Find a nice quiet place to read this important op-ed from Steve Wexler in Washington Post Opinions Your ears will thank you: washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter…

Governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire says he will support Donald Trump for president even if he’s convicted in his upcoming felony trials. Here’s why we’ll continue presenting him as a principled moderate.

In WV almost every Black child is born with a family police target on their back. 1/3 will be in #fostercare before they're 18. 14% of Black WV children will have the right to live with their own parents taken from them forever westvirginiawatch.com/2024/04/11/wes… #childwelfare #wvpol #wvleg

Bravo!

For anyone who may have been a little distracted on Monday, here's the video of the webinar, moderated by @Byelines and featuring Margaret Sullivan & Barton Gellman on covering the 2024 election when democracy itself is at stake: youtube.com/watch?v=rQCWoB…

The IT people at my office have made themselves little titles that are posted outside their cubicles: 'King of Adobe'; 'King of Flash Drives'; etc., and it just occurred to me that one of them should be 'Lord of the Files.'

We wanted to understand what caused today’s earthquake in New York City. So we talked to three unvaccinated Trump Media investors at a Chick-fil-A in Staten Island.

Is our democracy on the brink of its own eclipse? Award-winning Journalists Margaret Sullivan Margaret Sullivan and @BartonGellman will discuss how the media can cover the upcoming elections when democracy is on the ballot EDT 2 p.m., Monday April 8.
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And to think there wasn't even time to buy a head of lettuce: nytimes.com/2024/03/26/bus…

It's stories like this, from Eli Hager of ProPublica that make me glad someone invented the word 'gobsmacked.' If you drop everything and read it, you'll thank me. propublica.org/article/expert… #fostercare #childabuse #childwelfare

Biden spoke with an energy and vigor unbecoming in a man of his age.

This election is like no other and the NYTimes doesn't get it. Let's see how they like it when their reporters are arrested by the next regime.

Five months of writing in one tweet: Terror is always wrong. Revenge is not a strategy. A child is a child is a child. Release all hostages now. Let the aid flow. Neither the Jews nor the Palestinians are leaving. Without hope and a vision for a shared future, this does not end.

Those who insist they'll never vote for Biden because he's too pro-Israel may want to take another look at the alternative.

From @Byelines essay in U.S. Catholic magazine 'Israel was founded as a refuge for Jews after millennia of pogroms and persecution—and Catholic teachings and prejudices fed that oppression.' uscatholic.org/articles/20240…

ICYMI:

Some will remember Mitch McConnell for interfering in the Supreme Court, attempting to gut Medicaid, or creating an era of dark money in politics, but I’ll choose to remember him for something far more important: his civility.

by David Brooks

On my personal blog: My review of two excellent German series set during and after Wall “ #BerlinWall ” ( #PreisderFreiheit ) from ZDF streaming on Walter Presents USA & Canada and its de facto sequel “ #DividedWeStand ” ( #ZERVZeitderAbrechnung ” from ARD streaming on MHz Choice richardwexler.medium.com/a-german-telev…

This link goes to a petition to be delivered to the United Nations on March 8, International Women's Day. hadassahinternational.org/end-the-silenc…

I'd like to see any reporter so quick to skewer over age live Biden's workday a few weeks. See what goes. See how they do with questions lobbed fast and furious by what feels like an unruly mob.