@bgrueskin.bsky.social
Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, WSJ, Bloomberg, Columbia J School. Currently in SLC. bit.ly/bgcjr
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
To be sure, Hegseth has yet to fully engage the press in a traditional sense. His briefings feature Trump-friendly news outlets who are assigned seats in the front two rows while reporters from large, mainstream outlets are relegated to the back. Those journalists rarely get a question in, while one reporter from a favored site asked him what his prayer was for troops in harm's way.
That’s quite a “to be sure” graf!
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Top Stories Markets THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Opinion Business Tech U.S. Hegseth Finds His Footing as Epic Fury's Front Man As conservative critics question the assault on Iran, President Trump's TV-ready defense secretary is going on offense. World
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06.03.2026 03:57 — 👍 67 🔁 8 💬 8 📌 3Autocorrect?
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In January alone, Torbati had 14 bylines at the WashPost.
www.washingtonpost.com/people/yegan...
This is the kind of journalist an editor yearns for at a time like this: A Persian-fluent reporter w/ deep experience covering Iranian politics and policies.
She used to work at the Washpost.
Then Bezos dismantled the international coverage.
Now she’s at the NYT
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It’ll have to be a state case or an international one. Because she can expect a full and unconditional federal pardon.
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Tweet by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl @jonkarl In a lengthy phone interview, President Trump marveled at the success of the military operation against Iran and expressed no concern about what comes next. "I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?" I said _nobody questions the success of the military operation_, the concern is what happens next. "Forget about next," he answered. "They are decimated for a 10-year period before they could build it back." 3:26 PM · Mar 5, 2026 · 71.8K Views https://x.com/jonkarl/status/2029654727093325965
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05.03.2026 21:50 — 👍 600 🔁 120 💬 21 📌 9She doesn’t leave til March 31
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Somewhere up there in doggie heaven, a wirehaired pointer named Cricket (née Noem) is having the best day of her afterlife.
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Also attributed to Orwell:
"How the heck did you squeeze a queen-size bed into a Boeing 737?"
Washington Post Open in the Wash Post app OPEN Read in app Opinion Editorial Board In defense of the White House ballroom Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs October 25, 2025
'I did not vote for this': Thousands of public comments slam Trump's ballroom A Post analysis of submitted comments found more than 97 percent were critical of the planned 90,000-square-foot addition. The White House has defended it as necessary. 6 hours ago 口556贝 ..•
October: Washpost edit page issues full-throated endorsement of Trump’s demolition project
March: According to Washpost news side, 97 percent of public comments are opposed to Trump’s demolition project
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“Russia is also firing each day hundreds of Shahed-type killer drones first developed in Iran, which Moscow is able to mass-produce after a 2023 technology-transfer deal with Tehran.”
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“Rubio told reporters the U.S. produces only ‘six or seven’ interceptors a month, while Iran manufactures more than 100 missiles in the same period.”
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By attacking Iran, Trump has degraded Ukraine’s ability to defend itself AND jacked up the price of oil that Putin can sell.
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A few months ago, Bahrain amped up its refining capacity to over 400,000 barrels a day.
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This photo shows the graves of schoolchildren killed by airstrikes in Minab, Iran — not grave sites in Indonesia or Brazil, contrary to claims from Grok and others online. Here's how we verified its authenticity. 👇
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"I asked God to forgive me, which he has."
Honestly this is the biggest perk of serving in Congress. Most people have to ask forgiveness and wonder. If you're in Congress you get a same day answer from the big guy.
Makes you wonder what God wants in return from the congressman. Probably a new post office, or maybe a little wink and a nod from the EPA's Superfund director.
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ories THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Markets Opinion Business Tech MICHAEL TRACEY The Epstein Transparency' Travesty Redactions, supposedly to protect victims, are so sweeping as to make a farce of the exercise.
Look who’s an op-ed writer for WSJ Opinion now
05.03.2026 00:01 — 👍 44 🔁 5 💬 9 📌 0There are several ways to answer this question, and that is, well, one of them.
04.03.2026 21:17 — 👍 1500 🔁 254 💬 104 📌 7We haven’t had a good ol’ fashioned supply shock in almost 6 years
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NEW: Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubenstein (R) who prosecuted Tina Peters says Gov Jared Polis (D) giving Peters clemency "would be a gross injustice." Rubenstein points out that separate case cited by Polis to justify clemency misses the purpose of sentencing ranges.
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