@stuartstevens using the old Jim Hightower dead armadillos line!
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@stuartstevens using the old Jim Hightower dead armadillos line!
Love the picture on right! In the Reggie White and Charles Woodson tradition.
"If you have a chance to help others and fail to do so you are wasting your time on this earth." Roberto Clemente, born on this date, lived by his motto and died by it, trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Nicaragua after the December 1972 earthquake.
Agree.
I said months ago that the National Symphony Orchestra should bail from Trumpland and move to the Strathmore. Now...more than ever. Who with any decency could attend an event there while this anti-art monomanical despotic desecration is happening?
It is time for every decent person and institution to stand up and say no, no way in hell, we will not give an inch, we will not rewrite history, we will not genuflect to this putrid dictatorship.
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... How low can we go? Show some guts and integrity damn it!
Exclusive: Air Marshals diverted from protecting commercial passenger flights act as "highly paid guards" on deportation flights. cnn.it/46UooMP
One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
Weak statement. There is nothing to "work with." WH press corps should stand as one against this suppression of a free press and say to Trump all or none.
Chile under Pinochet. United States under Trump. From police state to police state. The horrors continue.
33 homers, 74 RBI & 6.6 WAR before the All-Star Game? Not bad. Starting a summer book club for kids? Legendary stuff from Aaron Judge. Through his Foundation, Judge is incentivizing kids to read & review books curated for all grade levels. www.aaronjudgeallrisefoundation.org/aaron-judge-...
This is what I’m so worried about
Aand Americans. This should be 1968.
Trump pardoned Jack Johnson of Mann Act charges; odds are he'll pardon Combs. Johnson, the first black heavyweight champ, was the victim of a racist system determined to disempower him. Combs is not.
Yes democracy is collapsing but we arrived in Madison today and the sandhill cranes are in Wingra Park and there is beauty and peace here that an oligarch wedding could never ever match.
Exactly.
Jackson Chourio.
I'm with Terry Moran. What he said was the bare and obvious truth. No more genuflrcting to a dictator.
Outrageous. Another repressive step toward dictatorship if this holds.
Agree with Amanda. The idea of Ember at once depresses and infuriates me. And there is so much more artificial unitelligent drek in the future that will require a new and graver word to replace Orwellian.
Maybe. But I bet many have seen the movies.
Sorry, love Kermit, but it was all in the voice and this new vkice dorsn't do it.
A paradox: I would never write a biography of Donald Trump. No depth to his story. Yet I would love to see what Charles Dickens could write about him.
Sally at her best, meaning THE best.
If you have a chance to help others and fail to do so you are wasting your time on this earth. -- Roberto Clemente
Just watched the Ox-bow Incident and it made me shudder with its relevance to what we face in America today.
What an embarrassment. It’s wild that the official position of the US Government is now pro-Nazi.
Another terrific column from @monicahesse.bsky.social -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shows the fallacy of ‘doing your own research’ wapo.st/44krKXX
Agree. Why I will never write for the Post again while Bezos is owner.
For a decade the conventional wisdom was "Don't make the Nazi analogy." Enough of that. Kash Patel is the Heinrich Himmler of the Trump regime.
Adam Kinzinger on the arrest of a Wisconsin judge: "This is nothing but fascism."
100 percent agree!
Dick Cheney, a Steiger aide who had recently finished a PhD program at Wisconsin, did the advance work for the group's visit to the UW, where they met with faculty members and attended an SDS event. The congressmen decided that Nixon should NOT cut federal funding.
Re-reading They Marched into Sunlight in preparation for a Vietnam symposium, I came across this: In 1969 Wisconsin Rep. William Steiger was a member of a House group asked by Nixon to investigate whether universities that had been disrupted by radical protests should lose federal funding.
I'm not a Red Sox fan but am hooked on the Netflix series The Clubhouse, temporary relief from the Trump madness. It's impossible to watch the intimate story of the 2024 team and not love manager Alex Cora for the way he handles his players.
Press corps...Please boycott the briefings rather than participate in this travesty.
They’ve persecuted immigrants, transgender people and scientists. They’ve targeted the rule of law and free speech. Now, they’re coming for your three-year-old, too. wapo.st/4jcUg2f
Scary stuff.
