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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News

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Editor of Press Watch (<a href="https://presswatchers.org">presswatchers.org</a>) and Heads Up News (<a href="http://headsupnews.org">headsupnews.org</a>). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.<br><br>🌉 <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/froomkin.bsky.social">bridged</a> from 🦋 <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/froomkin.bsky.social">froomkin.bsky.social</a>, follow <a class="h-card u-author mention" rel="me" href="https://bsky.brid.gy/bsky.brid.gy" title="@bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy">@bsky.brid.gy</a> to interact

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    You mean “A Democratic Congress could make life more affordable, but not if Trump vetoes everything”. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a5fwvpvub5e7mxaebuxn3tuu/post/3myldgem2pc26 Voters angry about high prices...

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    Florida TV reporter asks Trump how he would work with a Democratic Congress: &quot;It&#39;ll work because I&#39;ll be vetoing everything. And then they&#39;re going to call and say, &#39;how do we get something passed&#39; and we&#39;ll make a deal.&quot; www.winknews.com/news/southwe... President Trump speaks exclusi...

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    This is such a garbage way to report on anothet ludicrous, outrageous, illegal, actually criminal attempt by DOJ to disenfranchise voters and/or cast doubt on election results. Eight lazy paragraphs full of lies before the truth, attributed to “critics“. You know better, @shawnhubler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy. Justice Dept. Demands That Cal...

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    Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing. The world’s most vocal racist ...

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    This is essential. But has everyone in DC forgotten that Trump has a veto for the next two years? That word does not appear here once. The next two years have to be about getting everything lined up for 2029. And not overpromising deliverables in the meantime. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Trump’s opponents are planning...

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    Today’s Jack Smith hearing should be treated by the press as a civics lesson rather than a spectacle. “As I appear before you today, it is my belief that the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we have experienced in our lifetime.” His opening remarks: www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do... judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/...

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    What’s it going to take to stop the media both-sidesing? I would have thought over taxpayer-paid Trumpian propaganda. But WRONG. So I imagined how these guys would cover Trump actually shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. The first 3: presswatchers.org/2026/09/the-...

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    The opening of my Heads Up Newsletter today -- 6 bullet points about what ICE has done in just the past week -- should really freak you out. It&#39;s monstrous. www.headsupnews.org/p/ice-is-bar... ICE is barreling ahead. What c...

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    Trump treats WH reporters like shit. They should respond in kind. No more deference. Talk back to him. Tell him he just lied, and didn’t answer the question. Correct him. Confront him with reality. Ask him why he surrounds himself with sycophants. Ask him if he’s lying or just crazy.

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    This breathless NYT article omits a key fact: This would be illegal. The law that created the fund stipulates that it is to help working parents afford quality child care, with the money going to eligible providers. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/us/politics/stay-at-home-parents-subsidies.html Trump Officials Draft Plan to ...

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    The White House website now has &quot;arcade games&quot; like &quot;Protect the border from the coming horde&quot; and &quot;Border Patrol along the Rio Grande&quot;. There are cruel, insane children running the country. www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/

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    Not one word here about how it’s a deal at gunpoint, how kidnapping Maduro was illegal, how this is inevitably corrupt, not one word from a critic, or an environmentalist. Three reporters who should be embarrassed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/b... Trump Says U.S. Has Deal for C...

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    The only way true mass deportation was ever going to work was for it to target not “the worst of the worst” but “the easiest to apprehend” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 1/2

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    “Age assurance is a privacy nightmare. Enshrining it as the industry standard means the end of meaningful online anonymity, and it ‘forces’ Meta to collect more data about all of us — including adults” that can be used “for whatever else they decide it’s useful for. That’s bad.” RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/post/3mtziyhs64k2d

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    HuffPost reports: ICE officials did not report the death of someone who had been detained at Delaney Hall immigration detention center last month because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, a U.S. congressman alleged Monday. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane... A Man Died After Being Detaine...

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    Can we invite the AI that summarizes Washington Post reader comments to Bluesky? They would fit in great. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6rujpf4u56jfie7aqic2nfg/post/3mseqw4p4l22s

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    Do they ever write that the victory of a moderate makes some worry that a lack of enthusiasm could hurt their chances in November? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/politics/maasdam-lawrence-michigan-primary.html William Lawrence Wins Primary ...

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    Devastating article about the wanton damage done to people falsely charged with assaulting federal law enforcement officers in the year since they took over D.C. (By 24-year-WaPo veteran.) news.bgov.com/white-collar... A Year After DC Federal Surge:...

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    Talking to @chrislhayes.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy, @jamellebouie.net@bsky.brid.gy appropriately slams the political media for giving Elon Musk a pass for his horrifically racist tweets. Read his column: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o... Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate E...

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    “evidence suggests the ship was drifting with its engine off at the time of the strike, leading experts to ask whether it was an avoidable and excessive use of force by the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/w... Inside the Deadly U.S. Airstri...

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    Now they’re saying “exaggerates”??? Who changed that? Coward. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a5fwvpvub5e7mxaebuxn3tuu/post/3mqsmy4cpwc2l

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    Utterly useless press corps. Our top news orgs are accepting Trump&#39;s bullshit excuse for his TACO flip-flop on his bullshit toll plan at face value, instead of reporting that he&#39;s deranged, impulsive and utterly irresponsible.. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0... RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a5fwvpvub5e7mxaebuxn3tuu/post/3mqmr2k6fac2m

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    Sanger is hilarious: “If Mr. Trump and his aides now have a Plan C — after bombing and a preliminary accord failed — they have not described it.” He doesn’t have a Plan C. He doesn’t have any plan at all. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u... Bombing and a Tentative Accord...

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    Say it: We’re back where we were before the ceasefire. It’s called war. presswatchers.org/2026/07/say-... NEW from Press Watch. Say it: We’re back where we we...

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    There&#39;s a new push to get the National Guard out of Washington www.headsupnews.org/p/new-push-t... NEW from Heads Up News New push to get the National G...

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    Why aren’t the headlines blaring “TRUMP RESUMES WAR AGAINST IRAN” ?

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    NÝT reports on the White House’s white-supremacist attack on the Smithsonian with stenography, no analysis, and one quote from one critic. Not OK. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/a... White House Criticizes Smithso...

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    This is some serious bullshit. I want to see the transcript of the grand jury proceedings. www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/p... Former Olympic canoeist indict...

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    Trump shouldn&#39;t be allowed to hold any crypto at all. See @publiccitizen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy: www.citizen.org/news/trumps-... Trump’s ‘Obscene’ 1.4 BILLION ...

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    Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.