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@NYTimesPR @KatieMHill Her NFL experience should help her in this work.

We are thrilled to announce that @KatieMHill is joining The New York Times as senior vice president, global head of communications and external affairs. nytco.com/press/katie-hi…

@TheLeadCNN Jake says it’s all a joke: How would he laugh 😂 at his wife being belittled by Kimmel who described the First Lady as having “ a glow like an expectant widow”. , Or maybe Jake would praise the “expectant widow” line as he did —as funny and admirable free speech!

The Trump administration compares political criticism and satire to calls for violence

@NYTimesPR @nytimes Pray for the student journalists.

Applications are open through June 12 for The New York Times Corps. It’s a talent-mentorship program for college students pursuing journalism to receive career guidance from @nytimes journalists. nytco.com/press/journali…

@GovKathyHochul Everyone? Really?

Thankful for the swift response by law enforcement and the Secret Service at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner tonight.

Praying for the safety of everyone in attendance.

No wonder Iran’s only card left is Democrats like Murphy who pledge to shut off America’s capacity to wage war on a terror state bent on destroying the US and Israel and Lebanon and Gaza land now other Arab oil states and then strike European capitals. Useful idiots. Murphy and his leftist ilk

It's hard to believe, but the damage of Trump's Iran War could get even worse. He is still contemplating a cataclysmic ground invasion, and his refusal to end the the war keeps Iran in control of the Strait and keeps energy prices disastrously high.

@NewsHour @propublica Without evidence. What is PBS smoking?

After Virginia voters backed a push by Democrats to redraw congressional maps in their favor, President Trump, without evidence, called it a “rigged election” and "travesty of 'justice.” It’s the latest example of Trump casting doubt on the U.S. election process. A recent investigation by ProPublica details a nationwide effort by the president and his allies to gain influence over the officials and offices that administer elections at the state and local level. @ElizLanders speaks to @JenAFifield for more.

@JoJoFromJerz Tells you more about Harvard Law School

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received both her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Harvard Law School, graduating cum laude. While at Harvard Law School, she served as a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review.  Donald Trump is a fucking idiot.

Equal time — also known as a rule— is also law, passed by Congress in 1934. The law is aimed at discouraging broadcasters—tv and radio stations— from offering candidates they like with free time on air during campaigns. If they do so, they are obligated to provide opponents the same time to reach a comparably sized audience reached by the favored candidate. It is a not partisan rule to censor or require a broadcaster to self censor. It is not, as Stelter alleges, government censorship.

Americans are fundamentally opposed to government censorship. It's in our bones.

Though politically and ideologically far left, Anderson Cooper was a penetrating and provocative interviewer who asked thoughtful questions in a uniquely sensitive way. He was an asset and will be missed. Too bad he couldn’t see that Weiss wanted to use his great strengths as an interviewer of celebrities, statesman and yes, politicians. Nonetheless, 60 Minutes will be worth watching again. When Weiss is finished cleaning house

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss’ editorial direction prompted Anderson Cooper’s exit from 60 Minutes, a report says. trib.al/oW44RKh

@JonathanTurley Economic freedom of the sort that Adam Smith celebrated didn’t relate to the sources of wealth Virginia’s founding fathers cherished: freedom to flourish from the labor and monetary value of bondsmen in chains

...As discussed in my new book, the founders knew that true individual liberty could not be achieved without economic freedom. shorturl.at/vyWmZ That is why they embraced Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which came out the same year as the Declaration of Independence.

The Hill is out with my column on the Trump accounts and how they could help change a trend in the polls toward socialism among some young people... thehill.com/opinion/financ…

Local news used to be important, but especially to advertisers whose spending made newspapers profitable. Pulitzer Prizes are lovely but don’t pay the bills. As any Amazon owner could tell you, newspapers even online cant match the ability of online ads to reach consumers at the the point of purchase( proceed to checkout) The rest of your tribute to the Post is blather.

