Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹
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"Justice, justice shall you seek." Writer, strategist, organizational leader. International management, nonprofits. Haiti. Tikkun olam. Author, "The Realist's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership." https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrybnewman/
From the NYT comments:
"If a Genie gave the Democrats three wishes, they would negotiate it down to one and wish for something they think the Republicans would like"
"If a Genie gave the Democrats three wishes, they would negotiate it down to one and wish for something they think the Republicans would like"
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
From the NYT comments:
"If a Genie gave the Democrats three wishes, they would negotiate it down to one and wish for something they think the Republicans would like"
"If a Genie gave the Democrats three wishes, they would negotiate it down to one and wish for something they think the Republicans would like"
GILLIGAN’S SANDWICH
Just sit right down and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a turkey sub.
That found its way from U street,
To a court in our nation’s hub.
The sandwich was a special one,
For it smashed on an ICE man’s chest.
Like Mexico and China,
We didn’t send our best.
@gtconway thoughts?
Just sit right down and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a turkey sub.
That found its way from U street,
To a court in our nation’s hub.
The sandwich was a special one,
For it smashed on an ICE man’s chest.
Like Mexico and China,
We didn’t send our best.
@gtconway thoughts?
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
GILLIGAN’S SANDWICH
Just sit right down and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a turkey sub.
That found its way from U street,
To a court in our nation’s hub.
The sandwich was a special one,
For it smashed on an ICE man’s chest.
Like Mexico and China,
We didn’t send our best.
@gtconway thoughts?
Just sit right down and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a turkey sub.
That found its way from U street,
To a court in our nation’s hub.
The sandwich was a special one,
For it smashed on an ICE man’s chest.
Like Mexico and China,
We didn’t send our best.
@gtconway thoughts?
Every video of ICE Meal Team Six patrolling the mean streets of [insert suburb here] should be accompanied by the sound track of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Every video of ICE Meal Team Six patrolling the mean streets of [insert suburb here] should be accompanied by the sound track of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
For those who saw a certain sociopath lurk impassively and insensitively as a guest fainted in the Oval Office, check out this clip from when we had a compassionate human as POTUS.
Throwback to when Obama caught a fainting pregnant woman while giving a speech
November 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
For those who saw a certain sociopath lurk impassively and insensitively as a guest fainted in the Oval Office, check out this clip from when we had a compassionate human as POTUS.
PREDICTION: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will soon be regarded as one of the historically most influential, intellectual and important justices of the SCOTUS.
She has already positioned herself as a peerless and fearless voice of conscience, always ready to call out hypocrisy and sophistry.
She has already positioned herself as a peerless and fearless voice of conscience, always ready to call out hypocrisy and sophistry.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
PREDICTION: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will soon be regarded as one of the historically most influential, intellectual and important justices of the SCOTUS.
She has already positioned herself as a peerless and fearless voice of conscience, always ready to call out hypocrisy and sophistry.
She has already positioned herself as a peerless and fearless voice of conscience, always ready to call out hypocrisy and sophistry.
Unaccustomed as I am to quoting (any) Cuomo, the late Mario Cuomo said, "You campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose."
Mamdani has been nothing less than poetic in his brilliant campaign. Should he win, the slog of governance and the intransigence of entrenched power will be immense.
Mamdani has been nothing less than poetic in his brilliant campaign. Should he win, the slog of governance and the intransigence of entrenched power will be immense.
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Unaccustomed as I am to quoting (any) Cuomo, the late Mario Cuomo said, "You campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose."
Mamdani has been nothing less than poetic in his brilliant campaign. Should he win, the slog of governance and the intransigence of entrenched power will be immense.
Mamdani has been nothing less than poetic in his brilliant campaign. Should he win, the slog of governance and the intransigence of entrenched power will be immense.
LBJ was ... unique. Here's an actual recording of him calling the Haggar Clothing Co. to order some pants made to spec. Classic LBJ - blunt, borderline extortionate, (ahem) colorful, and irresistible, in its way.
This convo (and tape) would be impossible today!
millercenter.org/the-presiden...
This convo (and tape) would be impossible today!
millercenter.org/the-presiden...
LBJ Orders Some New Haggar Pants | Miller Center
millercenter.org
November 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
LBJ was ... unique. Here's an actual recording of him calling the Haggar Clothing Co. to order some pants made to spec. Classic LBJ - blunt, borderline extortionate, (ahem) colorful, and irresistible, in its way.
This convo (and tape) would be impossible today!
millercenter.org/the-presiden...
This convo (and tape) would be impossible today!
millercenter.org/the-presiden...
"Cofefe ... the Fragrance for the Man in Decline," available wherever compression socks and Velcro shoes are sold.
October 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"Cofefe ... the Fragrance for the Man in Decline," available wherever compression socks and Velcro shoes are sold.
Now do Canada.
Senate passes bipartisan resolution that would block Trump's tariffs on Brazil www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Senate passes bipartisan resolution that would block Trump's tariffs on Brazil
The rebuke of Trump is largely symbolic, for now, since the House isn't allowing votes on measures challenging Trump's tariffs until at least next year.
www.nbcnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Now do Canada.
A simple basket is no longer sufficient to accommodate all of the deplorables.
