2. The first $20 billion of the bailout is straightforward. The US is sending $20 billion to the central bank of Argentina in exchange for Argentine Pesos. This part of the bailout is not working out well. The Argentine Peso hit a record low yesterday. Image
3. But Bessent also announced a SECOND $20 billion bailout financed by PRIVATE BANKS. This never made any sense. Banks have not lent money to Argentina for years because it is one of the most heavily indebted nations in the world.
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Oct 20
1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information.

Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levelsImage
2. New spending in the small arms category from January 20, 2025 through October 18, totaled $71,515,762. The money was spent on guns, armor, chemical weapons, and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.”

popular.info/p/ice-boosts-w…
3. On September 29, 2025, ICE made a $9,098,590 purchase from Geissele Automatics, which sells semi-automatic and automatic rifles. The total spending by ICE in the small arms category between January 20 and October 18, 2024, was $9,715,843.
Read 6 tweets
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Oct 14
1. In 2022, Jeff Bezos promised to give away the majority of his wealth during his lifetime.

It is not going well.

Since making the pledge, his net worth has almost doubled to $240 billion.

Meanwhile, he has given less than $5 billion to charity.
2. Most of Bezos' charitable giving has gone to the Bezos Earth Fund. But the org has a reputation less as a vehicle for the corporate infiltration of the climate groups.

oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/jeff-bezos-c…
3. The Bezos Earth Fund reportedly pressured a leading environmental standards group, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), to relax its rules around letting corporations use offsets to meet carbon goals.
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