Journalist, professor. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Miami Herald, WSJ, Bloomberg, Columbia. Hoping to be a first-base coach
Jim Jordan, as described by his hometown newspaper:
“The second most contemptible human being in the U.S. government”
“A seven-term sycophant”
“The ideal bootlicker”
“A man willing to cast aside common decency”
”A legislative terrorist”
Chris Wallace: Would you vote to convict Trump?
Liz Cheney: “What we already know does constitute the gravest violation of his oath of office by any president in the history of the country”
You own this, GOP. WSJ edit page. Fox News. Rupert and Lachlan.
This is the logical conclusion of everything you have tolerated, encouraged and enabled for 5 years.
Attorney who just won his lawsuit vs Alex Jones:
“There is going to be a large set of plaintiffs dividing up the corpse of Infowars. … That could get very, very dangerous for Mr. Jones, because there is going to be a new level of financial scrutiny.”
Florida synagogue sues over 15-week abortion ban: "In Jewish law, abortion is required if necessary to protect the health, mental or physical well-being of the woman.. the act prohibits Jewish women from practicing their faith free of government intrusion"
Daughter
#3
just drove 4 hours from Massachusetts to NY today because her absentee ballot never arrived - even though it was mailed weeks ago.
So, she’ll vote in person Tuesday.
This is one vote you didn’t stop, Postmaster DeJoy.
CNN’s Don Lemon: “Why would Team Trump … even ask for a special master, knowing what the evidence is?”
@gtconway3d
: “It’s insane. Basically, they asked for the Justice Department to punch them in the face. And that’s what the Justice Department did in this brief.”
By the end of this clip, Trump almost completely decomposes.
If you saw someone on a sidewalk talking this way, you’d put your phone to your ear, stare at the ground and cross the street as fast as possible.
Via
@atrupar
This quote from a Republican voter in Wyoming (population 581,000, with the same number of senators as California, population 39 million) is quite something.
Alex Jones, seconds after being told that his lawyer mistakenly send a huge cache of texts to Sandy Hook families’ attorney:
“This is your Perry Mason moment”
Re the rape case of the 10-year-old Ohio girl:
Left: WSJ Edit Page yesterday calls it a 'fanciful tale'
Right: Columbus Dispatch today reports arrest of suspect
Trump: Let’s execute Gen. Milley
Milley: Beware of the ‘wannabe dictator’
WSJ edit page: It’s “dispiriting to hear Gen. Milley’s remarks about a former President.”
It’s 2 pm — the deadline Columbia’s president set for students to leave the encampment.
But the tents are still there, and now the lawn is surrounded by hundreds of protesters advocating for divestment
NEW: GOP Rep Lauren Boebert denied vaping during a Denver Center for the Performing Arts musical before being kicked out Sunday.
@Marshall9News
got the video. Take a look.
#copolitics
"It is a wondrous and joyous thing, this voyage that lies ahead for us," Fred said to his wife as they boarded the Diamond Princess for the dream vacation that cost him most of his 401K.
Accounts like Jones' can often sensationalize issues and spread unsubstantiated rumors, so it’s critical journalists document, validate, and refute such information directly so people can form their own opinions. This is what serves the public conversation best.
In 2010, a Walgreens rep warned Elizabeth Holmes about Theranos' faulty blood tests: "You’re going to kill somebody.”
Holmes responded: "They don't put pretty people like me in jail."
Holmes was sentenced today to 11 years in prison.
A West African immigrant and political independent is about to be elected mayor of Colorado Springs, defeating the former GOP secretary of state.
And if you know anything about that city's conservative political history ... well, this is astonishing.
If
@jkbjournalist
,
@EmilyMichot
and the
@MiamiHerald
hadn’t pursued this story, Epstein would be a free man tonight, and likely forever.
Keep that in mind the next time you hear those gaseous jeremiads about fake news and enemies of the people
BREAKING NEWS from Miami Herald: Jeffrey Epstein was arrested by the FBI in New York Saturday night on sex trafficking charges. Remains in custody pending bail hearing Monday.
