Cynthia Suchomel

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Americans’ Support for Israel Dramatically Declines, Times/Siena Poll Finds

Americans’ Support for Israel Dramatically Declines, Times/Siena Poll Finds
A majority of American voters now oppose sending additional economic and military aid to Israel, a stunning reversal in public opinion since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

WASH POST: “A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration would turn it into a trusteeship administered by 🇺🇸 while it is transformed into a gleaming tourism resort… temporary relocation of Gaza’s more than 2 million population…” 🤔 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I am very much looking forward to the part where we value kindness again.

TEXAS TRIBUNE: “Some National Weather Service offices like Houston — where as many as 44% of positions are vacant…”
www.texastribune.org/2025/06/09/t...

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

The Price of Remission When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

Cancer drug Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.

Decades later, Revlimid costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply...

Even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.

New: @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @propublica.org

“They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have 5.”

U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

SCOOP: The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

New Mexico set to create ‘Turquoise Alert’ system for missing Indigenous people • Source New Mexico New Mexico is set to become the fourth state to create an alert system meant to help find Native Americans who have gone missing.

NM set to enact a new alert system for missing Indigenous people.

Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

Social Security now requires Maine parents to visit an agency office to register newborns The change — immediately criticized by pediatric health advocates — eliminates a program that allowed parents to fill out a form at the hospital to secure a Social Security number for their children.

Another ominous development: The Social Security Administration is no longer allowing parents in Maine to register newborns for SSNs at hospital after birth, is instead requiring them to visit a Social Security Office to register their children.
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...

Fact-checking Donald Trump's speech to Congress BBC Verify has looked into several claims made by Trump during his speech to Congress.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.

A tweet from Tom Malinowski with a verified badge reads: "Whoops, I accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention! Doh, I fired the the bird flu experts! Oops-a-daisy, I stopped the Lutheran Charities foster care and adoption services! My bad, I sacked the nuclear weapons workers! Now can I have access to your tax returns?"

Living through corrupt kakistocracy

It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

Since January 24, 14,482 adults and 1,541 infants have died as a consequence of a single frozen USAID program. USAID implements the PEPFAR program.

Since January 24, 14,482 adults and 1,541 infants have died as a consequence of a single frozen USAID program. USAID implements the PEPFAR program.

New op-ed out today! "We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists."

This op-ed was written with fierce love for our communities. That's who we serve. We will not be erased.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Amazingly talented!

It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

Hannah Arendt located the origins of Nazism in the German bourgeoisie’s secretly delighting in the mob’s irreverence. For the fun of having the curtain pulled on their own hypocrisy, Arendt describes, the elite “did not at all object to paying a price, the destruction of civilization.”

Georgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story. Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million — a warning for other states looking to impose restrictions on Medicaid in a second Trump presidency.

NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform.

Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

From Philly to Bucks, protesters rally against Trump and Musk on Presidents’ Day: ‘Not a king!’ Protesters gathered in Philadelphia and Bucks County Monday to rally against President Donald Trump's controversial policies and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

The Inquirer is covering the protests, even if Vichy NYT won't

www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

The ad has two halves. On the left is says Who’s running this country which a picture of Musk head back laughing behind a superimposed White House. Underneath is says “Donald Trump or Elon Musk. On the right is a photo of a stern looking Musk with the words: No one elected Elon Musk to any office. Is says Learn More at firemusk.org

NEW: The Washington Post has pulled out of an agreement to run an ad in its newspaper criticising Elon Musk. This is despite signing an agreement to publish it.

Democracy dies in darkness.

Here is the ad. Let’s share it far and wide! Screw the Post.