On Jesse Jackson, Robert Duvall, and AOC
Three stories today that stirred memories of the 1980s.
Today's newsletter: 80s Memories
-On Jesse Jackson: A memorable 1984 encounter
-On Robert Duvall: Dinner and a dirty pickup truck
-On AOC: "Clean Up on Aisle Nein!"
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17.02.2026 12:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From Clinton emails to Epstein emails
Maybe now we know some of what was deleted by Hillary Clinton's team: Epstein's enterprise helped launch the Clinton Global Initiative.
In 2015, a source close to the Clintons told me their pay-to-play foundation was at the root of Hillary's email scandal. Today, we learn from Jeffery Epstein's emails that his enterprise helped launch the Clinton Global Initiative. Dots connected here: convulsions.substack.com/p/from-clint...
08.02.2026 13:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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05.02.2026 11:51 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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". . . still deporting people guilty of nothing more than wanting to be U.S. citizens, still supporting warrantless raids on homes, still condoning racial profiling and baseless arrests of U.S. citizens, and still listening to overt racist Stephen Miller."
-- @ronfournier.bsky.social
27.01.2026 16:38 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"This line [from Springsteen] spoke to me: 'There were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood.'"
29.01.2026 16:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
He's Coming for You
What Trump's raid on a Washington Post reporter's home is really all about.
@ronfournier.bsky.social on why the Trump administration's raid and seizing of a @washingtonpost.com reporter's materials should send chills down those who love our democracy.
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14.01.2026 22:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
He's Coming for You
What Trump's raid on a Washington Post reporter's home is really all about.
Thanks for this, @ronfournier.bsky.social “He wants you silenced, too. He wants you afraid to speak out against him.
“Second, he wants to make it impossible for journalists to hold him accountable.”
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It Can Get Worse
And today is does: On ICE, Venezuela, and Iran.
My newsletter today connects the dots between three stories in today’s “Morning Read-In,” a pre-dawn feature for paid subscribers to Convulsions. convulsions.substack.com/p/it-can-get...
13.01.2026 13:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It Can Get Worse
And today is does: On ICE, Venezuela, and Iran.
NEW: A young mother is shot in the face moments after telling an ICE agent, “I’m not mad at you,” and just five days later investigators conclude:
-Her political activism may be a justification for her murder.
-Her killer likely won’t be charged. convulsions.substack.com/p/it-can-get...
13.01.2026 13:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ICED
In a modern-day kangaroo court: Rene Nicole Good was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by Trump and his team of lying jackals.
My bottom lines:
1. Defying a police order is not a capital offense.
2. Opposing ICE is not a capital offense.
3. Trump, Vance, and Noem are liars, not jurors
convulsions.substack.com/p/iced
09.01.2026 14:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I Walked in Bari Weiss' Shoes and Now Wonder: Is Her Soul for Sale?
As a former editor-in-chief, here's my take on the '60 Minutes' controversy.
Having walked in her shoes, my advice to Weiss would be this: Hold your team to the highest standard and deliver a hard-hitting piece worthy of the “60 Minutes” reputation. If you pull a punch, the White House will sell your soul one piece at a time. convulsions.substack.com/p/i-walked-i...
22.12.2025 14:19 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Read @rahmemanuel.bsky.social's essay on parenting. Seriously, it's good. Featured in my newsletter today (second item):
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20.12.2025 14:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Harsh Education of Elise Stefanik
Also: Rahm Emanuel on parenting, of all things.
I knew Elise Stefanik at Harvard's Institute of Politics, when she was a moderate Republican friendly with liberal classmates like @petebuttigieg.bsky.social. Unfortunately, we didn't teach her at Harvard to harness her ambition or deal with the likes of Donald Trump.
20.12.2025 14:11 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
On Pearl Harbor Day, "America First" Lives in Infamy
The movement's isolationism, protectionism, nationalism, anti-Semitism, and Nazism died 84 years ago today. Only to rise again.
Eighty-four years ago, we learned that isolationism, nationalism, and protectionism can make good people blind to the hard realities of their times and catapult bad men toward unspeakable horrors.
07.12.2025 13:20 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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