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I teach journalism at UPenn. I’ve been a journo since 1973, including 28 yrs at the Phila Inquirer. I write at dickpolman.substack.com and I’m archived at dickpolman.net Trying to sustain equilibrium in a land turned upside down.

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This AP story will be in about 100 papers tomorrow. He did the racist "they're coming in caravans to rape our wives" routine in his first midterm, Dems netted 41 House seats

10.12.2025 03:26 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and moral, then it’s not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power. - Dwight Eisenhower

08.12.2025 23:37 — 👍 5878    🔁 1909    💬 0    📌 127

Let me guess. Biden?

04.12.2025 14:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Living is easy with eyes closed / Misunderstanding all you see…”
-John Lennon

03.12.2025 18:38 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Man. Man. Camera. Incompetent. Incompetent.

Aced it!

03.12.2025 14:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who could have possibly imagined that a convicted criminal, if elected, would trigger a national and international crime spree?

Not 77 million voters, apparently.

Makes ya proud to be an American.

02.12.2025 13:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sen. Kelly: “This is about a president who doesn't want anybody to say anything that he does not like. I don't think he understands the Constitution. I think he is ignorant to the Constitution and the rule of law…This isn't about me. This is about what he will do next.”

01.12.2025 22:10 — 👍 8860    🔁 2550    💬 197    📌 119
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No child should go hungry simply because their parents are immigrants. As mayor, I’ll join @newyorkstateag.bsky.social in using every lever of government for the families who fear if they can afford tomorrow’s meals.

30.11.2025 22:02 — 👍 8645    🔁 1583    💬 97    📌 35

The voice in Trump’s teeth have told him that blowing up shipwreck survivors will clinch him the Nobel Peace Prize.

01.12.2025 20:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sarah Beckstrom died for Trump's optics, a casualty of his vainglorious foolery Her blood is on his hands. As if he cares.

My latest. And believe it or not, the most apt quote comes from Groucho Marx.

01.12.2025 18:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.

What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

01.12.2025 13:48 — 👍 12115    🔁 5339    💬 344    📌 331

I guess Albert Speer isn't available.

28.11.2025 19:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Let's not confuse the people giving the stupid orders with the people who have to deal with following them, who are often good and decent people.

28.11.2025 03:04 — 👍 4686    🔁 842    💬 93    📌 25

Our convicted felon president, who pardoned Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, wants to charge Mark Kelly, a decorated war veteran and astronaut, with seditious conspiracy.

That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.

26.11.2025 01:06 — 👍 13190    🔁 3982    💬 278    📌 125

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

26.11.2025 01:13 — 👍 21790    🔁 5069    💬 887    📌 357

Who's he?

25.11.2025 14:27 — 👍 29    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0
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"Quiet, Piggy!" oinked the pig who was twice hired by an electorate infested with pigs He's the end product of a misogynist culture that gives him permission.

My latest. Hard as it was to write this with humor, I tried.

25.11.2025 14:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Made possible by the fact that, according to the exit polls, a majority of men voted for Piggy in 3 straight elections. It’s a nation of pigs.

23.11.2025 21:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I heard the same whines when “The Wire” debuted. “Too slow,” “not enough action” “zzz” etc.
Whatever.

23.11.2025 17:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No, it’s Saul Goodman.

23.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of these wee-hour mornings Trump will wake up during his toilet squat and realize with the full fury of a brain fart that he’s incandescently jealous of Mamdani and then hoo boy the Army and Pam Bondi will have to snap to attention.

22.11.2025 22:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nothing means anything, chapter zillion.

22.11.2025 17:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy 100th birthday, Robert F. Kennedy What he said then should guide us to our best selves today.

My latest. Take a break from Trump's desperate toxicities.

22.11.2025 17:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Two years ago she agreed to Zoom with my journalism students at Penn. The hour came and went; she ghosted us. I later emailed to ask why. She said oh she forgot. I emailed her again to reschedule. She never replied.

22.11.2025 17:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Comatose at the keyboard: Why won't mainstream media outlets call on Trump to quit? It's shameful that demands for his resignation aren't part of the conversation.

My latest. Just wondering...

dickpolman.substack.com/p/comatose-a...

17.11.2025 17:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Minutes earlier she was twitching like the characters in “Pluribus.”

17.11.2025 00:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump on Epstein Files: I don’t want to talk about it because fake news like you—you’re a terrible reporter—fake news like you just keeps bringing up to deflect from the tremendous success of The Trump Admin

17.11.2025 00:20 — 👍 1985    🔁 489    💬 374    📌 142
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Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.

14.11.2025 19:50 — 👍 8734    🔁 3483    💬 923    📌 287
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Trump pressures Boebert, Mace to back down on Epstein files If any GOP member were to remove their name, the petition would no longer have the necessary support.

The White House wants everyone to know that Trump has nothing to hide with regard to his longtime connection to Epstein, but also that republicans had better keep hiding information if they know what’s good for them.

www.axios.com/2025/11/12/e...

13.11.2025 01:32 — 👍 743    🔁 244    💬 32    📌 16
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McGovern: He would rather appeal to the highest court in the land to starve people than simply provide them with the food assistance that he is legally obligated to do. That is the Republican policy position. We will give you your food if you let us take away your health care.

12.11.2025 00:08 — 👍 3108    🔁 1119    💬 46    📌 30

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