60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

In between his political critiques, @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social likes to occasionally comment on pop culture: "I don't even remember Ice Spice. What has she been up? Was she the sexy Spice Girl?"

In other news, doing whippets is bringing people a surprising amount of joy

the fact that the news media isn't blasting across every front page of the country how completely unhinged the president is on a 24/7/365 basis, tells me that the news media is completely complicit in Trump's regime.

Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:

I'm biased here but it strengthens my belief that global scale algorithmic social media is one of the worst inventions in human history. I'd delete it off the face of the earth without a second's hesitation

Yes. Yes he is. He's extrajudicially murdered over 80 people the South American coast.

I don’t ever want to hear any Republican anywhere ever complain about someone instigating political violence against them ever again. They are a political violence party. They just object to splashback onto themselves of the environment of political violence they’ve created.

Trump is tweeting out violent threats which would get him visited and possibly arrested by the FBI if he wasnt the president.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

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This absolutely is Jeff Bezos’s fault. I feel sorry for the excellent journalists and other staff caught up in his mismanagement, but this is his doing. And it will only lead to the Post doing even worse, which will then — almost inevitably — lead to more layoffs.

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

Pritzker: "It's clear that Donald Trump has diminished capacity, which I think is sad -- that the people around him are not getting him help, and instead they're just taking advantage of him. And that's what Stephen Miller is."

I'm sorry, but we cannot survive as a democracy if we're only willing and able to address inequality when it's proven to be intentionally and recently caused. But that's the course this Supreme Court and far-right conservatives (like those defending Charlie Kirk's reputation) want us on.

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching." He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow." (Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

The NYTimes wisely hired Anna Griffin, one of the best journalists in Portland, as the head of its Pacific Northwest Bureau

Something that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and Stephen Miller should keep in mind is that the president can't pardon you for crimes in other countries. If Trump gives blanket pardons we need to extradite Miller and everyone else response. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

the reason:

Proud of Portland's CNN - creative nonviolent non-compliance 🐸✊

With the announcement of Bari Weiss as EIC of CBS News, it's another great day to support independent and nonprofit media. Oregon spotlight: KLCC: @klccoregon.bsky.social Oregon Capital Chronicle: @oregoncapitalchronicle.com OPB: @opb.org Ashland News: @ashland-news.bsky.social 📌 my feed

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder: * There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

Also, part of why this framing is important is that US political media is incredibly reluctant to make values judgements about policies, but very willing to attack dishonesty and hypocrisy - which is theoretically value-free - and this is the most extraordinary political dishonesty in US history.

“Rs are coming from your healthcare” is dull, wonky, has nothing to do with anything in the cultural discourse, and is the same thing Dems said in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. can you see why voters might perceive this as business as usual

#Portland was where i sang my first U.S. concerts back in 1981. 🎵

The fact the governor of Illinois is beging for citizen coverage because media as a whole is intentionally not covering the governments terror campaign should be absolutely a five alarm fire if you are not already figuring out the federal government is at war against us.

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”

Nothing happening at ICE processing facility on S. Waterfront in Portland. Only five people on corner protesting Tesla at nearby dealership. Hearing nothing happening at Justice Center downtown as well.

They are not even bothering a basic disinformation campaign regarding the “war ravaged” conditions in Portland or pretending that they are trying to be the good guys: just flat out staying they are invading a peaceful Democratic city because they can.

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

It's too much liquid

Recall that less than 6 months ago, this same senator said there would be less "fake news" if people could shoot journalists. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

So I'm assuming that financial journalists are hard at work figuring out who in the administration shorted Kenvue today, right?

I used to have a job where I’d feel obligated to watch the Kirk thing 💅

As Trump tries to cover up the crimes of the Epstein sex trafficking network he is now also overseeing an enormous global human trafficking network.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

This is a clearly impeachable offense he’s reportedly going to finish committing tomorrow. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

What a pathetic, fragile, loser.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

boycotts are effective, but they are also very hard to organize, especially now w/r/t online activity. if you boarded a bus in montgomery in 1955, your neighbors could see you. no one knows who quits disney. obama is an effective communicator though & he could influence a lot of people, if he wanted

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

The pace of idiocy in this country is accelerating!! I fear we are approaching an idiocy singularity!