Or worse, when they're called "deals," reinforcing the idea that's the only kind of transaction there is.

What if the news media agreed to stop calling these Ivy League deals “settlements” and just said, you know, “Cornell has agreed to pay $100 million in extortion money.”

To bomb Iran the US deployed 7 B2 bombers, each of which cost $2.1B to build. They used 14 huge “bunker busters,” a model that cost $500 million to develop.

The US invested ~ $15 billion in this attack—almost 50% more than it invested in affordable housing construction this year.

Seven-and-a-Half Propositions for Journalism in the Age of Trump It’s not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones. Donald Trump is suing med...

#Trump acts as if his #ExeccutiveOrders are unassailable edicts from on high. The news media shouldn't. As I quote legal scholar Alan #Rozenshtein in my latest piece tomdispatch.com/seven-and-a-... they're "just press releases with nicer stationery."

Seven-and-a-Half Propositions for Journalism in the Age of Trump It’s not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones. Donald Trump is suing med...

#Trump's pulling funding from #Harvard is as much about curbing #antisemitism as Covid was about clearing our sinuses -- and other truths in my latest at tomdispatch.com/seven-and-a-....

Smart researchers ought to be able to find out people behind #CanaryMission, no? Several years ago, a journalism student I know did a long story on them & I vaguely recall that they got in touch with someone there.

Old man Donald saw a swarm
E-I-E-I-O
With a radical here
And a leftist there
Here a rad
There a left
Under every rock
Find a radical leftist
Old man Donald sounds the alarm
E-I-E-I-O,
Uh oh!

Join us at 5:30 tonight at Powder House Square Park as we stand up for Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD Tufts grad worker and Fulbright scholar, who was ambushed by ICE agents on her way to an Iftar dinner with friends after leaving her apartment.

What's with the #NYTimes making readers "request" opening comments on many stories?

It is happening here right now and we must find an effective way to stop the #cabal of #bootlickers, #incompetents & black-hearted #liars Following #GeneSharp, we can withdraw our cooperation and mount a general #strike.

How to Resist This Fresh Hell Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it’s already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and unconstitutional overreach while using everything in his power (and much that isn't), Donald Trump has served

It Can't Happen Here (or Can It?)
by Nan Levinson
tomdispatch.com/how-...

We can #resist the lickspittles, incompetents, and blowhards #Trump by withdrawing our #consent. Who's up for a #generalstrike of millions?

How to Resist This Fresh Hell Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it’s already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and unconstitutional overreach while using everything in his power (and much that isn't), Donald Trump has served

How to Resist This Fresh Hell: Withholding Consent from the Trump Regime
by Nan Levinson
tomdispatch.com/how-...

Anyone else notice how many #full-page ads in Sunday's #NYT either attacking #Trump & his lickspittles or responding to his regime's slash & smash policies? In the print edition & counted 6! Definitely not the usual.

A shout-out for #Zelensky.

Who’s running this country: Donald Trump or Elon Musk? Since day one, Elon has created chaos and confusion and put our livelihoods at risk. And he is accountable to no one but himself. The Constitution only allows for one president at a time. Call Your Senators and tell them it’s time Donald Trump fire Elon Musk

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk.

Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️

thehill.com/media/514849...

I just posted this on X bcs we resisters need to talk beyond ourselves.
Shame on you Republican senators who just empowered RFK to endanger us all. I knew there wasn't a spine among you, but I had hoped there were a few vertebrae still extant. Silly me.

The Art of the Kneel If a settlement deal is inked with Donald Trump, Shari Redstone will be remembered as the mogul who sold out "60 Minutes.”

Scoop: CBS News chief Wendy McMahon and "60 Minutes" boss Bill Owens have, in private conversations, made it clear that they oppose any settlement with Donald Trump.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/paramount-...

Arctic blast for @inaugeration.bsky.social. Seems about right that Trump becomes president again as hell freezes over.

Whistling in the dark? Probably, but boy! do we need to go to bat for the #1stAmendment -- as we always have had to -- even more than ever as the #Trump administration unleashes the freelance vigilantes. I return to #freespeech at tomdispatch.com/a-democracy-...