Ask yourself: Is it - - insinuation - motive‑guessing - emotional framing - sarcasm - narrative‑building - cynical If it is, it isn't journalism. It is muck. Elevate your understanding by elevating the threshold of the quality you accept in reporting.

Confirmed as true, but scheduled negotiations are still ongoing. english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-...

If we can't do it within the bounds of law, we can't do it. This is what Republicans fail to understand. Their world is not a legal world. Their actions are not legal actions. That is why we call them criminals.

Republicans can't figure out how to deport people without breaking laws and being inhumane. Democrats can be humane and obey the law, but they do not want to deport people. We must deport people. We must be humane. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...

Poor Mike Lindell. Politics destroys more good people who get caught up in politics. It is moral indignance that prevents us for seeing where we made the wrong turn. He is going to waste his life trying to prove that frogs can fly. :( Brave enough to run; not brave enough to admit he is wrong.

He says stuff to mess with your head and to keep his name in the headlines. Have you learned nothing at all? He lives on your outrage. It validates him. Act on your confidence that he is wrong and powerless. Ignore his tantrums.

Epstein Files appears to be a done deal. No investigations. No grounds for prosecution. Time to move forward. If someone reopens the case, or finds cause to investigate, then Epstein becomes relevant again. Time, effort, money is limited. Invest it where you get the best return.

I have just concluded the reading of Robert V. Remini's "Andrew Jackson". It is a fine biography. I recommend it highly.

Roughly 35–40% of eligible Americans do not vote in presidential elections. That’s 70–90 million people, depending on the year. 20% are unable. 80% are unwilling.

When Brandon Gill speaks, I wonder how such a young and inexperienced man could become such a bigot and racist so soon in his life.

Remember, If you don't sin a little bit, Jesus died for nothing. Go outside and play. Have fun.

Is there a greater issue here? Let’s start with Trump DICTATES. See anything wrong with that? It only works with a weak Congress. apnews.com/live/donald-...

All eyes on Springfield, Ohio. 300,000 Haitians await their fate, and the threat goes live tomorrow. newrepublic.com/article/2060...

The 20th century media model is ending. Think tanks are stable. Academic historians are too. Legacy magazine (Atlantic) and newspapers (WAPO) are not. They are shrinking and struggling to adapt. The "internet" will not replace print media. It offers something different, but not the same.

Something with intellectual teeth. www.foreignaffairs.com/north-americ...

This is the kind of rumor that we want to avoid on social media. This is a vendetta wrapped in the langauge of honor. the actor seeks a political effect, not a revealing one. The leak is about optics, not substance. I encourage you to ignore it.

It's our own fault, really. As a nation, we fly by the seat of our pants, one self-interested project after another, never taking a moment to compare our ambition to the Architect's plan. Then Trump arrives and wants to tear everything down and rebuild it. Because we did not prepare for that, we w

We are in a period of history where change is brewing. Unfortunately, Trump will forever bear the brunt of criticism while those who elevated, encouraged, and defended him will go unscathed.

He is as unhinged as a cellar door in Kansas during a tornado. Trevor did not claim he visited Little St. James. Stephanopoulos signed a new multi‑year contract after ABC settled with Trump for $15M ABC's decision to settle drew heavy criticism from many sectors. www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

Now is the time to read American history. The motive for bad political actions is resentment. Every President had to deal with it. Piety is resentment. Greed is resentment. War. Violence. Revenge. All of it. Resentment. Today is not news. It is American history played over and over.

I am going to delete this post so when I become famous, people will say, "Did you see the post he deleted?" And that will mean something suspicious to them. Because for some reason, it never occurs to anyone that the reason people delete a post is because they didn't want to publish it.

"Penguin Random House collects and processes your personal information." Corporations no longer hide it.

Texas A&M is helping Texas retain college graduates. With their curriculum changes in place, no one out of state will soon hire them.

I read the ULINE catalog to see everything I can't find at Home Depot.

In a free society, you have the option of getting a college degree or spending the rest of your life hating those who earned one.

A bench without a back is a stool.

By the time we are wise enough to lead, we are too old to be popular.

Should I start a substack? You've read my posts. You have been a follower for a while. Does my content intrique you enough to make you curious to read the basis for my opinions? I have no interest in the money. I just do not want to waste my time. What subjects would I cover? {Keep reading}

The tragedy and its protagonist move to the next field of battle. What is to become of us that we would destroy our humanity to protect us from ghosts of ignorance and fears. We are under attack by villains and have only the grip upon our swords to protect us. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A Sonnet of the Approaching Plague The air grows tight, as though the world holds breath, And whispers coil like serpents through the night. A shadow stirs beneath the fields of death, Its fingers reaching for the edge of light

By fair measure, Trump remains an emotionally immature adult. His past has more skeletons than a catacomb; enough dirt to build a community garden. He could trip over the truth and still argue with the floor. An uncorrectable, Know-It-All who never met a mistake he couldn’t blame on someone else.

This makes me want to move to Minnesota...just as soon as the temperature is 72 again.

The files suggest the upper echelon of society is corrupt beyond measure - both in their deeds and their conspiracy.

My life's greatest folly was thinking I could help people become more intelligent; more moral.

The Lemon arrest looks like the first practical demonstration of a new constitutional order. An authoritarian executive branch makes it possible to defeat the arguments of Liberals that have dominated court decisions. Government by decree replaces government by consent.

A federal district judge declined to sign the arrest warrant for Don Lemon. The appeals court declined to compel the judge to sign it. Federal agents arrested Lemon anyway. DOJ has not publicly explained the legal authority used for the arrest. DoJ may have gone to grand jury to get warrant.

Authoritarian drift rarely begins with dramatic laws. It begins with the erosion of citizen discretion.

A SLAPP suit is a lawsuit filed not to win on the merits, but to silence, punish, or financially drain someone who is speaking out on a matter of public interest. - The filer usually doesn’t expect to win. - The goal is to make the critic stop speaking, out of fear, exhaustion, or cost.

Not a good idea. www.nbcnews.com/sports/auto-...

This is how you look when you are not trying to hide youridentity while you are on the phone with the president who in his paranoid state, wants to know everything that is going on as it happens. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Stay strong. It gets worse before it gets better.

Names are redacted to protect the innocent. BUT, that doesn't mean no one is going to investigate the redacted allegations. Imagine what DoJ officials saw before it was redacted. How can they not report what they read?

This is not a policeman. Not in my town, he's not.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Donald Trump is using the DoJ to jail journalists, punish adversaries, investigate opponents, arrest protesters, deport citizens, hide evidence and delay justice... and congressional Republicans (and some Democrats) are doing nothing to stop him. MAGA still thinks we are lying.

It also demonstrates there is absolutely nothing anyone can do to stop them.

Wi-Fi Hotspots: The FCC ended federal funding for Wi-Fi hotspots and mobile access on buses, affecting library lending programs.