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Found this on another thread. If it's real it shows that the OPM memo (and a few others) was composed by folks from Heritage Foundation/Project 2025. They didn't scrub the fucking meta data off the PDFs before sending them out. Sources and archived copies of the docs linked from this article. https://www.citationneeded.news/trumps-project-2025-ghostwriters/
WaPo didn't have the metadata stuff. God fuck o'mighty - legacy media is fucking awful. And thank god for Citations Needed.
This is not Citations Needed but rather Citation Needed, a newsletter by someone named Molly White. Two different things. There is also another podcast, unrelated to either of these, called Citation Needed. It's a popular name.
Thankyou
Yhep. Just found her (Citation Needed) on bluesky Molly White
The more I think about it - the more it's staggering that nobody at WaPo thought to examine the PDF for any clue possible. Looking for metadata is the most basic possible. Why didn't a single person at WaPo think of that? It's easy to overlook stuff. I do so more than the average person. But who has opposable thumbs and can operate a phone and use email? Me! If I was a reporter and I had a PDF (or any technical issue) - I'd ask somebody I know (or use a throwaway account at Reddit) to remind me of all the basic things I was overlooking.
Sad.
Mainstream journos suck. They're getting corpobashed and competing with chatbots now so that's part of why they don't have their wits about them I guess. The good ones have all gone indie or reader-supported over the past half decade. I only started "doing" social media of any kind right around lockdowns and found the mElon site before he bought it and ended up following a ton of bleeding edge writers blasting stories realtime. Most of them have migrated to bluesky which is good. I wish more of them had given Mastodon a chance tho.
Most of them are also the most gullible libs one can imagine. They have to be, to want to be journalists for those papers.
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In my mind's eye I saw each member of Trump's inner circle of top guys finding a lightsaber. And each of them kills themselves a slightly different way by slicing off large chunks of their bodies when they turn them on. I wanted to make a "The Force" joke but the wacky part of my brain took control and my joke went in a different direction.