If a tv show/channel supporting a politican or party deserve a lawsuit & $ settlement for election interference, Dems deserve lot of cash from Fox. Guess Trump doesn't think these things through...did I say "think?"
Economics/Finance person, deep into wine industry. Lifetime politics geek, data lover, third gen Democrat. NYC born, CA living.
362 followers 372 following 1,877 posts
view profile on Bluesky
If a tv show/channel supporting a politican or party deserve a lawsuit & $ settlement for election interference, Dems deserve lot of cash from Fox. Guess Trump doesn't think these things through...did I say "think?"
Pulido, a lifelong South Texan behind Tejano chart-toppers like “Desvelado” and “Se Murió De Amor,” is running as a Democrat and said he believes the region’s voters have too often been ignored. On same day he announced his candidacy, he was nominated for a Latin Grammy for Best Tejano Album."
"Once a Democratic stronghold, the majority-Hispanic 15th Congressional District has become redder over the years with redistricting in 2021 and in June. In 2024, Trump won the district by nearly 18 percentage points. www.expressnews.com/politics/art...
Andrew White, son of former governor, takes step to challenge Greg Abbott. “It’s time for a change,” White told the Houston Chronicle on Tuesday. “Gov. Abbott’s culture war is failing our schools, hospitals and infrastructure.” www.expressnews.com/politics/tex...
Any country that can elect someone as amoral, corrupt and stupid as Trump as Chief Executive, then re-elect him, with compliant institutional support. H.ow can others take us seriously or trust us? They would laugh at him, like NY did, but are frightened of the power Americans allow him.
Young women are more affected than men. From ages 15 through 49, women have a cancer rate that is 83 percent higher than men in the same age range."
"Older Americans are still more likely to be diagnosed than younger ones. But cancer rates among those aged 15 to 49 have increased by 10 percent since 2000 even as they have fallen among older people, according to a Washington Post examination of federal data. www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...
to its more familiar internationalist role...Now they recognize that Trump is speaking on behalf of a strong constituency in his country — and that the changes he is bringing to the international system could outlast his presidency.”
Countries now fearful of US. "The reaction [at UN to Trump speech] was largely one of stunned silence. In Trump’s first term, leaders who opposed his policy stances held out hope that his election was an aberration and that the United States would soon return.. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Been true for years. But why"The Reuters/Ipsos survey found that even with Trump’s handling of inflation staggeringly unpopular, voters still believe by a 10-point margin that the GOP has a better plan for the economy, overall, than do the Democrats." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Heard explanation from academic apologist for White Christian Nationalists: US culture changing in ways they don't like. Regular conservatives didn't fix it. So now just tear it all down, remake their way. Knew Trump would do that, that's what matters to Trump's base: apparently 30% of Americans
There was already reporting that contractors for some of the detention facilities were former clients of Homan's "consulting company." All Feds would need to do is check for payments. But of course this FBI won't.
Cardinale's best performance. And Lancaster's.
One of my absolute favorites. Totally agree.
Will probably be on youtube shortly after broadcast.
So can we call "less woke" "more biased" which is what it is?
And too ignorant to realize Antifa is not a "group" or a 'gang', like a right wing militia, but just something a variety of people believe. That's like Trump accusing the UN of causing migration, when its droughts, famine or war or violence.
What this SCOTUS and commenter describe as Freedom of Religion is freedom to use their religious beliefs as an excuse to oppose other peoples' human rights if you don't like them. Not what anyone not on far right would call Freedom of Religion.
You mean the guy all the press was lauding as "trying to avoid conflict" and "find common ground" after Kirk's shooting? He's another Trumper.
Trump's ambassador to Canada 'surprised' and "disappointed" that Canadians are not "passionate" about potential linkup with US and by US tariffs. He even managed to offend those polite Canadians. Uninformed typical Trump appointee. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
The shakeup accompanies a steep fall in US student visa arrivals: Indian scholars decreased 45% in the last year. The UK, by contrast, is reportedly considering abolishing visa fees to attract global talent.
For decades, firms have rotated skilled talent into US projects using H-1Bs, but they may become more selective, reserving visas for critical roles, analysts said. “The ‘American Dream’ for aspiring workers will be tough,” the former head of an Indian IT outsourcer said.
