The truth is mighty, and it shall prevail. "Not the moment we might have chosen, but the one we were made for." -- possibly G.K. Chesterton
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Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
Pope Leo XIV demanded Wednesday that Israel stop the “collective punishment” and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza as he pleaded for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the besieged territory amid preparations by Israel for a new military offensive.
#Impeach‰FKJr.
Sophie playing with the other hounds. All's right with the world. Love wins.
It took me about 30 seconds of Google time to determine that Israel has a well-established legal protocol of due process for "unlawful combatants", ie., reporters they believe to be enemy agents. As does the U.S. I'll let you find it for yourself.
Why was it this guy and not al-Sharif's death which has ended your unconscionable silence, and that of all your colleagues? Al Sharif is not the first but in the second *score* of dead reporters alleged by Israel to be Hamas soldiers and killed by the IDF without proof. cpj.org/reports/2023...
#BrokenPost #WillLewis #Bezos This is the kind of Frankenstein propaganda about Trump as Dear Leader which is the death knell of the Washington Post. It's over. Whoever is fallen, is forgotten. Lets' roll.
Still waiting for you to acknowledge something, not just repost others' declaration that a dead reporter was a hero. Which is the absolute minimal and not quite true account of the event. Every dead reporter volunteers for the job, for starters. x.com/smyth_jeanne...
Apparently my duet with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social discussing how his #zcavengerhunt was an amazing example of how to build local (and relational) civic infrastructure got flagged on TikTok. For your Bluesky enjoyment:
Imagining is important. A scavenger hunt is DOING SOMETHING.
He doesn't speak for any system but the one he has stolen from the American people. Oh, and he does make the trains run on time.
Not one word. From any of you. I don't always agree with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social but that your silence is the death of journalism focusses the mind sharply. x.com/carolecadwal...
And his spokesmodel, Andre Richardson, whom he hired to attract young people to the bent old man party, calls #Mamdani voters "Team Gentrification". www.newsweek.com/hakeem-jeffr...
#Mamdani is right. All three of his opponents -- Adams, Sliwa, Cuomo -- are allies of Donald Trump.
Reminded of the day Judy Miller walked into the WH press room and found another distinguished NYT byline sitting in the Times' chair (who knew?). She informed them of their mistake, forced them out of the chair, and took it herself. These people walk out of the WH press room when hell freezes over.
So excellent to see Sophie Derriere le Canape morph into Sophie Faster Than A Speeding Bullet. Love wins.
#AnasAlSharif www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Finally, the killings are arg a pattern of action which proves intent to commit genocide -- systematically murdering eyewitnesses. And, of course, denying access to all reporters who probably aren't Hamas soldiers. Silence from democracy's last advocates for the press? For shame. #AnasAlSharif 3/3
A USDoD manual on how to deal with reporters thought to be enemy agents allows them to be held as belligerents, but journos are civilians for whom human rights laws are salient. Also, due process was set up for criminals, not people we like. Same for Isr? Or may they kill journos with impunity? 2/3
None of the press critics I set up an account here to follow, have commented on IDF killing of #AnasAlSharif, based on their undoc claim he was a Hamas soldier. They've killed 20 reporters for being Hamas, all without documentation. The silence could not be louder. 1/3 cpj.org/reports/2023...
Where is the lede NYT story on the senescence of the president? I guess there's a quota and they met it last year.
open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/... Fascinating article by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social on what that nothing burger summit was all about
Gave up watching tv news during the invasion of Iraq. My IQ went up 20 points. Today I read maybe 4 or 6 newspapers a day -- now including various Israeli newspapers, the husk of what used to be the Times of London, and FT. I wish I could read Chinese.
I just noticed the other day that every headline above the digital fold in the NYT was about Trump. I click on none. I know what he says and what he's going to do.
He read the room correctly. Pootie, one, Trump, zip.
Something wrong with Putin's gait.
They feed people who can't afford to eat in restaurants; provide entry level jobs. And good food from around the world makes our cities great. Roy Choi was a thug until he opened his food truck, where he invented the bulgogi taco. God bless America. www.powells.com/book/la-son-...
ICYMI x.com/yuval_abraha...
Why did they hire this barbarian when they could have had a well-informed/connected ideologue like Matthew Continetti? And why is Attiah still working for the techno-fascists? Twenty pounds of muscle is an extremely odd topic for a newspaper column.
Speaking of which, is CJR proscribed from comment on the deaths of the Gaza reporters? Systematically killing witnesses of genocide is arguably part of a pattern of action which proves intent to commit it. Witness intimidation, 20 years of it. Crickets from your cohort. cpj.org/reports/2023...
USDoD has a manual for dealing with a reporter they consider to be an enemy agent. Can be held as belligerent, but journos are citizens, w all human rights salient. They may not follow own rules, but rules exist. True in Isr? Again, killing witnesses is genocide. www.heraldnet.com/news/dod-man...
