Deborah Mendelsohn
@deborahmendelsohn.bsky.social
Former community organizer and news media activist just keeping quiet for now in deepest, darkest rural Arizona.
One more note on that: I’m holding out hope for video news programs with bare-bones sets and graphics, in-depth interviews, reporters with knowledge of history, executives with the kind of courage that is necessary to salvage something from this mess.
December 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
One more note on that: I’m holding out hope for video news programs with bare-bones sets and graphics, in-depth interviews, reporters with knowledge of history, executives with the kind of courage that is necessary to salvage something from this mess.
There’s no question that the internet contributes. But imagine getting ALL your news from just a handful of sources, as we did in my youth. The info environment today is rich for those with the skills to navigate it. But that’s catastrophically rare. Not an accident.
December 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
There’s no question that the internet contributes. But imagine getting ALL your news from just a handful of sources, as we did in my youth. The info environment today is rich for those with the skills to navigate it. But that’s catastrophically rare. Not an accident.
Others my age (73) say they haven’t seen anything as bad as the current time. I did. The father of my church school friend John Reeb was clubbed to death in Selma for his civil rights witness. My own father got graphic death threats for his. Others died for civil rights and then in the Vietnam war.
December 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Others my age (73) say they haven’t seen anything as bad as the current time. I did. The father of my church school friend John Reeb was clubbed to death in Selma for his civil rights witness. My own father got graphic death threats for his. Others died for civil rights and then in the Vietnam war.
I can hardly believe it, but I actually canceled the New York Times subscription a few days ago. Decade upon decade as a subscriber.
December 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I can hardly believe it, but I actually canceled the New York Times subscription a few days ago. Decade upon decade as a subscriber.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Please make a donation to Scott's critical campaign.
Every race counts, and with the shifting tides, this one could help keep 55,000 Georgia residents free from environmental harm, with efficient energy costs, and with a rep who cares deeply about his people.
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Every race counts, and with the shifting tides, this one could help keep 55,000 Georgia residents free from environmental harm, with efficient energy costs, and with a rep who cares deeply about his people.
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After all that you’ve done to bring the deep wellspring of clawhammer banjo and modal music into modern American consciousness, no doubt you’ll tap a deep, pure spring for bluegrass, and all will benefit.
December 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
After all that you’ve done to bring the deep wellspring of clawhammer banjo and modal music into modern American consciousness, no doubt you’ll tap a deep, pure spring for bluegrass, and all will benefit.
Oldish one: In Her Shoes.
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Oldish one: In Her Shoes.
Any woman who doesn’t look like Ivanka is ugly.
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Any woman who doesn’t look like Ivanka is ugly.
Today my heroes are the beautiful Katie Rogers (she is, BTW) and the noble leaker of the Witkoff conversation.
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today my heroes are the beautiful Katie Rogers (she is, BTW) and the noble leaker of the Witkoff conversation.
I support and admire everything the senator is and does, but this message strikes me as off-target messaging for the Bluesky demographic.
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I support and admire everything the senator is and does, but this message strikes me as off-target messaging for the Bluesky demographic.
What is “unga week”
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
What is “unga week”
thank you, Bernie.
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
thank you, Bernie.
You have let us down, thrown away a rare opportunity. It is time for new leadership in the Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
You have let us down, thrown away a rare opportunity. It is time for new leadership in the Senate.
That’s not a stupid face but a typical face of someone whose childhood crush just threw an arm around you. ❤️
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
That’s not a stupid face but a typical face of someone whose childhood crush just threw an arm around you. ❤️
I was interested in your perspective in part because you’re not a journalist but are enmeshed in that world.
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I was interested in your perspective in part because you’re not a journalist but are enmeshed in that world.
What’s your view on the condition of journalism schools today? Are many of them producing reporters who are up to the task at hand today?
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
What’s your view on the condition of journalism schools today? Are many of them producing reporters who are up to the task at hand today?