I do think it's a fair question to ask what the effect might have been if major media including the NYT had used the word lie from the very beginning and treated the lies as major events. You can say, "Oh, we'd all be numb." But are we any less numb because euphemisms were deployed?

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The scariest Halloween costume I’ve seen this year? A 3.7% inflation rate dressed up as a 3% pay rise. With @svaneksmith.bsky.social https://youtu.be/X9jJXhBirT0

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Dehm was recruited by the Stasi in the early 1970s to betray Wolf Biermann and other dissidents so is the ideal figure to coordinate actions between pro-Russia tankies and pro-Russian fascists

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What a ride this film is! I'm more excited than ever to chat with @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social next Tuesday at 9 am Pacific/Noon Eastern, right here on the AT Protocol: stream.place/niedermeyer.online

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Well, while The Zach now holds the record for shortest tenure,the 11 days of chaos that was the original Scaramucci really belongs in the HOF.

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