🐎Since the Civil War, ⛏️Kentucky is where 🇺🇸's ideological 🛞rubber hits the 🛣️road. As '28 nears, all 👀 will be on one of the most popular Democratic governors in 🇺🇸, Gov. Andy Beshear. A top tier Biden donor said Gov. Beshear would’ve won the presidential nomination if the '24 DNC had been brokered🔮⏳⏱️🎱

Franklin D. Roosevelt likened lending Great Britain warships in the early days of World War II to loaning a neighbor a garden hose to put out the fire consuming his house But now Donald Trump heads to Europe ready to set a bunch of new houses on fire www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Trump’s massive and myriad power grabs, visualized and explained www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

There is no strategy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

If #DNC had been brokered, @andybeshearky.bsky.social may have won. Our current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue echoes 🎞️ expert Howard Suber’s words, “The outsider becomes the insider… it goes back to Shakespeare, couldn’t be a more classic dramatic structure.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Really working their way through the ol' First Amendment.

Just to timestamp that "10 year-old Gore Vidal flying a bespoke plane in a Pathé newsreel" existed prior to the AI onslaught.

There’s your empty shelf. US goods imports drop 19.8% in April — largest on record

In honor of #JFK & his birthday🎂Like traveling to the 🌕, we choose Democracy, and defend it, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

In honor of icon #Cher 🎂: a Robert Altman 🎞️ ahead of its 🕰️- "Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, #JimmyDean"- starring #KathyBates & #KarenBlack- explores how the 🎥🎬 of Edna Farber's "Giant" ⭐ #ElizabethTaylor, #RockHudson & James Dean impacts a small TX town 🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpd5...

unlocked: Trump’s Plan to Take Jet From Qatar Heightens Corruption Concerns The second Trump administration is blowing through limits on the mixing of public office and personal benefits. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

The #KentuckyDerby is Decadent & Depraved #HunterSThompson #WinstonChurchill #BlackPanthers #Derby #ChurchillDowns His original piece: kyforky.com/blogs/journa...

In honor of Jane Jacobs 🎂 "Citizen Jane: Battle for the City" details the life of a woman who was a force of nature & fierce foe of Robert Moses (AKA "The Power Broker: Robert Moses & the Fall of New York") #NYC #cityplanning #urbandesign #RobertMoses #Caro #Gottlieb www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKjk...

Happy Belated Birthday to the glorious Cloris Leachman, seen here in the open of one of my favorite shows, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" #MTM #ThoseWereTheDays #CBS www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATnV...

We the People have to decide- Nobody here will compel you to rise; No one will force you to open your eyes... Life is a game, but it's you who must say, Whether as cheat or as sportsman you'll play. Fate may betray you, but you settle first Whether to live to your best or your worst🇺🇸

Our cover this week.

This Year’s WHCD Serves Only to Normalize Trump’s First Amendment Dumpster Fire — I Won’t Be a Part of It

Shining a light on tariffs as the stock market plunges 📉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Yv...

My take on the unsung hero of #Signalgate, Laurene Powell Jobs:

As Audre Lorde told us, “Your silence will not protect you.” The Center for Journalism & Democracy is hosting an evening of powerful dialogue about our eroding democratic and press freedoms with a powerhouse slate of speakers. Information is the currency of freedom. Join us.

Worth a retweet courtesy of @carlakjohnson.bsky.social's new piece, "Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching and regulating food" apnews.com/article/heal...

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

Good piece by @henryjfoy.ft.com that's worth reading www.ft.com/content/939b...

As Trump prepares to sign an executive order that will start dismantling the Department of Education, I'm reminded of this conversation⬇️ #DOE

Three years ago, I wrote my "abundance agenda" essay. Today, my book ABUNDANCE, co-written with Ezra Klein, comes out. Here's my best summary of our view of abundance vs. Donald Trump's regime of scarcity. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Happy Saint Patrick's Day 🍀

Shout out to @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social - @neapresident.bsky.social, @aliciamenendez.bsky.social, @symonedsanders.bsky.social & @michaelsteele.bsky.social "We have to do what the people in KY did BTW every one of their 120 counties said NO- you will not bring vouchers here." Kick ass KY 🐎🐎🐎

In honor of James Madison's birthday 🎂

@financialtimes.com’s @edwardluce.bsky.social’s latest opinion piece just landed on Drudge Report www.ft.com/content/ea5b...

Fantastic reporting by @benjacobs.bsky.social now featured on drudge “If they thought I had no Fs to give before, I definitely have no Fs to give now.” - Rep. Thomas Massie to @wsj.com www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Thank you @stefkight.bsky.social for flagging this for us Kentuckians in @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/03/12/t...

Just as Hitler rose from the ashes and grievances of World War I, it looks like Trump’s dream is to reduce the United States to rubble so that he can turn what’s left of our once great country into his base of aggressively expansionist operations in alliance with Vladimir Putin and a few oligarchs.

$40 Million 💵 of KY bourbon 🥃 gets exported to Canada🇨🇦now Trump’s tariffs are sinking trade deals 🌎⬇️ www.wdrb.com/news/busines...

America Became Great Because of the Things Trump Hates www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...

(NBC News) - Some U.S. allies are considering scaling back the intelligence they share with Washington in response to the Trump administration’s conciliatory approach to Russia, four sources with direct knowledge of the discussions told NBC News. @nbcnews.com

If the US had continued to support Ukraine, we may have been months away from the end of the war. The Russians would not have been able to continue to fight for much longer. They were making almost no progress, taking huge casualties.

Pretty shameful @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social couldn't produce "The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming" as comedy today because it'd be too painfully close to our new reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ACD...

Since I have defended and supported the WaPo in the months since the election and the infamous pulled endorsement, I feel obliged to say: this is very, very bad. A dear friend at a Post vet says it's the worst thing to happen to the Post in its long history, and I can't argue.

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

American Heroes = CA Rep. Kevin Mullin (D) & CO Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D) who flew cross-country with her 1-month-old to vote against the GOP budget last night. 🇺🇸⬇️

A statement from a spokesperson for The New York Times on White House press coverage:

The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, one of the state's best sources for economic information and analysis, is compiling data on Kentuckians affected by Elon's illegal firings of federal workers. If you have been affected, they want to hear from you. @kypolicy.bsky.social kypolicy.org/survey/

We didn't --- "Active Measures" 2018 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5umi...

I'm here for the Democrats but they must decide...

The convo going on at @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social with @michaelsteele.bsky.social, Everett Kelly, @esglaude.bsky.social & @aliciamenendez.bsky.social is reminding me of my post yesterday… I like my meat to be rodent free, surely we can all agree on this right? 🇺🇸

Commentary by Al Cross McConnell’s last chance against Trump kentuckylantern.com/2025/02/21/m...

Good company.

Far too late, the #BrokenPost asks "Where are the guardrails?" without realizing that it was supposed to be one.

Agree. Fuck access. This is a perfectly fine hill for the AP to die on www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...