“The Twitter buyout may be one of the worst acquisitions in the history of Wall Street, with something like $37 billion in value flushed pretty much as soon as the deal closed.”
— Via
@WilliamCohan
Do you remember when you were growing up, do you remember how simple life was, how easy it felt? It was about faith, family, and country. We can have that again, but to do that, we must vote Joe Biden out.
#RTM2023
Mississippi has cut its public-health staff by 500 employees since 2012.
Meanwhile, the state’s infant congenital syphilis is up 900%, while Mississippi ranks first in the nation for gonorrhea, second for chlamydia
A number of Twitter responders yesterday were blaming Ted Cruz's re-election on gerrymandering, and we just cannot mandate civics classes fast enough in this country.
Trump's Truth Social company posted its new financials to the SEC today.
The firm generated just $4.1 million (with an M) revenue for all of 2023, while racking up $58 million in net losses.
Market cap is > $6 billion.
(This isn't an April 1 joke.)
A special shoutout on this Jan 6 anniversary to the 43 craven GOP senators who voted to acquit Trump in his second impeachment. Ten more votes to convict would have spared their party — and their country — a possible catastrophe next November.
1/2
There's new video of the Florida voting arrests.
Even the police are bewildered.
Cop: "I’ve never seen these charges before in my entire life"
Ex-felon/voter: “Why would you let me vote if I wasn’t able to vote?”
Cop: “I’m not sure, buddy”
Via
@lmower3
A small South Dakota town put the Confederate flag on its police cars and uniforms in 2009.
Now, a Black man who's lived there for 4 years is leading the push to remove the flag - and dealing w/ a racist backlash.
That man is George Floyd's uncle.
DeSantis’s crew has been so busy whining about the press, it didn’t see the Orlando Sentinel’s public notices that would’ve alerted them to Disney’s “King Charles III” ploy.
A law prof calls it “negligence on the part of the governor’s office”
In case you were wondering if Glenn Greenwald was going to ask Alex Jones tough questions about Sandy Hook in their recent chat, well, here's the gist of what they said to each other about Jones' shtick (eg the massacre was a hoax, etc):
Milwaukee Journal: Ron Johnson should resign
Kansa City Star: Josh Hawley will have to be removed
Houston Chronicle: Resign, Ted Cruz
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Hawley should resign
Many thousands of
#nyc
commuters use these turnstiles correctly every day. But these white nationalist demonstrators who marched here on Saturday seemed to struggle with it.
Good lord. Look at what these cops in Kansas allegedly did to the 98-year-old mother of the newspaper's publisher.
This account is from the newspaper's own website,
“I don’t know what we’re going to do. We will publish something.”
— Eric Meyer, publisher of a Kansas newspaper whose offices were raided and whose computers and cellphones were seized by local cops
Now imagine one or two reporters doing this — and the rest of them doing original reporting on state legislatures, county commissions and city councils.
Did you read that unverified first-person account about the St Louis transgender clinic that ran on Bari Weiss’ site?
Now read this deeply reported piece in which the Post-Dispatch interviewed almost 2 dozen parents, who paint a very different picture.
The most terrifying thing about this story isn’t that Donald Trump is parroting Adolf Hitler, but that roughly half of this country is willing to put in the White House a candidate who parrots Adolf Hitler.
“It doesn’t echo ‘Mein Kamph,’ this is textbook ‘Mein Kampf.'"
Fascism expert and Yale professor Jason Stanley, to me, on Trump's disgusting attack on "vermin" and the left yesterday in his Veteran's Day remarks:
Musk today is tweeting out a story from the “Santa Monica Observer” … the same outlet that reported Hillary Clinton had died and been replaced by a body double for a debate with Trump.
Every so often, a newspaper publishes an obituary that will break your heart.
One of those ran this week, in Dickinson, N.D. (pop. 22,000)
William Ebeltoft, 73, was a war hero who "died 50 years after he lost, in Vietnam, all that underpinned his life."
