Gary Crooks
@garycrooks.bsky.social
Retired. Former editorial page editor and columnist, The Spokesman-Review (Spokane). Lives in Seattle.
“Not every person we meet is going to have the latest update on what the proper terms are,” Gallego said. “It doesn’t make them sexist or homophobic or racist. Maybe they are a little outdated, but they have a good heart.”
Buzzwords, buzzkill.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Buzzwords, buzzkill.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Democratic troubles revive debate over left-wing buzzwords
From “intersectionality” to “equity,” many say jargon is alienating key voters. But progressives say inclusive language is vital.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Not every person we meet is going to have the latest update on what the proper terms are,” Gallego said. “It doesn’t make them sexist or homophobic or racist. Maybe they are a little outdated, but they have a good heart.”
Buzzwords, buzzkill.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Buzzwords, buzzkill.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Rising to the moment.
April 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Rising to the moment.
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We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.
April 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.
The story people tell themselves for absolution.
“The death of his daughter, Peter told me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life. ‘Everybody has to die,’
he said.”
“The death of his daughter, Peter told me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life. ‘Everybody has to die,’
he said.”
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The story people tell themselves for absolution.
“The death of his daughter, Peter told me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life. ‘Everybody has to die,’
he said.”
“The death of his daughter, Peter told me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life. ‘Everybody has to die,’
he said.”
It’s Wear This Hat Day.
March 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It’s Wear This Hat Day.
Putin appreciates this.
Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to halt offensive cyberoperations against Russia, officials said.
Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia
The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.
nyti.ms
March 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Putin appreciates this.
Reposted by Gary Crooks
A key, decades-old conservative insight is that people like most of what government does, so their only hope of victory is to relentlessly abstract away from anything specific to "government" or "spending" or "bureaucracy," empty linguistic vessels into which they can more easily pour bile.
March 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A key, decades-old conservative insight is that people like most of what government does, so their only hope of victory is to relentlessly abstract away from anything specific to "government" or "spending" or "bureaucracy," empty linguistic vessels into which they can more easily pour bile.
Eight eggs! In this economy?
March 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Eight eggs! In this economy?
Coward
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Coward
Reposted by Gary Crooks
Dear manager, this week I acheived these goals.
1: I wrote a bullet point.
2: I wrote a second, equally clever bullet point.
3: Building on prior successful bullet points, I developed and implemented a third bullet point.
4: I drafted, edited and published a 4th bullet.
5: Egged a cybertruck
1: I wrote a bullet point.
2: I wrote a second, equally clever bullet point.
3: Building on prior successful bullet points, I developed and implemented a third bullet point.
4: I drafted, edited and published a 4th bullet.
5: Egged a cybertruck
February 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Dear manager, this week I acheived these goals.
1: I wrote a bullet point.
2: I wrote a second, equally clever bullet point.
3: Building on prior successful bullet points, I developed and implemented a third bullet point.
4: I drafted, edited and published a 4th bullet.
5: Egged a cybertruck
1: I wrote a bullet point.
2: I wrote a second, equally clever bullet point.
3: Building on prior successful bullet points, I developed and implemented a third bullet point.
4: I drafted, edited and published a 4th bullet.
5: Egged a cybertruck
Reposted by Gary Crooks
Reposted by Gary Crooks
The Eagles should go visit Justin Trudeau to just rub more salt in the wound
February 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The Eagles should go visit Justin Trudeau to just rub more salt in the wound
In detective shows (even the good ones) love how suspects/witnesses interviewed in the field continue doing their tasks.
Latest: Teen boy is interviewed about burying a newborn. Learns his girlfriend almost died from the birth.
He continues changing a tire.
Latest: Teen boy is interviewed about burying a newborn. Learns his girlfriend almost died from the birth.
He continues changing a tire.
February 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
In detective shows (even the good ones) love how suspects/witnesses interviewed in the field continue doing their tasks.
Latest: Teen boy is interviewed about burying a newborn. Learns his girlfriend almost died from the birth.
He continues changing a tire.
Latest: Teen boy is interviewed about burying a newborn. Learns his girlfriend almost died from the birth.
He continues changing a tire.
There are no lines at the Shoreline Costco.
Also, the snack center (hot dogs, pizza) is closed for renovation.
These two things may be related.
Also, the snack center (hot dogs, pizza) is closed for renovation.
These two things may be related.
February 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
There are no lines at the Shoreline Costco.
Also, the snack center (hot dogs, pizza) is closed for renovation.
These two things may be related.
Also, the snack center (hot dogs, pizza) is closed for renovation.
These two things may be related.
Reposted by Gary Crooks
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
The Not My President Day rally in Olympia, Wash.
Plug this photo into the Trump Attendance Estimator and you get 3 million people.
A crowd the likes of which you’ve never seen.
Plug this photo into the Trump Attendance Estimator and you get 3 million people.
A crowd the likes of which you’ve never seen.
February 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Not My President Day rally in Olympia, Wash.
Plug this photo into the Trump Attendance Estimator and you get 3 million people.
A crowd the likes of which you’ve never seen.
Plug this photo into the Trump Attendance Estimator and you get 3 million people.
A crowd the likes of which you’ve never seen.
This boycott isn’t going so well. Still a wait for the $1.50 hotdog and gas.
ICYMI — Since Costco 🫡 isn’t backing down (like other corporations did), professional right-wing agitators are not happy and want a boycott. www.fastcompany.com/91253805/cal...
February 17, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This boycott isn’t going so well. Still a wait for the $1.50 hotdog and gas.
Great. Mr. Transparency will release Trump’s tax returns.
🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨
Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.
Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Great. Mr. Transparency will release Trump’s tax returns.
Nope. Not feeling old.
Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter open SNL 50th. He says he sang this song with George Harrison on the show in 1976. She says she wasn't born yet - neither were her parents.
February 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Nope. Not feeling old.
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TRUMP WAR ON EASTER
Not an egg to be found at Whole Foods (which has not yet raised their egg prices nearly as much as some stores)
February 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
TRUMP WAR ON EASTER
Once again:
Things were cheaper under Trump than Biden.
Under Obama than Trump.
Under Dubya than Obama.
Under Clinton than Bush.
Etc.
Campaign’s over. Drop the b.s. or have it shoved in your face as prices rise, which they will unless there’s a depression.
Then you can “celebrate.”
Things were cheaper under Trump than Biden.
Under Obama than Trump.
Under Dubya than Obama.
Under Clinton than Bush.
Etc.
Campaign’s over. Drop the b.s. or have it shoved in your face as prices rise, which they will unless there’s a depression.
Then you can “celebrate.”
February 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Once again:
Things were cheaper under Trump than Biden.
Under Obama than Trump.
Under Dubya than Obama.
Under Clinton than Bush.
Etc.
Campaign’s over. Drop the b.s. or have it shoved in your face as prices rise, which they will unless there’s a depression.
Then you can “celebrate.”
Things were cheaper under Trump than Biden.
Under Obama than Trump.
Under Dubya than Obama.
Under Clinton than Bush.
Etc.
Campaign’s over. Drop the b.s. or have it shoved in your face as prices rise, which they will unless there’s a depression.
Then you can “celebrate.”
Out-of-context television.
January 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Out-of-context television.