Doug Oplinger
@oplingerdoug.bsky.social
Journalist for five decades, specializing in media-community engagement.
Today’s @nytimes.com newsreel headline. (For old news junkies, it’s all the news that causes fits)
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Today’s @nytimes.com newsreel headline. (For old news junkies, it’s all the news that causes fits)
If Pritzker mobilizes the Illinois guard to block the Texas guard from entering his state, what happens next?
October 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If Pritzker mobilizes the Illinois guard to block the Texas guard from entering his state, what happens next?
Democracy is over. The government is now ordering reporters to report only what they’re told or be thrown out.
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Pentagon Expands Its Restrictions on Reporter Access
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September 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Democracy is over. The government is now ordering reporters to report only what they’re told or be thrown out.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
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Might Russia have the Epstein files?
Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
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August 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Might Russia have the Epstein files?
Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
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Tulsi Gabbard is using a White House press briefing to accuse Hillary Clinton of using tranquilizers. Dystopian stuff.
July 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Tulsi Gabbard is using a White House press briefing to accuse Hillary Clinton of using tranquilizers. Dystopian stuff.
Google’s AI description of the Everglades detention center is changing. Last week the result of a search on “Everglades concentration camp” was immediately critical, saying the phrase was politically charged. Now Google is no longer critical and instead acknowledges why some believe it to be true.
July 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Google’s AI description of the Everglades detention center is changing. Last week the result of a search on “Everglades concentration camp” was immediately critical, saying the phrase was politically charged. Now Google is no longer critical and instead acknowledges why some believe it to be true.
It used to be that doom-scrolling developed over time based on your social media habits. Algorithms are no longer necessary to create anxiety. Just open the New York Times news feed today and read the headlines, one after another.
July 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It used to be that doom-scrolling developed over time based on your social media habits. Algorithms are no longer necessary to create anxiety. Just open the New York Times news feed today and read the headlines, one after another.
This is powerful, contextualized reporting that must become the norm: Hegseth and Caine Delve Into Details but Not Results of Iranian Strikes www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
Hegseth and Caine Delve Into Details but Not Results of Iranian Strikes
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June 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is powerful, contextualized reporting that must become the norm: Hegseth and Caine Delve Into Details but Not Results of Iranian Strikes www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
Many mainstream media outlets referred to bunker busters as imprecise and largely untested and military officials were cautious ahead of the bombing. Leavitt's suggestion that journalists are now trying to "discredit the brave fighter pilots" is a lie SHE is planting. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says
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June 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Many mainstream media outlets referred to bunker busters as imprecise and largely untested and military officials were cautious ahead of the bombing. Leavitt's suggestion that journalists are now trying to "discredit the brave fighter pilots" is a lie SHE is planting. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
“The New York Times reported last week that the court system in Maverick County, Texas, had repeatedly incarcerated people accused of minor crimes for months without filing charges…”this is a blatamt violation of the constitutoon. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
You Have the Right to an Attorney. But in Texas, Don’t Count on It.
In some parts of the state, misdemeanor defendants routinely face charges without representation.
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April 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“The New York Times reported last week that the court system in Maverick County, Texas, had repeatedly incarcerated people accused of minor crimes for months without filing charges…”this is a blatamt violation of the constitutoon. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
I visited the #handsoff rally in Akron, Oh, est. 2,000 people, mostly white, strollers, Labrador retrievers, pleasant people. A Black friend asked, "Where's the cops?" Pictures from other cities are similar. I am reminded of the First Battle of Bull Run. Social party before the carnage? Thoughts?
April 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I visited the #handsoff rally in Akron, Oh, est. 2,000 people, mostly white, strollers, Labrador retrievers, pleasant people. A Black friend asked, "Where's the cops?" Pictures from other cities are similar. I am reminded of the First Battle of Bull Run. Social party before the carnage? Thoughts?
Musk's Tesla stock lost about $6 billion in value today but he probably remains the world's richest man. Meanwhile he and Trump and Ohio legislators are cutting aid to the local food bank as Akron Ohio residents, 40,000 in poverty, brace for a monthly $40 increase in electric bills. That's pain.
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank contending with state and federal budget cuts
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank President and CEO Dan Flowers talks about the impact of food assistance cuts at the federal and state level.
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April 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Musk's Tesla stock lost about $6 billion in value today but he probably remains the world's richest man. Meanwhile he and Trump and Ohio legislators are cutting aid to the local food bank as Akron Ohio residents, 40,000 in poverty, brace for a monthly $40 increase in electric bills. That's pain.
The First Amendment guarantees the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. But if lawyers are intimidated by the government for coming to our aid, what becomes our alternative? wapo.st/41XkLl3
Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks
The result is an extraordinary threat to constitutional rights of due process and representation and a far weaker effort to challenge Trump’s actions in court than during his first term.
