Steve Mencher
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Steve Mencher
@menschmedia.bsky.social
· Mar 27
Music and Art 69
Listen to Music and Art 69 by Steve Mencher #np on #SoundCloud
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A podcast about Music and Art High School class of 1969? Why not? soundcloud.com/steve-menche... Stream all 5 episodes. Let me know what you think.
Yeah, #WaPo, the problem isn’t hunger and lack of medical care, just greedy immigrants. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Welfare fraud is far too common
People who want better social services should be more upset about what’s happening in Minneapolis.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Yeah, #WaPo, the problem isn’t hunger and lack of medical care, just greedy immigrants. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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This Transgender Awareness Week, we come together to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the transgender community in the face of relentless attacks.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This Transgender Awareness Week, we come together to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the transgender community in the face of relentless attacks.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
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Unwitting self-satire from alarmed editorial board of Jeff Bezos's Washington Post. Next mayor of Seattle is a socialist! She wants city to run some grocery stores! She doesn't own a car! @pdamerica.bsky.social @rootsaction.org @ninaturner.bsky.social @rickperlstein.bsky.social
Opinion | Seattle’s coming socialist experiment
The mayor-elect has little experience but plenty of bad ideas.
wapo.st
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Unwitting self-satire from alarmed editorial board of Jeff Bezos's Washington Post. Next mayor of Seattle is a socialist! She wants city to run some grocery stores! She doesn't own a car! @pdamerica.bsky.social @rootsaction.org @ninaturner.bsky.social @rickperlstein.bsky.social
Thanks WaPo- just who we need to hear from on tech - former VP of Palantir. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A suspicion from 2016 is becoming Democrats’ monster
The Democratic Party is falling behind while Trump accelerates technology innovation.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Thanks WaPo- just who we need to hear from on tech - former VP of Palantir. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Graft? Self dealing? No problem. Are you aching for me to cancel, WaPo? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Shocked by Trump’s profiteering? Here’s some perspective.
There are periods in American history when graft was the rule, not the exception.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Graft? Self dealing? No problem. Are you aching for me to cancel, WaPo? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Really WaPo? Platforming Charles Murray who even sneaks in a reference to his notorious book Bell Curve?? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | I’m an academic who found religion. Cue the incredulous reactions.
In university and policy settings, religious belief is often derided. I sought spiritual nourishment.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Really WaPo? Platforming Charles Murray who even sneaks in a reference to his notorious book Bell Curve?? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Oh the horror! WaPo - real or parody? wapo.st/3X77tQH
Opinion | Zohran Mamdani’s success is a warning
How did a socialist with almost no governing experience become New York’s mayoral frontrunner?
wapo.st
November 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Oh the horror! WaPo - real or parody? wapo.st/3X77tQH
Opinion | The Thread Tying Together Everything Trump Does
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Satire, right WaPo? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
www.washingtonpost.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Satire, right WaPo? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
NY Times, or parody pitchbot. You decide. "Others say is was time for a change." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
A Pile of Rubble: After 123 Years, the East Wing Is Gone
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
NY Times, or parody pitchbot. You decide. "Others say is was time for a change." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
The craven and compromised Washington Post, which I still subscribe to, is wrong, as it often is these days. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Democrats just marched into a shutdown trap
Progressive Democrats, like the Freedom Caucus, are urging their party in a dangerous direction.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The craven and compromised Washington Post, which I still subscribe to, is wrong, as it often is these days. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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Essential reading. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power
*neighborhood in southeast Baltimore
open.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Essential reading. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Here's a story I produced 15 years ago for @aarp.org for the 5th anniversary of Katrina. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8GQ...
New Orleans: Katrina Five Years Later - A Livable Community Emerges from the Flood
YouTube video by Steve Mencher
www.youtube.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Here's a story I produced 15 years ago for @aarp.org for the 5th anniversary of Katrina. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8GQ...
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Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
August 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Note the headwinds researchers face in the field. www.nextavenue.org/evidence-is-...
www.nextavenue.org
August 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Note the headwinds researchers face in the field. www.nextavenue.org/evidence-is-...
After Amy Sherald withdrew her exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery over censorship concerns, the New Yorker put “Trans Forming Liberty” (2024), her contested painting of a Black, trans Lady Liberty, on its cover.
Amy Sherald’s Trans Lady Liberty Painting Graces New Yorker Cover
The artist withdrew her exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery over concerns that the artwork would be censored.
hyperallergic.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Inside this week’s issue: www.newyorker.com/magazine?utm...
August 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Inside this week’s issue: www.newyorker.com/magazine?utm...
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let me sum this piece up for you:
“hey, it’s me zaid jilani! you might remember me from my credulous profile of josh hawley, published the literal day before january 6. well now i have another credulous take, the time on another far-right maniac. i am definitely not an idiot.”
“hey, it’s me zaid jilani! you might remember me from my credulous profile of josh hawley, published the literal day before january 6. well now i have another credulous take, the time on another far-right maniac. i am definitely not an idiot.”
Opinion | I might lean left — but Marjorie Taylor Greene is winning my respect
The congresswoman, who represents my district, has shown genuine political courage lately.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
let me sum this piece up for you:
“hey, it’s me zaid jilani! you might remember me from my credulous profile of josh hawley, published the literal day before january 6. well now i have another credulous take, the time on another far-right maniac. i am definitely not an idiot.”
“hey, it’s me zaid jilani! you might remember me from my credulous profile of josh hawley, published the literal day before january 6. well now i have another credulous take, the time on another far-right maniac. i am definitely not an idiot.”
Oh for a "Washington Post Pitchbot" account. This could be a contender: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | I might lean left — but Marjorie Taylor Greene is winning my respect
The congresswoman, who represents my district, has shown genuine political courage lately.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Oh for a "Washington Post Pitchbot" account. This could be a contender: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
This is not a gift link. You should have to pay for this stupidity. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...
Opinion | The Trump Presidency Takes a Better Turn
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is not a gift link. You should have to pay for this stupidity. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...
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I’m honored to share this interview in Beijing Planning Review — “Conversation with Carlos Moreno: Paradigm Shift towards Proximity and Quality of Life”
Many thanks to Fan Li and Yang Chen for this thoughtful dialogue.
#UrbanTransformation #Proximity
Many thanks to Fan Li and Yang Chen for this thoughtful dialogue.
#UrbanTransformation #Proximity
Beijing Planning Review - Conversation with Carlos Moreno: Paradigm Shift towards Proximity and Quality of Life - July 2025 - Carlos Moreno
Cet entretien publié dans Beijing Planning Review présente la vision de Carlos Moreno sur la "ville du quart d’heure". Il y décrit les fondements du concept, ses principes clefs (écologie, proximité, ...
www.moreno-web.net
July 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I’m honored to share this interview in Beijing Planning Review — “Conversation with Carlos Moreno: Paradigm Shift towards Proximity and Quality of Life”
Many thanks to Fan Li and Yang Chen for this thoughtful dialogue.
#UrbanTransformation #Proximity
Many thanks to Fan Li and Yang Chen for this thoughtful dialogue.
#UrbanTransformation #Proximity