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There’s no way this new Qatari plane can be made safe for a US president on any sort of timeline that Trump would okay. He will 100% compromise US (and his) security.

submitted 31 days ago • 88 comments

Trump doesn't give a crap about South Africa. But he does care about making white Americans scared of Black people. Racism is his jet fuel.

submitted 31 days ago • 48 comments

@audacityofdespair.bsky.social Speaking of Tales of Great City Newspapers, I watched an old fave the other day, Humphrey Bogart in "Deadline U.S.A." (written and directed by Richard Brooks). One of the films that first made me want to be a journalist.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

This is true

submitted 60 days ago • 34 comments

Breaking News: Three federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams said that they would resign rather than admit wrongdoing in refusing to abandon the case, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.

submitted 60 days ago • 453 comments

Durbin announcement welcomed. He should resign NOW and give @govpritzker.illinois.gov the chance to put in a replacement. Sen. Judiciary leadership can then pass to more capable and aggressive hands.

submitted 59 days ago • 76 comments

If FDR and Winston Churchill could accept a coalition with Stalin in order to stop Hitler and Tojo, I can too. We all should. Liz Cheney should be our New Best Friend. And I mean it. And she should accept the likes of us as HER New Best Friends. TOGETHER WE CAN . . . .

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Peter Stern was born in Nuremberg in 1936, a German Jew. His father died in the Holocaust; he and his brother somehow survived Bergen-Belsen. Today he's protesting what's happening in America. "I came to say that something as nasty as that can happen again, and it can, without me saying something."

submitted 63 days ago • 29 comments

What we should be discussing is how to build a truly GRAND COALITION to stop Trump's corrupt ass. THAT is what it is going to take to stop Trump and Putin and Musk and the rest of the Autocrats.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

If FDR and Winston Churchill could accept a coalition with Stalin in order to stop Hitler and Tojo, I can too. We all should. Liz Cheney should be our New Best Friend. And I mean it. And she should accept the likes of us as HER New Best Friends. TOGETHER WE CAN . . . .

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Bingo

submitted 79 days ago • 420 comments

Tim Apple's $1M investment in the Trump inauguration is paying huge dividends

submitted 79 days ago • 14 comments

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submitted 79 days ago • 10 comments

Elon Musk is the autopen open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Should Trump be in charge of the White House press corps? (Hell no) joelmmathis.substack.com/p/should-tru...

submitted 83 days ago • 14 comments

@audacityofdespair.bsky.social. Your fellow Marylander Carl. You must know him. (Is that what you all call yourselves? Marylanders? Oh, hahahaha! Just kidding. I admire you both without reservation. You are my heroes. But don't tell anyone I said so. But I guess I'll forgive you if you do.)

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@audacityofdespair.bsky.social BTW: Have you thought about optioning Carl Bernstein's memoirs of being a kid reporter at the old Evening Star? I LOVE that book. Hilary (my spouse, who is now, alas, battling cancer) gave it to me when it came out. She knew I'd love it. Just a wonderful book.

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@willbunch.bsky.social Gil was a treat, and, Dexter, I wrote a magazine profile about when one of his novels first came out. I interviewed him at home on Whidbey Island in the Sound off Seattle. I think that at least one, if not two, of his novels are great. A brave and good man.

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@willbunch.bsky.social I thought the world of Michael. He put me up several times in his fine old Federal Hill townhouse when I was in town to report magazine pieces. There was always a good meal and many bottles of good wine--I write about wine as well--sometimes good company from the Sun Papers.

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