Jim Trotter

Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump

Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute The sum sought by the government is more than twice as much as the $200 million fine that Columbia University said it would pay when it settled its clash with the White House last week.

Reporting by college journalists sure makes it look like the @nytimes.com went with a Trump admin lie on Harvard. Yikes.

Garber said "the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is “false” and claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials" 1/

Greatest college football game ever played. Prove me wrong. 👇🏾

“Both of them.”

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So, This Is How a Free Press Dies in America? PBS and NPR have announced they're beginning to shut down. History shows us that fascism always comes for the free press first.

So, This Is How a Free Press Dies in America?
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Yet another act of shameful cowardice.

Is anyone surprised? 👇🏾

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WATCH — @peterbeinart.bsky.social : “Why did it take this long? We are profoundly complicit. The blood is on our hands as Americans because it is our weapons responsible for those children starving to death in Gaza… if Israel disagrees, let CNN’s cameras in.”

It says so much about the lack of humanity in the world that this is being allowed to happen. 👇🏾

It’s Abu Ghraib all over again.

But inside our borders.

It’s not just the plane rides:

- Trump and Epstein were close friends for many years

- Epstein met some of his victims through Trump

- Trump met Melania through Epstein

- Trump threw at least one party for Epstein

- At least one Epstein victim suggested the FBI investigate Trump

At some point, people have to stop framing this as a Trump plan. He’s not smart enough to conceptualize such a plan. He’s mostly a puppet for dangerous people - people whom the media provide cover by focusing solely on Trump.

Who's watching city hall? Nobody—and that should scare you Dave Busiek: A study released this month details a shocking decline in the number of journalists covering local news today.

New post by Dave Busiek: A study released this month details a shocking decline in the number of journalists covering local news today.
(Iowa's decline is bad but it's even worse in many other states)
#media #journalism
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What we tolerate, we permit.

Where is Jake Tapper??? 🧐

I wrote about the flaws in the selection process after Howell was hired. Sometimes I hate being right. (The then and now.) www.nytimes.com/athletic/464...

Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid

They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be.

There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.

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“I won on groceries. Very simple word, groceries. Like almost, you know, who uses the word. I started using the word. The groceries.” 🤡

- 12/8/24

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The lies just never end. Will the media ever state, simply and categorically, Trump lied. Not, “This isn’t true.” State flatly: “Trump lied.” Do it each time he does this: “Trump lied.”

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‘It’s a Miracle’: Queens High Schooler Detained for Weeks in Louisiana After ICE Courthouse Arrest Reunites with Family Joselyn Chipantiza-Sisalema, 20, arrived at the Port Authority bus terminal early Wednesday morning after a federal judge ordered her release from ICE custody.

“We had to beg the people working there that they gave us something to eat, they didn’t even give us water. Sometimes a few cookies they’d throw in there. They had us in there like animals.” — via @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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Why can't this food be sent to Gaza? Or Yemen? South Sudan? Ukraine? What a waste. This regime is incompetent and cruel.