Joan Walsh

Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.s.. Follow liberals: i can't believe this is happening leftists: we predicted all of this, here are all our articles, books and lectures explaining it from years ago. liberals: shut up. vote blue no matter who. your stupid socialist revolution will never happen. we have to move to the right. June 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM Everybody can reply

I don't know what leftist and liberal mean anymore, cause I was told by hammer and sickle people on this website that I was being hysterical and vote shaming when I said people were gonna get put in camps

These are all good signs and I hope Dems - both at the national and state level - builds on this.

FWIW I am not worried about Dems' low approval ratings that DC's chattering class is having a field day with.

If Dems fight - people will show up to fight w/ them and then vote for them.

I'm just gonna keep sharing this forever, I think.

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The Department of Defense tried to make a joke about the Sydney Sweeney ad but seems to have initially tagged the wrong account instead of Pete Hegseth.

Liz Warren to her absolute credit shows up on CNBC and is willing to call everyone a stupid piece of shit in a way that even Bernie would refrain from

Blumenthal (D-CT) Blunt Rochester (D-DE) Booker (D-NJ) Cantwell (D-WA) Duckworth (D-IL) Hirono (D-HI) Kim (D-NJ) Lujan (D-NM) Markey (D-MA) Merkley (D-OR) Murphy (D-CT) Murray (D-WA) Ossoff (D-GA) Padilla (D-CA) Sanders (I-VT) Schatz (D-HI) Schiff (D-CA) Schumer (D-NY) Smith (D-MN) Van Hollen (D-MD) Warren (D-MA) Wyden (D-OR)

Given Trump's repeated politicization of the military for his own ends, it's damning that only 22 Democrats voted against confirming Trump's Assistant Secretary of the Army.

s/o to the 22

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Good to know Mark Halperin is still sliming women! No, I'm not linking.

More than 20 Democratic-led states sue Trump administration over Planned Parenthood funding cuts A group of more than 20 states are suing the Trump administration over efforts to cut Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood.

A group of more than 20 states are suing the Trump administration over efforts to cut Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood.

the palate cleanser in the five course pardon meal

Corrupt scumbags.

Through his attack on USAID, Elon Musk may be personally responsible for more hunger, disease and poverty than any single individual in this century.

Senate Democrats Estimate DOGE Caused Billions of Dollars In Government Waste A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

Elon Musk’s giddily uninformed strike force of Peter Thiel acolytes cost the government $21.7 billion, according to a new report from Dems on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
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Fuck yeah!

Email screenshot Sandra Ballentine 5:42 PM From Hank Stuever tl;dr I only ever wanted to work at The Washington Post, and boy, I got to. Two things, before I go: 1. Before you read, listen or click on anything else, please read, listen and click on the work of your colleagues. Deeply, thoughtfully, always. Talk about it. Examine it. Enjoy it. THEN go doomscroll the competition, not the other way around. Originality will always be the answer. 2. If you create something (words, clips, visuals) and you happen to think, you know who would really get a kick out of this? Hank Stuever. Then please send it to him!

Email screenshot: Sandra Ballentine 5:47 PM SB Staff News: Ann Hornaday Dim the lights. After 22 years, Ann Hornaday is stepping down as The Post's chief film critic. Ann is a proud native of Des Moines, lowa (home to her beloved Varsity Theatre), who just as proudly began her career at Ms. magazine as an assistant to Gloria Steinem. She went from freelancing for magazines and the New York Times to staff film critic positions at the Austin American-Statesman and the Baltimore Sun before joining The Post in 2002. In 2008, she was a Pulitzer finalist for criticism. Her first book, "Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies," was published in 2017. More recently, she's delighted Post readers with a steady stream of memorable reviews, from the four-star heights of "Oppenheimer" to the .5-star lows of "Lisa Frankenstein." She's also regularly churned out an array of columns, appreciations, lists and profiles (see: Nate Parker, Bruce Springsteen, George Clooney), among so many other things.

