Glenn Deutsch
@glenndeutsch.bsky.social
Essays, fiction: Post Road, Confrontation, Gargoyle, Notre Dame Rev, Exposition Rev. Fmr English prof, newspaper & magazine journalist. Native NYer; mostly WI & MI. Spouse. Dad. Granddad. Lifelong Orioles fan.
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From the man who coined, sleepy Joe Biden. Where is our media now! This and the Epstein files release should be the top, daily stories!
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
From the man who coined, sleepy Joe Biden. Where is our media now! This and the Epstein files release should be the top, daily stories!
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“Yes, he was indoctrinated [...]. But what is probably more important is that you are part of a machine, and if you don’t make a deliberate decision to get out of it, you get further drawn into this.”
At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
“Yes, he was indoctrinated [...]. But what is probably more important is that you are part of a machine, and if you don’t make a deliberate decision to get out of it, you get further drawn into this.”
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"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." A student intern at RI Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened www.wpri.com/news/local-n...
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." A student intern at RI Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened www.wpri.com/news/local-n...
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Gotta love how Jon Karl and ABC News had this graphic ready to go *the very moment* that Hassett rolled out his Walmart anecdote.
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Gotta love how Jon Karl and ABC News had this graphic ready to go *the very moment* that Hassett rolled out his Walmart anecdote.
Holy moley. I've been sending out new stories, and just for kicks I've searched a few times on my name and the title of a published story of mine. Whatever AI the Brave browser is using did a kick-azz job with this search result:
November 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Holy moley. I've been sending out new stories, and just for kicks I've searched a few times on my name and the title of a published story of mine. Whatever AI the Brave browser is using did a kick-azz job with this search result:
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Jimmy Kimmel delivering a 22-minute eulogy of Cleto Escobedo III, his best friend of 45+ yrs, & leader of his show's band..
Two things hit me:
1. He wears his emotions on his sleeve, showing it's ok for men to cry
2. He names the docs/nurses that cared for Cleto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlV...
Two things hit me:
1. He wears his emotions on his sleeve, showing it's ok for men to cry
2. He names the docs/nurses that cared for Cleto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlV...
Jimmy Kimmel Remembers His Best Friend and Bandleader Cleto Escobedo III
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Jimmy Kimmel delivering a 22-minute eulogy of Cleto Escobedo III, his best friend of 45+ yrs, & leader of his show's band..
Two things hit me:
1. He wears his emotions on his sleeve, showing it's ok for men to cry
2. He names the docs/nurses that cared for Cleto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlV...
Two things hit me:
1. He wears his emotions on his sleeve, showing it's ok for men to cry
2. He names the docs/nurses that cared for Cleto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlV...
Why don't we do this? Braille on UK and EU packaging is mandatory for all medicinal products. In the US, we only have voluntary guidelines and standards for medicinal packaging.
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Why don't we do this? Braille on UK and EU packaging is mandatory for all medicinal products. In the US, we only have voluntary guidelines and standards for medicinal packaging.
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Kavanaugh kidnapping.
apnews.com/article/immi...
Federal immigration officers in Los Angeles arrested a U.S. citizen during a raid outside a Home Depot store, then two of them got into his car and drove off with the man’s toddler strapped into a car seat in the back
Federal immigration officers in Los Angeles arrested a U.S. citizen during a raid outside a Home Depot store, then two of them got into his car and drove off with the man’s toddler strapped into a car seat in the back
Federal agents drive off with 1-year-old girl after arresting her father in Los Angeles
Federal immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen in Los Angeles and drove off with his car, which had his one-year-old daughter inside.
apnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Kavanaugh kidnapping.
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Our analysis of EPA air monitoring data shows that companies have far underestimated the pollution caused by their facilities.
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Our analysis of EPA air monitoring data shows that companies have far underestimated the pollution caused by their facilities.
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
Murderers and rapists, he said. Arrested: a preschool teacher.
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apple.news/Ae8x7I4cnT0q...
Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago — The Washington Post
The arrest appears to be one of the first in which immigration officers entered school grounds as part of an enforcement operation during Trump’s second administration.
apple.news
November 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Murderers and rapists, he said. Arrested: a preschool teacher.
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The government’s operation in Old Irving Park "yielded one arrest of an undocumented immigrant but had far-reaching effects on children and other residents."
Heartbreaking: Under Trump's ICE terror, a 2-year-old Chicago girl was tear-gassed while walking with her mom-burning eyes, screams of
'Ouch! Mommy!' This isn't enforcement; it's state-sponsored child abuse.
'Ouch! Mommy!' This isn't enforcement; it's state-sponsored child abuse.
Chicago residents say kids tear-gassed due to nearby immigration enforcement
A Chicago mother tells NBC News she and her 2-year-old were hit with a chemical agent. Many residents say the city wasn’t a “war zone”— until immigration agents swept through.
www.nbcnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The government’s operation in Old Irving Park "yielded one arrest of an undocumented immigrant but had far-reaching effects on children and other residents."
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On top of refusing to reopen the government while withholding SNAP funding, this regime has cancelled USDA's annual hunger report.