Stunned you and your cohort are silent on the reporters deaths in Gaza. As you understand, systematically killing witnesses, or witness intimidation, is part of a pattern of genocide. When will you and your colleagues say something? 1/2 cpj.org/reports/2023...
I’ve written for @noemamag.com about the need for a different approach to economic statistics - the data isn’t ‘rigged’ but it hasn’t kept up with the changing economy www.noemamag.com/the-critical...
I think she's probably teaching them much more than they're teaching her. Moi aussi.
Here's an archived copy. archive.ph/q9yq7
Sophie watching the sea. So extremely excellent.
"The waste generated by DOGE in six months could have fully covered the President’s misguided rescissions package twice over — with $2.9 billion to spare,” the report states. www.devex.com/news/lawmake...
"Netanyahu and his extremist Cabinet have put Israel in what [T'ruah CEO] Rabbi Jill Jacobs told me is 'the worst position it’s ever been, morally and ethically.'"
At least she asks to go out. My dog, little bad Speck, now 16 years old, has forgotten how to do that.
My favorite cartoon of all time, especially for you, Miss Sophie. Also, the beach. Salt water is your friend. Swimming will set you fwee. youtu.be/KZTE9MDoaLs?...
Keep us posted. I'd be interested to know if she remembers the walks she allowed herself last time, and whether she's feeling up to allowing herself the ones she couldn't hack. Still kvelling that not only is she out from behind the couch, she's upstairs and in the manorial bed.
After a couple days' thought, I have to say the smarm and bullshit on this is, uh, chest high. Credit yourself for bringing young women into the sports section, and then abandon them to the techno-fascists, while taking a victory lap AND licking Bezos' boots? Literary pursuits indeed.
Outrage numero uno, Will Lewis wants my e-mail address to read your kind gift article offer. He's not getting it. Ever. No how. No time. Here's the piece, no paywall, power to the people. archive.ph/NZlss
From my 2020 post, "Today we are switching our coverage of Donald Trump to an emergency setting." pressthink.org/2020/03/toda...
Yes, the current shakedown is to groom them for the expulsion of people of color.
"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”
#Resist Daniel Garcia knows what he needs to do.
Can you tell me how to get How to get to Sesame Street?
I'm with you. This kind of cynicism is for amateurs. It's puerile too. In the words of the plaque at the National Justice and Peace Memorial, with courage, because peace requires bravery; with hope, because hopelessness is the enemy of justice. archive.ph/yAN1r
There are assholes everywhere, grasshopper. And I know they put people off from getting help if needed. Not all the aholes are men, either. No one should let the gasbags steal their life.
Addicts sometimes/often smoke marijuana and then forget why they don't drink or shoot heroin or diddle little boys. Nothing righteous about it.
BREAKING: New documents and testimony make it clear that Emil Bove urged DOJ officials to defy court orders – then misled the Judiciary Committee about it. The facts are disqualifying. And the timeline is damning. Let's break it down. 🧵
After some thought, I think "Confident Strivers" is a dog whistle to white boys. www.thenation.com/article/arch... Lee Atwater defined right wing dog whistling for the ages. Prof Jennifer Saul led her paper/subsequent book, with the Atwater quote. social-epistemology.com/2025/07/14/d...
#Orbanization of our media system. We're there.
They are the prevailing winds at the AI-engendered personality-driven (?) Horse💩 For Confident Strivers video channel.
"traditional journalistic rules" of truth, fact, information, evidence, as best as humans can perceive it? As opposed to disinformation?
Yes, the separation is curious. I think Bezos is planning a new all Murrican MAGA Tik Tok and will sooner rather than later amputate the ectoparasite news organization. Responsible AI story generation, awesome. And I see Suzi Creamcheese is in charge of this bullshit.
Another one of his pet catch phrases: "My eyes glaze over."
"Ventures" is an ominous and poor choice of words to describe a news organization. Strongly associated with capitalist business advocacy, finance and investment, rather than documenting unmediated events.
scoop: donations to NPR and PBS stations have exploded, with donors across the country giving in unprecedented numbers since Congress cut federal funding www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
Getting dirty is the emblem of having fun.
Outdated laws give presidents far too much leeway to deploy military forces inside the United States. We’re working to reform those laws and establish new safeguards against abuse. bit.ly/43UHkI1
The USIP, gutted by DOGE, begs to differ. 20 permanent and successful peace and reconciliation processes over the past 40 or so years have points in common, they reported, in 2023, some of which could be called deprogramming. It starts with listening. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Indigenous schools, kind of a huge deal. Adjacent to, if not yet litigated, genocide. kooriweb.org/foley/resour...