Email screenshot: Matt Murray 5:48 PM Craig Timberg Dear All, I'm sad to share the news that Craig Timberg, a Deputy Managing Editor since 2023 and a longtime leader in the newsroom, has decided to take the buyout and move on to a new opportunity. Craig joined the Metro staff in 1998, first covering Virginia politics and government from Richmond and then writing about D.C. politics, the mayor and city council. He was Johannesburg bureau chief from 2004 to 2008, after which he co-authored a book, "Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It." He returned to Washington and served stints as education editor and deputy national security editor. From 2012 to 2021 he was a technology reporter, and wrote award-winning stories on privacy, surveillance, cybersecurity and disinformation. His work on the role of social media and @Anon in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks was part of the package that received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Email screenshot: Sandra Ballentine 4:39 PM SB Staff news: Joel Achenbach Joel Achenbach is retiring from The Post after 35 years as a staff writer, columnist, blogger, lede-all anchor and explainer of complicated stuff. Joel arrived in October 1990 as a feature writer in the Style section. He also wrote the weekly column "Why Things Are," answering questions like "Why doesn't a black hole somewhere get so big and powerful that it eventually goes sklurrp! and sucks the entire galaxy, including planet earth, into its dreadful maw?" and "Why is dryer lint gray if my clothes aren't gray?" The column was syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group to more than 50 newspapers. In 1999, he started the traditional newsroom's first online column, "Rough Draft," for washingtonpost.com, and then became The Post's first blogger with "Achenblog" in 2005. That year he joined the Post Magazine, writing features and a weekly humor column. In 2007, he joined the National Desk and has since worked primarily for the health and science team. He has covered presidential campaigns, NASA space missions, mass shootings, hurricanes, the BP oil spill, America's

Four more WaPo departures: Hank Stuever, Ann Hornaday, Craig Timberg, Joel Achenbach. Source says it feels like the Hunger Games: “My inbox has literally dozens of announcements of departures or newsroom wide goodbye notes.”

—via @benmullin.bsky.social on X

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds.

Then the harassment began.

Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.

Six credible threats to his life.

More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

Interesting idea.

Sorry Joan, here's an updated picture

So grateful to see @joanwalsh.bsky.social on @arimelber.bsky.social tonight. She looks great, sounds better. A voice we need to hear again and again.

Virginia Giuffre’s Family Speaks Out About Her Suicide at 41: 'Too Much to Carry’ (Exclusive) Virginia Giuffre’s family is speaking out about her death by suicide in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE. Giuffre, one of the most outspoken accusers of convicted sex offenders Jeffery Epstein and G...

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“We Make All the Work Possible”: Home Care Workers Speak Out About Coming Medicaid Cuts In-home care workers spoke to The Nation about their fears of ICE’s expansion and losing their jobs and healthcare coverage under the GOP’s shameful law.

For the 60th anniversary of Medicaid/Medicare, I spoke to three devoted careworkers about what the Trump cuts will mean for them--and their clients. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Thank you, I didn't know that.

„Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist, accused of sexual abuse or assault by dozens of women. Also, he seems to be in severe cognitive decline. That combination of factors almost guarantees that the story of his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (…) will continue to unfurl.“

And now Trump is admitting Epstein "stole" the late Virginia Giuffre when she was an underaged Mar a Lago spa assistant. So f'ing sick.

Epstein hired a teenaged Giuffre out from under Trump in 2000. Trump didn't kick him out of Mar-a-Lago until 2007—a year after the FBI started investigating him for sex trafficking.

Rabbis Arrested In John Thune’s Office For Praying For Food Aid To Gaza

More than two dozen rabbis were arrested this morning for sitting down on the floor in Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s office and praying for food aid for people in Gaza. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Keep Digging, Donald. You're Keeping the Epstein Scandal Alive. Trump’s bizarre claim that he fell out with the indicted child sex trafficker because Epstein “stole” workers from Mar-a-Lago only raises more lurid questions.

Trump's bizarre remarks about Epstein "stealing" his workers made a strange story even stranger...https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/keep-digging-donald-keeping-epstein-scandal/

Arrogant but cowardly. A nice mix!

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October.

So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.

Yeah, J.D. Vance’s.