David Robert Newman

ICYMI — Trump lied that Chicago had “4000” murders, when it’s projected to have 380 this year (way down from last year)

If it’s so bad there why does he have to keep lying about it?

This is, after all, the guy who said on 9/11 that his was now the tallest building in NYC.

Sure... she used her office to enrich herself, confident in the belief that she could just absolve herself of any crimes.

But don't worry.

I'm SURE she's NOT doing the same now that she's in charge of the largest, unaccountable law enforcement slush fund in the history of the United States.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

"I believe that Americans would agree that the government can’t just make people disappear without any process or explanation. Second, because I want to give the government a chance to admit that they were wrong.

So far the government has not done so."

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A historical nit: It wasn’t called Idlewild when The Beatles arrived there in February 1964.

I recall her saying something to the effect of Hitler being an OK guy at first who just got carried away...

If this isn’t an example of a failure to “promote the general Welfare,” as everyone in government takes an oath to do, nothing is.

The oath promises to support and defend the Constitution. The quote above is from its very first paragraph.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

And all that tubby Leslie Groves ever did was build the Pentagon and run the Manhattan Project.

Grant wore a beard. So did Sherman.

Courtesy of your HEW secretary, I had the privilege of watching your first inaugural parade from a balcony in the old EOB.

I was only 9 but when the Up With People float went by I knew even then that this was atrocious.

“In honor of Friendship Month,” someone put up a statue near the US Capitol of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Then a rainbow appeared.

📷: Kent Nishimura

Trump posts a deranged message to Pam Bondi pressuring her to prosecute his political enemies after a U.S. attorney quit because he refused to fabricate charges: “We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility.”

Even if you take the most lenient possible interpretation -- that SCOTUS has made it increasingly hard to prosecute bribery and corruption -- you still have to ask what kind of crooked-ass administration hires a guy who just took $50k cash.

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year:
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

Photo of Pittsburgh Pirates star Roberto Clemente, who made many humanitarian missions throughout Latin America, and who died carrying relief supplies to victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua.

Remembering Roberto Clemente, a great ballplayer and even greater human, on Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Image of powerful statement by Charlotte Clymer on free speech. Choice quote: “Either you believe in First Amendment protections, or you don’t. Either you believe the government has no business punishing someone’s speech, or you don’t.”

This is the correct response to the president saying broadcasters who dare criticize him risk losing their licenses and the FCC chairman asserting that only speech he agrees with is acceptable. 👏 👏

The US military will likely find that Charlie Kirk fans wanted to say bigoted things and maybe become podcasters, not sacrifice and put themselves at risk for national service.

In this case it’s cowardice by association.

Not Disney/ABC directly, but ABC affiliate owner Nexstar has a $6.2B deal in need of FCC and FTC approval to pick up 64 more stations in 51 markets.

Clear out the (perceived) troublemakers, get your ticket punched.

Each one of these “victories” costs hundreds of US jobs.

There are many reasons our thin-skinned Dear Leader has such terrible jobs numbers. This isn’t helping.

The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools

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Surely a coincidence…

COVID-19 Vaccines Averted 2.5 Million Deaths, Mostly Among Older Adults COVID-19 vaccinations prevented approximately 2.5 million deaths worldwide between December 2020 and October 2024, corresponding to about 1% of total global mortality in that time frame, a comparative...

COVID-19 Vaccines Averted 2.5 Million Deaths, Mostly Among Older Adults
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Worth remembering too that Woodward was a metro beat reporter, recently hired from the Montgomery (County, MD) Sentinel. Right place right time, but he owes a lot to Graham, Bradlee, – and Redford.

Free speech company opposes free speech

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know.”

Trump administration to award a no-bid contract on research into vaccines and autism Federal health officials intend to award a no-bid contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to investigate whether there is a link between vaccinations and autism.

The outrage of a no bid contract on autism to an engineering school that doesn't even have a department of epidemiology or neuroscience is only exceeded by the choice of recipient, a data scientist who last published on autism in 2020 and thinks like Wakefield. 🧪 #episky 🧵
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Appeals Court Says Lisa Cook Can Remain on Fed Board

Fed governor Lisa Cook is three things the president can’t stand. Competent is the first one.

Too much for even Pat Buchanan. Hell of a thing.

Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.

Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.

These docs show she did not.
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