@glenndeutsch.bsky.social
Essays, fiction: Post Road, Confrontation, Gargoyle, Notre Dame Rev, Exposition Rev. Fmr English prof, newspaper & magazine journalist. Native NYer; mostly WI & MI. Spouse. Dad. Granddad. Lifelong Orioles fan.
Jimmy Kimmel delivering a 22-minute eulogy of Cleto Escobedo III, his best friend of 45+ yrs, & leader of his show's band..
Two things hit me:
1. He wears his emotions on his sleeve, showing it's ok for men to cry
2. He names the docs/nurses that cared for Cleto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlV...
Why don't we do this? Braille on UK and EU packaging is mandatory for all medicinal products. In the US, we only have voluntary guidelines and standards for medicinal packaging.
11.11.2025 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
06.11.2025 18:22 — 👍 51616 🔁 13919 💬 1002 📌 1149
Page One.
@theguardian.com #ICE
Eugene Debs on a national level, but the election of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social seems more an update on the American socialist movement that was centered in Milwaukee from around 1892-1960. MKE had three 20c socialist mayors, though was a much less multicultural city than New York today.
06.11.2025 13:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Kavanaugh kidnapping.
06.11.2025 03:37 — 👍 562 🔁 253 💬 19 📌 5
Our analysis of EPA air monitoring data shows that companies have far underestimated the pollution caused by their facilities.
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
Murderers and rapists, he said. Arrested: a preschool teacher.
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In one incident, a 5-year-old girl's father, a mere onlooker, was thrown to the ground by an agent. "Dad," she said when he got home, "I just don’t understand who the bad guys are.”
05.11.2025 23:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The government’s operation in Old Irving Park "yielded one arrest of an undocumented immigrant but had far-reaching effects on children and other residents."
05.11.2025 23:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
On top of refusing to reopen the government while withholding SNAP funding, this regime has cancelled USDA's annual hunger report.
They can try to erase the data that proves their cruelty, but they can’t erase the pain of MILLIONS of hungry Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
If you thought masked, unidentified federal agents grabbing people off the street were a frightening step toward dystopia, wait until it's private contractors chasing cash bonuses for rounding up human beings at scale
02.11.2025 14:46 — 👍 346 🔁 203 💬 19 📌 7
"Outside Again" by Drink the Sea: my favorite song of 2025.
I may not have come across it if I hadn't seen @thebaseballproject.bsky.social a few weeks ago at Bell's Brewery and looked into what else Peter Buck has been up to.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3e...
"Republican leaders blamed poor Americans for the Great Depression, saying they drained the economy because they refused to work hard enough." The real problem? "The new economy of the 1920s benefited too few Americans to be sustainable." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-28...
29.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Firing an entire federal arts commission to clear the path for your own triumphal arch? It’s a textbook indicator of authoritarian executive overreach — the exact trend we warned about in our assessment.
#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment
Mitch Lukevics, now a Rays senior advisor. “You can see how he becomes a big league manager because of the intangibles this young man had when he came to us. His attitude, his aptitude. He was one where, no job too small. “It wasn’t like he was a frontline player. Worked his tail off. The work ethic was off the charts. And before you know it, his playing career is over and, what do you think Albie? He had wonderful player intangibles, and those same intangibles are for a great staff member. Attitude, aptitude, work ethic."
28.10.2025 11:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Craig Albernaz, new manager of the @orioles.com , hailed by an official with @raysbaseball.com as exemplifying "attitude, aptitude, work ethic."
I'm thinking that makes his appointment "aawesome."
Good reporting by @rochkubatko.bsky.social
www.masnsports.com/blog/entry/l...
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
26.10.2025 19:17 — 👍 20774 🔁 11164 💬 1301 📌 965Small thing in the grand scheme, but are the Orioles going to improve the appearance of the batter's eye?
26.10.2025 17:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"I...would respectfully disagree with the suggestion that including a story 'below the fold' in our print edition negates this being a significant story in the eyes of The Times. We deployed more than 20 reporters and a dozen photographers to cover the 'No Kings' protests on Saturday, and had comprehensive live coverage throughout the day as well as articles, photography, and video pieces.... "While we did have our two front-page photos on the protests, using print alone to measure a story's significance, impact, or reach is a partial and outdated assessment. Altogether, this was comprehensive on-the-ground coverage, in line with how we would approach documenting other comparable events.
"On Sundays, we tend to showcase reporting that readers can only find at The Times, in this case, the results of a monthslong investigation into how members of a murderous regime have escaped justice. Two other articles on the Sunday front addressed major themes that came up in the protests, namely President Trump's approach to the shutdown/governing and whether the Democratic Party can regain power in Washington. Devoting two photos on the Sunday front page and deep nationwide reporting on most of an inside page is significant print coverage. We covered the 'No Kings' protest in June on the front page; we covered the July protests as well."
I asked the NYT why it played the “No Kings” parades—which drew an estimated 5 million+ protesters—with two small photos below the fold on their Sunday Page One, teasing to a story on page 23.
Their spokesperson gave me this answer, excerpted in today’s Laurels/Darts.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
The NYT downplayed the "No Kings" protests on its homepage, as well & dropped it pretty quickly downward, to where at some point late Sunday afternoon their coverage fell below the first 3 screens (on my laptop at least). Yes there were photos. But never a headline that encapsulated the magnitude.
24.10.2025 11:45 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In 1980, Trump destroyed Art Deco sculptures he'd promised to the Met to speed up Trump Tower's construction—now he's demolishing the White House's East Wing for a massive ballroom despite preservationists' objections.
22.10.2025 22:05 — 👍 408 🔁 248 💬 56 📌 22No paywall on this story for a limited time.
20.10.2025 21:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
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NEW: The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure
w/ @laurengoode.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/ftc-re...
Self-described germaphobe posts AI video of himself as a king dumping excrement on American protestors.
Hey MSM, tell us more about the loss of inhibitions and dementia.
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19.10.2025 13:21 — 👍 114 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 07 MILLION Americans in 2,700+ cities showed the world: The power belongs to the people. The largest, most peaceful, day of protest in US history. This is just the beginning.
19.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 482 🔁 108 💬 8 📌 1“The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops. . . . If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.”
Justice Kavanaugh in Vasquez Perdomo:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
