Doug Simmons

Doug Simmons

@dougsimmons.bsky.social

Senior gadfly -- 22 years at the Village Voice, 8 years at the Boston Phoenix. Be kind there's still time, pace Larkin.

674 Followers 338 Following 125 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 weeks ago
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

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2 months ago

the thing about the venezuela invasion is that we need to see the epstein files

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2 months ago

it is incredibly funny that Matt Taibbi, who considers himself very internet savvy, does not seem to know, or hopes to pretend before a judge that he does not know, what the word "owned" signifies in internet-speak

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3 months ago

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Run on *that*

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4 months ago

I found out from this post. Thank you!

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4 months ago
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This is some disturbing ICE Gestapo footage. They point guns at citizens and threaten to shoot them. They punch a guy in the back of the head repeatedly when he’s down and already subdued, then later slam his head into the side of their vehicle.

This took place on 10/31/2025 in Evanston, IL.

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4 months ago

oopsie!

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10 months ago

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.

I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

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10 months ago

sleepy don

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10 months ago
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Good one!

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11 months ago
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Good ones!

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11 months ago
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More shots

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11 months ago
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I shot some people on Fifth Avenue today.

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1 year ago
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Nothing in recent weeks has come closer to articulating the gut punch that I am feeling, and maybe that you are, too — those of us raised on Schoolhouse Rock and Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus" and Pax Americana — than this did. via @thebulwark.bsky.social

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11 months ago

buying a samsung refrigerator is not a good idea, my experience has shown

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11 months ago
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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11 months ago
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Bryan Burrough on Graydon Carter's Memoir and Vanity Fair’s Golden Era Lavish budgets, high-society gossip, and headline-making journalism— Vanity Fair under Graydon Carter was the last great magazine empire. Bryan Burrough…

This review is detailed with so many juicy bits I have lost my desire to read the book, despite my lust for insider-y media dish.

yalereview.org/article/burr...

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11 months ago
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Fox News Has Benched Its Chief National Security Correspondent for 30 Hours and Counting After Massive National Security Leak Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has been with the network for over 25 years, providing frontline reporting from locations around the globe, including Jerusalem and Mosc...

Wow. Fox refused to put their longtime Chief National Security Correspondent on air since the Signal story broke because she has been honest on social media about it. www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-...

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11 months ago
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Capacity crowds turn out in Colorado for Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez • Colorado Newsline Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited Colorado on Friday as part of their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.

Fight fight fight!

coloradonewsline.com/2025/03/21/c...

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11 months ago
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Dr. Fiona Hill - What's Next for the Russia-Ukraine War | Prof G Conversations YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

Fiona Hill had her security clearance revoked. She knows too much.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdgv...

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11 months ago
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Top Senate Democrat Schumer postpones book tour for "security reasons" Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer postponed his book tour events for the week of March 17 "for security reasons," according to an announcement posted on the website of the Baltimore library where he was due to speak on Monday.

He knows he's cooked

www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

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11 months ago

dizzying

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11 months ago
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I can nazi anything else after seeing this image

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11 months ago

Pelosi's also a no

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11 months ago

Let’s face it, Schumer has been terrible even before this. It is time for new leadership. He isn’t the person for this moment in history, and the longer he clings to power the worse off we all are.

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11 months ago

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.

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1 year ago

Thrilled to see @gavinnewsom.bsky.social settle into his role as the Democratic version of Ted Cruz -- pretending to run for president, but really living out his dream of becoming a podcaster no one fucking wants to listen to.

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1 year ago

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Teslas are priced to move with $0 down and no payments for 48 months

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1 year ago

Mr. Musk plans to layoff 83,000 workers at the VA. That means lower quality care for our vets. Unacceptable.

I agree with the VFW: The VA must “reconsider its planned reduction of 83,000 employees & thoroughly review any proposed cuts prior to rolling out further announcements.”

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1 year ago

bernie’s drawing crowds again with more to come

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