Ron Judd
@ronjudd.bsky.social
Journalist, historian, skeptic. Executive Editor, Cascadia Daily News, Bellingham WA; follow my work at authory.com/RonJudd
"He was never a person. He was a journalist!"
"He was never a person. He was a journalist!"
Amen to that.
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Amen to that.
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The City of Bellingham has been named in two lawsuits in recent weeks by people who were injured by car drivers on city streets in the past year. Both collision sites recently received infrastructure updates designed to increase safety.
Pedestrian and scooter rider, hit by cars last winter, sue drivers and Bellingham | Cascadia Daily News
Both collision locations were the sites of pilot projects to improve street safety
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November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The City of Bellingham has been named in two lawsuits in recent weeks by people who were injured by car drivers on city streets in the past year. Both collision sites recently received infrastructure updates designed to increase safety.
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Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
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No, CBS will not settle any lawsuits against them that people may bring for editing out over half of Trump’s interview since none of you are in a position of power to approve their merger with any other media companies.
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
No, CBS will not settle any lawsuits against them that people may bring for editing out over half of Trump’s interview since none of you are in a position of power to approve their merger with any other media companies.
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And seriously if you’re a poll worker, God bless you, thank you for your service.
Did I announce “WE GOT A FIRST TIME VOTER HERE!” as I walked into the polling place with my 18yo daughter, prompting a roomful of election workers to clap and cheer?
a man with glasses and a beard is making a face .
ALT: a man with glasses and a beard is making a face .
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November 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
And seriously if you’re a poll worker, God bless you, thank you for your service.
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The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
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Literally the most predictable crime in modern history after pro sports make computerized gambling literally central to revenue models.
Literally the most predictable crime in modern history after pro sports make computerized gambling literally central to revenue models.
Live Updates: N.B.A. Player and Coach Arrested in Gambling Investigation
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October 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Literally the most predictable crime in modern history after pro sports make computerized gambling literally central to revenue models.
Literally the most predictable crime in modern history after pro sports make computerized gambling literally central to revenue models.
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First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.
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Social media is broken. Our newspaper can't fix it, but we can take one small step toward civility and are doing so by suspending comments on stories we post on Facebook, increasingly a swamp of boring invective, writes Ron Judd, Cascadia Daily News' executive editor.
Facebook comments have become a game of Whack-A-Troll; we're tired of playing | Cascadia Daily News
Stubbornly clinging to civil discourse, CDN suspends comments on Facebook posts
www.cascadiadaily.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Social media is broken. Our newspaper can't fix it, but we can take one small step toward civility and are doing so by suspending comments on stories we post on Facebook, increasingly a swamp of boring invective, writes Ron Judd, Cascadia Daily News' executive editor.
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Western's Lauren Lee wears a bucket hat when she golfs. You might think she's following a fashion trend, but she's not, exactly. Lee, 21, is bald. She lost all her hair to alopecia areata.
Lost hair means gained perspective for Western golfer | Cascadia Daily News
NCAA All-American Lauren Lee wants to help with alopecia awareness
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October 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Western's Lauren Lee wears a bucket hat when she golfs. You might think she's following a fashion trend, but she's not, exactly. Lee, 21, is bald. She lost all her hair to alopecia areata.
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Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/
October 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/
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In a decision issued October 1, 2025, Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge William Young includes a postcard sent to him saying “Trump has pardons and tanks ... what do you have?" He responds "Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People ... have our magnificent Constitution."
October 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In a decision issued October 1, 2025, Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge William Young includes a postcard sent to him saying “Trump has pardons and tanks ... what do you have?" He responds "Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People ... have our magnificent Constitution."
I am told the federal government has shut down. Has it been open?
October 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I am told the federal government has shut down. Has it been open?
Am I going to be able to get discount bleach through Trump RX?
September 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Am I going to be able to get discount bleach through Trump RX?
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According to Oregon, Trump got the idea that Portland is on fire because Fox News illustrated a September 5 story on protests of ICE with video from the George Floyd riots in 2020.
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September 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
According to Oregon, Trump got the idea that Portland is on fire because Fox News illustrated a September 5 story on protests of ICE with video from the George Floyd riots in 2020.
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This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation
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September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Can we please just call it all what it is: an authoritarian assault on free speech, a free press, and the very founding principles of our nation -- all enabled by the premature capitulation of corporate America.
Kimmel's benching won't be the end of Trump's anti-American assault on free speech | Cascadia Daily News
Our nation teeters at a tipping point for its First Amendment founding ideals
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September 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Can we please just call it all what it is: an authoritarian assault on free speech, a free press, and the very founding principles of our nation -- all enabled by the premature capitulation of corporate America.
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As long as we’re all autism experts now, here’s an actual study showing links to air pollution and fossil fuel
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Air pollution linked with increased risk of autism in children | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Exposure to fine particulate air pollution has been linked with significantly increased risk of autism spectrum disorder in children, particularly if exposure occurs during the third trimester of preg...
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September 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
As long as we’re all autism experts now, here’s an actual study showing links to air pollution and fossil fuel
hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-pol...
hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-pol...
(CBS scrambles to remove clip from archives.)
In February 1968, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, having just returned from a two-week fact-finding trip to Vietnam, said in a special TV report that the war was ‘mired in a stalemate’ and a US victory was not possible.
Cronkite’s statement was a stunning rebuke to President Lyndon Johnson
Cronkite’s statement was a stunning rebuke to President Lyndon Johnson
September 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
(CBS scrambles to remove clip from archives.)
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Molly breaks it down brilliantly & this is why I listen to her Fast Politics podcast.
September 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Molly breaks it down brilliantly & this is why I listen to her Fast Politics podcast.
Cross-channel neighbors in Washington's San Juans and B.C.'s Gulf Islands aren't buying the faux outrage between the U.S. and Canada being fomented by the Trump regime, @cascadiadaily.com reports.
'Hands Across the Water' international flotilla bridges political divide | Cascadia Daily News
48 boats made the voyage from Orcas Island to Salt Spring Island, BC with message of friendship
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September 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Cross-channel neighbors in Washington's San Juans and B.C.'s Gulf Islands aren't buying the faux outrage between the U.S. and Canada being fomented by the Trump regime, @cascadiadaily.com reports.
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Revisiting this piece I wrote in April 2025. "State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
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September 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Revisiting this piece I wrote in April 2025. "State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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FYI: @rcfp.org's First Amendment Handbook provides a basic primer on the laws affecting journalists’ rights to gather and disseminate news.
First Amendment Handbook | The Reporters Committee
The First Amendment Handbook provides a basic primer on the laws affecting reporters’ rights to gather and disseminate news.
www.rcfp.org
September 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
FYI: @rcfp.org's First Amendment Handbook provides a basic primer on the laws affecting journalists’ rights to gather and disseminate news.
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Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.
What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
September 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.