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Beat up on them all you want, it’s good we still have a media outlet with reporters on the ground in Kabul.
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Beat up on them all you want, it’s good we still have a media outlet with reporters on the ground in Kabul.
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
This is a hell of a piece.
The East Wing Obscenity
This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
The East Wing Obscenity
Trump's Ballroom Is a Tumor On The People's House
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is a hell of a piece.
About time the Resistance got some new music. Thanks Zach
👂LISTEN — (U.S. Navy veteran) country Singer Zach Bryan’s lyrics about ICE that triggered the White House
October 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
About time the Resistance got some new music. Thanks Zach
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Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.
September 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.
Really important.
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
September 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Really important.
The painful truth.
August 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The painful truth.
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See, WV, you could’ve said no like Vermont did.
August 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
See, WV, you could’ve said no like Vermont did.
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An example of two of the most important aspects of this moment:
Established programs that were central to the economy and lives of specific populations, ones you probably never knew about, are being destroyed by people who didn’t know about them either and..:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
Established programs that were central to the economy and lives of specific populations, ones you probably never knew about, are being destroyed by people who didn’t know about them either and..:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
From Food Aid to Dog Chow? How Trump’s Cuts Hurt Kansas Farmers.
www.nytimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
An example of two of the most important aspects of this moment:
Established programs that were central to the economy and lives of specific populations, ones you probably never knew about, are being destroyed by people who didn’t know about them either and..:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
Established programs that were central to the economy and lives of specific populations, ones you probably never knew about, are being destroyed by people who didn’t know about them either and..:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
How far we’ve fallen, and how fast.
This is an overt cash bribe to a sitting president, and we’ve apparently sunk so far that nobody involved feels any shame or questions whether they’ll get away with it.
This may sound old fashioned, but again it’s worth saying. 60 Minutes did nothing wrong. This is a payoff for merger approval.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...
July 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
How far we’ve fallen, and how fast.
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Seems like yet another good day to remember this
June 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Seems like yet another good day to remember this
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Donald Trump, a weak and dangerously reckless president, has put the United States on a path to a war in the Middle East that the country does not want, the law does not allow, and our security does not demand.
June 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Donald Trump, a weak and dangerously reckless president, has put the United States on a path to a war in the Middle East that the country does not want, the law does not allow, and our security does not demand.
This is outrageous.
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This is outrageous.
Private equity sucks the life out of everything it touches: newspapers, health care, real estate etc. now it’s ruining pro sports. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...
Opinion | How American Sports Leagues Sold Out and Shattered Sports Culture
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Private equity sucks the life out of everything it touches: newspapers, health care, real estate etc. now it’s ruining pro sports. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...
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I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
June 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
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Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
June 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
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IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country."
Don't let that slide by.
Don't let that slide by.
June 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country."
Don't let that slide by.
Don't let that slide by.
Noem should apologize for what happened to Padilla. She should be impeached for saying DHS was there to “liberate” Californians from the governor and mayor they elected.
June 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Noem should apologize for what happened to Padilla. She should be impeached for saying DHS was there to “liberate” Californians from the governor and mayor they elected.
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Stop the lies:
There is no invasion.
There is no insurrection.
There is no trade emergency that authorizes Trump’s tariffs.
Executive orders are not laws.
Stop the lies.
There is no invasion.
There is no insurrection.
There is no trade emergency that authorizes Trump’s tariffs.
Executive orders are not laws.
Stop the lies.
June 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Stop the lies:
There is no invasion.
There is no insurrection.
There is no trade emergency that authorizes Trump’s tariffs.
Executive orders are not laws.
Stop the lies.
There is no invasion.
There is no insurrection.
There is no trade emergency that authorizes Trump’s tariffs.
Executive orders are not laws.
Stop the lies.
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Not sure why people who know full well that the extreme right played the role of infiltrator and provocateur during the BLM protests in 2020 and saw 1/6 with their own eyes fail to ask whether any of the troublemakers in LA are not legit. Watch for more provocations in the weeks to come.
June 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Not sure why people who know full well that the extreme right played the role of infiltrator and provocateur during the BLM protests in 2020 and saw 1/6 with their own eyes fail to ask whether any of the troublemakers in LA are not legit. Watch for more provocations in the weeks to come.
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You can argue the merits of deporting Marcelo—a young man brought here at age 5—if you want to. But this is someone we should be proud to call American. He’s solid on every level. And if you’re really a Christian, you should be lifting him up, not casting him out.
Listen w/an open mind—and heart.
Listen w/an open mind—and heart.
June 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
You can argue the merits of deporting Marcelo—a young man brought here at age 5—if you want to. But this is someone we should be proud to call American. He’s solid on every level. And if you’re really a Christian, you should be lifting him up, not casting him out.
Listen w/an open mind—and heart.
Listen w/an open mind—and heart.
This thread rings true with my long experience in headline-writing. The pursuit of eyeballs, clicks and newsstand sales is also part of the process.
okay, headline chat: a bunch of you have asked me who writes them and how they work. I’ll talk about it but the tl;dr is that it’s complicated and can vary a lot depending on the specific writer(s) and editor(s) involved.
June 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This thread rings true with my long experience in headline-writing. The pursuit of eyeballs, clicks and newsstand sales is also part of the process.