How’re we doing now?

Edward R. Murrow famously used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. He got his start on CBS Radio, which will sadly be shut down after nearly 100 years of operation. We need more journalists holding the powerful accountable like this.

ALERT: Professional news. Nine days after leaving CBS, I have found a new professional home: Chief Washington Correspondent and Anchor for @meidastouch.com

“A Tennessee library director is drawing national support after refusing to relocate LGBTQ+ children’s books, citing the First Amendment.” apple.news/AEgwuiGArT_m...

Washington DC is not the President’s personal real estate empire. Our public buildings belong to the people. That’s why I introduced the Federal Facilities Protection and Oversight Act—to protect our historic federal buildings and ensure no president can demolish or remake them on a whim.

Krome should have been dynamited decades ago.

President Kennedy's family created the profile in courage award in 1989 to honor Kennedy and to recognize political bravery. The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum announced Twin Cities residents have earned the Profile in Courage Award.

The vaccines worked

I am leaving the Washington Post to join a new journalistic venture backed by Politico founder Robert Allbritton that will be both the hometown publication the D.C. region sorely needs and a scrappy and fearless national news organization. I hope you'll join us.

I'm just a lawyer who is about to begin studying for her MBA at Harvard so what do I know. I'm just spitballing here but maybe we need a new Congress. You know like the kind that does their job? That kind of Congress. A very Congressey Congress just Congressing around every day all day.

Remember when the US had allies and would consult with them before going to war?

A group of us in the Senate are demanding public hearings on Trump's disastrous war with Iran with Secretary Hegseth and Rubio. And we've introduced a half dozen war powers resolutions to force the Senate to vote every day on the war if the hearings don't happen.

The Onion’s print ads are the best thing in the newspaper.

Here a Tranche, There a Tranche, Everywhere a Tranche, Tranche! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/s...

you can’t degenerate into mediocrity when mediocrity is your starting point

Russians are providing military technology to Iranian proxies

I loved this scene today and want you to see it as well. Ice, sand, a woman and her dog were perfect in this imperfect world.

Even if you are 100% convinced that Democracy is already dead and our votes won't count... PLEASE VOTE ANYWAY! I'm begging everyone. There is a critical mass of voter turnout that will be too big to fix. Please vote, no matter how bleak it seems.

Page One in Miami: @miamiherald.com

“.. no announcement, no ceremony, no news cameras — just two employees on their routine overnight shift working while most of Washington slept.” @washingtonpost.com #J6 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Today, Michelle and I are proud to announce that we will be hosting the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on June 18th in Chicago, and welcoming the public on June 19th. We can’t wait for you to visit. Go to obama.org to learn more.

“War-a-Lago” By Barry Blitt @newyorker.com

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

I have not personally met but have corresponded with Stanley Plotkin on a few occasions, and one thing I would be remiss not to mention is that he is incredibly charitable with his time for people who come to him in good faith.

Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post offering “financial runway." This month it gutted its newsroom—more than 300 layoffs. Whatever you think of legacy news, the hard data shows us that newspaper closures hurt Americans. Here's how: 🧵

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

🚨BREAKING: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

On the Ed Sullivan show. Can we turn back the clock please?

Beautiful.

Federal science workforce in 2025: NSF down over 30% USGS, NOAA, and NIH down 20% DOE down 17% NIST down 15% NASA down 12% By comparison, the total federal civilian workforce was down approximately 10% last year. www.aip.org/fyi/federal-...

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

I’d quit too if I were working 43 hours a day

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

Great story by Dr. Jon LaPook @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy interviews with David Oshinsky and Itzak Perlman www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qhj...

Kennedy Center Performance Canceled After Substance Poured on Ice Rink www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/a...

Touching to see U2 and Ed Sheeran remember this terrible anniversary in Ukraine and the men and women who are doing what they have to do. youtu.be/p92NzxFmseo?...

Worth pointing out that the Pentagon didn’t make this announcement in its phony press conferences. We know this because a reporter earned the trust of a military source.

Despite the gutting of their newsroom in a mass layoff, the reporters remaining at the Post continue to do good work. They have consistently owned the Defense Dept beat during Trump 2.

Breaking news: The Pentagon’s top general has cautioned President Trump from an attack on Iran, saying that shortfalls in critical munitions and a lack of support from allies will add significant risk to the operation and to U.S. personnel.

"The U.S. Women's Hockey Team said it is declining President Donald Trump's invitation to attend his State of the Union address, a day after the president jokingly told the U.S. men's hockey team that he would be impeached if he didn't also invite the women's team."

Why do major media pretend these times are normal? Why no 5-alarm crisis coverage? “They haven’t received a press release to officially announce the arrival of the dictatorship, so they … think it’s safer to describe the symptoms without diagnosing the disease.” My free Stop the Presses newsletter.

More hope from mRNA vaccines. In this instance, individualized vaccines were given to women with triple negative breast cancer following surgery and adjuvant therapy. The results are quite remarkable. Despite cancer finding a ‘T cell-evading’ work-around in some patients. #Science 🧪

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website

Jesse Jackson reading "Green Eggs and Ham" is so wonderful. RIP

Someone tell Bari about the Streisand effect