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Legalized Press-titution – THE MIAMI HERALD
It appears there is no other news taking place in South Florida…
As most are aware, the media have been rather incensed at the concept of Alligator Alcatraz. Also about its operations, the use of it, and basically anything at all to do with the facility. None, however, can claim to be as laser-focused on Gator Gitmo than the local outlet, the Miami Herald.
Now, this might appear to be an extreme amount of coverage, but something to consider: the first announcements about this facility were only made in the closing days of June. So, to see articles numbering in the hundreds after less than a month has to be considered crossing over to the realm of being unhealthy.
I don't want to suggest that the @MiamiHerald is borderline obsessed with Alligator Alcatraz.
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) July 16, 2025
Instead I'll show you.
In under one month's time since it had been announced in late June, the paper has covered the facility in 200 reports. pic.twitter.com/PyAD4klcXu
Democratic Custodial Services – THE NEW YORK TIMES
Well, for once, we see a paper that is NOT turning to an expert for an opinion.
We grasp that there is a desire to promote as much anti-Trump content in the press as they can find. But honestly, when you want to turn your paper over to someone critical of the operations of the current administration, maybe check on that individual’s personal work history first.
For an op-ed, The Times allowed former DHS assistant secretary for border immigration policy, Blas Nuñez-Neto, to have his share of column space, and he used that to deliver a lecture on (seriously, we are not kidding) proper management of the immigration system.
After allowing record numbers of illegals to stream across the border, unchecked and unverified, as well as losing track of hundreds of thousands of minors who came across, and permitting countless severe criminals to roam the country unaccounted for, maybe you are among the last people in a position to deliver any advice on the topic.
It was for this reason that Mr. Nuñez-Neto was roundly mocked by the account run by DHS.
“I was Humpty Dumpty. Here’s how to sit on a wall.” pic.twitter.com/jLEqar4ke9
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 15, 2025
DNC PR Firm – POLITICO
Here is one journo who can retire from the practice of political prognostication.
Ben Jacobs might be an astute writer, but when it comes to covering elections, he might want to bow out. In his reports on the special election in Arizona, Jacobs seemed effusive that Deja Foxx had a sweet chance of winning the Democratic primary in a bid for Congress. Foxx had been endorsed by deposed DNC Deputy Chairman David Hogg, and her influencer status was said to be a linchpin to her having strong chances of winning. “The next trend on TikTok: heading to Capitol Hill,” gushed Jacobs.
In the Tuesday election, she was bounced harder than an account violating a platform’s standards, losing in her election by 40 points!
A 25-year-old political influencer has a real shot at Congress. She won’t be the last. https://t.co/o9zPs2AL27
— POLITICO (@politico) July 15, 2025
Pulitzer Prize Nomination – NEW YORK POST
It would be fitting if this writer landed in the #2 position with voters.
You could have stopped the moment you came across the name Kardashian. Make that “should have” – you SHOULD have stopped. Instead, we get this personal TMI feature that is centered on one of the influencer family’s kids hawking her own line of laxatives. Frankly, what writer would not feel a level of shame in covering their own fecal stagnation trials, and the relief experienced after using a product provided by a Kardashian?! Well, Barret Wertz is such a writer.
We could have done without Barret detailing how he was helped in the process to defecate, using Kourtney Kardashian Barker’s gut-friendly go-poo-poo gummies. And we also could have done without the photo of her promoting her line of luxury laxatives by lounging on a loo.
Kourtney Kardashian helped me poop — I was skeptical but following her worked liked a charm https://t.co/iSyBxIENac pic.twitter.com/LNRH5rGCoR
— New York Post (@nypost) July 14, 2025
BlueAnon – THE NEW YORK TIMES
When you make yourself the central character, your editorial is actually fan fiction.
In what has to be the prime example of “Main Character Syndrome,” Linda Greenhouse delivers an insufferable account of what she experienced recently on the streets of New York. It sent her into a state of emotional spiraling, where she had to wrestle with internal conflicts on how she should comport herself when faced with a potential conflict. This was all reflective of the vile nature of this country currently and how this environment had cast her into this condition, one that she described as going through “mental triage.”
What Ms. Greenhouse experienced was this: While out walking, she saw an airport limousine pull up to a stop on her block.
Apparently, her inability to discern that this was a ride commissioned for a traveler meant that the appearance of a solitary black SUV meant it could have been an ICE raid about to play out. The manner in which she managed to make this non-crisis all about herself is a masterstroke in self-centered punditry.
—-> We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty https://t.co/1cx7x0NwIe via @NYTOpinion
— Susan Arbetter (@sarbetter) July 16, 2025