How bipartisan support for public media unraveled in the Trump era -- my analysis for NPR. www.npr.org/2025/07/18/n...
I've been thinking about that for 30 years, a private army. Such a bad idea.
I learned to read from watching Sesame Street. My kid watched & loved every PBS Kids show they make. Seriously, parents need PBS. Local communities need their local NPR stations for news & information. These are necessary public utilities. Save them.
One way to join the #Resistance is to support your very best local indie reporter. Mine is @haussamen. haussamen.com/2025/07/16/d... Way out west, they've got a name For rain and wind and fire The rain is Tess, the fire's Joe and They call the wind Mariah We call our mayor #Mamdani.
I write my weekly Heads Up News newsletter to give people a little hope in an otherwise excruciating news climate. It focuses on significant acts of resistance. Please give it a look and consider a paid subscription. www.headsupnews.org
I keep forgetting how small and sleek she is. Otter kind.
You first.
But it's hard to separate Trump's defunding weather forecasting and FEMA from the carnage in Texas. His caution is that when the stakes are so big, our documentation has to meet legal standards to be effective. 3/
In this column he recommends examining one's own critical thinking in attributing the Texas flood deaths to Trump. It's as if resistance has critical thinking standards of documented truth to uphold, and we do. 2/
One way to join the #Resistance as the remaining national newspapers continue to flout standards of fair journalism and a free press, is to support your very best local indie reporter. Mine is @haussamen.bsky.social. 1/ haussamen.com/.../trump-is...
Sorry, is this the same Brooke Rollins suggesting the forced labor of former Medicaid patients as a substitute for deported farm workers? I thought forced labor was a crime against humanity.
Talent hemorrhage continues at the artist formerly known as #WaPo.
.....at which Mamdani's father was an internationally well-known professor with intent to deceive them about his race/background doesn't pass the common sense test. Interpreting as deception or DEI stuff is more malice.
The malice of accepting a white supremacist as your source is overwhelming. It is he who found the story newsworthy, in the judgement of the white supremacist. I know malice is only operative in libel where the facts are not true; but here the spin was malicious. Plus, applying to uni.....1/
So good to see her snuggling in bed. I remember when she wouldn't go upstairs. Love wins.
Former media reporter Dan Kennedy writes: "By breaking this story, and by raising so many ethical questions about its own behavior along the way, the Times has made itself a bigger issue than whatever racial categories Mamdani chose to check off..." Read the rest.
Again, his father was a well-known professor at the very university to which Zohran Mamdani was applying. No one would be deceived if he actually had been trying to deceive people who knew him that he was a black person born here in the US. I'd cancel my subscription if I hadn't already.
I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Google AI summaries collapsing traffic to digital news sites. #Bezos #WaPo #WillLewis
The children are being very good with her. Love wins.
The paper which led to Prof Saul's book also ledes with that anecdote. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/phil...
R pol op Lee Atwater might argue "deficit hawk" is the latest euphemism for racism. Notorious 1981 intvu has him saying it started out w/ N-word. Morphed to forced busing. Etc. Rhetoric scholar J. Saul ledes her book on dogwhistles with that anecdote. www.thenation.com/article/arch...
Calling people vermin is #4 of the 10 stages of genocide. www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
Timothy Snyder with some compressed truth about truth. www.facebook.com/thedailyshow... via @mariopro.bsky.social When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.
President Trump has ratcheted up his rhetorical battle over recent US airstrikes in Iran by having an attorney send legal letters to CNN and The New York Times demanding retractions of accurate reports. CNN responded to the letter by rejecting the claims in it. So did the NYT.
He's so dumb he went home and had fantasies about that.
He looks like he's been shooting gin directly into the pre-frontal cortex. AOC, baby grrl, he's gonna start sexting you. Keep us posted. You rock, mama. youtu.be/Ud_JZcC0tHI?...
#Mamdani crushes bent Davos Democrat with one third the campaign funding. Young people, this is your invitation to run for office and change the world. Big love, grasshopper. It is your time, your world, your oyster.
“Bove stated that D.O.J. would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such order.” This story is just a blockbuster in every way - exposing Bove & others to both contempt and a suite of bar ethics charges. Hope to add more as time permits, but the whistleblower a hero.
ICYMI, leading development economist @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social gives Wittgenstein Lectures this year on how AI adopts [failed?] economics logic/analysis/algos to create public policy. Another century of extraction cptlsm for the west as Asia prospers. www.phil.uni-bayreuth.de/en/events/wi...
#StephenMiller
"My students tell me that they don’t sleep..." @jenmercieca.bsky.social told her class to replace their own doomscrolling with some "hopescrolling" for at least part of the week. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens... Some students noticed that their social media algorithms began to change.
Are you doomscrolling right now? www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
So interesting. I hope we can get a link to watch and/or read?