Indian stocks fell Monday as multinational IT companies grappled with the US’ hefty new fee for high-skilled H-1B visas. The nearly $10 billion selloff underscored how India’s IT industry may be forced to rip up its playbook in light of the $100,000 application fee. www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
They are not "conservative voices," they are ultra-right, reactionary voices, often advocating upheaval, conflict and promoting misinformation. But sources that would never have supported such people now do so to curry favor with this administration.
Interesting how Canadians directly question whether Canadians can trust a US controlled app, especially one controlled by Trump supporters. US no longer considered honorable media source.
Respected? How about horrified/stunned that a US President, or any head of state, is making these statements.
Doesn't overruling a major 90 year law & policy deserve a full, explained opinion? Suddenly all government agencies are fully political? No independent expertise or bipartisan expert decision making? Does this very political court realize the instability this creates? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...
Stop calling it monarchy: Most monarchies have long had had constitutional constraints. Since the Magna Carta. Except maybe Middle Eastern potentates in effective police states.
Congress, expressly gave these powers to independent/nonpolitical experts. Now SCOTUS will unilaterally transfer those powers to the person of the President? Does the Article 3 part of Gov have authority to shift power from Article 1 to Article 2? apnews.com/article/trum...
So "we won't let autism happen any more." May be one of the most dumb and gullible things Trump has ever said.. and that's a high bar. Seems like RFK Jr has really invaded Trump's troubled brain. Maybe convinced Trump he will get a Nobel for this - "solving autism"?
Leavitt is accusing (inaccurately but nevertheless) James of doing exactly what Trump is doing: prosecuting someone before and without evidence of a crime. Irony is hopeless here.
You're saying Newsom's mask law is just performative. Symbolic but ineffective. But can't states actually bar ICE in state courthouses? Would this law on masks be similar to that? Or it's the difference between location and persons?
The UK has a different message re Tylenol today. hat tip to @alecgaffney.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/n...
"Real incomes in both Bay Area metros have generally stagnated since 2019...Census Bureau show[s] pandemic-era inflation and a cooling job market continue to eat into family budgets — especially for lower- and middle-income households." www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Like I suspect many older Americans, am surprised & confused at how quickly the trans issue, for children, became a huge political issue. Affects so many families. Seems everyone taking rigid positions when we know, understand so little.
Hope this is not another otherwise thoughtful male pundit telling Dem party to "moderate" on abortion. Really no constituency for that: Americans want the gov out of their bedroom and ob/gyn offices.
When did you leave WaPo? Really liked your writing. one less reason to read it.
No, they are determined to celebrate a past world that never existed.
He was better than I expected. Mikie was too programmed but some good exceptions.
Generating a religious uprising among his supporters...and their militias...weird but ...
Compared to this admin, Dems are squeaky clean, not perfect but everything is relative.
Algorthym still will be owned by China. US investors just licensing it.
That song was a gay anthem...yeah, it's funny. Irony is beyond dead.
T's divvying up shares of TikTok for supporters. Just included Rupert. Maybe Musk wants some? Modern democracy in action?
Also what we lose when charter schools, vouchers etc undermine public education.
Aren't some of the contractors for detention facilities former Homan "clients?"
Ah! you think he actually thinks?
Trump won't care. And what Putin asked for.
Which one of them?
Is there really anything beyond anecdotes to justify this? Will panic many people? Very RFK Jr. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
“evildoers” determined to destroy a nation that has been ordained by God. With imagery of religious and political war, they signaled that they would leverage Kirk’s memory as an organizing principle for the party moving forward."
"The 5-hour event blended religious fervor w. militant politics, as Trump’s allies invoked Kirk’s legacy to position the conservative movement as a near-apocalyptic clash of truth and goodness against enemies they mocked as www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
"Activist journalism" does not mean Fox. "Nexstar founder Perry Sook made appeals to Trump since [2024 election] telling investors he hoped 2nd Trump administration would help Nexstar expand further, adding he believed Nexstar would help eliminate “the level of activist journalism out there.”
With Nexstar/Tegna merger, one company would have dominant influence on all TV networks + local news & programming content nationwide. Is that in US national interest? Even in today's diverse media landscape, given highly concentrated ownership of major internet platforms?
