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Longtime copy editor, content editor and proofreader. On the web at greatplainseditorial.com. Lover of mountains, plains, Labrador retrievers, fishing, ham radio (I’m NB0J) and my sweetie, Ellen.
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submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

So I’m wondering about this incident jazz icon Dave Brubeck described. Is it now forbidden DEI? “Brubeck recalled an incident in his childhood. His father asked one of his African-American workers to take off his shirt; the man had been branded on his chest like a farm animal.”

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

If the legitimate press just permanently stopped attending these events and were replaced by propaganda outlets, that would be both optically clarifying and improve actual journalism.

submitted 8 days ago • 74 comments

Tough times call for more reporters. And since our devoted readers make it possible we're hiring. See our new job listing here. talkingpointsmemo.com/careers

submitted 8 days ago • 56 comments

The legacy media today is chasing the Steve-Bannon-plea-deal rabbit when they should be reading this: www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Check out Pat Bagley's latest cartoon: Moody MAGA Month

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Probably just a coincidence that the White House is singling out all these Black lawmakers as "violent" and "unhinged"

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

thinking about all of my family members who still serve and once served, including my grandpops during ww1 and korea and then came home to arkansas where he had no rights that weren't up to the discretion of whatever white person he happened to cross paths with.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

submitted 13 days ago • 1044 comments

A pair of macaws flying deep in Amazon 📹 Dan Ng

submitted 14 days ago • 210 comments

Remember that before NYT v Sullivan was decided, the Times had been so chilled by large verdicts after libel suits from Alabama state officials (before local white juries) that they pulled all their reporters from the state at the height of the civil rights movement.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Muppets remain undefeated.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

JoJo is celebrating his fifth birthday today by catching some midwinter rays.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The policy lead for CDC's H5N1 response has abruptly resigned. Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.

submitted 16 days ago • 312 comments

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

submitted 20 days ago • 240 comments

Why is it that of all our electeds, only AOC seems to understand how to talk about Trump and Musk right now?

submitted 22 days ago • 81 comments

About the ubiquity of life in the Universe I wrote #TheCosmicRootsOfLife in 2013. I concluded that it was common thanks to evolutionary organic chemistry: www.udllibros.com/libro-las_ra... #science #planetaryscience #LasRaícesCósmicasDeLaVida

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world. Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends. www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...

submitted 23 days ago • 2234 comments

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

submitted 23 days ago • 328 comments

WaPo, long after Trump's racist rant, is nearly paralyzed with cowardice:

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Knew too much, too patriotic, had to go.

submitted 38 days ago • 155 comments

As a former assigning editor, I commend NPR for this. www.npr.org/2025/01/14/n...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

We all know what they also want to say.

submitted 39 days ago • 26 comments

Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Kansas GOP leaders unite to smother Statehouse news. Here’s what William Allen White would think. #ksleg

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Google search AI is one of the dumbest functions out there - and developers want us to double down on this? Get fucked

submitted 40 days ago • 13 comments

chrishedges.substack.com/p/fire-weath...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Look, if having an Olive Garden Chair of Roman History is what it takes to reverse the trend whereby every department outside of the Ivies is being ground to dust and the job prospects of anyone who didn't get their degree from Harvard are a wasteland, it's still better than the present situation.

submitted 41 days ago • 23 comments

Now this, this is looting. Ain’t nobody gonna be arrested for it either.

submitted 42 days ago • 88 comments

This denial of identity is precisely the same sort of propaganda the Nazis used and Putin is currently using against Ukraine. It's an old, evil playbook. Douthat was always a dimwit right-wing propagandist, but he should be understood in full context as an outright Nazi.

submitted 42 days ago • 21 comments

Is it dumber to think that these issues haven’t been debated or to think that the only barrier to resolving dispute is “debate”? I’m torn.

submitted 43 days ago • 17 comments

NEW: A study by Yale University and other institutions has found that the Gaza war death toll is likely 41% HIGHER than Palestinian health officials reported. It also found that over 59% of those killed were women, children and people over the age of 65. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 43 days ago • 26 comments

Trumpist will argue as he attempts to strip birthright citizenship protections "on day 1" that when the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Am was ratified in 1868, because there were no "illegal aliens" at the time since migration was unregulated. That rationale is incorrect + ahistorical. 1/

submitted 44 days ago • 14 comments

Busted! Trump’s Greenland Supporters Were Homeless and Socially Disadvantaged People Bribed With Hotel Dinners Danish news reports on Trump’s scheme meidasnews.com/news/busted-...

submitted 44 days ago • 548 comments

I’m seeing two different and opposing fact checks, one of which claims the LAFD didn’t have budget cuts but that this is misinformation by “far left” activists, and the other of which says that there was a budget cut, even after contract negotiations.

submitted 44 days ago • 11 comments

Hard to process the devastation I’ve witnessed in the last two days. Still in a state of shock for those who have lost so much in such a short period of time. #NoWords 💔

submitted 45 days ago • 2729 comments

New Study: although Matt Walsh once claimed that the number was "millions," fewer than 1,000 U.S. adolescents were treated for gender dysphoria with puberty blockers, and none under 12 received hormone therapy.

submitted 47 days ago • 47 comments

Something I'd like an expert in original Gilded Age to write: Overall, are the plutocrats of this era—Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Thiel etc—greedier, ethically weaker, and more globally destructive than their earlier counterparts? Or not quite as bad? A toss-up? Look forward to reading the answer.

submitted 46 days ago • 61 comments