Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

My story: thewest.com.au/news/health/...

My latest story on this racket: thewest.com.au/lifestyle/su...

My story: thewest.com.au/news/health/...

My story on the crazy war splitting the community in Esperance, Australia, which also includes a video report. thewest.com.au/news/wa/espe...

This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance. Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.

This online story from the weekend includes my very first attempt at video journalism. For an old print hack (35 years in the news biz), who started out on a typewriter, I'm enjoying learning new ways to tell my stories. thewest.com.au/business/pro...

X is down.

We know Trump & Elon are corrupt. We’ve learned even more in the past 48 hours: 🚙 Trump’s State Department tried to funnel $400 million to Tesla. 💰 Elon received $38 billion in government contracts, loans, & tax credits. 🛰️ The FAA gave a contract to Elon’s company Starlink, worth billions.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

It is kind of ironic that Trump wants Canada as his 51st state, but all of his efforts appear to be turning America into Russia’s 47th oblast.

Two superpowers opening discussions on the future of a country which one of them is still invading, without that country

My story in today’s paper on older Australians getting increasingly hooked on harmful conspiracy theories peddled by lunatics and grifters. thewest.com.au/news/wa/olde...

Criticism and concern spread across both sides of the aisle Tuesday night following President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States “will take over the Gaza Strip.”

Jim Acosta, we are with you.

“Fifteen North American Jewish organizations announced on Monday that they will be pivoting their social media content away from X, citing the platform's harmful discourse & promotion of ‘hate, antisemitism, and societal division.’” 1/28/25 www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/u...

One day after the school shooting at Antioch High School in Tennessee, the Trump administration has disbanded the Federal School Safety Advisory Board that was created to combat mass shootings. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Good summary of this shameful case. I'm glad good journalists blew the whistle. theconversation.com/murdochs-uk-...

I’m really not crazy about Twitter’s new logo.

She called out Musk’s salute in a social media post…and then lost her job at CBS. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

🕊️ “… That’s a far different legacy than King, who by words, spirit and his audacity of hope, lit a flame for good that burns as hot and bright as any other American’s in the history of this confounding nation ...” 🕊️ Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. on a day we’ve never needed his strength more.

#MartinLutherKingDay2025 "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."

A sad but beautiful song for the good half of America. Benjamin Tod always cuts through. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fnx...

Well done Le Monde. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Fear gives them power over you. Take it away and they have nothing.

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A Flurry of Announcements Signal That the Trump Family Will Keep Making Deals. Even before the start of the new administration, there has been repeated blurring of lines between the federal government efforts and Trump family businesses. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/u...

A ‘Business-Friendly’ Lawyer’s Rise From Lobbyist to Attorney General Pick. Pam Bondi, whom President-elect Donald J. Trump intends to nominate as attorney general, received trips/donations funded by those seeking favors from her Florida office. A deep dive on Bondi. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...

NYT: An unpaid group of billionaires, tech executives and some disciples of Peter Thiel, a powerful Republican donor, are preparing to take up unofficial positions in the U.S. government in the name of cost-cutting. Zero public disclosure so far about the work. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

NYT: Four years after receiving a pardon from President Donald J. Trump for crimes related to foreign lobbying, Paul Manafort is again seeking business from political interests abroad, capitalizing on international interest in forging connections to Mr. Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

NYT: When flooding ravaged South Dakota last summer, leaving homes and businesses in ruins, Gov. Kristi Noem (Trump nominee to head DHS) made a controversial decision: not to deploy the state’s National Guard. Instead, she had sent Nat Guard to the border. Mark Walker www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

FYI, folks from Bluesky. Reporters at The NYT, among other news organizations, are now generating a giant wave of accountability stories about the new Trump era. Reading these stories, sharing them, is a form of accountability as well. It is a form of participatory democracy too. Substance matters.

I hope more people wake up to climate change. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

I turn off my phone for a few hours and in that time America has gone to a new level of crazy. What next?!

People talk about legacy media v new media. The real distinction and the only one that matters in 2025 is fact-based, truth-seeking media (regardless of delivery mode) v those that serve propaganda purposes.

A fascist and his cult rewriting history for their agenda. And establishment just allows it because it's good for business. Shameful. ‘A Day of Love’: How Trump Inverted the Violent History of Jan. 6 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/u...