Ryan Parkhurst

This is outrageous. Worse than that. This administration has shown it will do whatever it needs to do to intimidate or censor a free and independent press, a pillar of a stable and responsible democracy.

Have journalists or j. educators found that people are much less eager to talk to journalists or downright militant about their hate for the media? Is this media hatred coming home to roost? Good j. Students can't get interviews with HS Athletic Directors. Completely stonewalled. What the hell?

Republican Eric Schmitt from Missouri on PBS NewsHour says with a STRAIGHT FACE, Democrats weaponized the Constitution and used Executive Orders to destroy the country. That's his REASONING for why it's okay for Trump to do it now. "You did it, so we should be able to" is a shaky debate strategy.

An illegal immigrant stealing tons of sensitive government info and storing it on a private server feels like a MAGA fever dream for why we need to BUILD THAT WALL! Instead, he is their hero. Could they at least be consistent with where they direct their hate? Yeesh.

I’d love to see this written with names changed and a made up Latin American country substituted in. There would be quite a lot of people who would be “shocked and horrified” by it, who don’t seem to care at all that this is happening right now in the U.S.

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Politicizing tragedy is nothing new in the U.S. Politicizing tragedy is nothing new in the U.S. We’ve been doing it for years with gun violence. My 2025 BINGO card didn’t have anything about politicizing a plane crash, though. The blame game is in…

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