Michael_Modal

Your shaming mode is pretty lethal.

Thanks for affirming your self importance. Democracy will sleep more restfully.

Curb your heroics, Mike. Most of Harper's signers genuinely care about true free speech, unlike your censorious, "I don't like this speech; you can't say this" position. Your unprincipled, othering humiliation helped to elect Trump, who's justified his censorship by referencing yours.

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The comments overwhelmingly criticize the Trump administration's demand for a content review of the Smithsonian's exhibitions, viewing it as an attempt to whitewash or censor American history.

Art White House threatens Smithsonian funds in sweeping content review "American people will have no patience" for any museum that is "uncomfortable conveying a positive view of American history," read a letter from Trump aides.

The Trump administration is threatening to withhold federal funds from the Smithsonian unless it submits documentation for a content review, aiming to remove “improper ideology” from the museum system.

Currently listening to Warren Wolf’s wonderful “Christmas Vibes”

#jazzsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiIbtlTltgQ

POLITICS | NATIONAL SECURITY New Class of Warship to Be Named After President Trump The new vessels, which the president calls battleships, will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a 'Golden Fleet' By Lara Seligman (Follow and Marcus Weisgerber (Follow Updated Dec. 22, 2025 at 3:40 pm ET Share AA Resize 308 do Listen (2 min)

America’s most famous draft dodger names warships after himself.

Trump thinks “class” equals gold…colored bling.

The editor of 'The Free Press' acts like the editor of Pravda.

Across the government, much information is simply no longer being collected. The Department of Homeland Security for years had issued monthly reports on immigration statistics; the Trump administration stopped that practice in February. The law requires the administration to conduct an annual report on the federal workforce; officials did not deliver it this year. Dozens of climate change reports and data collections have been taken down across the government. When information is produced, it may be in skeletal form. The Education Department is required by law to produce a yearly report on the condition of education in America, but the 2025 version omits key data and is "extremely truncated," according to Rachel Dinkes, president of the Knowledge Alliance, a coalition of research education groups. "Data is a flashlight that lets us see, and if we don't have that light, we're in the dark," Dinkes said. "There is no other entity that can provide reliable, high quality timely data that the federal government provides. It's unique to the federal role." An Education Department spokesperson said the agency will update the information "on a rolling basis," ensuring it is current. Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said DHS provides updates on arrests and deportations "regularly — more than monthly." A number of ongoing surveys have also been dropped, including the Agricultural Labor Survey, which collected wage information from farms; the Drug Abuse Warning Network, which monitored hospital data on substance abuse; and a household survey on hunger, according to watchdogs.

Trump is sending unmistakable warnings to those who provide information he dislikes.

Who is Solomon Ray?

DC No Kings

Swing Beat: The Future Looks Bleak for Jazz at the Kennedy Center The performing arts institution has let its music programmers go, and currently its jazz season is composed of one WWII-era big band.

The future looks bleak for jazz at the Kennedy Center

#jazzsky

washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7716...

Kennedy Center fires head of jazz programming, adding to a string of staff exits Kevin Struthers had worked at the arts institution for 30 years, overseeing a program that had been a draw for prominent musicians.

Kennedy Center (under Trump) fires head of jazz programming

#jazzsky

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

When I wanted to avoid ultra processed food, I used to buy products made in Canada.

But the option is being denied to Americans due to Trump tariffs.

MAHA imagines ConAgra will magically change its ways.
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Why I’ve cancelled my WaPo subscription, after a lifetime of loyalty dating back to the Watergate era.


Total irony that ‘America First’ security is now the Department Forever Wars.

War is coming!

Next up: A “war time” draft for young men (women aren’t eligible)

Need more troops for the streets of DC and other cities.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/04/trump-defense-war-department-rename

DC Jazzfest artist in resident Corcoran Holt, on stage with Billy Harper, George Cables, Steve Toure

#jazzsky

Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.

Hegseth’s role model

Justice Judge dismisses unprecedented DOJ lawsuit against Maryland federal court Justice Department officials are expected to continue their legal challenge, either by appealing Cullen's ruling or pursuing separate legal challenges... 9 minutes ago

The US Department of Justice is not above the law.

Democrats need to stop saying crime is not a problem in DC.

They have managed crime badly in DC and given Trump and opening.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/carjacked-capital-crime-pandemic-still-roiling-dc-rcna224655

Criticize Trump's Ukraine policy, have the FBI raid your house

Hope this one is a TACO threat. I’m not so sure.

Armored National Guard vehicle collides with SUV on Capitol Hill The incident is under investigation by the D.C. National Guard, an official said. Yesterday at 5:16 p.m. ET • 3 min MYODNP 273RD CHUTEN HOT ESNA

Officials said the driver of the SUV had to be extricated by firefighters and was sent to a nearby hospital

DC home rule should mean DC runs its government.

Nice history from the Smithsonian (read it before someone orders it taken down)

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...

Hegseth and Trump are purging generals faster than Xi Jinping


Two countries, one system
#Chimeria

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-air-force-general-david-allvin-to-retire-early/

I suggest you figure out who needs to hear it and how to say it so they listen. Find a place that likes oligarchs and doesn’t question them. Maybe contribute an op-ed to the WSJ?

Bluesky is the last place you need to reach - it’s even more of an echo chamber than X.

CZA-tA TO S9190 LABEL OTHER END Paper s, afresod on fed woman LABEL OTHER END UNITED STATES POSTAL WARNING THIS EQUIPI UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE HALF MM TRAY - EIRS 74HP A worker handles ballots on election night in 2024 at the Los Angeles County ballot processing center in the City of Industry. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times) 10 By Michael Wilner Washington Bureau Chief | X Follow Aug. 18, 2025 Updated 1:54 PM PT D 193 • The U.S. Constitution gives the president no authority to prescribe or govern election procedures, leaving that to the states. • The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Putin attempted to influence the last three U.S. presidential elections in Trump's favor. President Trump said Monday he would renew his assault on mail-in voting after Russia's autocratic leader, Vladimir Putin, told him to do so at their meeting in Alaska last week. The president provided few details, but wrote on social media that he would "lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we're at it, Highly 'Inaccurate,' Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES."

Trump is following Putin’s election advice.

Don’t listen to RFK jr.

Get your shots.

(I won’t reveal what federal museum this picture was taken in for fears Trump’s museum police will take in down)

A = The Atlantic Sign In Notably, both sets of statistics seem out of keeping with the views of D.C. residents. About 65 percent of them told The Washington Post that crime was a "very" or "extremely" serious problem last year, even as violence declined. Perhaps locals are responding to a measurable increase in public disorder - petty offenses such as vagrancy, shoplifting, and unsanitary conditions, which drive our perceptions of major crime. As I noted in a Manhattan Institute report last summer, indicators such as unsheltered homelessness and sanitation-enforcement requests to the city's 311 line have spiked (and those trends continue into this year). When Trump complains of rising ; "squalor," he's not off base.

Crime is a problem in DC. Murders are 7x the rate of NYC.

“Washington’s murder rate was generally rising even before the pandemic. The murder rate at the end of 2024 was, per Asher’s data, lower than 2023, but still about 70 percent higher than that of a decade prior.”