Monica Kwasnik
@mkwasnik.bsky.social
Journalism instructor, editor, mom, wife, Oregonian, defender of #democracy and a #freepress
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
October 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
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this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square
October 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square
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Trump To Travel With Own Escalator Following U.N. Embarrassment
September 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Trump To Travel With Own Escalator Following U.N. Embarrassment
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What exactly is an "antifascist ideology?"
The Constitution?
The Constitution?
September 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
What exactly is an "antifascist ideology?"
The Constitution?
The Constitution?
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When we eulogize political figures who have died we usually do so with snippets of their own words that exemplify the essence of their life’s work. So let’s see them, all of the Kirk quotes in which we see him urging his followers to embrace the better angels of their nature.
September 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
When we eulogize political figures who have died we usually do so with snippets of their own words that exemplify the essence of their life’s work. So let’s see them, all of the Kirk quotes in which we see him urging his followers to embrace the better angels of their nature.
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Best heat pump video!
It’s accurate, engaging, and sharable—let's fight myths and misconception with good information.
It’s accurate, engaging, and sharable—let's fight myths and misconception with good information.
Heat Pumps, Explained (And Why Everyone’s Switching)
YouTube video by Drew Tozer
youtu.be
September 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Best heat pump video!
It’s accurate, engaging, and sharable—let's fight myths and misconception with good information.
It’s accurate, engaging, and sharable—let's fight myths and misconception with good information.
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Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
August 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
Look at this mayhem in D.C.! If THIS warrants the president’s expression of love to “very special” criminals but does NOT warrant the National Guard, then it’s not violence that he’s concerned about. It’s the other thing. (Photo: Leah Millis/Reuters)
August 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Look at this mayhem in D.C.! If THIS warrants the president’s expression of love to “very special” criminals but does NOT warrant the National Guard, then it’s not violence that he’s concerned about. It’s the other thing. (Photo: Leah Millis/Reuters)
It took NINE YEARS for MAGAs to recognize that Trump has been hoodwinking them. It took the rest of us nine minutes.
July 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It took NINE YEARS for MAGAs to recognize that Trump has been hoodwinking them. It took the rest of us nine minutes.
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“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
June 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
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I’ve seen people standing still before, but I never realized that only a phalanx of armed police officers could have any hope against such a terrifying display of disorder and anarchy.
June 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I’ve seen people standing still before, but I never realized that only a phalanx of armed police officers could have any hope against such a terrifying display of disorder and anarchy.
By minimizing authoritarianism, @politico.com is digging the grave in which free speech will be buried.
Journalists, if you value the First Amendment, THIS is the time to fight for it!
Journalists, if you value the First Amendment, THIS is the time to fight for it!
President Trump is leveraging his role as commander-in-chief in a much clearer and more urgent way than during his first term — whether that’s showing off the military in a parade or using it to quell protests.
From Los Angeles to Washington, Trump leans in as commander in chief
On one coast, military forces are arriving by the thousands to defend federal buildings and agents. On the other, they’re readying a celebration of American military might.
www.politico.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
By minimizing authoritarianism, @politico.com is digging the grave in which free speech will be buried.
Journalists, if you value the First Amendment, THIS is the time to fight for it!
Journalists, if you value the First Amendment, THIS is the time to fight for it!
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I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.
June 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.
What kind of mental gymnastics is required right now of those of you who insisted reversing Roe was about states’ rights? States’ rights has been code for bigotry & oppression since the Civil War. So when the feds trample states’ rights in the name of bigotry & oppression, we see what you stand for.
June 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
What kind of mental gymnastics is required right now of those of you who insisted reversing Roe was about states’ rights? States’ rights has been code for bigotry & oppression since the Civil War. So when the feds trample states’ rights in the name of bigotry & oppression, we see what you stand for.
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Amazing. Respect the lede.
June 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Amazing. Respect the lede.
He said he'd end it within 24 hours. Then it was 6 months. Now he's gone full TACO: When kids spar in the park, "you’re better off letting them fight for a while" because they don't want to be separated.
Yeah, the kid defending himself loves when the adults treat violent bullying like a UFC fight.
Yeah, the kid defending himself loves when the adults treat violent bullying like a UFC fight.
June 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
He said he'd end it within 24 hours. Then it was 6 months. Now he's gone full TACO: When kids spar in the park, "you’re better off letting them fight for a while" because they don't want to be separated.
