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Retired journalist. “Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may equally be outraged by silence.”

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Thomas Jefferson believed that religion is a private matter. Unlike House Speaker Mike Johnson, whose phony religiosity was on display yesterday when he misattributed a prayer to Jefferson. Jefferson despised people like Johnson.

06.01.2025 20:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I sent the following note to Time Magazine re naming trump its Man of the Year:
Disgusting. Vile. Nauseating. Craven. Your obsequious congratulatory note was the topper. As a retired journalist, I can only say that you've disgraced yourselves and disgraced the entire journalism profession.

13.12.2024 21:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why I Just Resigned From The Los Angeles Times By Harry Litman

Required reading. This is why ownership by billionaires is not the answer to legacy media's troubles.

Why I Just Resigned From The Los Angeles Times substack.com/@harrylitman...

06.12.2024 03:16 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump is seizing control of the investigative and prosecutorial powers of the state by staffing them with the most conspiratorial and blindly loyal nominees : Gaetz/Bondi, Patel, Gabbard.

Political retribution is his priority. The rest of governing he doesn’t care about.

01.12.2024 02:21 — 👍 16588    🔁 4422    💬 664    📌 193

This is why corporate media is flailing.

30.11.2024 19:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Funny how the urge of these two partisan legal hacks to fight the federal government evaporates as soon as a Republican becomes president.

29.11.2024 15:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Funny how their urge to fight the federal government seems to evaporate as soon as a Republican becomes president.

29.11.2024 15:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Which makes him just as dangerous as the rest of them.

20.11.2024 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

trump's selection of former MO solicitor general D. John Sauer to be US solicitor general won't draw as much attention as his other picks because he isn't incompetent, imbecilic or an out-and-out criminal. But he is an anti-abortion zealot who will argue anything in service of the MAGA cause.

20.11.2024 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Week Ahead November 17, 2024

This week: Paying attention is going to be increasingly important, no matter how painful it is. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

18.11.2024 04:15 — 👍 4142    🔁 642    💬 313    📌 44

substack.com/@popularinfo...

18.11.2024 13:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If his first administration was the very definition of a kakistocracy, then what word can we use to describe the list of crackpots, incompetents, grifters, sexual abusers, seditionists, ignoramuses and imbeciles trump has picked for top spots in his second administration?

16.11.2024 04:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Seems like if nominees for Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence can't withstand an FBI background check, that's a red flag

15.11.2024 16:46 — 👍 11020    🔁 2567    💬 551    📌 196
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Total control If Trump aims to turn America into a police state, these are the officials he will utilize. After only 10 days as president-elect, he appears to be on his way.
15.11.2024 09:09 — 👍 1166    🔁 327    💬 44    📌 21

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