Newsdeskby Tangential PoliTiKing

Newsdesk · the newsroom behind
Tangential PoliTiKing, aka The TPK Show

The most over-engineered political newsroom ever built.

  • It reads every headline.
  • It remembers every word.
  • It hands you the video.
  • Journalism
  • Engineering
  • Design
  • AI
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The trailer

Two minutes. All real.

Every shot is the actual app, recorded straight from Newsdesk. It starts by itself, muted, once you scroll to it. Turn the sound on.

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New since the trailer

The trailer’s already out of date.

Newsdesk didn’t stop when the trailer did. Since then it learned to call his next move, read his temper (and the internet’s), run the newsroom TV and take a call from Ohio.

The build log

183 updates in the ten days after the trailer. Zero days off.

Point at a day to see what landed.Tap a day to see what landed.

Déjà vuA whole new tab

He’s done this before. Here’s every time.

Déjà vu reads every one of his 127,902 statements on the record since 2009, lines them up with elections, court dates, the markets and the news, and finds what he does again and again. Every pattern gets a score, with his own words each time as the receipts.

Then it bets on the next one. A prediction goes on the record with a date, and Newsdesk grades itself when the day comes.

  • 7 of 12elections, then the “rigged” talk. Three more, partly.
  • Nov 3Election Day, with a prediction filed in advance
  • Nov 18the day it checks its own work
  • Pattern wall
  • Called it
  • Test a hunch
  • Surprise me
  • What’s unusual
  • Forecast board
  • Signals since 2009
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Newsdesk’s chart of his posts calling an election rigged, lined up on every Election Day since 2012. After 2020’s, they climb to five a day.

Rage meterNow with two needles

Two needles. One very bad day.

Every day the rage meter scores his posts on ALL CAPS, exclamation marks, insults and what time he’s up posting, against his own last 60 days. The new needle reads the room: how much busier X got in the six hours after his three hottest posts.

Thursday, October 22, broke it.

his rage. Off the charts, a 60-day record.
10.0
posts in one day. He usually posts about 20.
114
of them called someone names. Usually 21%.
63%
busier on X in the six hours after his loudest post
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Oct 22Today’s brief · Rage meter
The rage meter for October 22: his needle swings to 10.0, off the charts, and the X needle to an uproar, over his day’s numbers.

Mission ControlFor the studio TV

The whole newsroom. On one screen.

Put it on a spare screen or the studio TV and it runs itself: his posts the minute they land, the Radar sweeping for stories, what’s trending, the rage meter, today’s brief and the countdown to the midterms.

Press C and everything private (the money, the comments, the team’s notes, the health checks) disappears, so it can sit right behind you in the shot.

  • FFull screen
  • COn camera
  • SpaceHold the tiles
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Mission Control on a TV: Truth Social, the Radar, Trends, the countdown, the rage meter, today’s brief, the midterms and his week, with headlines crawling along the bottom.

Dale’s voicePress play

Dale from Ohio is on line one.

Every video needs a skeptic. Dale calls in four times with the questions your viewers are already thinking, written right into the script.

Now he has a voice. Newsdesk voices his lines in seconds, the teleprompter plays each one on cue, and they land in Final Cut on a track of their own.

Dale’s voice is AI, made with fish.audio.

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“Look, I’m just a guy from Ohio. But you’re gonna have to show me on that one.”

X, everywhere

Now it reads X, too.

His account and a list of the people around him, from JD Vance to AOC, every two hours. Plus anyone he names, anyone who answers him, and whatever’s blowing up. Every post it buys is kept for good, so it never pays for the same one twice.

  • Their responseHe names someone. Newsdesk checks whether they fire back, and Radar speaks up when the answer takes off.
  • The X pulseTrends asks X what’s blowing up right now, with the posts driving it.
  • On X, on every storyA story’s Context tab shows who on X posted about it, the people you follow first.
  • Pile-on and Echo chamberRadar spots four people pushing the same line within hours, or his allies repeating him almost word for word.
  • Said it before, back to 2006What anyone said before about a story, from what’s saved or straight from X’s archive.
  • Whose posts?The topic river switches between him, his allies, the Democrats and everyone.
  • The WatchlistWatch a person and every post of theirs counts, plus anyone who answers him.
  • Their historyDéjà vu checks whether he follows someone’s lead: their spike on a topic, then his, days later.
  • One budget, never twiceOne daily X budget for all of it, and the bank is checked before X ever is.

And everything else since the trailer.

