I still can’t get over the NYT unwillingness to say without qualifiers that routine news gathering is protected by the first amendment.
It’s not widely considered protected, it’s universally considered protected.
Anyone who says otherwise is simply anti-1A and that’s not the same thing!
Posts by Jan Schmidt
So now Pete Hegseth has fired the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Staff of the Army, both in the middle of a war, both with no public or known explanation? Seems fine.
Even RFK Jr. can't defend why his FDA is stomping on cancer research: WSJ #RawStory
JUST IN: Aliya Rahman, the Minneapolis woman whose violent arrest by ICE agents in January was filmed and went viral, today filed a complaint against DHS over its agents' "brutal tactics and conduct."
A first step for suing the federal govt, which she intends to do. www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...
After Trump’s Attack on Pope Leo, a Bomb Threat Came for His Brother in Suburban Chicago
John Prevost is a retired Catholic school principal who plays Wordle with his brother the pope every morning. On Wednesday night, police evacuated his neighborhood.
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Jackie Kennedy made the Rose Garden so beautiful. Sad that its been paved over
Congratulations to Péter Magyar on a decisive election victory in Hungary.
The Hungarian people have chosen a new path. We are ready to work with you, and our European allies, to deepen our cooperation in trade, defence, and security.
Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.
ICE in Canada???
"World Cup Concerns:
City councils, such as Toronto's, have formally opposed the presence of ICE agents at World Cup event"
When orangina is gone, more will do this dance!
May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.
Great summary by @newhampshirebulletin.com's Molly Rains about the cost and status of cyanobacteria blooms in #NHPolitics newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/04/13/t...
To achieve what they have achieved in Hungary? This is one part of what we're going to have to do before this November
These are the goons running the Iran war. Apparently there’s a statute of limitations on lying.
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
What would you like to bet that if Orban loses he sets his goons to stop the transition…
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Iran just posted this...
Pope Leo XIV on Trump’s warning to Iran of “civilization” destruction — “This is truly not acceptable. Here there are certainly questions of international law, but even more than this a question of morality for the good of people.” He adds the war is “continuing to escalate and is not resolving anything… is only provoking more hatred throughout the world.” “attacks on civilian infrastructure are against international law, but it is also against sign of the hatred and division that we are capable of.”
After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇
check out this ginormous shitstack of dumb: some fucking idiot invited a war criminal onto American soil — and then, instead of arresting the war criminal, the fucking idiot ordered soldiers from the United States military to roll a red carpet up to the war criminal’s plane. then the fucking idiot clapped like a trained seal while the war criminal kept him waiting on the tarmac. and then the fucking idiot invited the war criminal to ride with him in the presidential limo, and off they went on their despot snugglebunny playdate, where nothing got accomplished. after which, the fucking idiot posed for yet another photo where he looked weak and defeated, while the war criminal grinned like a hyena who’d just enjoyed a great meal. and finally, when the whole disgraceful debacle was over, the fucking idiot praised himself for hitting it out of the park. “he said on a scale of 1 to 10, ‘I give today a 10.’ so that’s the president grading what he thought of the meeting.” how fucking idiotic is that?
YOUR FAVORITE WRITER (ME!) IS BACK WITH A NEW POST IN WHICH I RIP DONNY "A NEW ONE" FOR HIS DISGUSTING DESPOT PLAYDATE WITH A WAR CRIMINAL. SAD! PEOPLE ARE SAYING SIR! SIR! HOW DO YOU WRITE SO WELL. JEFF TIEDRICH (AGAIN, ME!) IS AMAZING!
PLEASE READ THE WHOLE POST. THE LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/41BPy7u
Thousands of Americans in Washington, D.C. are protesting the pedophile president and his Nazi ICE Gestapo. 🙌💪👏👊🇺🇸👇
.stand around in full combat gear *OUTSIDE OF A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR'S NEWS CONFERENCE* in a suburb of Los Angeles."“
And he lied…
All stories about him need to end with this simple phrase
America is on the wrong path.
Hopefully we can find our way.
The way towards diversity, equality, empathy, inclusion, generosity, fairness, kindness, progress, love, intelligence, and democracy.
We must never give up hope.
Georgia, you’ve already got Marjorie Taylor Greene. Elect Mike Collins too and we’re gonna need a border around the whole damn state. The guy can’t even spell “Georgia” in his own ad, writes “Georiga.”
'Georiga': Embarassing typo in Mike Collins Senate ad rumble.com/v6wt3x6-geor...
This is the story of my life...when I told my Mother I was going to run for Governor of NH in 1991 she told me I could not because I would embarrass the family. It has been a struggle to be perceived as an equal and it turns out equality is a threat