Joan Walsh
@joanwalsh.bsky.social
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National correspondent, The Nation. Co-producer of "The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show." Author: "What's The Matter With White People." Proud mom of Sadie, Stella and NoraWD.
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"This magazine is old enough to have fought McCarthyism the first time, alongside great journalists such as the CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, who counseled Americans not to be 'driven by fear into an age of unreason.'"
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
We Defeated McCarthyism Before. We Can Do It Again.
It’s easy to feel despair about what looks like a new age of government censorship. But being around for 160 years gives you perspective.
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Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.
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Looking forward to spending the rest of my term defending the sovereignty of Tribal Nations and upholding our trust and treaty responsibilities to Native peoples.
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Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.
He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.
A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.
www.inquirer.com
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If the press had acted like this 12 months ago we’d have avoided this whole mess and right now people would be complaining about Kamala Harris’ phased-in expansion of Medicare and increasing the minimum wage.
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STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
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reuning.bsky.social
Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this
The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home
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🚨BREAKING🚨: Portland Frog receives Nobel Peace Prize.
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It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)
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Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin have arrived at the Broadview ICE facility.
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"Who will be viewed retrospectively to have understood the challenge correctly? The one who said, 'If you come for my people, you come through me'? Or the one who pivoted to health-care subsidies?"

This @brianbeutler.bsky.social thought experiment is illuminating:
www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...
How To Reverse The Tide
It's the gap between what's needed and what we have that keeps us up at night.
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joanwalsh.bsky.social
Earlier this year, AG Tish James told me we shouldn't be afraid to peacefully protest Trump, and promised to defend me herself if I got arrested. Our badass attorney general will not be intimidated by this: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Trump’s Vendetta Prosecution of Letitia James Is a New Low
The New York attorney general has led the legal fight against Trump, and now he has mobilized the Justice Department to go after her.
www.thenation.com
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“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize
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Tish James has always had New York’s back, and New Yorkers will always have hers.

Join us tomorrow at 5:30PM at Foley Square to stand with her.

Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...
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Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.
Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?
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Somehow, I had not seen that photo. Terrifying thanks for sharing.
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