Making the video

  • A teleprompter that follows your voice, with your phone as the remote
  • Ten titles and four scored thumbnails, in one press
  • Receipt cards, straight from the script
  • A moving TPK studio for the green screen, in 4K
  • Clips that zoom out of the newsroom TV and back
  • His week in numbers: four cards and a 15-second intro
  • The whole kit, every step, in one press
  • Ready to upload? Six checks first
  • A Review tab and an Approved stamp

In your pocket

  • Ten home-screen widgets, light and dark
  • Hold the icon for the Brief, Radar, Clips or Truth Social
  • Say an idea into your phone, get a story
  • Share straight into your newest stories
  • Back swipes that show where you’re going
  • It reopens right where you left off
  • Faster to open, smoother to scroll

Finding the story

  • 67 news feeds and an All stories tab
  • Trends from eight sources, with a title lab
  • A Watchlist for people and topics, with alerts
  • What’s coming: countdowns to the dates worth a video
  • The midterms: an endorsement scorecard and an election-night watch
  • Cabinet watch: the VP, the press secretary and the cabinet
  • A Breaking alert when both sides suddenly run a story
  • A Forecast board for court dates and Congress’s deadlines
  • Any story’s context, in 30 seconds
  • Feeds that go quiet get flagged

More on the record

  • More of his words: retweets, speeches and his 2021–22 statements
  • The world’s numbers: his approval, the markets, the press
  • Cable news, betting odds, orders and pardons
  • A paid backup for Truth Social, for when the free one goes down

Knowing what works

  • A script writer that learns where viewers stop watching
  • What each video cost, against its views
  • How fast you posted against the other channels, and whether early pays
  • An Update label when a story you covered moves
  • Comments sorted into what to fix, answer and make next
  • Which subjects do well on YouTube, on every pattern
  • Style notes that steer every writer

Behind the scenes

  • The whole record, backed up every night to Google Drive too
  • A sign-in each for a team of two
  • Health checks that repair themselves
  • Every balance in the top bar: Claude, OpenAI, fish.audio and X
  • A wiki that explains every button
  • Stories in sync between the Mac and the server

How it works

From headline to upload.

Pick a story. Newsdesk does the rest. Here's one story's whole day, from the morning brief to the upload.

  1. 01

    Picked

    The news sorts itself.

    Every morning it reads over 60 outlets, left to right, groups the same story together and ranks it by heat. It even shows which stories the big channels haven't touched yet. You pick one.

  2. 02

    Clips

    The exact moment, out of hours of video.

    It hunts down the moment he said it, checks the frame really shows it, and trims it to the second in 1080p. Want every time he did it? That's a compilation, in one go.

  3. 03

    Script

    Written in your voice.

    A script with a cue for every clip and a source for every claim. Then a fact-check marks each line green, amber or red, with receipts, and drops the fixes into the rewrite.

  4. 04

    Recorded

    Rehearsed, then rolling.

    Dale from Ohio asks the skeptical questions before you hit record, now in his own voice. Then the teleprompter follows your voice down the script and knows every clip cue.

  5. 05

    Edited

    Final Cut, already laid out.

    A Final Cut Pro timeline lands with the clips in place. Vertical Shorts come out captioned, and thumbnails come out drafted in TPK colors.

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    Published

    Copy, paste, done.

    Title, description, chapters and tags, written for you. The board tracks every story from picked to published, so nothing falls through the cracks.

Features

Everything it does. Seriously.

Hover a card to play it.Cards play as you scroll. These are real screens from Newsdesk, not mockups.

The numbers

Every word. On the record.

Live from this Newsdesk and updated every half hour. Hover the charts for the numbers.

Under the hood

What goes in. What comes out.

News, his posts, X and hours of video go in. Claude reads, sorts, writes, checks and predicts. A show comes out.

  • 31 news outletsLeft, center and right
  • Truth SocialEvery post, as it lands
  • YouTubeRallies, interviews, rivals
  • XHis circle, and anyone he names
  • The world’s numbersPolls, markets, cable news, odds
  • The archiveHis tweets back to 2009
Newsdesk + Claude
  • reads
  • sorts
  • writes
  • checks
  • predicts
  • Morning briefRanked by heat
  • ClipsTo the second, 1080p
  • Script + fact-checkWith receipts
  • Final Cut timelineClips in place
  • Shorts + thumbnailsReady to post
  • PredictionsOn the record, checked after
  • Mission ControlThe newsroom, on the studio TV
31
outlets read every morning, left to right
16
pattern checks Radar runs on his posts and the news
~9¢
to build a whole morning brief
2009
the year the record starts

…and that’s just the trailer.

There’s too much to show it all.

Built for one show. Over-built on purpose.

Newsdesk is the private newsroom behind Tangential PoliTiKing, a daily political show for people who can't sit through another hour of cable panels. We politik so you don't have to.

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