The highest levels of US Government are meeting today to decide the best strategy for covering up the fact the sitting President had sex with children. America is not great.
06.08.2025 12:45 โ ๐ 179 ๐ 44 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 2@jeffwrite.bsky.social
Retired newspaper reporter/editor; democracy demagogue; I like to hike, read, volunteer, play tennis and poker.
The highest levels of US Government are meeting today to decide the best strategy for covering up the fact the sitting President had sex with children. America is not great.
06.08.2025 12:45 โ ๐ 179 ๐ 44 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 2when 4-5M people march peacefully against the current regime it's the story of the year. NYT cannot bring itself to focus on that reality.
15.06.2025 18:45 โ ๐ 11038 ๐ 2111 ๐ฌ 460 ๐ 110Holding a sign in front of the Capitol "Killing our speaker won't silence us."
Proud of Minnesotans
14.06.2025 19:33 โ ๐ 21991 ๐ 4090 ๐ฌ 123 ๐ 148It is fascism.
At a journalism event I asked about using the word so journalism can cover and explain it. I was told that we can't call fascists fascists because it would put off the fascists.
This is fascism. Those who refuse to identify it are not doing journalism.
An advance look at โOn Parade,โ David Plunkertโs cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers
13.06.2025 14:34 โ ๐ 25293 ๐ 6317 ๐ฌ 860 ๐ 410War manager
Russia wants to speak to the Manager.
01.06.2025 22:52 โ ๐ 4719 ๐ 860 ๐ฌ 89 ๐ 48๐
01.06.2025 19:39 โ ๐ 6374 ๐ 1261 ๐ฌ 60 ๐ 36Monday. Strong coffee. Nice flowers and standing up for science ๐งช
19.05.2025 12:22 โ ๐ 15688 ๐ 2155 ๐ฌ 231 ๐ 89We've got brand new billboards, radio ads, and digital ads up in three Southern states โ and they represent an important and hopeful message: If you need abortion care, help is available regardless of what state you call home. Help us spread the word! www.brigidalliance.org 1/3
19.05.2025 20:13 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The corporate media is complicit.
14.05.2025 16:20 โ ๐ 1769 ๐ 240 ๐ฌ 21 ๐ 8It's hard to adequately describe how scary it is to watch mainstream political journalists barely push back against a sitting U.S. president accepting a $400M plane from a foreign government that would literally be designated as an emergency command-and-control center during a nuclear war.
12.05.2025 02:30 โ ๐ 20567 ๐ 4986 ๐ฌ 256 ๐ 238"Theyโve gotten just about everything they want, and itโs not enough. Itโs never enough. These people are never happy. They crave outrage. They demand purity. Theyโre apoplectic that the first American pope actually reads his Bible."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/these-peop...
A judge arrested. A mayor arrested. Next an opposing member of Congress or the Senate will be arrested. And then, and then and then. The fascism is worse every day. Wake up.
09.05.2025 22:10 โ ๐ 2980 ๐ 903 ๐ฌ 86 ๐ 55If the Supreme Court - especially THIS Supreme Court - no longer takes DHS at its word, corporate media probably shouldnโt either. Just sayin.
27.04.2025 03:23 โ ๐ 13320 ๐ 2625 ๐ฌ 82 ๐ 531. I want to suggest today that what we are seeing on Wall Street and in markets around the world is the sudden realization that the president is mentally unstable โ that he has dementia, probably โ and as a result of that realization, investors no longer have any faith in Donald Trump.
23.04.2025 21:24 โ ๐ 1917 ๐ 435 ๐ฌ 81 ๐ 48Neil Young endorses Mark Carney.
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Lol
19.04.2025 03:02 โ ๐ 44 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Canada's own Neil Young.
Keep on rocking in the free world Neil.
#handsoff #elbowsup
Barry Blittโs brilliant cartoon on todayโs New Yorker cover, โLeft to Their Own Devicesโ
07.04.2025 22:12 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If there were 20 goons with AR-15s slung around their necks at one state capitol when Biden was president it would be the above the fold headline. There were over 1,400 separate protests and millions of people in the streets yesterday. @nytimes.com gave it a tiny square below the fold. Pathetic.
06.04.2025 14:37 โ ๐ 394 ๐ 63 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 5We need to start new TV networks!
06.04.2025 14:25 โ ๐ 846 ๐ 104 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 275 percent.
07.04.2025 02:50 โ ๐ 3121 ๐ 830 ๐ฌ 48 ๐ 29Again, worth at the last considering the possibility that heโs a malevolent idiot who has no idea what heโs doing.
07.04.2025 00:21 โ ๐ 26992 ๐ 4543 ๐ฌ 2093 ๐ 331A couple thousand patriots showed up in my hometown of Eugene OR today to declare Hands Off!
06.04.2025 00:51 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?
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