[2026-07-09] @DropSiteNews@twitter.com:
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🚨NEW: Drop Site journalist Ryan Grim has authenticated behind-the-scenes messages showing Politico omitted an important detail from its reporting on how the night began that led to the rape allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.
Before publication, a Politico reporter told the Platner campaign that Jenny Racicot, on the night in question, had been “texting [Platner] about needing her glute massaged.” The reporter added, “That detail didn’t make our story.”
Racicot told Jake Tapper during her CNN interview that Platner had “taken something that I said as an invitation” before she subsequently texted him not to come over. Tapper did not follow up to ask what the content of the message was, and did not respond to a request for comment from Drop Site. Politico, in a statement to Drop Site, did not dispute that the outlet was aware of the “glute masssage” text, and said that it would update its reporting if further information arose.
According to a spokesperson: “This story is based on extensive reporting and interviews and reflects our editorial standards. In interviews with us and in accounts she gave to other outlets, Jenny Racicot said that she told Graham Platner not to come to her home and that he nevertheless showed up there uninvited. POLITICO gave Platner and his campaign ample opportunity to respond to our reporting and to provide any information or documentation they believed contradicted it. If presented with information that materially challenges our reporting, we will report it.”
Platner is expected to drop out today.
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It keeps happening.
Ryan Grim is Jeremy Scahill’s assigned CIA handler
care to explain this cryptic comment?
At the start of the Iran war with the Central Israel Agency backed terrorists Ryan Grim on Breaking Points and Dropsite published a few articles about how Zionist backed terrorists are based actually and Iran is a regime.
Jeremy Scahill is extremely different in intonation and always explains the situation from a more truth-centric point of view (which Liberals would call pro-Iran.
Jeremy also does a great job in directly speaking to leaders from the resistance like Hamas and representing their point of view.
Ryan does apologia for people like Platner but Jeremy has basically the opposite point of view. Jeremy is also on the ground doing journalism elsewhere while Ryan is in the US.
Dropsite is also publishing Ryan’s Breaking Points clips defending Nazi mass murderer Platner on their Twitter account
that’s what i suspected and very nice to hear on lemmy since the lemmygrad told me to fuck off when it tried telling them that breaking points people disseminate the us empire’s narratives.
I think you confused Breaking Points with Breakthrough News. I still frequently listen to Breaking Points as they often cover interesting subjects in geopolitics. For example they also do a great job for example on Pakistan and Imran Khan. And Jeremy Scahill even comes on sometimes for great interviews But Ryan Grim really has a blind spot for US Supremacism.
I happen to be terminally online enough to know that the Rania Khalek from Breakthrough Media also recently made a misser, I think it was that she celebrated Platner on Twitter solely because he posed as anti-Israel. In any case she’s from Lebanon not from China or the US so I’m pretty sure she just got swept up in the US-supremacist generated hype about him and just believed the endorsementss.
I don’t really deal in dismissing viewpoints anymore though. Just know what the blind spots of them are and they still have interesting news to read and listen to. Everyone is biased towards some things. Though some more than others.
grim is on both breakthrough and breaking points.
also, i agree on the biased based blind spots; but i have to take extra precaution about my new sources since i don’t have the political nor historical acumen that stereoptypes tankies that would let me recognize the newest empire’s narratives. the best that i can do until i develop that acumen is filter out news sources the repeat the narratives that are old or hot enough to be recognizable by a baby leftist like me and breaking points matches that criteria.
You’re right. That also explains why Rania Khalek randomly celebrated Platner which was a bit out of character.
I don’t think “experienced tankies” are doing much better. I got banned from Hexbear for calling out ChapoTrapHouse supporting Platner, and many people uncritically support influencers from that sphere as well. I’m terminally online enough at this point to know faults in every mainstream influencers. Including all the ones I watch myself.
videos like this one and this one; coupled w presumed leftist standard bearers with clearly poor understanding of leftism like piker and abughazaleh; as well as taking into account the revelation that the track-aipac founder is a us empire’s idf aligned mercenary makes me wonder about the viability of any socialist movement in the western world considering how easily and trivially it can be co-opted and/or captured by people pretending to be leftists.
it’s made me stop reading leftist theory since it feels like a collection of loosely idealogically aligned people who work against each other as much as they do w each other.
That’s fucking funny they still defend Chapo when their community was explicitly disavowed by CTH + Cum Town years ago. Throughout the interim they’ve insisted nobody is accountable for their views since they don’t actually pay attention to what they say & it’s just entertainment/“background noise”.
If anything they don’t even defend what they say & just insist their media connections are Normal™ as if the system isn’t designed to absorb semi-clueless people & turn them into cash cows like this.
They also pushed the Free Syria stuff & continue to act like nobody could have seen what was next coming. It’s a lot more insidious than being an open reactionary. Marx spent a lot of his time going after the heavyweight intellectual forerunners of these sterile electoral strategies & the deliberately elusive tactics they use to push them.
Really, it’s on me & everyone else in the Crank Community for never collecting all this information into a wiki. I plan on doing that, I think the tools I have are better than, say, the insane corkboard software I saw a friend of mine using to track this shit. He is a lot older though so he is a lot further ahead, just uninterested in doing anything with it other than his podcast. A digression, but hopefully you see my point about how the would-be critics & analysts of this stuff become sucked into the same ecosystem in the process of going from simply hoarding trivia to burning out & throwing it in the garbage. Very annoying! I cannot use it when it is in the garbage & I don’t fucking see it!!
i suspect that things like prolewiki and tankietube prove that the lack of information isn’t the source of the problem or atleast only part of the problem.
ProleWiki & TankieTube are just swell but they wouldn’t be a good place for concentrating this kind of information. You could make a channel for documentaries about it on TTube & link people there, I suppose. ProleWiki has some stuff on the compatible left but it would be strange place to have an article on Brace Belden & Christopher Helali, since it’s more of a haven away from the bullshit, & you really only need that kind of reference material once in a blue moon when they get in trouble online & you have a chance to disseminate the dirt.
I guess that explains why their Gaza and Iran coverage has been so good (since I started reading it anyway) and the other stuff has been so not.
Ryan Grim can do great reporting but he is extremely US supremacist. As long as the US isn’t the bad guy you can usually trust him.
It’s always good to be aware of a journalist’s biases. I’ll read his stuff the same way I do Ken Klippenstein’s, with a careful eye to his lib bullshit. (Klippenstein’s coverage of Platner was jaw-droppingly awful and now he apparently doesn’t feel the need to apologize because no one could have possibly known that he was a rapist from his “red flags.” Yikes.)
Ken Klippenstein is an amazing example. One day he’s exposing massive government scandals. The next day he’s apologising for a war criminal because they promise him free healthcare.
It makes you wonder how long he can continue like that and what it would take for the cognitive dissonance to finally snap in his head.
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