@froomkin.bsky.social
Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
Everyone with a platform should be screaming that Trump is unfit to be commander-in-chief.
Trump told NBC News that he is not ready to make a deal with Iran, and suggested he might continue bombing Kharg Island – a critical island for Iran’s oil exports – “just for fun.” Trump made his plea as he warned the US will continue “bombing the hell out of the shoreline” of Iran.
Trump's remarks actually meet the test for moral depravity in warfare set out by St Augustine in Contra Faustum (383 CE). That's quite a feat.
I keep thinking that if Donald Trump had gone to prison for January 6, as he should have, all those Iranian schoolgirls would be having dinner with their families this evening.
Officials are normally presented with ceremonial swords or paintings or whatever. But these guys are so fucking stupid that foreign intelligence agencies can literally give them an "Honorary Electronic Communications Device for a Very Special Boi" and they fall for it every time.
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
Steps in Trump war rhetoric:
1. We don’t have to play by the rules in war
2. We won the war
3. If you go by the rules I just made up we won
4. No fair
Mamdani is doing everything possible to maintain a principled critique of Israel that is not antisemitic. He will keep doing it, because he believes it. But the Jewish organizations like the ADL that have decided to go to war with him are making a mistake that will endanger US Jews for a generation.
They're calling it the dumbest air campaign of all time
You can safely assume that anything Michael Powell writes is malignantly deceptive.
Michael Powell and the Atlantic despise people of integrity on the left more than anything else including actual christofascism. 🧵
How about “Every congressman with an ounce of integrity should be screaming for Trump to be removed from office”?
I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...
One week ago. 🤡
STOP THE WAR says @chrismurphyct.bsky.social. Who else?
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire.
1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
Again with the crappy headlines that diminish the impact of an important argument.
Literally straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
Everyone with a platform should be screaming that Trump is unfit to be commander-in-chief. www.wsj.com/politics/nat... gift link
A superb read.
Never understood the media saying that if they report the truth or report in a way he'll consider 'unfavorable', their access will be cut off.
It works both ways. A man addicted to constant media attention/PR is going to deny access to the very people who give him what he craves?
The Kushner brand is basically: I'm hear to offer peace deals and get money, and I'm all out of peace deals
Spent most of my career talking down the endless stream of unjustified oil market alarm.
Now I’m acutely alarmed to the point of disbelief, the oil market is still shockingly sanguine, and I feel like this guy.
We’ve reached the point where the damage Trump has done to the economy with his impulsive war will not correct by the time low information voters form their final judgements on the midterm election
Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions.
If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.
Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.
Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write
Trump is posting this stuff from the plane en route to a weekend getaway at his private club btw
Just this morning, Hegseth called CNN “fake news” for reporting that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the Strait of Hormuz. “Patently ridiculous, of course,” he said. “This is always what they do, hold the strait hostage. CNN doesn't think we thought of that.”
