Cyrene
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really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency
June 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency
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"The nation’s forecasting agency is in tatters as what could be a destructive hurricane season nears. Several current and former agency meteorologists told CNN they are concerned forecasts and life-saving warnings are not going to be issued in time." www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
www.cnn.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"The nation’s forecasting agency is in tatters as what could be a destructive hurricane season nears. Several current and former agency meteorologists told CNN they are concerned forecasts and life-saving warnings are not going to be issued in time." www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
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🧵The authoritarian Missouri GOP is at it again. The MO House is debating HJR 73, which would put abortion BACK on the ballot (with deceptive language) in an attempt to overturn Amendment 3. This egregious bill would undo the will of 1,538,659 voters. #MoLeg
April 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🧵The authoritarian Missouri GOP is at it again. The MO House is debating HJR 73, which would put abortion BACK on the ballot (with deceptive language) in an attempt to overturn Amendment 3. This egregious bill would undo the will of 1,538,659 voters. #MoLeg
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NEW: Trump to USA: There is no rule of law.
Today, Trump signaled he would not abide by court decisions and return to the US a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. He won't even ask El Salvador to send him back. This is cruel & dangerous.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Today, Trump signaled he would not abide by court decisions and return to the US a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. He won't even ask El Salvador to send him back. This is cruel & dangerous.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump to the USA: There is no rule of law
What might he try next? Illegal arrests or deportations of American citizens?
www.motherjones.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
NEW: Trump to USA: There is no rule of law.
Today, Trump signaled he would not abide by court decisions and return to the US a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. He won't even ask El Salvador to send him back. This is cruel & dangerous.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Today, Trump signaled he would not abide by court decisions and return to the US a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. He won't even ask El Salvador to send him back. This is cruel & dangerous.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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GOP court decision overturning Democratic victory in North Carolina Supreme Court race is 5 alarm fire for democracy. It’s January 6 without the insurrection. Make no mistake, if GOP succeeds in stealing election in NC, they’ll use that playbook everywhere www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Republicans are stealing a North Carolina judicial race. They won't stop there.
It's January 6 without the insurrection.
www.motherjones.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
GOP court decision overturning Democratic victory in North Carolina Supreme Court race is 5 alarm fire for democracy. It’s January 6 without the insurrection. Make no mistake, if GOP succeeds in stealing election in NC, they’ll use that playbook everywhere www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
April 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
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Cannot honestly communicate the contempt I have for these people.
Jessica: When I hear Republicans out there talking about their plan for education in America, I don't hear them talking about making sure disabled kids have access to a public education.
Greg: Because we're against it.
Greg: Because we're against it.
March 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Cannot honestly communicate the contempt I have for these people.
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Tonight should have reinforced to every single person living in an area w. a tornado warning that Trump’s major cuts to NOAA are a terrible and dangerous policy. #stlwx
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
As NOAA braces for more cuts, scientists say public safety is at risk
As severe weather season kicks off for large portions of the country, climate scientists warn cuts at NOAA and NWS could put public safety in jeopardy.
www.pbs.org
March 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Tonight should have reinforced to every single person living in an area w. a tornado warning that Trump’s major cuts to NOAA are a terrible and dangerous policy. #stlwx
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified"
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
February 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified"
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
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This was posted by @jjabbott.bsky.social over on the bad place and yall need to watch the good townspeople (boroughspeople?) of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a medium sized town of 4000 south of Pittsburgh, absolutely school this right wing loser
He tries to play it off, but is just absolutely pathetic.
He tries to play it off, but is just absolutely pathetic.
October 3, 2024 at 3:48 AM
This was posted by @jjabbott.bsky.social over on the bad place and yall need to watch the good townspeople (boroughspeople?) of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a medium sized town of 4000 south of Pittsburgh, absolutely school this right wing loser
He tries to play it off, but is just absolutely pathetic.
He tries to play it off, but is just absolutely pathetic.
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Philadelphia Inquirer showing how it’s done.
August 9, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Philadelphia Inquirer showing how it’s done.
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Remember how ages ago, in July, the Times ran an almost wholly speculative piece insinuating that President Biden had Parkinson’s, then memory-holed it? Well, anyway …
From STAT News. Surely there will be multiple front page NYT articles on this over next few days (tho Haberman/Swan might be saving some of it for their next Trump book):
Trump keeps losing his train of thought. Cognitive experts have theories about why
www.statnews.com/2024/08/07/t...
Trump keeps losing his train of thought. Cognitive experts have theories about why
www.statnews.com/2024/08/07/t...
Trump keeps losing his train of thought. Cognitive experts have theories about why
Shifting from topic to topic, with few connections, is one of several disjointed and occasionally incoherent verbal habits that seem to have increased in Trump’s speech.
www.statnews.com
August 7, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Remember how ages ago, in July, the Times ran an almost wholly speculative piece insinuating that President Biden had Parkinson’s, then memory-holed it? Well, anyway …
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters
Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."