2017 law enabled Sinclair Broadcasting to buy Tribune broadcasting. By restoring UHF exception, Sinclair fit within 39% cap, while owning stations actually reaching 78% of households, where it requires local stations to incorporate statements supporting right-wing policies in local news programs.
Merger would eliminate cap on station ownership, giving one company nationwide TV station control, for the first time in US history. 2017 law significantly softened the cap, restoring outdated exception for UHF stations, & other loopholes (station "control" without actual ownership.)
Nexstar's station ownership technically = 39% cap, but really, given 2017 law loopholes, reaches > 78% of all households. Nexstar wants FCC approval to buy Tegna owner of 64 stations in 51 markets, "the largest owner of Big Four affiliates in the top 25 markets." Tegna also at 39% ownership cap.
How much control should one company owning "local"TV stations have? That's the real Kimmel issue: ownership of local TV stations/network affiliates. ABC suspended Kimmel because Nexstar, controlling 25% of ABC affiliate local states, blocked Kimmel after FCC threat. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
"Both H-1B proposal & the new gold-and platinum-card visa program are likely to face rapid legal challenges from companies and workers, said David J. Bier, an Cato Institute analyst. Under federal law only Congress has the power to create new visa entry programs & add fees to existing categories."
"Lutnick expects gold-card program will raise more than $100 billion and platinum-card program, $1 trillion. Analysts [say] that's dubious; the biggest market for such visas could come from wealthy people in China, Russia and Saudi Arabia, potentially raising national security concerns."
Trump doesn't understand value of talent. Look at who he hires. "many tech founders attribute their companies’ success in part to the United States’ ability to attract the world’s best computer scientists and engineers." Including many founders of major companies creating huge benefits for US.
"The $100,000 payment for an H-1B visa could be made each year for six years, Commerce Secretary Lutnick said...About 500,000 people in the U.S. work through H-1B visas, and most renew their status every three years...the restrictions on H-1B visas could upend the way Silicon Valley has operated"
"If upheld, however, they would dramatically tighten legal immigration systems while opening access to the United States for wealthy foreigners."
$5 million and allow individual applicants to reside in the United States for up to 270 days per year without being taxed on non-U.S. income. That program will have a waiting list and must be approved by Congress, Lutnick told reporters."
"If approved, gold-card applicants would have to “make a gift of $1 million, which has been determined to provide sufficient evidence that the individual will substantially benefit the United States." Separately, a “platinum card” offering marked “coming soon” on the website would cost
"for a “corporate gold card” that would permit them to sponsor one or more employees. Applicants for Trump’s gold card would need to pay a processing fee and undergo Department of Homeland Security vetting, according to a government website beckoning users to “Unlock life in America.”
Good for Russian oligarchs and foreign money launderers. Trump Tower customers? "The president also signed an executive order that would allow wealthy foreigners to pay $1 million for a “gold card” for U.S. residency and companies to pay $2 million www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Xi supports Russia so arguing for breaking up Ukraine. Trump just cares about XI and Putin "liking" him. The head of the most powerful country in the world is begging approval from Russia and China. What humiliation.
"Devon Archer, Trevor Milton and Carlos Watson were convicted in fraud schemes totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, they will not be required by the government to pay back" But Trump made lots $. victims.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/politics/sec-trump-clemency.html?smid=bs-share
just as the main effect of racial segregation in the American South was to leave the region impoverished and underdeveloped."
"their resentments and still walk away richerstill walk away richer and more prosperous. But they can't. To embrace nativism in a global, connected economic world is to sacrifice prosperity for the sake of exclusion,
"expel every person who, in their view, didn’t belong in the United States. They could live in a “golden age” of plenty — and seal it away from others outside the country with a closed, hardened border. Trump told Americans that there were no trade-offs. Trump told voters that they could indulge
"The essence of President Trump’s pitch to the American people last year was simple...They could have a powerful, revitalized economy and “mass deportations now.” They could build new factories and take manufacturing jobs back from foreign competitors as well as www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...
Court Rules Against Arts Endowment on Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order. A new policy for the National Endowment for the Arts to review grant applications to see if they comply with President Trump’s “gender ideology” order violates the Constitution, the court said. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/a...
So this is what becomes of Eleanor Roosevelt's Global Human Rights campaign. "As President Trump pulls back U.S. funding of the United Nations, countries like China, Russia and Qatar are seeking to influence the body’s work on human rights and labor." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...
