Rude.
I’ve seen enough. It’s time to shut the humanity experiment down. Good luck to the cockroaches who inherit our irradiated remains.
Hey @kenjennings.bsky.social , has @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social gotten significantly easier, or have I gotten significantly smarter? I should not be able to run the Jeopardy round board two consecutive nights. Challenge me!
Look where so many people falling for the excuse that “it was only locker room talk” has gotten us.
Meanwhile, you just know at least three of the boy hockey players are going to give Trump their medals.
So what do you recommend? Because I’ve been calling my senators and representative (surely y’all are tired of my messages) and that doesn’t seem to be fixing anything.
Just because he cheats and also uses mail-in ballots doesn’t mean everyone who mails in a ballot commits election fraud.
I didn’t know Coco Jones (I’m middle aged and checked out of culture) but DAMN! I sure do now. P.S. Lift Every Voice and Sing should be the national anthem.
Nobody *takes* a decision. It’s almost like human writers can’t be replaced with ChatGPT.
In a political science class in college, we had a guest speaker once named Dick Harpootlian. We were the Gamecocks. Neither struck me as hilarious until I moved away and heard those words from national media people.
Coach Assey was the baseball coach at my high school. (Got fired for having an affair w/ the cheerleading coach in the athletics office. But that’s beside the point.)
What if we all just start laughing at Bezos for being too poor to afford to own The Washington Post? Would that do anything? #WaPo #DemocracyDies
This is a great thread (is that what they’re called here?) about the losses in my beloved Fourth Estate.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
That’s a perfect phrasing. And, no, there won’t be a trial.
This was obviously intentional killing. But the reason journalists don’t use the word “murder” is because, by definition, for there to be murder, there must be a conviction. It’s not that writers are not using “murder” to avoid a categorization, but because until there’s a trial, there’s no murder.
If only we as a country, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence, had some historical events from our founding era that might help us understand why agents of a distant government shouldn’t murder protesters on the streets of the city where they live.
It’s sunken in. But who is going to *DO* something about it?
Among other things, the first person account from the reporter shows that despite Everything, WaPo reporters and editors are still avidly doing the work.
Attempting to survive a fascist takeover of the country while in perimenopause makes it really damned difficult to decide what to make the family for dinner. I can’t keep doing the everyday bs under these conditions.
It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
These are bad, but they’re not even close to the things that are most important right now. Congress has got to stop this madness.
We have employed you to be our representation to stop this. What are you doing?!
So, what are we doing?
DO SOMETHING! An impotent branch of government is permitting this madness.
A tough blow for a once-mighty paper and industry. I’m glad I got to be there during some of your era and hope what’s next is even better.
Thanksgiving Eve feels like a perfect time to share my favorite headline thus far:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
As if all of this [gestures wildly] isn’t enough, now I’m expected to survive through “We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to time. Reliving in our eloquence. Another auld lang syne,” season?
I can’t be the only one wondering if @kenjennings.bsky.social and Ken Burns have get togethers where they just play “I’m Just Ken” and talk about Kenergy and stuff.