They can try to erase the data that proves their cruelty, but they can’t erase the pain of MILLIONS of hungry Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
They can try to erase the data that proves their cruelty, but they can’t erase the pain of MILLIONS of hungry Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Trump ends annual report on U.S. hunger amid rising food insecurity
The Trump administration is ending a decades-long report on U.S. hunger, calling it “politicized.” Last year, the USDA report warned of rising food insecurity.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
On top of refusing to reopen the government while withholding SNAP funding, this regime has cancelled USDA's annual hunger report.
They can try to erase the data that proves their cruelty, but they can’t erase the pain of MILLIONS of hungry Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
They can try to erase the data that proves their cruelty, but they can’t erase the pain of MILLIONS of hungry Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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If you thought masked, unidentified federal agents grabbing people off the street were a frightening step toward dystopia, wait until it's private contractors chasing cash bonuses for rounding up human beings at scale
ICE is planning to offer private sector bounty hunters cash bonuses for quickly tracking down the home addresses of immigrants across the US, according to a DHS document I reviewed. ICE encourages potential contractors to use "all technology systems available.” theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...
ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants
Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate.
theintercept.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you thought masked, unidentified federal agents grabbing people off the street were a frightening step toward dystopia, wait until it's private contractors chasing cash bonuses for rounding up human beings at scale
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October 30, 2025
October 30, 2025
House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to pin the upcoming catastrophic lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding on the Democrats.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 AM
October 30, 2025
"Outside Again" by Drink the Sea: my favorite song of 2025.
I may not have come across it if I hadn't seen @thebaseballproject.bsky.social a few weeks ago at Bell's Brewery and looked into what else Peter Buck has been up to.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3e...
I may not have come across it if I hadn't seen @thebaseballproject.bsky.social a few weeks ago at Bell's Brewery and looked into what else Peter Buck has been up to.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3e...
Drink The Sea - Outside Again
YouTube video by DrinkTheSeaVEVO
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October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"Outside Again" by Drink the Sea: my favorite song of 2025.
I may not have come across it if I hadn't seen @thebaseballproject.bsky.social a few weeks ago at Bell's Brewery and looked into what else Peter Buck has been up to.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3e...
I may not have come across it if I hadn't seen @thebaseballproject.bsky.social a few weeks ago at Bell's Brewery and looked into what else Peter Buck has been up to.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3e...
"Republican leaders blamed poor Americans for the Great Depression, saying they drained the economy because they refused to work hard enough." The real problem? "The new economy of the 1920s benefited too few Americans to be sustainable." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-28...
October 28, 2025
In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"Republican leaders blamed poor Americans for the Great Depression, saying they drained the economy because they refused to work hard enough." The real problem? "The new economy of the 1920s benefited too few Americans to be sustainable." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-28...
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Firing an entire federal arts commission to clear the path for your own triumphal arch? It’s a textbook indicator of authoritarian executive overreach — the exact trend we warned about in our assessment.
#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment
#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment
October 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Firing an entire federal arts commission to clear the path for your own triumphal arch? It’s a textbook indicator of authoritarian executive overreach — the exact trend we warned about in our assessment.
#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment
#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment
Craig Albernaz, new manager of the @orioles.com , hailed by an official with @raysbaseball.com as exemplifying "attitude, aptitude, work ethic."
I'm thinking that makes his appointment "aawesome."
Good reporting by @rochkubatko.bsky.social
www.masnsports.com/blog/entry/l...
I'm thinking that makes his appointment "aawesome."
Good reporting by @rochkubatko.bsky.social
www.masnsports.com/blog/entry/l...
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Craig Albernaz, new manager of the @orioles.com , hailed by an official with @raysbaseball.com as exemplifying "attitude, aptitude, work ethic."
I'm thinking that makes his appointment "aawesome."
Good reporting by @rochkubatko.bsky.social
www.masnsports.com/blog/entry/l...
I'm thinking that makes his appointment "aawesome."
Good reporting by @rochkubatko.bsky.social
www.masnsports.com/blog/entry/l...
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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I asked the NYT why it played the “No Kings” parades—which drew an estimated 5 million+ protesters—with two small photos below the fold on their Sunday Page One, teasing to a story on page 23.
Their spokesperson gave me this answer, excerpted in today’s Laurels/Darts.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
Their spokesperson gave me this answer, excerpted in today’s Laurels/Darts.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I asked the NYT why it played the “No Kings” parades—which drew an estimated 5 million+ protesters—with two small photos below the fold on their Sunday Page One, teasing to a story on page 23.
Their spokesperson gave me this answer, excerpted in today’s Laurels/Darts.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
Their spokesperson gave me this answer, excerpted in today’s Laurels/Darts.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
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In 1980, Trump destroyed Art Deco sculptures he'd promised to the Met to speed up Trump Tower's construction—now he's demolishing the White House's East Wing for a massive ballroom despite preservationists' objections.
Trump’s White House Demolition Isn’t His First Time Leveling A Building — Or Ignoring Preservationists
In 1980, Trump destroyed Art Deco sculptures he'd promised to the Met to speed up Trump Tower's construction—now he's demolishing the White House's East Wing for a massive ballroom despite preservationists' objections.
www.forbes.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
In 1980, Trump destroyed Art Deco sculptures he'd promised to the Met to speed up Trump Tower's construction—now he's demolishing the White House's East Wing for a massive ballroom despite preservationists' objections.
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“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”
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October 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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