No accounting for bad taste in schlock art.

. . .and a mensch!

That's what we call a "mensch!"

As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void

“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...

BRAVA! Speaking truth to power. Congratulations!

MARCH FOR EVAN On June 14

MARCH FOR EVAN From Steve Brodner

Opinion | The Man Putin Couldn’t Kill

This gift article from The New York Times can be read without a subscription.

This fascinating New York Times piece by Masha Gessen is absolutely riveting. Reads like a spy novel, and reveals the lengths to which Putin is willing to go to punish dissent. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

You Musk Dismember This. As Crime Goes By.

From Steve Brodner;
open.substack.com/pub/stevebro...

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

SCIENCE ROCKS!

I'm following but still haven't figured how to use this!

Bannon said that years ago.

Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio ...

"Hegseth hasn't used the press room to brief reporters. But it has been a set for his TV appearances..."

www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish (Gift Article) A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance.

By @lisalsong.bsky.social

Mr. Douglass is in the Room Our true national heritage is a source of courage and power.

From Steve Brodner

Texas bakery reportedly becomes first bagel shop to be named James Beard Award finalist Jewish-founded Starship Bagel also won “Best Bagel” at the 2023 New York Bagelfest.

“A bagel is not sandwich bread,” Salomon told Bon Appetit. “It’s the main attraction.”
forward.com/fast-forward...

PINO is banishing The Associated Press —a revered organization that covers the news not just for Americans, but for people around the world — from the Oval Office and Air Force One.

To those of you who have "stopped watching the news," this is the time you need to support your journalists and reporters and news commentators.

"Disturbing" hardly describes this assault on our FREE PRESS.

In Trump's assault on the media, disturbing flashbacks to the Third Reich Trump's tactics recall the way Hitler consolidated his power by controlling, intimidating and punishing the press.

In Trump's assault on the media, disturbing flashbacks to the Third Reich forward.com/opinion/7020...

. . .while PINO trump played golf.

“When you and I spoke yesterday, you were just as surprised as I was to learn this new information,” her letter to Mr. Patel said. The letter imposed a deadline of last Friday morning for the F.B.I. to “deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office.”

www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Dead Eyes. Lifeless and cruel. The windows of the soulless.
Like a character only Dickens could create.

UN-believable!

ART: John Cuneo

Democrats should fight back with an aggressive, fact-based counter narrative every single day. They know how to do this, they’ve done it before. The daily COVID briefings by blue state Governors are the perfect roadmap.

"Pressure is building for Democrats to embrace a more timely, cohesive and yes, more aggressive response to the Trump/ Musk incursion. The blue state Governors’ COVID briefings offer the perfect model."
Jennifer Schulze (@newsjennifer.bsky.social) calls for daily Dem counter-narrative briefings.

True.

Elon Musk is doing everything conspiracy theorists accuse George Soros of Elon Musk is doing what conspiracy theorists have long accused George Soros of: trying to establish influence over global politics and media.

Elon Musk is doing everything conspiracy theorists accuse George Soros of forward.com/opinion/6970...

This means nothing. Useless. Empty words, zero action. Boycott his events. Refuse to cover his photo ops and propaganda signings. He’s addicted to coverage and hates being ignored. Until you band together and do something, these statements are utterly pointless & pathetic.