Doug Simmons
@dougsimmons.bsky.social
Senior gadfly -- 22 years at the Village Voice, 8 years at the Boston Phoenix. Be kind there's still time, pace Larkin.
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This is some disturbing ICE Gestapo footage. They point guns at citizens and threaten to shoot them. They punch a guy in the back of the head repeatedly when he’s down and already subdued, then later slam his head into the side of their vehicle.
This took place on 10/31/2025 in Evanston, IL.
This took place on 10/31/2025 in Evanston, IL.
November 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
This is some disturbing ICE Gestapo footage. They point guns at citizens and threaten to shoot them. They punch a guy in the back of the head repeatedly when he’s down and already subdued, then later slam his head into the side of their vehicle.
This took place on 10/31/2025 in Evanston, IL.
This took place on 10/31/2025 in Evanston, IL.
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Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
April 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
sleepy don
It was all but certain that he would embarrass America at the Pope’s funeral.
April 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
sleepy don
I shot some people on Fifth Avenue today.
April 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I shot some people on Fifth Avenue today.
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Nothing in recent weeks has come closer to articulating the gut punch that I am feeling, and maybe that you are, too — those of us raised on Schoolhouse Rock and Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus" and Pax Americana — than this did. via @thebulwark.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Nothing in recent weeks has come closer to articulating the gut punch that I am feeling, and maybe that you are, too — those of us raised on Schoolhouse Rock and Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus" and Pax Americana — than this did. via @thebulwark.bsky.social
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This review is detailed with so many juicy bits I have lost my desire to read the book, despite my lust for insider-y media dish.
yalereview.org/article/burr...
yalereview.org/article/burr...
Bryan Burrough on Graydon Carter's Memoir and Vanity Fair’s Golden Era
Lavish budgets, high-society gossip, and headline-making journalism— Vanity Fair under Graydon Carter was the last great magazine empire. Bryan Burrough…
yalereview.org
March 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This review is detailed with so many juicy bits I have lost my desire to read the book, despite my lust for insider-y media dish.
yalereview.org/article/burr...
yalereview.org/article/burr...
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Wow. Fox refused to put their longtime Chief National Security Correspondent on air since the Signal story broke because she has been honest on social media about it. www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-...
Fox News Has Benched Its Chief National Security Correspondent for 30 Hours and Counting After Massive National Security Leak
Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has been with the network for over 25 years, providing frontline reporting from locations around the globe, including Jerusalem and Mosc...
www.mediaite.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Wow. Fox refused to put their longtime Chief National Security Correspondent on air since the Signal story broke because she has been honest on social media about it. www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-...
dizzying
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
March 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
dizzying
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I can nazi anything else after seeing this image
March 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I can nazi anything else after seeing this image
Pelosi's also a no
When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.
March 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Pelosi's also a no
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Let’s face it, Schumer has been terrible even before this. It is time for new leadership. He isn’t the person for this moment in history, and the longer he clings to power the worse off we all are.
March 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Let’s face it, Schumer has been terrible even before this. It is time for new leadership. He isn’t the person for this moment in history, and the longer he clings to power the worse off we all are.
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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
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Thrilled to see @gavinnewsom.bsky.social settle into his role as the Democratic version of Ted Cruz -- pretending to run for president, but really living out his dream of becoming a podcaster no one fucking wants to listen to.
This is not “learning about other people” this is platforming authoritarianism. wtf does Gavin Newsom think he’s accomplishing besides torching his prospects for the future?
Have real conservatives of which Bannon and Charlie Kirk ain’t
Have real conservatives of which Bannon and Charlie Kirk ain’t
March 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Thrilled to see @gavinnewsom.bsky.social settle into his role as the Democratic version of Ted Cruz -- pretending to run for president, but really living out his dream of becoming a podcaster no one fucking wants to listen to.
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Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Teslas are priced to move with $0 down and no payments for 48 months
March 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Teslas are priced to move with $0 down and no payments for 48 months
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Mr. Musk plans to layoff 83,000 workers at the VA. That means lower quality care for our vets. Unacceptable.
I agree with the VFW: The VA must “reconsider its planned reduction of 83,000 employees & thoroughly review any proposed cuts prior to rolling out further announcements.”
I agree with the VFW: The VA must “reconsider its planned reduction of 83,000 employees & thoroughly review any proposed cuts prior to rolling out further announcements.”
March 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Mr. Musk plans to layoff 83,000 workers at the VA. That means lower quality care for our vets. Unacceptable.
I agree with the VFW: The VA must “reconsider its planned reduction of 83,000 employees & thoroughly review any proposed cuts prior to rolling out further announcements.”
I agree with the VFW: The VA must “reconsider its planned reduction of 83,000 employees & thoroughly review any proposed cuts prior to rolling out further announcements.”
well said
People on Twitter complaining about lower engagement on Bluesky is a specific kind of influencer culture brain rot because I’m like my sibling in Christ the numbers aren’t real
February 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
well said
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Ok that made me laugh
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Ok that made me laugh
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Speaking of dumb, Tom Homan openly confessed to a corrupt quid pro quo on live television and thinks it's a federal crime to inform immigrants of their legal rights under the Constitution.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Speaking of dumb, Tom Homan openly confessed to a corrupt quid pro quo on live television and thinks it's a federal crime to inform immigrants of their legal rights under the Constitution.