It took me a while to get here, but I explain on @dailykos.com why I'm now pulling the plug on @washingtonpost.com . I'll instead support @51st.news, @washingtoninformer.com, @washingtoncitypaper.com.web.brid.gy, @dclinenews.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

I'm confused. I thought that the Trump administration and Republicans believed that the 2nd Amendment entitled me to carry a weapon anywhere I wanted.

My White husband just asked me why I haven't watched #HeatedRivalty. It's not that I'm unhappy that this story has gained mainstream appeal. It's that I'm exhausted that the only stories about gay male love that seem to win mainstream appeal are ones that center White lives.

The Trump administration's Agriculture Department has run "1,000 simulations" to show how you can cope with rising food prices.

Haven’t posted here in a while, but this morning I am mad. Just saw some of the @cbsnews.com Bari Weiss interview with Erika Cook. That wasn’t journalism but propagandistic platforming. I’m done with CBS.

Antisemitism is a very serious issue, but why did @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy air a story on the owner of Barstool Sports that highlighted antisemitic attacks on him but did not also address homophobia, sexism and bigotry spread by Barstool Sports?

Not only are these extrajudicial killings blatant war crimes, they are plain stupid. Drug War 101 teaches you don't kill off the small fish but you use the small fish to catch the big fish. Otherwise, you're just blowing up people for show. And show is all Pete Hegseth is capable of.

What am I missing? Washington Post *opinion* columnist Karen Attiah is fired for her *opinion* about the racism of Charlie Kirk, but *editor-in-chief* of CBS News Bari Weiss keeps her job after posting on social media an editorial by her publication The Free Press attacking Zohran Mandami?

THIS IS YOUR PRESIDENT ON DRUGS: Cutting a deal with Pfizer to sell discount pharmaceuticals on “TrumpRX.” Even as he and congressional Republicans are refusing to assure that Affordable Care Act premiums for millions of Americans will remain affordable.

By all means, let’s get worked up over a tenuous link between Tylenol and autism, and shrug off cleaning up toxic forever chemicals leaching into our drinking water.

This New York Times headline about the right-wing ideologue hired by the new owners of CBS-Paramount pretty much says it all. This, after Paramount paid Trump $16 million to settle a bogus lawsuit over a Kamala Harris interview, puts a golden Trump-branded muzzle on a once-fierce watchdog.

My message to every Black and LGBTQ person: Don’t spend money in Florida unless you’re spending it to get rid of Ron DeSantis and his Republican regime.

The Democratic Party is losing membership, and the reasons go deeper than politics. It's a symptom of a country losing its moral compass. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

I'm sorry, but "My Source News Opinion World" sounds like a bad translation of a slogan in a foreign language. I can't imagine anyone spent more than a few hundred dollars on this, so Versant (another bad name) should cut its losses and start over.

JD Vance‘s meeting at the vice president’s residence tonight should not be about Jeffrey Epstein. It should be about using the 25th Amendment to get President Trump out of office.

SUPPORT LOCAL DC NEWS: While The Washington Post shrinks its local news, @51st.news is working to build its staff and needs help now. If 3,500 people chip in at least $20 by Friday, they'll add an experienced full-time reporter and editor for its DC coverage. Let's do this: givebutter.com/SsQ8CG

There is a special place in hell reserved for Shari Redstone and the sellouts running (and ruining) CBS. apple.news/A20dkEZFbRe-...

So the same Elon Musk who wants people to join a new "America" political party that he says he's creating owns an AI chatbot that praises Adolf Hitler because, as Musk says, it's been trained on material that is "politically incorrect." Seriously, you can't make this ish up.

When will the majority of us come to the realization that Donald Trump is mentally unfit and needs to be removed from the presidency? The punitive threats, unreasoned policy declarations via late-night tweets, the rambling speeches—this is not a stable genius but an unstable maniac. Trump must go.

A Forbes magazine article notes the Austin/San Antonio Weather Forecast Office had six vacancies at the time a major storm was about to bring a record flood to the Guadalupe River. Texas officials now say they weren't adequately warned by the National Weather Service. www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Paramount Chair Shari Redstone regarding CBS $16 million settlement with Trump while seeking administration approval of the Paramount-Skydance merger: “...[I]t is illegal to corruptly give anything of value to public officials to influence an official act."