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March 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The First Amendment guarantees the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. But if lawyers are intimidated by the government for coming to our aid, what becomes our alternative? wapo.st/41XkLl3
The administration is not only forcing our greatest superpower-allies to become more armed, it is angering/taunting them. “I fully share your loathing of European freeloading,” Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, later replied. “It’s PATHETIC.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
Signal Leak Live Updates: Trump Defends National Security Adviser After War Plans Security Breach
President Trump said that Michael Waltz, his national security adviser, had “learned a lesson,” after mistakenly including a journalist in a group chat where top administration officials planned a str...
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March 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The administration is not only forcing our greatest superpower-allies to become more armed, it is angering/taunting them. “I fully share your loathing of European freeloading,” Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, later replied. “It’s PATHETIC.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
What a horrible first paragraph. This is not about lawyers. It’s an assault on Americans’ right to redress grievances. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Trump targets lawyers who he says file 'frivolous' lawsuits against his administration
Critics called the move "autocratic," "authoritarian" and "hypocritical," noting that Trump's lawyers have made myriad false legal claims, including that he won the 2020 election.
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March 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
What a horrible first paragraph. This is not about lawyers. It’s an assault on Americans’ right to redress grievances. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Hitler surrounded himself with ppl who would never disagree and thus were afraid to tell him bad news. He didn't know D-Day was happening as a result. Trump has now said twice that he knows nothing about this breach of security and potential risk to American military. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...
Top Trump Officials Discussed Secret War Plans in Group Chat With Atlantic Journalist
The conversation among the defense secretary and other national security officials on a commercial messaging app mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.
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March 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Hitler surrounded himself with ppl who would never disagree and thus were afraid to tell him bad news. He didn't know D-Day was happening as a result. Trump has now said twice that he knows nothing about this breach of security and potential risk to American military. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...
This is an atrocity committed on America’s military. But then, for the richest people in the world who don’t buy their own groceries, let alone experience combat, they have no clue about real life.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
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Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil
A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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March 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is an atrocity committed on America’s military. But then, for the richest people in the world who don’t buy their own groceries, let alone experience combat, they have no clue about real life.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
It took Hitler 12 years to kill 6 million Jews. Trump and Musk -- two of the richest men in the world -- will kill an estimated 1.6 million in just ONE year by suspending HIV treatment, which costs pennies a day. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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March 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
It took Hitler 12 years to kill 6 million Jews. Trump and Musk -- two of the richest men in the world -- will kill an estimated 1.6 million in just ONE year by suspending HIV treatment, which costs pennies a day. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
My hope in 54 yrs of journalism was to equip the community with facts and solutions that can improve life. Ryan Sorrell at the Kansas City Defender @kcdefender.bsky.social has a 21st Century definition for his newsroom that works for me: "Power-building organization." www.poynter.org/business-wor...
A ‘media organizer’ built an abolitionist newsroom in Kansas City. Is he a journalist? He’s not yet sure. - Poynter
At The Kansas City Defender, Ryan Sorrell is following Ida B. Wells and Claudia Jones in honoring the legacy of the radical Black press
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March 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My hope in 54 yrs of journalism was to equip the community with facts and solutions that can improve life. Ryan Sorrell at the Kansas City Defender @kcdefender.bsky.social has a 21st Century definition for his newsroom that works for me: "Power-building organization." www.poynter.org/business-wor...
Anyone else see the troubling irony? Musk sent a SpaceX team into a secured FAA area and also has access to the FAA’s finances. www.space.com/space-explor...
FAA investigating SpaceX Starship Flight 8 explosion that disrupted commercial flights
SpaceX's ability to fly Starship again will be based on the result of the FAA's investigation.
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March 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Anyone else see the troubling irony? Musk sent a SpaceX team into a secured FAA area and also has access to the FAA’s finances. www.space.com/space-explor...
This is why we need a free press. Who else has the resources and courage to tell us which words are being removed from our federal vocabulary. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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March 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This is why we need a free press. Who else has the resources and courage to tell us which words are being removed from our federal vocabulary. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
What you call irony: They’re emptying their prisons of rapists, murderers and drug dealers and sending them here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
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Mexico Releases Cartel Operatives, Including Rafael Caro Quintero, Into U.S. Custody
The decision was said to be a signal that President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico planned to cooperate with the Trump administration in cracking down on the cartels.
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February 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
What you call irony: They’re emptying their prisons of rapists, murderers and drug dealers and sending them here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
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If the Ohio legislature is so dead set against anyone discussing their identity, should we then ban party affiliation from the ballot?
February 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If the Ohio legislature is so dead set against anyone discussing their identity, should we then ban party affiliation from the ballot?