Dang, really Globe? Thank goodness for the sports page. Otherwise it’s getting embarrassing @chadfinn.bsky.social

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.

Just when I want to subscribe to The Atlantic, I find out that senior staff writer David Frum has been writing speeches for the Israeli government and Eliot Cohen writes garbage like this: bsky.app/profile/thea...

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...

Props to @janemayer.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social & @eosnos.bsky.social for a great @newyorker.com political roundtable podcast calling out the massive corruption in Trump’s WH. As opposed to the lazy normalizing of Trump with this week’s awful @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social

What exactly are these people keeping their powder dry for? What would it take for them to even gently critique Trump’s agenda? wapo.st/42P1Edc

“How Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions Many of President Trump’s actions have been seen as benefiting Russia either directly or indirectly, so much so that Russian officials have celebrated some of his moves.” By Peter Baker www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...

I love that he thinks there are "paid protesters" as if people don't genuinely believe his support for the Orange Atrocity, chainsaw-wielding buffoonery, DOGE cuts wrecking the economy & crappy cars aren't things they hate for free.

Great podcast produced by @bostonglobe.com shining a light on a corrupt police department podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social interviews Senator King www.youtube.com/live/5YHvpx3...

So… this was supposed to be about Paul Revere’s ride, but the Senator just unloaded about the Trump administration and its Republican enablers. Far more newsworthy than I expected. (You can probably see me shifting to “crap, this was not the interview I prepped!” but the result was memorable.)

Omg

A Chicago Bulls hoodie makes Kilmar Garcia a gang member the same way a shiny gold cross makes Karoline Leavitt a Christian.

I did not anticipate the Financial Times leading the resistance but here we are

Noted liberal rag *checks notes* the financial times