No surprise that somebody surrounded by sycophants can't stomach honest questioning, but the real danger of Trump's "quiet piggy" impertinence is the direct challenge it poses to the confrontation that's at the core of government accountability. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Discarding the language of neutral reportage,The NY Times produced an exceptionally powerful account of Trump's appalling anti-Somali tantrum. Other media should view this abandonment of convention as an invitation to re-examine their own timid practices. It's time. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Can't beat sycophancy. Never mind merit... The brilliant rise of Kash Patel, the middling nobody who as FBI chief heads the world's mightiest investigative agency, shows convincingly that nowadays nothing succeeds like servility. "Managing upward" isn't even close. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In this series of cozy emails involving this accomplished reporter and the sex criminal, Epstein assures us that Trump had to have known what was going on. But the core question, which Epstein could have answered, remains unasked. Was Trump a participant? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...

Influencers court danger from undisclosed conflicts of interest, and may find valuable lessons in conventional journalism practice. ewasserman.com/influencers-...

Why does the Times think we need a lead story about Trump's self-congratulatory view of his own dangerously misguided presidency? Like their report on the zealots who want him on Mt. Rushmore, this seems like a news org negotiating the terms of its own abjection. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/u...

Blaming Joe Biden's inner circle for concealing his decline is an easy option for the journalists producing the latest wave of recriminations. The harder question, which they don't touch, is where was the White House press corps? www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

This is freakishly wrong. Extortion, corruption, submission. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Where were Greenland & Panama & Canada during the campaign? Trump ignored foreign policy beyond grumbling about how much everybody owes us. Now, out of nowhere, reckless plans to strongarm and humiliate allies. If that was the plan, shouldn't people have voted on it? Why else do we have elections?

Gutsy for @anntelnaes.bsky.social to quit the @washingtonpost over rejection of this cartoon dinging tech/media moguls paying obeisance to Trump. But shame on Bezos and his flunkies at the paper. Her Substack post is in the thread 1/2