From "big, beautiful" travesty to big booty-full distraction: Just in time to distract us from the damage Trump and Senate Republicans just inflicted on the country, the media is giving us wall-to-wall Diddy coverage. Because what's more important?

Proof that the management of @washingtonpost.com is totally clueless: Their announcement this week that there won't be a standalone Metro section in the print edition. This is the official middle finger to DC residents that says actual Washingtonians are not a priority for The Washington Post.

I've been suspicious of D.C. restaurant claims that Initiative 82 (which phases out the tipped minimum wage) is responsible for some recent restaurant closings, including two in my Brookland neighborhood. This article contains data that proves that I-82 is a scapegoat. 51st.news/opinion-init...

WaPo: White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say. Can we now fire Robert Kennedy?

This is a reminder to cat owners to never leave butter unattended.

Integrity rooted in editorial independence is the most important asset of a news organization. @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy corporate owners are throwing that away. They can’t see that settling with Trump will render CBS News worthless. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/b...

The United Stated should have a president like this, one who lives humbly and governs compassionately. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Historic moment: Today, for the first time, a major network news show is led by two Black gay men. Congrats to Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels at @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social #LGBTQ

Did Donald Trump spend the last month tanking the stock market with harsh rhetoric and actions so that he and his friends could buy on the trough and cash in when he "softens his tone"? Asking for a friend.

Why has there been so little outrage to news that the State Department plans to dismantle nearly ALL operations in Africa? None of planned four regional bureaus in a draft executive order would include the continent of Africa, according to news reports. apple.news/AvZ4mjatjSgm...

Because it doesn't feel right to sing "God Bless America" right now.

On Friday, as US aid workers were helping earthquake victims in Myanmar, they were told they were fired. The US government is evil. I am heartsick. Pray for America.

WHAT TRUMP SAID: I want US manufacturing to come roaring back. WHAT TRUMP DID: Prompt the cancellation of nearly $8 billion in US-based clean energy manufacturing projects. Make America Poor and Polluted Again.

HEY #BLACKSKY: Trump just released an executive order going after the African American History Museum and other Smithsonian institutions. What are we prepared to do to DEFEND BLACK HISTORY from the Trump/Vance/Musk whitewash? apnews.com/article/trum...

Reading the news r e a l s l o w: The chair of the Federal Communications Commission says he will oppose mergers of communications companies that act to advance the careers and economic growth of non-White people and businesses. But if you are anti-diversity, he’ll grease the wheels for you.

Is this the best you have @washingtonpost.com? Trump has clear (albeit undeclared) emotional and mental defects, and yet the problem with his decision-making is that "he's not explaining it very well?" REALLY? You're putting THAT on the front of your website as NEWS? @erikwemple.bsky.social

DON'T SAY GAY: The Trump push to erase diversity from the Defense Department reportedly has targeted for deletion from military websites images of the plane the US used to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan—the "Enola Gay." Yes, the Trump team is that dumb. apnews.com/article/dei-...

The evisceration of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by the principal author of Project 2025 means that Capital One is free once again to fleece its consumers. What’s in your wallet? www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Reading a list of aid projects that are being killed by Trump/Musk USAID shutdown makes plain how deeply racist this all is. This is all about an apartheid-bred white South African’s deep hatred of Black Africans, and Trump’s willingness to be complicit.

This flu season the Centers for Disease Control reports 19,000 people have DIED from the flu. HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy today CANCELED this year's flu vaccine selection process. That risks killing tens of thousands more people next flu season. We must stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Donald Trump, you are not our king, and we are not your subjects. Keep your narcissistic, plutocratic and deranged hands off the District of Columbia.

According to @4taxfairness.bsky.social a House Trumpublican plan would shift more than $1 trillion in food and health care funding for low-income people into funding tax cuts for overstuffed billionaires. This is sinful.

Imagine being accosted by a bully on the playground who steals something from you. Teacher sees the two of you fighting, asks you both to stop. You explain that the bully started the fight and took something that belongs to you. But...

If you're gonna be part of an alphabet community, it's so much better to be part of the LGBTQ community than the TRASH community.

They literally removed the T from LGBTQ and erased any mention of trans people who were present at the Stonewall Riots. They're trying to erase us from history. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

This man doesn 't even bother to hide the hypocritical self-dealing: While pillaging through the federal government to allegedly "cut wasteful spending," he's lined up to get a $400 million government contract for "armored Teslas." Stop Musk Now. www.thedailybeast.com/musks-tesla-...