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jonetta.bsky.social
freelance journalist/columnist, member Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame, published author, poet, public scholar, and nonprofit manager based in Washington DC. The views expressed here are my own--mostly. I am happy to be educated by others.
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Ready for tomorrow...courtesy of @tomtomorrow.bsky.social

We are the only guardrails. Show up at a “No Kings” rally Saturday.

Picking radishes is no easy task. Efrén spends 8-10 hrs/day on his knees, picking and sorting the radishes into small bunches to fill dozens of crates a day in CA's Ventura County. He's proud to have worked in America's fields for 49 years. #WeFeedYou

Shouldn’t SOMEONE from the Trump admin have addressed the nation about this or are they too busy working on his birthday parade? Are we allowed to know anything about this new war we are fighting?

Very cool LiDAR study: www.science.org/content/arti... 🏺🌽

Making these very American buttons to hand out Saturday

The Disaster Artist

there’s got to be some kind of statute of limitations on this crap. I get moral hazard, I get all of that, it’s just completely insane to say that this guy who built an American life for 30 years isn’t American.

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

The Lincoln Project is BACK!!! x.com/ProjectLinco...

These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸

Newsom: "Speaker Johnson -- his eloquence was elevated when he called to 'tar and feather' the governor of California. Very religious man. I guess that's the spirit. The word of the Lord."

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

An advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

I discuss LA, civil-military relations, Ft. Bragg, the parade... with Hanna Rosin at Radio Atlantic: youtu.be/jeHIt2vPCDY?...

I think I turned my moderate mother in law into a progressive just by having her call MOHELA and listen to how they’ll make TWICE as much as the loan I took out after 25 years of straight payments.

I am as big a sucker as anyone for the fine-grained legal analysis, but I do sometimes worry it distracts us a little from the big, dumb, obvious points. This is appalling & precisely what the Framers were terrified of. Whether it’s technically legal if you squint right doesn’t change that.

Newsom: "He's been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period. Full stop. I would love to share with you what he actually talked about. It would send shivers up your spine."

Say Obama did something better & DJT gets hot & bothered. But we cannot tell a lie, Obama did handle deportations far better than DJT & the Roy Cohn reincarnate known as SM. Why Obama’s Immigration Enforcement Policy Was Better Than Trump’s  washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/13/w...

Just as the country was recovering, DJT and SM come in to destroy the economy literally from the ground up! How Companies Are Bracing for Trump’s Immigration Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/b...

This is all going to end badly for Stephen Miller--the quota man, trying to get more money for border patrol while ensuring a mega tax break for DJT & his friends. Live Updates: More Troops Prepare to Mobilize as Protests Show No Sign of Slowing www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

I continued to be amazed by Republicans' anti-intellectual, anti-scholarly response to the world in which they live. wapo.st/3SNxUc7

ABC News said it has "made the decision to not renew" Terry Moran's contract following his social media post

Goodnight 🌙 Fuck Speaker Johnson who should be “tarred & feathered”

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio tried to give a press conference to announce his lawsuit against DOJ. Much to my surprise it turned out to be the greatest press conference of all-time.

Good morning #Pinks

💥 @repdangoldman.bsky.social speaks out about his confrontation with “plain-clothes ICE agents” wearing masks. “You can’t require Columbia University to ban masks in order to get federal funding while you turn around and have federal government enforcement law enforcement agents wearing masks.”

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

A newly filed Florida Bar ethics complaint from 70 professionals accuses her of weaponizing DoJ for political retribution, alleging that Bondi: “has sought to compel (DOJ) lawyers to violate their ethical obligations under the guise of ‘zealous advocacy.’” floridapolitics.com/archives/741...

Oct. 1, 2025, may go down as some sort of health care D-Day in DC. More than 50,000 residents currently enrolled in Medicaid, DC Health Care Alliance or below-market Affordable Care Act coverage could lose part or all of their health insurance. thedcline.org/2025/06/06/j...

So, who is surprised by any of this? From the beginning, many of us predicted we would end here... www.politico.com/news/2025/06...