The
@BostonGlobe
is out tonight with a mind-blowing story about an MIT prof who commandeered her students into making and sending a thank-you gift for Jeffrey Epstein -- at the behest of Joi Ito.
There are so many layers to this one...1/4
The US attorney in Oregon wants an investigation into "constitutionally questionable arrests in Portland" by officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection
via
@ryanjhaas
and
@OPB
“The employee who wants to work on the farm is not available anymore,” says the owner of a Florida produce-packaging facility. “How are we going to run the farms?”
Meanwhile, workers at construction sites say up to half of their teams are gone.
You can’t summarize this story in a tweet, except to say:
1) The president of Stanford University is in deep, deep trouble
and
2) The student who wrote this story, Theo Baker (
@tab_delete
), appears to be one kickass reporter
The federal judge in Pennsylvania lost his patience today with Trump’s idiotic suit, in language you rarely see.
@rickhasen
calls it “the worst piece of election litigation I have ever seen”
Georgia's secretary of state and his wife have become the target of vile, even sexualized, death threats.
Asked about those threats, the GOP lawmakers who once supported Raffensperger won't comment now. "I'll take a pass," said one.
Via
@1PatriciaMurphy
June 2020: Tennessee Rep David Byrd joins GOP colleagues in excoriating journalists, saying they 'sensationalized' COVID.
July 2021: Byrd returns to Legislature after 8-month bout with COVID that required a liver transplant. "It is very dangerous"
Harvard Institute of Politics removes GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik from its Senior Advisory Committee, citing her unfounded claims of voter fraud in the November election.
Letter from Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf —>
Re-upping this today, for no particular reason.
“In my conversation with Elise, she declined to step aside, and I told her that I would therefore remove her”
Harvard Institute of Politics removes GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik from its Senior Advisory Committee, citing her unfounded claims of voter fraud in the November election.
Letter from Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf —>
Remember that Abbott’s slur about the Texas shooting victims wasn’t some off-the-cuff or open-mic moment.
He literally *wrote it* in an official statement from the governor’s office.
The Fox News control room doesn’t quite know what to do with this mom who’s speaking so eloquently about gun violence (good TV!) but wants stronger gun-safety laws (can’t have that!)
Via
@atrupar
Good lord. Look at what these cops in Kansas allegedly did to the 98-year-old mother of the newspaper's publisher.
This account is from the newspaper's own website,
.
@AdamKinzinger
to CNN’s
@jaketapper
tonight:
“As somebody who spent the last two years countering the lies, I’m not going to pretend like it was easy for me to see the former president get this forum tonight — to lie to the American people over and over and over again.”
The reviews are in on DeSantis's appearance before British business leaders:
“horrendous"
“low-wattage”
"looked spent"
"wasn’t presidential”
“stared at his feet”
"wasn’t any stardust"
And most devastating of all, given UK lingo:
"Fine"
After an intensive one-day investigation, Bill Ackman has determined that his wife didn’t commit plagiarism when she was lifting multiple passages from Wikipedia
Last night, no one at
@MIT
had a good night’s sleep.
Yesterday evening, shortly after I posted that we were launching a plagiarism review of all current MIT faculty, President Kornbluth, members of MIT’s administration, and its board, I am sure that an audible collective gasp…
At a Bronx hospital last Wednesday, “more than 20% of the hospital’s 3,000 staff members had yet to get their first dose.”
“By late Monday morning, that number had plummeted to just 6%”
OK,
@columbiajourn
and other journalism students, this is how you do an interview with someone who doesn't want to do an interview.
@JvittalTV
is respectful but persistent throughout when cornering
@RandPaul
Our
@JVittalTV
on Thursday questioned Kentucky Senator Rand Paul about his objection to an attempt to quickly pass a bill ensuring the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund never runs out of money. Here is video of their exchange.
The AG's suit claims "Mar-a-Lago was valued as high as $739 million, but should have been valued at around $75 million..
"A statement valued rent-stabilized apartments in the Trump Park Avenue, collectively worth $750,000, as valued at nearly $50 million"