Yeah, the kid defending himself loves when the adults treat violent bullying like a UFC fight.
Yeah, the kid defending himself loves when the adults treat violent bullying like a UFC fight.
I refuse to visit the Bad Place to see for myself, but I’m curious about MAGA sentiment over the rift between Trump and Musk. How long before we start seeing Cybertrucks with “I bought this before Elon went crazy” bumper stickers?
June 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I refuse to visit the Bad Place to see for myself, but I’m curious about MAGA sentiment over the rift between Trump and Musk. How long before we start seeing Cybertrucks with “I bought this before Elon went crazy” bumper stickers?
Fair criticism of legacy journalists.
They can't help but treat the least honest and most nakedly corrupt people alive as if they're capable of acting in good faith.
June 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Fair criticism of legacy journalists.
Imagine you go to a doctor with a serious illness. He treats you — you don’t die! — but he then proceeds to beat the s#*% out of you. “At least you’re alive.”
No thanks. No one’s entitled to be abusive. Not to vulnerable people, and not to a vulnerable public good.
No thanks. No one’s entitled to be abusive. Not to vulnerable people, and not to a vulnerable public good.
“I'm not a hedge fund."
Head of a media company often accused of gutting the newsroom defends himself with logic seldom heard. (Not saying I buy it.)
"Strickbine believes that local newspapers are worth saving, even if they’re no longer able to act as watchdogs." www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/this...
Head of a media company often accused of gutting the newsroom defends himself with logic seldom heard. (Not saying I buy it.)
"Strickbine believes that local newspapers are worth saving, even if they’re no longer able to act as watchdogs." www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/this...
This owner thinks newspapers are better off diminished than dead
“It's just kind of the way it is. Do we have the watchdog role? Can we do that now in all these areas? No. I think that's obvious."
www.niemanlab.org
May 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Imagine you go to a doctor with a serious illness. He treats you — you don’t die! — but he then proceeds to beat the s#*% out of you. “At least you’re alive.”
No thanks. No one’s entitled to be abusive. Not to vulnerable people, and not to a vulnerable public good.
No thanks. No one’s entitled to be abusive. Not to vulnerable people, and not to a vulnerable public good.
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Many people are saying that this is the same thing she said to the family dog before she shot it in a gravel pit.
The Secretary of Homeland Security responds to the voluntary dismissal of an immigration lawsuit: "Suck it."
May 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Many people are saying that this is the same thing she said to the family dog before she shot it in a gravel pit.
But I thought “smart” people worked the system to avoid paying more taxes than necessary. So said the 45th president. Would a “smart” businessman like Trump “eat” an import tax that he could instead pass along to consumers? That would be “stupid.”
He’s deriding a business for not being stupid.
He’s deriding a business for not being stupid.
May 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
But I thought “smart” people worked the system to avoid paying more taxes than necessary. So said the 45th president. Would a “smart” businessman like Trump “eat” an import tax that he could instead pass along to consumers? That would be “stupid.”
He’s deriding a business for not being stupid.
He’s deriding a business for not being stupid.
Sometimes when I read political news, I imagine it’s the ‘90s and the article is from the future.
These are the “domestic issues” that concern the president in 2025: The Boss’s decorum and whether a pop star young enough to be his granddaughter is hot.
Full text: www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/...
These are the “domestic issues” that concern the president in 2025: The Boss’s decorum and whether a pop star young enough to be his granddaughter is hot.
Full text: www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/...
May 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Sometimes when I read political news, I imagine it’s the ‘90s and the article is from the future.
These are the “domestic issues” that concern the president in 2025: The Boss’s decorum and whether a pop star young enough to be his granddaughter is hot.
Full text: www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/...
These are the “domestic issues” that concern the president in 2025: The Boss’s decorum and whether a pop star young enough to be his granddaughter is hot.
Full text: www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/...
“Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie.”
Please tell me Apollo 26 is a documentary about a SpaceX rocket that delivers Musk and Trump to the moon but explodes before they can return home.
Crew: “Houston, we have a problem.”
Houston: “Uh, hey, this is Big Balls. I just DOGEd the Space Center. Smell ya later.”
Crew: “Houston, we have a problem.”
Houston: “Uh, hey, this is Big Balls. I just DOGEd the Space Center. Smell ya later.”
May 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie.”