Thank you New Yorker. Hopefully Hearst family don’t sell to Ellison for $10 billion or whatever UAE bosses will pay to curry favor with Trump

Hmmm. Donald Trump struggles to explain why he launched another Middle Eastern war

Trump is better at breaking the peace than peacemaking as he sets the Emirates off, encourages Putin to keep invading Ukraine and gets ready to start a war in Iran. I guess thats what happens when you rename D/Defense the D/War. FIFA shd give Trump the FIFA War Prize? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/w...

Here’s a thought for James Comer. There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton. It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein. You know, just to see what she knows.

The great Ian McKellan on fire! substack.com/@rawstory/no...

Frederick Douglas in black and white

Jack Hughes scores golden goal with shattered smile: ‘I looked on the ice and saw my teeth’ www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

What do Trump's America and Ireland's housing crisis have in common? Former diplomat Ted Smyth connects the dots in our year-end political episode—dropping midnight EST. "Affordability will define 2026" 🎧 IrishStewPodcast.com #Politics #Podcast @tedsmyth.bsky.social #GlobalIrishNation #SpéirGhorm

What will it take to become the next president of the United States? On our latest #podcast episode, Ted Smyth gives his thoughts. #USPolitics #GeoPolitics #GlobalIrishNation #SpéirGhorm @tedsmyth.bsky.social

Essential viewing @nytimes.com Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Nicolaus Mills’ book Winning the Peace shows what real patriots cd do with govt. Gen Marshall took away fm his New Deal experience “a heightened sense of the govt’s capacity for bringing order out of social chaos and creating what he called‘valuable and self supporting citizens

Many thanks for the great exchange!

Floggings will continue until morale improves! "98 percent of respondents said that workplace morale had fallen since Mr. Trump’s second term began in January. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u... Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

And, in conclusion… #USDemocracy

“They pursued women in a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Xi and Putin run rings around the dumbest President in US history. Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

That is a mission that everyone agrees with, and yet one we somehow fail to achieve in an America larded with billionaires cavorting in a new tech-driven Gilded Age. Billionaires who are, Shore said, only “giving away a very small percentage of their revenue.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...

Low dose Bayer aspirin! They’re not joking, the red line shows the actual fill level.

Corruption and greed in the White House are destroying our country’s security and future greatness “They are leading the White House down the road to perdition with this ascendant technocratic oligarchy,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

Bravo @nytopinion and @GoldmanSachs Trump=Higher Prices "Goldman Sachs estimates the share of tariff costs borne by consumers has increased from 22% in April to 55% in October, and that it will continue to rise, reaching 67 percent by the middle of next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Exactly right “The only question remaining is which will give Trump a more egregious place in history - his moral failures or economic ones. open.substack.com/pub/niemtzow...

People are tiring of Trump just as they eventually did of Celebrity Apprentice.

Congratulations New York Magazine exposing the biggest rip off of American taxpayers in history by Trump and his Team of Thieves.

The oligarchs who own the media are the cowards. Larry Ellison Bezos Murdoch etc A few brave ones stand out, Bloomberg Sulzberger Atlantic in opposing Trump censorship

wonder how long it takes one of bloomberg's lawyers to remind their execs that not pushing back on noxious shit like this could be interpreted as creating a hostile work environment

It’s easy for people like me - avg media consumer - to be outraged at reporters who don’t defend colleagues. But I admire the tenacity & guts to ask him questions knowing what a hateful POS he is. Silence makes his comment LOUDER for all the world to see what a scumbag he is. Give her the Pulitzer.

Also… Trump’s “piggy” insult to the reporter was tweeted out Friday night by a CBS (former Bloomberg) reporter … but it seems to have gone largely under the radar til the People story. x.com/JenniferJJac...

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Wonderful to host historian @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social & filmmaker Briona Nic Dhiarmada for the NYC screening of "From That Small Island" @gihnyu.bsky.social -- the story of Ireland, across the millennia, in global context @tedsmyth.bsky.social

It was our pleasure & privilege. Thank you for the incredible welcome. 💚

The White House press lost their moral standing when they failed to react ! Access beats out truth in Trumps White House as his greedy oligarchs buy up the mainstream media “Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week

Congratulations Jane and Briona We were honored to host you and your epic movie @gihnyu.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social

Exactly right ⁦‪@RanaForoohar‬⁩ Dems can stop Trump’s rolling coup by “tacking left economically and right socially…America is fundamentally much more conservative socially than most European countries” What lessons to take from last week’s Democratic victories?

An interesting piece on (among other things) the wide range of Irish and Irish-American attitudes to US African-American slavery in the 19th century.

***Attention graduate students*** Apply to the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations on U.S. immigration, emigration, or ethnic history. iehs.org/awards/georg...

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We Don't Want Your Tricks Or Your Treats Chump,We Want You To RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

Get ready for No Kings Day! open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Democrats need to empower messengers that the establishment is scared of, people who don’t delight megadonors...stake their claims on a set of strong beliefs, and see if Americans will follow. They need to stop being lawyerly and timid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

C’mon judge. Pull an all nighter. This isn’t hard. “The State of Illinois sued Trump, but in a court hearing this afternoon, a federal judge declined to issue an immediate order blocking the deployment. The judge said she needed time to review the case. She set another hearing for Thursday.

Well said! @petersagal.bsky.social

As Gov. Pritzker says in his opening statement, ICE and CPB are attempting to provoke a reaction by their actions in Chicago. And as he says -- more or less -- at the time stamp below, he won't order state police to physically confront them, b/c he can't.