Greg Gardner
@ggard4.bsky.social
Retired journalist. Dog-loving husband and dad. 3.5-level tennis player. Lives in Grosse Pointe Woods, MI.
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Okay MAGAt. You maggots own this now. We should deport anyone who voted for this .
“Raskin also said that he saw ‘references to 17-year-old girls, 16-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 11-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls, and I saw a reference today to a 9-year-old girl. So it is a really gruesome and grim story.’“ www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump administration live updates: Lawmakers view unredacted Epstein files at Justice Department
Trump administration live updates: Congress members may begin viewing unredacted Epstein files at DOJ
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Okay MAGAt. You maggots own this now. We should deport anyone who voted for this .
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Trump's rants are like Al Capone in his syphilitic period.
He thinks China is going to ban ice hockey.
Nope but they may build an auto plant in Canada.
The Germans are talking about building one as well.
As for the Gordie Howe Bridge? Good luck threatening $700 billion in trade.
He thinks China is going to ban ice hockey.
Nope but they may build an auto plant in Canada.
The Germans are talking about building one as well.
As for the Gordie Howe Bridge? Good luck threatening $700 billion in trade.
February 10, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Trump's rants are like Al Capone in his syphilitic period.
He thinks China is going to ban ice hockey.
Nope but they may build an auto plant in Canada.
The Germans are talking about building one as well.
As for the Gordie Howe Bridge? Good luck threatening $700 billion in trade.
He thinks China is going to ban ice hockey.
Nope but they may build an auto plant in Canada.
The Germans are talking about building one as well.
As for the Gordie Howe Bridge? Good luck threatening $700 billion in trade.
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Somewhere Carney is sitting in his Team Canada McDavid jersey sinking a Moosehead like, “The fuck we are.”
February 10, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Somewhere Carney is sitting in his Team Canada McDavid jersey sinking a Moosehead like, “The fuck we are.”
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On all the outrage toward Bad Bunny’s halftime performance
February 9, 2026 at 11:03 PM
On all the outrage toward Bad Bunny’s halftime performance
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More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market.
Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply.
A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.
Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply.
A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.
How TrumpRx drug prices compare to generic alternatives
Patients could save more buying non-branded copycat drugs, even if they don't have insurance.
www.axios.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market.
Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply.
A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.
Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply.
A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.
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In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
interc.pt
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
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"Eliminate presidential immunity" needs to become as common a refrain as "eliminate Citizens United"
this case is maybe the single best example of one of the most destructive tendencies of this court: the tendency to treat their job as a collegiate legal seminar where they operate in hypotheticals rather than deal with the real world as it exists
February 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
"Eliminate presidential immunity" needs to become as common a refrain as "eliminate Citizens United"
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this case is maybe the single best example of one of the most destructive tendencies of this court: the tendency to treat their job as a collegiate legal seminar where they operate in hypotheticals rather than deal with the real world as it exists
February 6, 2026 at 6:33 PM
this case is maybe the single best example of one of the most destructive tendencies of this court: the tendency to treat their job as a collegiate legal seminar where they operate in hypotheticals rather than deal with the real world as it exists
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Nine-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra, from Colombia, drew a portrait of herself and her mother wearing their detainee ID badges. A note on the side said, “I am not happy, please get me out of here.” www.propublica.org/article/life...
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Nine-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra, from Colombia, drew a portrait of herself and her mother wearing their detainee ID badges. A note on the side said, “I am not happy, please get me out of here.” www.propublica.org/article/life...
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new from me: Trump's suggestion that the GOP "nationalize" elections in "15 areas" struck me for being a full-on Bizarro version of the Voting Rights Act — a system of federal oversight of election law but targeted -against- minorities
Opinion | Trump wouldn’t just undo the Voting Rights Act. He’d reverse it.
In hinting at “nationalizing” elections, Trump suggests a world in which minorities would have more difficulty voting than any time since 1965.
www.ms.now
February 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
new from me: Trump's suggestion that the GOP "nationalize" elections in "15 areas" struck me for being a full-on Bizarro version of the Voting Rights Act — a system of federal oversight of election law but targeted -against- minorities
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If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.
February 9, 2026 at 1:36 PM
If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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There are sunsets that are less predictable than him doing this.
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
There are sunsets that are less predictable than him doing this.
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Republicans have turned the United States into an economically stagnant police state. But my liberal neighbor keeps referring to Bad Bunny as Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio. I have never felt more politically homeless.
February 9, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Republicans have turned the United States into an economically stagnant police state. But my liberal neighbor keeps referring to Bad Bunny as Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
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McKenzie Scott, Melinda French Gates, and Laurene Powell Jobs are all far better humans than their one-time husbands were. All putting their money to work in constructive ways that their husbands never did.
February 8, 2026 at 1:30 AM
McKenzie Scott, Melinda French Gates, and Laurene Powell Jobs are all far better humans than their one-time husbands were. All putting their money to work in constructive ways that their husbands never did.
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Exactly. This wasn’t a slip, it was calibration. Trump pushed the Overton Window as far as it would go and the #BrokenTimes flinched instead of naming it. Open racism was the point, not the risk, and the Times proved it’ll normalize anything if said loud enough
Racism wasn’t exposed. It was deployed
Racism wasn’t exposed. It was deployed
February 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Exactly. This wasn’t a slip, it was calibration. Trump pushed the Overton Window as far as it would go and the #BrokenTimes flinched instead of naming it. Open racism was the point, not the risk, and the Times proved it’ll normalize anything if said loud enough
Racism wasn’t exposed. It was deployed
Racism wasn’t exposed. It was deployed
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The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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Among the charming aspects of this note, the passive voice: "Difficult decisions have been taken."
This guy should never have had the job, or been allowed to stay.
The damage to Bezos's reputation is immense, but can't match the damage Bezos has done to journalism.
This guy should never have had the job, or been allowed to stay.
The damage to Bezos's reputation is immense, but can't match the damage Bezos has done to journalism.
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
February 7, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Among the charming aspects of this note, the passive voice: "Difficult decisions have been taken."
This guy should never have had the job, or been allowed to stay.
The damage to Bezos's reputation is immense, but can't match the damage Bezos has done to journalism.
This guy should never have had the job, or been allowed to stay.
The damage to Bezos's reputation is immense, but can't match the damage Bezos has done to journalism.
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Bezos apparently fired Lewis for not turning up (or at least that's the current story), but Bezos has neither turned up to the WaPo to announce this nor actually officially said he fired Lewis. The rot is so bad.
February 8, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Bezos apparently fired Lewis for not turning up (or at least that's the current story), but Bezos has neither turned up to the WaPo to announce this nor actually officially said he fired Lewis. The rot is so bad.
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I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.
February 8, 2026 at 6:15 AM
I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.
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Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
February 7, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
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"His farewell email, which was terse, thanked only Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, and did not mention journalists at the newspaper."
once again tapping the sign reminding you all to support billionaire free news.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
once again tapping the sign reminding you all to support billionaire free news.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
"His farewell email, which was terse, thanked only Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, and did not mention journalists at the newspaper."
once again tapping the sign reminding you all to support billionaire free news.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
once again tapping the sign reminding you all to support billionaire free news.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...