Susan Spector McPherson

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I'm on Substack! & I just posted my latest “I’ve Been Thinking” column which I write every week for The Sunday Paper—now you can read it on Substack too. Looking forward to sharing more of what I'm up to over there. Xo, Maria open.substack.com/pub/mariashriv…

If you're having a bad day, here's the exact moment that Charlie Brown adopted Snoopy 75 years ago.

@JillFilipovic Truly!

This is so sad

Staff Reads from our Executive Director: @susanmcp1 reminds us that empathy plus friction is what creates real connection. Even though Silicon Valley has built us a friction-less world, it's left us lonelier than ever. Read here: susanmcpherson.substack.com/p/we-chose-fri…

This is top notch political communication. It’s not about being more centrist or more progressive. It’s about digging in on local issues that impact people’s quality of life. Every politician can do this!

A new CBS News poll published Sunday found that Trump has suffered an unprecedented collapse in support among what has historically been his single-strongest voter base! A GREAT way to kick off your week ahead. rawstory.com/trump-26767038…

@nypost This is repulsive. She is not implicated and her children are innocent (and vulnerable). Remove their photos.

Leadership looks like this. A historic first: the Port Authority is now led by Kathryn Garcia, the agency’s first female Executive Director. Women also lead all five of our line departments: Aviation, Tunnels, Bridges & Terminals, World Trade Center, PATH, and Port. Here’s to the women shaping the future of our region on International Women’s Day, throughout Women’s History Month, and EVERY DAY. #IWD2026 #WHM

It is possible to believe two things at once: That the long-suffering people of Iran deserve freedom from their despotic leaders, and that a bombing campaign by the current highly corrupt authoritarian government of America is unlikely to bring it.

This is absolutely what happened.

The right wants us to believe that a teen who showed up at a Wisconsin rally with an AR-15 and shot three people is a peacekeeper who deserves to be celebrated, but an unarmed mom driving away from a Minnesota rally was a domestic terrorist who deserved to die.

So interesting that these men keep threatening women with impunity.

So, CBS News decided not to air this 25 yr veteran federal agent pointing out all the ways the ICE agent was in the wrong for shooting Renee Good, on its broadcast (I wonder why🤨). At least it’s online. Reshare.

I believe That is RENEE NICOLE GOOD’s WIFE HEARTBREAKING 💔

Sickening

@donwinslow @bariweiss You are spot on, @donwinslow!

I can just imagine @bariweiss sitting there and thinking she is going to reinvent news and being so full of herself that she thought it was a great idea for her unqualified and unprepared new anchor to shit on the legacy of Walter Cronkite before he even sat in the anchor chair.

NEW: Wall Street is already at the ready post Nicolas Maduro's capture by U.S. forces. About 20 business leaders, including those from some of the top hedge funds and asset managers, are preparing to go on a March trip to Venezuela to look at investment opportunities there incl in energy and infrastructure wsj.com/livecoverage/v…

Thomas Massie is going NUCLEAR on Trump’s regime change war in Venezuela. “How did it work out in Cuba, Libya, Iraq, or Syria?” “Do we want another Afghanistan in the Western Hemisphere?” “This is about oil and regime change.” “Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs, weapons of mass destruction, that did not exist.” “Now it’s the same playbook, except we’re told that drugs are the WMDs.” “James Madison warned us that in no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war and peace to the legislature—not the executive.” “The framers understood a simple truth: to the extent that war-making power devolves to one person, liberty dissolves.” “By escalating toward war, we would predictably create countless refugees.” “Are we prepared to receive swarms of the 25 million Venezuelans who will likely become refugees?” @RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY

MARK WARNER, top dem on senate intel, with a scathing statement