To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Board
Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.
www.inquirer.com
June 29, 2024 at 11:03 PM
NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters
Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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Did the NY Times opinion section suggest Trump should drop out given that he couldn't get through half a sentence that was (1) actually in response to the question asked or (2) truthful?
June 29, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Did the NY Times opinion section suggest Trump should drop out given that he couldn't get through half a sentence that was (1) actually in response to the question asked or (2) truthful?
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Another professor, Steve Tamari at Washington University, assaulted by police for recording images of the protest. Reportedly hospitalized with broken bones.
Beginning to suspect this is not about campus safety.
Video: x.com/prem_thakker...
Beginning to suspect this is not about campus safety.
Video: x.com/prem_thakker...
May 1, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Another professor, Steve Tamari at Washington University, assaulted by police for recording images of the protest. Reportedly hospitalized with broken bones.
Beginning to suspect this is not about campus safety.
Video: x.com/prem_thakker...
Beginning to suspect this is not about campus safety.
Video: x.com/prem_thakker...
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The special counsel found that Biden extensively cooperated with investigators, in sharp contrast to evidence that Trump resisted and misled them for months.
That's a good topic for "news analysis" pieces. Instead, it's But Her Emails redux.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1789...
That's a good topic for "news analysis" pieces. Instead, it's But Her Emails redux.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1789...
Nightmare Special Counsel Report Is the Media’s New Hillary Emails
There are many ways the press could have played the Hur report in its news analyses. The path they chose suggests we’re stuck in 2016 again.
newrepublic.com
February 9, 2024 at 5:50 PM
The special counsel found that Biden extensively cooperated with investigators, in sharp contrast to evidence that Trump resisted and misled them for months.
That's a good topic for "news analysis" pieces. Instead, it's But Her Emails redux.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1789...
That's a good topic for "news analysis" pieces. Instead, it's But Her Emails redux.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1789...
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🐦 North America has lost 3 billion birds in half a century.
For my Climate Lab column, I made an app where you can see the population trend for almost any bird species in the United States.
Play with it here: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
For my Climate Lab column, I made an app where you can see the population trend for almost any bird species in the United States.
Play with it here: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Analysis | Bird populations are declining. Some are in your neighborhood.
North America has lost 3 billion birds in half a century. The world’s biggest bird database, eBird, shows how bird populations are doing in your town.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 17, 2024 at 1:20 PM
🐦 North America has lost 3 billion birds in half a century.
For my Climate Lab column, I made an app where you can see the population trend for almost any bird species in the United States.
Play with it here: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
For my Climate Lab column, I made an app where you can see the population trend for almost any bird species in the United States.
Play with it here: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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"This is what disability advocates have said all along, not that it usually sinks in: The able and the disabled aren’t two different kinds of people but the same people at different times." nymag.com/intelligence...
Tom Scocca: Unraveling My Medical Mystery
The strangest things happen to other people’s bodies. Then they began happening to my own.
nymag.com
January 3, 2024 at 5:20 PM
"This is what disability advocates have said all along, not that it usually sinks in: The able and the disabled aren’t two different kinds of people but the same people at different times." nymag.com/intelligence...
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Just a reminder that book shopping is probably the quietest, slowest, and most peaceful activity we undertake in public, aside perhaps for praying in church or sitting alone on a park bench.
Best wishes for 2024.
Best wishes for 2024.
December 31, 2023 at 1:30 PM
Just a reminder that book shopping is probably the quietest, slowest, and most peaceful activity we undertake in public, aside perhaps for praying in church or sitting alone on a park bench.
Best wishes for 2024.
Best wishes for 2024.
Let’s give Missouri credit for trying to get one up on Texas, or DeSantis!
Missouri HB.1739 contains provisions for the immediate dismissal and 4 year suspension from employment for any nurse, teacher or social worker who calls a student a name other than that which is on their school registration forms, or fails to report a non-cis identity.
legiscan.com/MO/bill/HB17...
legiscan.com/MO/bill/HB17...
December 17, 2023 at 6:28 PM
Let’s give Missouri credit for trying to get one up on Texas, or DeSantis!
Missouri …🤦🏻♀️
Hard to overstate how insane, inappropriate, and anti-American it is for state attorneys general to launch harassing investigations of journalists because the attorney general heard that the journalists reported something that made a website he likes, owned by a billionaire he likes, look bad.
December 13, 2023 at 11:07 PM
Missouri …🤦🏻♀️
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An eviction at the Vatican. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/w...
Reports Say Pope Francis Is Evicting U.S. Cardinal From His Vatican Home
Word of the action against Cardinal Raymond Burke came after the prelate’s increasingly pointed critiques of the reform-minded pope.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2023 at 10:59 PM
An eviction at the Vatican. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/w...