Greg Moore
@gregmoore.bsky.social
West Virginian. Current middle school teacher. Former Charleston Gazette-Mail executive editor. Mountain State Spotlight co-founder. Longtime arts and sciences advocate and Pittsburgh sports fan.
Good. Few things in this world and this life are indisputably unadulterated good, but this is one.
Kansas County Agrees to Pay $3 Million Over Police Raid of Newspaper
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Good. Few things in this world and this life are indisputably unadulterated good, but this is one.
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"overwhelming defeat" is when you lose by a point and a half (historically narrow) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"overwhelming defeat" is when you lose by a point and a half (historically narrow) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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The states with the highest proportion of people relying on disability benefits are West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama — all states that lack their own aid programs for workers to turn to amid federal cuts.
Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The states with the highest proportion of people relying on disability benefits are West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama — all states that lack their own aid programs for workers to turn to amid federal cuts.
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Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
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I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower
April 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower
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one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.
October 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.
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federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.
Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."
October 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.
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This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".
October 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".
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How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
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As West Virginians continue to struggle with higher power bills, data centers are adding to the problem. Here’s how.
mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/10/05/r...
mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/10/05/r...
Data centers in other states are raising power costs in West Virginia
West Virginians are seeing higher power costs as AI and data centers increase electricity demand across the regional power grid.
buff.ly
October 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
As West Virginians continue to struggle with higher power bills, data centers are adding to the problem. Here’s how.
mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/10/05/r...
mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/10/05/r...
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If you’re getting whipped cream and caramel syrup on top of your coffee order, just go to a Baskin Robbins already
October 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If you’re getting whipped cream and caramel syrup on top of your coffee order, just go to a Baskin Robbins already
I was a subscriber to the Post for more than 25 years. I canceled my subscription last year, and it was not a difficult choice.
October 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I was a subscriber to the Post for more than 25 years. I canceled my subscription last year, and it was not a difficult choice.
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The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.
Seems bad?
Seems bad?
Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "
October 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.
Seems bad?
Seems bad?
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More Education Dept. Employees Fired (and HHS employees in these shutdown-related layoffs, though we don't know whether any were at NIH. If you know, please DM me or email [email protected] )
Trump Fires More Education Dept. Employees
The Trump administration threatened to lay off federal workers because of the government shutdown. An unspecified number of employees got pink slips Friday.
www.insidehighered.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
More Education Dept. Employees Fired (and HHS employees in these shutdown-related layoffs, though we don't know whether any were at NIH. If you know, please DM me or email [email protected] )
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The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
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SO bookshop.org is doing free shipping and you should buy some of my books from bookshop.org <3
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October 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
SO bookshop.org is doing free shipping and you should buy some of my books from bookshop.org <3
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bookshop.org/beta-search?...
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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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Newsom shapes everything around the brute fact that Trump is serially breaking the law and using government sponsored violence and intimidation to entrench authoritarian power. He accepts this as the core fact of our moment.
Me and @whstancil.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1995...
Me and @whstancil.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1995...
August 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Newsom shapes everything around the brute fact that Trump is serially breaking the law and using government sponsored violence and intimidation to entrench authoritarian power. He accepts this as the core fact of our moment.
Me and @whstancil.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1995...
Me and @whstancil.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1995...
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Q: "You called Kamala Harris a communist. But the Biden-Harris administration never called for nationalizing a private company like you're doing to Intel...Is this the new way of industrial policy?"
Trump: "Ya. Sure it is. I wanna try to get as much as I can."
Trump: "Ya. Sure it is. I wanna try to get as much as I can."
August 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Q: "You called Kamala Harris a communist. But the Biden-Harris administration never called for nationalizing a private company like you're doing to Intel...Is this the new way of industrial policy?"
Trump: "Ya. Sure it is. I wanna try to get as much as I can."
Trump: "Ya. Sure it is. I wanna try to get as much as I can."
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"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.