Today's email to @washingtonpost.com To the Opinions Section Leaders, I was a longtime subscriber to the Washington Post (nearly continuously from around 2001 until 2025). I was proud to grow up near DC and have my "hometown newspaper" be known as one of the giants of investigative journalism.

Ran across this fascinating story of authoritarian overreach and downfall (sparked by today's NYT Flashback Quiz). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

I consider myself to be a fundamentally nonviolent person (I haven't hit anybody in my life except my siblings way back when), but the evil people trying to destroy our democracy are making me closer than I have ever felt to wishing I could make them physically suffer.

This is my favorite use of AI so far.

Remember when the right wing was all hot and bothered about left-wing "cancel culture"? Seems quaint now.

Vaccinated for the season! COVID, flu, pneumonia. Thank you, Governor Maura Healey and the MA state legislature for your commitment to public health, and to the many scientists who have created these life-saving vaccines! (And yes. Yes, that is indeed a unicorn sticker that says "I am brave!")

Karen Attiah's firing is a vivid demonstration of the continued downfall of the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos is a broken shell of a human being and a symptom of our toxic glorification of Wealth Uber Alles. Boycott now. Support independent journalism.

Gee golly, it's such a surprise that the White House got that wrong. Surely an apology will be forthcoming any moment now.

Joy: Maya Angelou's "A Brave and Startling Truth," a paean to the possibility of a nonviolent, loving future for humanity. When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world That is when, and only when We come to it.

We all knew the right wing and Trump were lying about Iryna Zarutska's murder -- Popular Info does a great job of laying out the facts. popular.info/p/a-tragic-m...

The #1 thing that would make the country and the world a better place is if people [mostly Republicans but honestly everybody] would just stop LYING about every damn thing, and if people [mostly Republicans but honestly everybody] would just stop BELIEVING every damn lie they hear.

Sleepy Droopy Don is definitely not physically (or mentally, or morally) fit to be president. www.firstpost.com/explainers/d...

Well now this is interesting. Wonder whether it will make its way into the right-wing foxnewsmaxsphere. www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-the-me...

How the right wing can think that it is the LEFT wing who stokes violence is just utterly, completely, and absolutely beyond me. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Just leaving this here, in case anybody knows how to make this go viral on right-wing media... (and please note that anarchists cannot reasonably be described as "left-wing," so actual left-wing extremism is actually responsible for less than 4%of extremist-related murders)

The purely political theatrics of sending military forces into cities is not only unconstitutional, but does not reduce crime. As this article points out, crime reduction occurs largely from targeted community-based policing -- which the Trump administration has been busily slashing funding for.

Very harsh statement about SCOTUS ruling today from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, and appropriately so:

I've said it before and I'll say it again: we are in a REALLY dumb branch of the multiverse. WTF did we do to deserve to be stuck here??

Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please

I love this guy

Another thing Gavin Newsom is getting right: remember when using the BABY STAIRS was absolute proof that Biden was too old to be president? Somehow at Fox News it's all crickets now that Trump is falling down and using the same stairs. www.youtube.com/shorts/wdLHm...

Thoughts and prayers to donald trump, but I ain't sayin' what I'm thinkin' and prayin'

Capitulating in advance didn't help GMU much... www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

Prevention is now off the menu.😢 From: Dennis Goris #medsky 🛟😷🧪

MA state law requires following CDC recs. I've written to Gov Healy & my state senator & rep urging them to supersede the CDC and FDA recommendations with guidance from professional orgs like IDSA, AAP, AMA. This needs to happen NOW, not after months of debate (and a deathly winter COVID outbreak).

Live your life such that people don’t rejoice at the mere prospect of your death.

Heartbreaking indeed. And more so that we have a president who will probably find a way to politicize this tragedy.

Just got this from Gavin Newsom: Cold hard, FACTS you won't see on FOX

ewww and also isn't this what Fani Willis lost her job over?

Columbia University, Intel, and on and on... it's not "a good deal for the US government;" it's extortion, and it's illegal, and I don't understand why more people aren't pointing that out.

This is just stupid (and positively obnoxious in light of the trump administration / GOP-led Congress's cuts to (among many other things) the National Park Service and community policing across the country).

MORE OF THIS PLEASE!!!!

Incredible photographs of Hurricane Katrina by Richard Misrach. It did not escape my notice that @nytimes.com correctly referred to the body of water where Hurricane Katrina originated as the Gulf of Mexico. Good for them. Keep it up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Fantastic response and fantastic speech by Gov Pritzker. Resist. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Powerful ad from a powerful candidate. Josh Turek for Iowa! substack.com/@adamparkhom...

Gavin Newsom trolling trump and the magats is by far the best part of 2025 to date

Good for DC. Way to resist. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

I’m a U.S. History teacher and I refuse to follow any mandates to erase the full history of the USA from my lessons. Heart this if you pledge to support teachers who will teach the truth in the face of these fascist attacks on education as well as our cultural institutions.

Ten amazing and inspiring women in American history (written about by an eleventh), embodying the Declaration of Independence and the true American spirit. @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This type of shenanigans is only legal if the orange one does it share.google/fcy5gtSnYh0P...

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it! 8/8/25

I seriously hope somebody is keeping track of all of Trump's violations of the emoluments clause (aka bribes) so the American people can begin to recover what he stole from us www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Vladimir Putin is a war criminal and it is appalling that trump has invited him to the United States.