Joanne Freeman

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

In 2018, I wrote a list of predictions for the future.

I haven't peeked at it since.

I encourage you to do the same.

It really focuses your attention on what's happening.
And how you're feeling about it.

Oh

This is a push-comes-to-shove political move.

Pushing back.

Regardless of the outcome, it’s active resistance.

Trump paves over White House Rose Garden with concrete

Metaphor.

Rep. Thompson, Other Dems Sue Trump Over Access to ICE Centers U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson is among 12 Democrats suing the Trump administration to ensure oversight access at ICE detention centers.

“ICE is holding men, women, and children in overcrowded rooms without beds, showers, or medical care—sometimes for days on end," Chioma Chukwu, executive director of American Oversight, which filed the lawsuit with Democracy Forward.

This interview is so clear & quietly devastating. Public media as we understand it is over.

This is not about the end of NPR & PBS. They might be able to find ways to continue to make programs. Instead of content, this is about the capacity to broadcast at all - antennae, transmitters, licenses. 🧵

The White House landscape now matches our national political one.

Someone “liked” it, and when I saw it after many months, it hit me in the face.

From just after the 2024 election…

I was there for that too in DC. Unprepared architecture and people (officials) who had NO frickin’ idea what to do.

Centered somewhere in NJ.

🤣

Exactly!! Having lived in LA, I’m the same.

I take that back.

I was in a bar with my brother.

And still didn’t feel it.

Apparently, there was an earthquake in NJ.

Some felt it in NYC.

I think I was at a show so…didn’t feel it!

Robert Reich Why Does Trump Hate Sesame Street?

The Smithsonian removed references to Trump’s impeachments from its presidency exhibit, months after he targeted the museum in an executive order.

Why is he attacking a museum?

It’s part of a larger plan to control not just what we do, but what we know. https://youtu.be/rEH7sF6pA4s?feature=shared

Trump destroys our source of information about jobs. This is beyond irresponsible. He hates facts. He rejects truth. He doesn't want the public to know what's really happening.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy.

Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information.

This should alarm everyone. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-destroys-our-source-of-information

Graff, quoting Louis Fischer: “He [Hitler] would destroy democracy. Yet democracy tolerated him and helped him take office in order to destroy democracy. This peaceful death of German democracy is one of the strangest chapters in history.”

God.

I haven’t heard about what happened there. Only UCLA (among UC schools).

Judges Keep Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Arrests, in Setback for Trump Agenda

Tonight, in a win for SoCal residents, the Ninth Circuit upheld the temporary restraining order that blocks the administration from conducting racist stops across Los Angeles and surrounding counties.

We will never stop fighting for all our immigrant communities.

Trump administration revokes Biden era abortion rule for veterans The Trump administration revoked a Biden era abortion rule on Friday that allows veterans to receive abortions under their medical package.  The Department of Veteran Affairs is reversing a 20…

Trump just moved to outlaw women veterans who are victims of rape or incest from getting abortion care at VA.

Republicans don’t care if your health is in danger, if you’re a veteran, or if you’ve been raped—they want abortion outlawed everywhere, for everyone.

How was I not following these folks before now???

Fake antisemitism as a ploy for control and repression.

Using Jews as agenda weapons: THAT’S antisemitic.

Read this thread by the lawyer representing people who challenged the lie re: UCLA.

🤣🤣🤣

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

Wow

New: Ghislaine Maxwell was technically ineligible to be transferred from to a minimum-security federal prison camp-- and the Bureau of Prisons had to waive a rule to facilitate the move, according to public records and a federal prison expert. With @lawofruby.bsky.social