I wonder if BT blocks VPS IP ranges. I bet that’s it.

Could be. Generally my policy on RSS feeds is that if someone wants to make it difficult to pick up their RSS feed then I don’t post from their RSS feed I guess.

NYT has a long history of doing just that. Post 9/11 they were the primary pusher of the fake WMD story.

I wouldn’t say the primary. Pretty much the whole of American media was pushing it, it was back in the pre-internet-news days (or right on the inflection point) so the antiwar perspective was really this sort of secret thing in the media that never got talked about, in a way they could never get away with today.

In the NYT, it wasn’t entirely pro-war but there were a couple of people like Judith Miller and Thomas Friedman that were really pushing it. I remember having some arguments back then because people I respected were reading the NYT and getting sucked in by those arguments… NYT was always pro-American Empire, “Manufacturing Consent” which you mentioned actually went into a massive history of it as regards places like Nicaragua and Israel going way, way back. I actually think the place I picked up “The Newspaper of Record” to use in the community description was from Chomsky incessantly using that terminology sarcastically in his writing. But anyway they were usually biased, but the Iraq War was weird because a couple of their columnists went off into total factual fantasy-land instead of just presenting a biased view using clever code-words and framings as people usually did. But yeah, for the Iraq War they were doing open fantasy-land propaganda similar to what they’re doing now for Israel. It is sad.

It makes you wonder what else are they are covering for and what other stories you’re not hearing.

I mean if you become aware of something I should be publishing that I am not, let me know. I think it’s a pretty broad range at this point. I’m not in favor of countering pro-Empire lies with anti-Empire lies, I would much rather focus on a broad range, kick out anyone who shows themselves to be clearly comfortable with lying, and then the chips fall where they may in terms of whose narrative gets helped along by the end product. That seems to me like a fair and decent way to do it.

Also, I’m not sure what might be happening but not a single thread from the sub has synchronized with ml. Same with lefty stacks. Hard to know on whose end the issue is manifesting. At least my comments seem to sync.

Hm. I dug around for way too long in the DB, and my tentative conclusion is that maybe all the posts it had to make finished in a little batch 6 hours ago and so you’re not getting anything because there hasn’t been anything nothing new to send since you subscribed. I upvoted a couple of the posts, so maybe the upvote federating out should mean you get a couple of posts?

If you don’t, then I have no idea, but maybe wait a day or two and see if it suddenly kicks in or something.