Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Maybe that a) the piece was ready and b) the reporters made normal efforts to get comment from the administration?

A depraved and decadent Trump WH dinner for MBS was a stunning low for an American ruling class that's stopped pretending to carry a moral compass It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...

Trump's British Maga allies - and his suit against the BBC. My column. on.ft.com/4i6z6mR

The Epstein emails have damaged Trump beyond repair, because the public has now seen the gross moral rot behind Trump's presidency and the elites who prop it up (and fawned over a convicted sex creep) Take your money out of AI and into pitchforks. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...

Bev Turner holding Trumps feet to the fire…

Just read transcript of GB News interview with Trump. North Korean broadcasting standards. Bev Turner is not a journalist. Her sycophancy was shameful.

The release of thousands of documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has set off a frantic political fight in Washington. In today’s daily newsletter, Jessica Winter writes about what the latest e-mails reveal. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VJssjY

November 10, 2025

New gift link (previous one expired). Comments have been disabled, which demonstrates my point.. on.ft.com/47oS8kI

"You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." My column on the suppurating neo-Nazism on America's right. on.ft.com/4oxjjQj

Belatedly watched 60 minutes Trump interview. OMFG. This isn't journalism.

Falcons owner Arthur Blank’s foundation is making a $50 million donation to four HBCUs in the Atlanta area today - Spelman, Morehouse, Morris Brown & Clark Atlanta. Good stuff.

If Frum is not immediately fired by @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social @theatlantic.com …… it tells you all you need to know about The Atlantic

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Folks had no idea who owns their local TV stations - until large, faceless corporations, Sinclair and Nexstar, said they can't watch Jimmy Kimmel because of politics This is why they've been warning us: media consolidation is a threat to democracy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jimm...

"Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next fourteen?" My column. www.ft.com/content/a284...

Pa.'s 2 senators, including alleged Dem Fetterman, picked the wrong week to tell Americans not to talk about fascism, Hitler The shredding of the 1st Amendment that led to gov't coercion to silence Jimmy Kimmel is fast becoming our own Reichstag fire My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jimm...

The Washington Post was the paper of my teen dreams -- whose courage helped convince me to chose a life in journalism. Monday's firing of the Post's moral beacon, Karen Attiah, proved that a newsroom I'd believed in is now dead to me Why I finally ditched the Post www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk.

Here’s a good NYT column that puts this issue in perspective for me Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

A few lazy media members trying to sanitize the actual words of Kirk because he couched his long history of spewing racist & hateful tropes by “being civil” & saying “it’s not who I am”. Yes, he has said enough damning things to confirm who he actually WAS 🙄.

Exactly. I think it is a much more disturbing media malpractice to discount his spewing of a racist trope because he couched it by saying “..but that’s not who I am”. In context, and based on his long history of racist and bigoted comments, that IS who he was. But sure, he was “civil” 🙄

My Weekend FT big read. www.ft.com/content/f5df...

My. latest. www.ft.com/content/dfca...

‘What is striking about [Israel’s double strikes on Nasser hospital] is that each individual element – the targeting of a working hospital, of journalists and rescue workers, of civilian injured already under treatment – would be expected to draw accusations of a war crime in its own right.’

not sure how many decades it will take America living down having elected Trump twice

“Theodore Roosevelt famously said that US presidents should speak softly and carry a big stick. Trump has been talking loudly and wielding a noodle. Putin has good reasons to be hopeful on Friday.” My column - From Alaska with Love. www.ft.com/content/3e49...

How much money is Donald Trump really making off the Presidency? David D. Kirkpatrick spent months tallying up how much the Trump family has pocketed off Trump’s time in the White House—golf course by golf course, crypto deal by crypto deal.

You have to love the NY tabloid cover headlines. After the Yankees lost three straight to Miami over the weekend, today’s back covers were: Daily News-“Filet O’ Yanks” Post-“Sweeping with the Fishes”

Of course ICE arrested a carpenter named Jesus with no criminal record. Because ICE serves a Christian administration. www.thebulwark.com/p/his-name-i...

"Trump has ushered in an era in which panic rather than policy drives the global trade system. For those that ought to be able to push back, such as the EU, it has looked more like cowering to a bully." Strong FT editorial on Europe's submission to Trump. on.ft.com/3U52oag

What Tulsi Gabbard has become

Sunday media. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/12/s...

“Zbig” is a pleasure to read, written in the same plainspoken, lucid prose as Luce’s columns. Luce does a wonderful job reconstructing old policy debates in all their nuance..." Wonderful @washingtonpost.com review by Jonathan Tepperman. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

WATCH: “It has been one of the most obscene and depraved undertakings I have ever seen,” says Chris Hayes on reporting that Israeli soldiers and private American contractors have been firing into crowds of hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat.

New at Media Nation: Readers of Montreal's La Presse share their thoughts about Trump with the @bostonglobe.com.

"Yup, you guessed it. The most powerful Democrats, and some friends on Wall Street, will do anything to stop the free bus guy." The Democratic Party hierarchy is all about preventing change, but change is what people are clamoring for, not reruns or retreads. I hear it everywhere I go.

Analysis: Jrue Holiday traded to Portland for Anfernee Simons, picks www.bostonsportsjournal.com/2025/06/24/a...

"They say with Trump accusation is confession. Having warned during the 2024 campaign that Joe Biden, then Kamala Harris, would trigger “world war three”, Trump is now offering a perilous test of that proposition." My take. www.ft.com/content/c689...

What's fascinating about Trump's Iran quandary is that both parties are split yet America as a whole is against war on Iran, including comfortable D and R majorities. The US public's instinct is considerably better than that of most 'experts'..

"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered." @michellegoldberg.bsky.social nails Musk's cruelty, incuriosity and (yes) his idiocy. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Richest guy in the world cut funding for cancer research but at least he had fun

bill belichick's potential father in law is 49

Once again, future historians — if there are any — will be grateful for @hcrichardson.bsky.social superb time capsule. The mad king is a total crook. And totally unhinged. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-5-2025

This is a MUST listen to podcast. @janemayer.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social talking about the outrageous and unprecedented lawlessness of Trump & his family in corrupting our government in service of enriching themselves.

Could the President's strong de-doll and de-pencil initiative use some refinements in communication? Sure. But I think the American people know the president has been very clear in dictating the precisely acceptable number of dolls and pencils.

Book news: “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich” was scheduled to be published this fall, but the publisher has moved it up to June 3rd, because it describes a world upon us now. Details and pre-orders here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...