With Trump everything is transference. He is a one dimensional psycho.
My family lived it.
Agree. It's the only story and needs to be told that way.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/p...
Yes they are.
Mona is a civic hero.
C'mon Perry! Your columns are way too good for this. Plain spoken? Stephen A? Hardly.
But no one should.
True this.
Yes. More than that.
Agree that they should all be put on trial.
Trump again blames Zelenskyy, not Putin, for the war. If he’s not a Russian asset, he’s the most useful useful idiot in history.
I believe in free and diverse thought, but this is just embarrassing.
A reminder that while Democracy Docket was warning that Pam Bondi was an election denier who would do Trump's bidding, the Washington Post was giving her a literal thumbs up. Forget the legacy media, sign up for Democracy Docket today. newsletters.democracydocket.com/all-newsletters
"This matter is no longer just about deportations or undocumented immigrants. The Trump administration's defiance of a Supreme Court order is a new step into presidential lawlessness," writes Adam Serwer:
"One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world": Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Prize lecture has an urgent message for contemporary readers.
Another WaPo Exclusive. Wow: Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead. A sr exec who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, by @hannahnatanson.bsky.social @reinlwapo.bsky.social @merylkornfield.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Do many outrages.
We are there.
Outageous. No integrity.
You're right as usual @karaswisher.bsky.social but jeez watch your mixed metaphors!
True. Doing the right thing is never an impossible position.
When I interviewed Martha Reeves for the book, she talked about the great music teachers in Detroit's public schools.
Going back to the great city soon to talk about its history and revitalization.
The Atlantic should do better than this. No time for being flippant.
Agree!
Brag alert!!! Great friend and colleague Candace Buckner the Associated Press sports columnist of the year! I've said to her and I say it to you: she's everything I hope to leave this business to. apsportseditors.com/candace-buck...
The press is behind the curve. Underplayed the meaning of Cory Booker. Now underplaying the meaning of the national Hands Off rising today.
a friend sent me this one
What we're seeing at #handsoff protests nationwide today and what we saw at the ballot box on Tuesday are not unrelated. The public is furious. It will not be silenced. And those who side with Trump and Musk—or refuse to fight back—will be swept out of office.
Winston -Salem NC.
Trump Economy
No one deserves Pearl.
Yes. In that case alas it was mostly mistakes by a seemingly good candidate and a brutally racist negative campaign against him from $26 million of outside money while the national Dems underfunded the response.
From the best party chairman in America.
Case study washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/04/h...
The only relevant political point is that Republican members of Congress are all supporting these tariffs 100%. They could stop them at any moment. Each day is on them. Everyone with a messaging bullhorn needs to make that clear. They can pull the plug now or pay the price at the polls next year.
I don’t understand why this isn’t more of a part of ALL the journalism around Trump’s attacks on higher ed. It’s clearly not about antisemitism at all:
Horrible. I love this program and over the years have helped many high school students researching reports on Roberto Clemente or Jim Thorpe. But of course to MAGA racists the magnificent baseball player/humanitarian and greatest athlete in history/Native American were bogus DEI figures.
This is a disgusting assault on knowledge and the arts.
Those penguins have been taking advantage of us for too long www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Up against the richest man in the world spending more than anyone's ever spent in a judicial race, Susan Crawford never wavered. Never cowered. Kept fighting. A lesson, there.
Washington Post breaks another one. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
As nd more evil.
Great book. Which means the know-nothings might ban it.
More evil
Evil.
Intent to kill.
The Washington Post must refuse to capitulate and boycott the briefings.
I meant cancel the whole stupid event.
Not cancelling her. I meant a first step toward cancelling the entire event.
This is outrageous. This great academy should be ashamed.
This is a good first step.
They had no problem paying 10 million for their negro quarterback tho.
From @monicahesse.bsky.social on Kristi Noem -- Real Housewives of Gitmo www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The press has to be relentless in questioning Hegseth, Rubio, Vance, Gabbard and all involved in the Signal fuck-up. This cannot be just another one-day story.
Dear Lou, What's a travel?