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A simple basket is no longer sufficient to accommodate all of the deplorables.
Somewhere, somehow, in some recess of the Capitol building, I hope there breathes a Republican with 1/10th the backbone that John McCain had. He screwed up aplenty in his life, he knew it, and he admitted it.
But when it counted, at least on this occasion, he put the American people first.
But when it counted, at least on this occasion, he put the American people first.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Somewhere, somehow, in some recess of the Capitol building, I hope there breathes a Republican with 1/10th the backbone that John McCain had. He screwed up aplenty in his life, he knew it, and he admitted it.
But when it counted, at least on this occasion, he put the American people first.
But when it counted, at least on this occasion, he put the American people first.
Tax cuts for the wealthiest? Check!
Gaudy ballroom paid for by corporations? Check!
Demolition of historic property? Check!
Healthcare for poor children? Nope!
Gaudy ballroom paid for by corporations? Check!
Demolition of historic property? Check!
Healthcare for poor children? Nope!
October 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Tax cuts for the wealthiest? Check!
Gaudy ballroom paid for by corporations? Check!
Demolition of historic property? Check!
Healthcare for poor children? Nope!
Gaudy ballroom paid for by corporations? Check!
Demolition of historic property? Check!
Healthcare for poor children? Nope!
Exhibit #2723 in the David Brooks "Values, Values something something Civics something but the Democrats Values something" playbook.
Brooks, Stephens and Douthat are becoming the Huey, Dewey and Louie of the @nytimes.com.
The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Brooks, Stephens and Douthat are becoming the Huey, Dewey and Louie of the @nytimes.com.
The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Opinion | The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Exhibit #2723 in the David Brooks "Values, Values something something Civics something but the Democrats Values something" playbook.
Brooks, Stephens and Douthat are becoming the Huey, Dewey and Louie of the @nytimes.com.
The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Brooks, Stephens and Douthat are becoming the Huey, Dewey and Louie of the @nytimes.com.
The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
I don't know why this took me by surprise ... I guess I've been in shock at the here and now. But, wow.
It's not expected to be completed until Jan 2029. The confidence that he has that he'll be able to enjoy it thereafter tells you everything you need to know about what they're doing today.
October 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I don't know why this took me by surprise ... I guess I've been in shock at the here and now. But, wow.
But by all means stop funding scientific and medical research, and be sure to limit distribution of COVID mRNA vaccines. theconversation.com/covid-19-mrn...
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research
The researchers found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines could potentially help patients whose tumors don’t respond well to traditional immunotherapy.
theconversation.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
But by all means stop funding scientific and medical research, and be sure to limit distribution of COVID mRNA vaccines. theconversation.com/covid-19-mrn...
All the gold and glitter, all the money and adulation that he buys cannot change the fact that he goes to bed and awakens in the morning alone and reviled, even by his own family.
He is at best a meal ticket and worth more to them after he dies than in this life.
No one will mourn him. No one.
He is at best a meal ticket and worth more to them after he dies than in this life.
No one will mourn him. No one.
October 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
All the gold and glitter, all the money and adulation that he buys cannot change the fact that he goes to bed and awakens in the morning alone and reviled, even by his own family.
He is at best a meal ticket and worth more to them after he dies than in this life.
No one will mourn him. No one.
He is at best a meal ticket and worth more to them after he dies than in this life.
No one will mourn him. No one.
While Trmpf is metaphorically dropping shite on the American people, Putin is literally raining death and destruction on kindergartens in Ukraine.
Someday there must be a reckoning for both.
Someday there must be a reckoning for both.
October 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
While Trmpf is metaphorically dropping shite on the American people, Putin is literally raining death and destruction on kindergartens in Ukraine.
Someday there must be a reckoning for both.
Someday there must be a reckoning for both.
BREAKING: Putin gifts free Soviet-era Zil limousine to Trump, to be delivered at Budapest summit.
"True, gas mileage is limited, but body is in excellent condition. Very few upgrades needed," noted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, adding that "power windows are fully operational."
"True, gas mileage is limited, but body is in excellent condition. Very few upgrades needed," noted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, adding that "power windows are fully operational."
October 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
BREAKING: Putin gifts free Soviet-era Zil limousine to Trump, to be delivered at Budapest summit.
"True, gas mileage is limited, but body is in excellent condition. Very few upgrades needed," noted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, adding that "power windows are fully operational."
"True, gas mileage is limited, but body is in excellent condition. Very few upgrades needed," noted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, adding that "power windows are fully operational."
Cleveland rocks!
🔗: https://l.cleveland.com/jt4ogt
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport won’t show Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem's controversial new video blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown due to its partisan nature.
📸s: cleveland.com & AP
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport won’t show Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem's controversial new video blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown due to its partisan nature.
📸s: cleveland.com & AP
October 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Cleveland rocks!
Tiny microphones .... a plague that cannot be eradicated @carolinelosneck.bsky.social?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...
Tiny Microphones, Huge Presence
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Tiny microphones .... a plague that cannot be eradicated @carolinelosneck.bsky.social?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...
I did not have south pole of the moon on my "Where to Establish Nuclear Fission Research Centers" bingo card.
Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."
October 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I did not have south pole of the moon on my "Where to Establish Nuclear Fission Research Centers" bingo card.