Rebecca Burns
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semi-retired journalist, part-time prof, unskilled gardener, Athens GA
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NPR
4 days ago
A Statement from NPRâs Editor in Chief on the Pentagonâs Press Policy. Read More:
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Will Bunch
13 days ago
Most journalism this week has been like, "Legal experts unsure whether Trump shooting man in middle of 5th Avenue is murder..."
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Peter Sagal
19 days ago
I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
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Aaron Rupar
21 days ago
Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"
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Matthew
20 days ago
# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions
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Stan Oklobdzija
21 days ago
If someone from another country explained that their president could violate their constitution's plain text but that it was completely legitimate because lifetime judges who belong to political parties said he could on the "shadow docket," you would laugh at them because their country is primitive.
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âBut I have to remain strong and confident that the United States still has some caring and decency left and that in the end justice will prevail.â
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Tom & Lorenzo
29 days ago
Support independent media, now more than ever. Not just news and politics, but film, TV, fashion and other cultural criticism and commentary, from podcasts to apps to good old-fashioned web sites. Pay for it. Turn your adblocker off so they can keep the lights on. Share it.
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Molly Jong-Fast
30 days ago
They are literally canceling culture
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Kara Swisher
about 1 month ago
No notes
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Mark Harris
about 1 month ago
Any news organization with a shred of decency would fire Brian Kilmeade immediately. There is no gray area about this.
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Steven Beschloss
about 1 month ago
In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. Thatâs sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that itâs tolerated.
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 1 month ago
Are you telling me these people are malicious *and* incompetent? Well, I never
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 1 month ago
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
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Michael Stipe
about 2 months ago
I can
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Le Monde
about 2 months ago
Les droits de douane dĂ©cidĂ©s par Donald Trump jugĂ©s en grande partie illĂ©gaux par une cour dâappel fĂ©dĂ©rale
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Les droits de douane dĂ©cidĂ©s par Donald Trump jugĂ©s en grande partie illĂ©gaux par une cour dâappel fĂ©dĂ©rale
Les surtaxes imposĂ©es par le prĂ©sident amĂ©ricain Ă un trĂšs grand nombre de pays restent nĂ©anmoins en vigueur, lâapplication du jugement Ă©tant suspendue jusquâau 14 octobre.
https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/08/30/les-droits-de-douane-decides-par-donald-trump-juges-en-grande-partie-illegaux-par-une-cour-d-appel-federale_6637441_3234.html
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Micah
about 2 months ago
the thing that's so fucking infuriating about this is how much more that matters for the bottom 10% $1200 can be life or death at that level of income top 10%? $13K is nice, to be sure, but it's "maybe we'll take another vacation" nice not "oh good now we can afford to eat this month"
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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus
about 2 months ago
The Gavin Newsom adoration isn't because people love Newsom, it's because the Democratic base is going out of its mind waiting for a politician with a national platform to punch back against Trump. And you can count the number of Democrats who fit that bill on one hand.
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Bill Kristol
about 2 months ago
elderly white hippies > young white fascists
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Kevin M. Kruse
2 months ago
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
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Aaron Rupar
about 2 months ago
Ossoff: "Democrats need to strike back. We have no time or luxury for high-minded hesitation, because Trump and MAGA are going to do everything within their power to hold on and to lock in one party rule in America. That's the reality that we face."
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Carl Quintanilla
2 months ago
Imagine if theyâd had sandwiches. đ„Ș
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Bill Grueskin
2 months ago
Good news: Canned chicken is cheaper. Bad news: Vegetable prices are up 38.9%.
www.bls.gov/news.release...
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Josh Marshall
2 months ago
it's weird being part of a global laughingstock nation
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Trump cold-called Norwegian minister to ask about Nobel Peace Prize
American president angles for top diplomatic award while world watches his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-called-norway-finance-minister-ask-about-nobel-peace-prize/
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Philip Gourevitch
2 months ago
Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.
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Bill Kristol
2 months ago
Let's be clear, this is the situation we face: "Aspiring authoritarian federal government takes control of police force in nation's capital."
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Kashana
2 months ago
The confederates are so funny. The rest of us are out here being normal, and theyâre like âremember that time we came in second place in a war?â
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
3 months ago
Tonight, I will vote to block arms sales to Israel amid the famine in Gaza. Starving children and innocent civilians to death is a moral atrocity that cannot abide the conscience of those who believe in human dignity. The Netanyahu administration must change course.
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James Burns
3 months ago
Local clown Mike Collins can't spell the state he wants to be a senator of.
www.newsweek.com/georgia-mike...
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Andisheh Nouraee
3 months ago
Emmett Till was born after my father was born.
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Marisa Kabas
3 months ago
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by
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scottâĄïžmccloud
3 months ago
James Burns in his latest autobiographical comic THE DEATH OF ME? kicks it up several notches as Burns runs headlong into stage IV prostate cancer. Strongly stated and moving, Burns' Kirby-esque approach is especially well-suited to this literal life-or-death ordeal.
burnscomics.com
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Mark Jacob
3 months ago
Not âliberal states,â New York Times. Pro-democracy states.
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Celeste Headlee
3 months ago
When NPR left Twitter, traffic dropped by only a single percentage point.
niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...
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âSelon certaines estimations, jusquâĂ 17 millions de personnes pourraient perdre leur couverture dâassurance santĂ© et des dizaines dâhĂŽpitaux ruraux pourraient fermer leurs portes.â
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United Farm Workers
3 months ago
Nothing says
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like a big juicy slice of watermelon. This yummy fruit doesn't just appear on our picnic table. It takes a lot of work. An average watermelon weighs 20 pounds. Can you imagine harvesting them in a 98° Bakersfield area field like these workers?
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News Eye
4 months ago
Wilhelm Reichâs 1933 book - The Mass Psychology of Fascism - concluded that a key characteristic of fascism is the ability to derive joy from inflicting cruelty.
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Japanese American National Museum
4 months ago
We know too well the devastating consequences of such actionâfamilies torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades.
#AlligatorAlcatraz
#NeverAgainIsNow
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Sean Morrow
4 months ago
Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming. The bus should have two senators
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 months ago
In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government. Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes.
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Tuberville says âinner city ratsâ live off the American taxpayers: Trump should send them âback homeâ
"These inner city rats, they live on the federal government," Tuberville said in the interview.
https://www.al.com/politics/2025/06/tuberville-says-inner-city-rats-live-off-the-american-taxpayers-trump-should-send-them-back-home.html
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George Takei
4 months ago
Theyâre planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
4 months ago
Note to media: âTrump saysâ is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise itâs just stenography. And youâre embarrassing yourselves.
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Marisa Kabas
4 months ago
EXCLUSIVE â The Onion has a full-page ad in todayâs NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial:
www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
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Bill Grueskin
4 months ago
This was not a full-page ad I was expecting to see in the Sunday NYTimes today
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Scott Shapiro
4 months ago
Iâll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
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Kat Tenbarge
4 months ago
When people support Andrew Cuomo, what theyâre saying implicitly is that they donât care about the women heâs already sexually harassed and retaliated against and they wonât care if he does it again. Itâs a political stance that enables discrimination against women in government
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Garrett M. Graff
4 months ago
ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a âsecret police,â with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.
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ICE believes it will never face accountability again
The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believes-it-will-never-face-accountability-again
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jamelle
4 months ago
political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics
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