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Updated list of signatories -- including me! -- calling on the White House Correspondents Association to serve up some integrity when Trump shows up at Saturday's WHCA dinner:

It's Time to Drag Pete Hegseth's Bigoted Pastor and Expose Trump's Failed Iran War Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth believes he's on a mission from God and supports an American Crusade. His pastor, Doug Wilson, demands Christian domination. Well, I would like to retort.

It's Time to Drag Pete Hegseth's Bigoted Pastor and Expose Trump's Failed Iran War

Pete Hegseth believes he's on a mission from God and supports an American Crusade. His pastor, Doug Wilson, demands Christian domination. Well, I would like to retort.

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Proud to be a signatory, along with other corporate-media vets, of the open letter to the White House Correspondents Association urging a strong public stand -- at Saturday's WHCA dinner -- against Trump's attempts to curb the free press.

Full letter, with signatories, here:

This Week in Tyranny: Excluded from His Own War Room, Food Stamps Cut, Tariffs Refunded to Corps YouTube video by Linsay Rousseau

This Week in Tyranny: Trump’s generals locked him out of a live military rescue mission because they didn’t trust him not to get troops killed. 2.5M Americans lost food stamps. $166B in tariff refunds go to corps not families. Hat tip to @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

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As anyone calculated the productivity losses caused by AI sending people down false paths, on wild goose, chases, and requiring fact-checking to prevent it all?

I'd ask AI, but...

Mamdani talks about things in a manner that are epochal in their difference from how ~95% of all dem politicians have talked for the last 3 decades. That he talks so differently while still talking about party platform issues to the point they achieve a new cadence is the whole rub. That’s it.

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

Everyone’s laughing at Pete Hegseth’s Bible verse but there are a lot of quotes that can only be found in the Caucasian Translation of Bible

A thread:

The nepo babies that run the New York Times are suspicious that some other children of the elite have not used their connections to line their own pockets and they think we should all be suspicious too.

Trump Alone Could Fuck It: He’s Tanking Global Oil Demand Trump's disastrous illegal war is upending the global economy and benefiting the globe

“Go get ‘em, kids! From oil to vaccines to Haitians, reality’s coming back.”

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Pete Hegseth read a Pulp Fiction monologue at a Pentagon prayer service & thought it was the Bible. Ezekiel 25:17. The same admin is attacking the Pope for being too political. Hat tip to @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social @briankaylor.bsky.social for catching this.

Here's an excerpt: Now that Bluesky is (maybe?) working, read the column and tell me what you think!

This is my guess. The search and rescue guys did it knowingly…

…never dreaming Hegseth would do it.

If you’re thinking “there’s no way he actually…” YES. He did. I don’t think I’ve ever been this speechless at someone’s stupidity

LIVE SOON: How To Save TV News: Scott MacFarlane Starting Apr 16 at 12:00 PM EDT

Please join me and @macfarlanenews.bsky.social at noon, eastern, for our live conversation on whether and how TV news can or should be saved:

I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd.

Once again, Jonathan knows what news consumers really desire.

I should add that this was caught and chased down and flagged by @briankaylor.bsky.social, whose essential work tracking this kind of stuff in the Pentagon had already been invaluable to me and that you can and should check out here:

Here’s Pete Hegseth Literally S the “Pulp Fiction” Prayer At his monthly unconstitutional prayer service, Hegseth delivered a modified prayer from the Book of Squintin' Warantino

If you want to see it for yourself...

...here's Pete Hegseth delivering an Iran-modified version of the Pulp Fiction prayer...

...with no sign he knows it's from Pulp Fiction.

Video here:

I mean, show me where in The Bible it says thou shalt not kill.

We could shut down Big Oil tomorrow.

Or, y’know, make Nerf cities.

The Rapist vs. The Papist Escalating attacks on the Pope seek to stifle the same political expression by religious leaders that Trump champions ... when it benefits him

I laid out what's really going on with Trump and the pope...

...but couldn't resist coming up with silly names for it.

The Don Tiff with The Pontiff
The Altar Boy vs. The Assaulter Boy
The Catechism vs. The Cataclysm

Too many more here:

The Rapist vs. The Papist Escalating attacks on the Pope seek to stifle the same political expression by religious leaders that Trump champions ... when it benefits him

That’s why he’s called “president” and not a word for someone who dictates." @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thefucki...

The Democratic Party’s Hasan Piker Hypocrites Party leaders debate whether to shun anti-Zionists, while some Democrats support actual antisemites with zero consequences

Interesting article. Thanks. You may find this of interest:

Swalwell That Ends Gonzales It was Bye-One, Get-Rid-of-One-Free Day in the House of Representatives and sexual predators

An excellent news update 🤩

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Swalwell That Ends Gonzales It was Bye-One, Get-Rid-of-One-Free Day in the House of Representatives and sexual predators

"Swalwell couldn’t help but resign petulantly, crying like a staffer who’d been harassed by him." — @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

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