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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.
fax machine
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.