“Dobbs laid out the evidence to demonstrate that Roe was incorrect to say that a right to terminate a pregnancy had been deeply rooted in the history and tradition of the American people,” said Barrett, who was confirmed to the Supreme Court in 2020" link.expressnews.com/view/66ea3ff...
Of course he does. Knows Trump will never block him. And is scared of him.
Trump thinks he needs Putin. And Xi. Maybe to help him win elections or fend off opponents. Clearly whatever's going on, he will never directly oppose Putin.
And I used to wonder how stupid people managed to dominate so many countries. It's the thugish stuff, esp loud thuggish stuff -- and the timid folks and followers on the other side. Most humans just follow.
There were so many reasons to oppose Hegseth but they could have just considered stupid. Why does the base just not see the stupidity? Yeah, I know typically not college educated but still ...
$100k per year. Utterly bonkers.
Isn't "The View" the highest rated daytime show? How much would Disney destroy to satisfy Trump? www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Dr. Oz, who DJT inexplicably made head of Medicare & Medicaid Agency, is now using that for more self-promotion...so he can make money in his next gig? Maybe he should worry about his decimated programs first? Silly question. youtu.be/lr84kKfeYnE?...
Of course China likes Trump's Tiktok deal: in violation of law passed in December (& SCOTUS confirmed ), it lets Chinese still control algorithm while Trump supporting investors expand use, w. further opportunities for conflict & Chinese interference in US. www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/t...
Republicans only support the filibuster when it stops Dems from doing things they don't like. Drop it in a minute when it's convenient for them. Impossible to be too cynical for this crowd. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Trump appointee George Cook takes interim lead at Census Bureau. Trump last month instructed the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census that would exclude immigrants who are in the United States illegally from the head count. www.sfchronicle.com/news/politic...
"Critics argue the firings also serve to pressure remaining judges — who are supposed to ensure immigrants receive due process — to instead push for their removal from the country."
"By last Thursday, the administration had fired roughly one-third of the judges in San Francisco’s immigration court...The seven fired San Francisco immigration judges are among nearly 70 that have been terminated nationwide since Donald Trump took office. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Disney has to accept that it is possible to decry/grieve Kirk's murder without praising what he said & stood for. Anything else is promoting right-wing ideology. Despite Trump and some station owners being unsatisfied. That is responsible independent media. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/h...
Case against 60 minutes could have been tossed on the same grounds. Wonder who the judge was -- did the defendants even respond before settling -- because they knew it was just an excuse for a payoff & editorial change?
He's assuming that someday there will be another President, even a Dem. Trump and Carr even don't imagine that or don't care. And both seem confident that the courts are in their pockets...thank you (!) Justice Roberts.
with leave to amend within twenty-eight days. The amended complaint must not exceed forty pages, excluding only the caption, the signature, and any attachment." Also likely true of Paramount suit. Just excuse to get paid, with FCC action pending. Does this make FCC party to bribery?
Oops Donald. Judge's concluding words: "This complaint stands unmistakably and inexcusably athwart the requirements of Rule 8. This action will begin, will continue, and will end in accord with the rules of procedure and in a professional and dignified manner. The complaint is STRUCK ...
that fascism won't happen here. Returning veterans needed to worry about the freedom of every American, because if anyone was stripped of their rights, “our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.”
"America was still fighting fascism overseas in 1945 when its military leaders alerted the troops that the menace could materialise at home. it had a simple bottom line: “Only by democratically solving the economic problems of our day can there be any certainty www.economist.com/united-state...
Brutal but worth reading: UK's view of Trump's American and his visit. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Good for her. Time to stop fawning over Trump. Doesn't achieve anything. "Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum demands 'thorough investigation' into shooting death of immigrant by ICE" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/18/m...
"CEOs that 60 years ago might have been making four to six times more than what the workers are receiving, the last figure I saw, it’s 600 times more than what average workers are receiving,” Pope Leo said. apnews.com/business/ceo...
Someone should tell Donald that being criticized and attacked comes with politics. Ask George Washington, Adams and Jefferson. Although no one will because he can't handle it.
But the public interest is not 'doing/saying what Donald Trump, who happens to be the current President, likes and not displeasing him." None of that has anything to do with the 'public interest.'