Rob Garver

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

him and a gazillion others, like 3/4ths of this country is descended from people like "guy who got kicked out of Belfast for gambling crimes and ended up mayor of Duluth" bsky.app/profile/nval...

A request for pitches from freelance journalists offering to pay $10 for a "short video interview."

Yeah, freelance journalism was a brilliant career choice....

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

amazing how much of this country was based on a handshake agreement

Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.

We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it.

If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.

Why do you think politicians spend so much on speechwriters and communications people?

a man with a scorpion bite. A woman with cholera. A diabetic who needed insulin. And Omran, the dimpled 3-year-old.

A man with a scorpion bite.
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.

They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.

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I will never stop reading Google's offer to "polish" my emails as, instead, an offer to translate them into Polish.

USAGM starts firing full-time Voice of America employees The USAGM is sending termination notices to full-time employees at Voice of America, The Desk has learned.

The Desk - USAGM begins sending RIF letters to VOA's fulltime employees, who were placed in paid administrative leave in mid-March. https://thedesk.net/2025/06/usagm-voice-of-america-rif-notices/

Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students

Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in its battle with the school.

Black and white image of a chain-link fence door opening onto a narrow alley. A "Beware of Dog" sign is munted on it. In the bottom of the image, behind the fence is a small black and white pig.

Mandeville Street, New Orleans.

Possible typo on the sign.


#Monochrome #blackandwhite

USAGM today is terminating many of VOA's contractors. Among those affected are J-1 visa holders who will be forced to leave the country in 30 days. Several of these journalists come from countries where they could be arrested or worse because of their objective reporting for VOA. #SaveVOA

Someone in the media, please ask this question.👇

A VOA contributor has been detained in Azerbaijan, marking the latest journalist arrest in the Central Asian country. https://open.substack.com/pub/pressfreedomreport/p/voice-of-america-contributor-detained?r=1g77q&utm_medium=ios

damn this left a bruise

Aging Bull

U.S. economy shrank in early 2025, as tariffs sapped growth GDP shrank in the first quarter, a new report shows, offering a look at how tariffs are reshaping spending patterns and changing the economy.

DOGE showing up at the Bureau of Economic Analysis in 3...2...1...

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YouTube video by San Francisco Giants Heliot Ramos' Walk-Off Little League Home Run vs. Texas Rangers | San Francisco Giants Highlights

Wanna see a guy come up with the game tied in the bottom of the ninth and no one on base, hit a ball about 50 feet, slowly, and win the game?

Judge says Voice of America staffers can go back to work The government-funded VOA has been locked in a court battle to stay on the airwaves.

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Be someone’s Buford today:

NYT clip: A Maryland man who was in the United States legally was deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there because of an “administrative error,” Trump administration officials said in a court filing on Monday, adding that American courts lacked the jurisdiction to have him released.

NYT clip: Three days later, Mr. Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador, and he is now being held in its sprawling Terrorism Confinement Center, a so-called mega prison known as CECOT. In the court filing, Trump administration officials said there was nothing they could do to correct the error, given that Mr. Abrego Garcia is no longer in U.S. custody. His deportation was first reported by The Atlantic.

The Trump administration now admits that Mr. Abrego Garcia’s removal was an “administrative error.” Moreover, Justice Department lawyers said in court papers that there was little they could do get him back from El Salvador, and have urged the judge overseeing the case to reject his family’s petition to bring him home, arguing that the White House cannot force the Salvadoran government to release him and that U.S. federal courts have no jurisdiction to order his release.

Kafka wept.

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Oh?

60 Minutes on Instagram: "Voice of America, the U.S. government-funded international broadcaster with an 83-year history, is now off the air due to a Trump administration executive order. Bill Whitaker reports, Sunday." 3,657 likes, 223 comments - 60minutes on March 29, 2025: "Voice of America, the U.S. government-funded international broadcaster with an 83-year history, is now off the air due to a Trump administration executive order. Bill Whitaker reports, Sunday.".

Along with my colleague and lead plaintiff Patsy Widakuswara, we will be discussing with Bill Whitaker on Sunday's episode of CBS' 60 Minutes the ramifications of the silencing of the Voice of America.

Daily Joke lawn sign that says: The rest of the world is watching America like America watched Tiger King.

My neighbor's Joke of the Day feels painfully on point this morning.

A clipping from a New York Times story that refers to 2030 this way: "That’s a year after Donald J. Trump is no longer expected to be president."

Kind of alarming that the Times is saying that in 2030 Trump is "no longer expected to be president."

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The Trump administration axed Voice of America, and China's state media are delighted The dismantling of the international broadcaster and other U.S. government-funded news outlets was criticized as another blow to U.S. soft power efforts.

Chinese state media are celebrating President Donald Trump's move to gut Voice of America and other U.S. government-funded news outlets that push back against authoritarian regimes.

Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says Tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in the Oval Office meeting of Trump and Zelensky, is seen in Moscow as a “gift.”

Ah. Well.
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Oof. That's going to leave a mark.

Real Stringer Bell vibes here.