Much of the mourning for the late great @washingtonpost has rightly focused on how democracy dies in darkness at the national level, which is hugely important. But the evisceration of Metro coverage is every bit as devastating because there is no comparable news outlet keeping local governments and institutions honest. Eight of my 20 years at the Post were spent on Metro, which was the heart and soul of the Post under the legendary @dongrahamdc1. The undertakers now running the paper have all but wiped out the metro staff, leaving just 12 reporters, according to reports, to cover a region of 6.5 million people. We had twice that many journalists in Fairfax alone back in the day. And it mattered. Reporters are the eyes and ears of the community, keeping tabs on people in power. We were there for every supervisors meeting, every school board meeting. We pored through planning commission documents and campaign filings. When county officials wasted taxpayer money, raised taxes on overstretched homeowners, gave sweetheart zoning deals to developers who filled their election coffers, we were there. When teachers who sexually abused students were quietly transferred to other schools to do it all over again, we were there. We were there for the more uplifting stories too, the cops who broke a cold case, the educators who turned around a struggling school, the residents who rallied to help neighbors in trouble, the student athletes who won the big game, the entrepreneurs who started something new. Our friend @SariHorwitz who has won more Pulitzers than I can count, wrote so movingly online about the Post (facebook.com/share/p/1AZLTT…). To recognize how indispensable local coverage is, you need only look at her holy-shit investigations of a broken child welfare system, rampant police shootings and the corporate-fed opioid crisis, stories that opened eyes and led to change. Democracy is not just what happens at the White House and the Capitol but in our own backyards. The Post has just turned the lights down at home too.

@lawyer4laws @JonathanTurley Bereft of human decency, you might add.

The Irony and Hypocrisy of Judge Fred Biery: 8/21/2025: He blocked a Texas bill requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. Saying: "This Court finds there is insufficient evidence of a broad tradition in place at the time of the Founding, and within the history of public education, to justify"

Judge Fred Biery's order in the Arias case is breathtaking in its hyperbolic, unhinged value-signaling. Biery effectively wrote an op-ed with a caption on it, quoting John 11:35 ("Jesus wept"). After reading his order, those who believe in apolitical courts may share the emotion.

@GovKathyHochul Lawless? What do you know of: the law, the rule of law. The Constitution?

Another horrific outcome from a federal operation that has clearly spun out of control. Americans have had enough of lawless conduct masquerading as enforcement. President Trump is responsible for putting a stop to it.

@NickKristof @MarkJCarney Everyone should read Mark Carneys speech. If only to marvel at its phrases: a platitudinous display of gobbledegook, word salad, and bureaucratese that could wow Kamala, and amuse S J Perelman, and Guy Lombardo, were they still around.

Canadian Prime Minister @MarkJCarney's speech at Davos is quite brilliant. Without vitriol or exaggeration, he outlines the harsh new world that Trump is leading us all toward. Here's the full text; much recommended: globalnews.ca/news/11620877/…

@brianstelter You timed it, so you must have watched it? Nothing better to do?

Trump's appearance in the WH briefing room today began at 1:49pm and ended at 3:33pm ET, so, 104 minutes.

If there is one thing Dr King taught it was non-violence. It was at the core of his teaching and preaching. No, as Hochul falsely claims, there is no wannabe king that “can terrorize NY communities. “But violent illegal immigrants are terrorizing and victimizing Americans everywhere , every day. . No doubt , some good people also are here illegally,, But those here to harm us must go.

Dr. King taught us that we cannot stay silent in the face of injustice. Here in New York, we will not let a wannabe king terrorize our communities and those who did nothing wrong but seek a better life for themselves and their families.

@smerconish Trump has explained, repeatedly, he wants to center his “iron dome” anti-ballistic missile system in Greenland , following through on Reagan’s consequential SDI initiative. Pay attention to what he says by listening, not just by repeating what you think

President Trump says he won't use force to take over Greenland, but that still doesn't explain why he wants it in the first place. Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Adm. James G. Stavridis says there's really no need for the chaos this is causing. Watch more on YouTube: bit.ly/3LTkz26

@spudhawg @Variety CBS News had standards, established by a committee in which people like Bill Paley, Dick Salant, Dr Frank Stanton had their say . Barry Weiss would do well to re-establish such standards with her top management

@Variety Since when have veteran CBS journalists had standards?

Ten people familiar with the workings of CBS News say the Paramount Skydance unit is veering toward dysfunction, with a management team led by Bari Weiss that doesn’t value the standards held by veteran journalists — and a staff that views its editor-in-chief and her hand-picked senior staff with great skepticism, owing to her lack of experience managing mainstream media assets. Read the full report: wp.me/pc8uak-1lGNmM

Variety lays an egg with its loopy attack on Barry Weiss from “10 knowledgeable staffers” whose necessary housecleaning will in time reach them: CBS News Veers Toward Dysfunction Under Bari Weiss Following Gaffes at 60 Minutes, Evening News variety.com/2026/tv/news/c… via @variety

@brianstelter If Stelter ever had an editor at CNN or wherever he worked , he would know the editor in chief’s job is to be boss, to decide when a story is fit to print, so to say. This is not the job of Correspondent Alfonsi. Weiss is doing her job, job she is being paid to do. like it or not

The "Inside CECOT" report caused something of a standoff inside CBS News, with correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi saying she didn't want to change a single comma. Here's my recap