While this absurd and retaliatory 'schoolyard fight' (banning the AP from the Oval and AF1) from our toddler president continues, the AP will stand proud. I have always wondered how much the very staged "press conferences" really added to discussion, or revealed new truths. I think they've been contrived for years. I would not expect to hear objective truth from Karoline Leavitt any more than Sean Spicer from a previous administration, and so many more. We need the AP and I suspect they will prevail. As Mark Twain said in 1906, "There are only two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe and only two -- the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here."
I reported to both Google Maps and Bing Maps and sent them "a shame on you" note. I then checked out MapQuest, and they still show it as Gulf of Mexico. I sent them a note thanking them for not "kissing the ring" and keeping the name the entire world recognizes. I will be using them (unless they change it). The ones that don't kowtow need to hear a thank you from us.
Wikipedia has this: "Name "Gulf of America" redirects here. For the Russian waters formerly known as the Gulf of America, see Nakhodka Bay. For the coastline along the southern U.S., see Gulf Coast of the United States." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico
I don't 'google', I use DuckDuckGo (highly recommend). A search on Gulf of Mexico, first page of results had only two items using "Gulf of America". One was an NBC article about the renaming by #47.
For abusers like Trump and toadies like Cheung the ratchet only goes in one direction: Louder and more obnoxious. It’s gotten them much farther than being decent human beings would have, given that they’re sub-mediocre people.
The judge in the AP case did an excellent job of reciting the factors impacting upon whether AP, or any other new organization, has standing to demand access. If there were a contractual agreement specifying access, there would be something for the court to hang its hat on. But I have not read of any existing contract. What has traditionally occurred is clearly not legally binding on the office of the president.
I would like see major media withdraw coverage of the White House and negotiate a contract where access is guaranteed by those who are members of the White House Correspondents' Association. If that does not happen, we should expect to see more of the deeply offensive behavior on the part of Trump and his minions in the White House press office.
Trump has chosen a perfect foil in Karoline Leavitt, who is a deeply flawed individual, wholly dishonest, unethical, deceitful, cruel, malicious, in her conduct toward others outside of the White House.
As for me, a former journalist who has worked at the White House reporting for UPI when Helen Thomas was there, it is a bitter pill to swallow to see the degradation of the press by Trump and Leavitt and others within their sphere of influence. It's wrong on every level. It's contemptable and beyond acceptable within our civil society. I would go so far as to call Trump's and Leavitt's behavior psychopathic, deliberately cruel, and willfully unlawful in their singling out reporters to malign and harass with their false accusations of fake news, etc.
I believe some of the reporters who have been targeted by Trump and Leavitt should hire lawyers and sue for malicious defamation and other legal violations of their rights as citizens. If I were them, that is exactly what I would do, without hesitation.
It's a nightmare. Hopefully we will not loose the free press. However, I am worried that many mainstream media outlets a bowing to Trump. Just look at the Washington Post today. It is a very sad day when long term employees quit over the owners telling them what they can put in their opinion section. This has to stop!!
Has no one noticed that the constitution is no longer watertight? The amendments only temporarily matter depending on the Judges and justices making current rulings on it. Past decisions (case law) no longer apply.
The first amendment is only available to GOP to lie without repercussions. The first amendment does not apply to anyone else as a consequence of Trump's ruling. The Trump judge's decision is an indication of the mental and judicial juggling that this judge will go through to at best not upset Trump at worse curry favour. Supreme Court justice positions are brewing...
Thank you for your service, your courage, and your integrity. Please challenge the KING rhetoric being planted about the current occupant of the Oval Office, and about “Third Term and Beyond” being unconstitutional. Please push back hard, loudly, often, and publicly on every possible platform that this is not a joke, although when questioned about it, the Grifter-in-Chief laughs it off. Please amplify that he has no intention of leaving office ever. The laugh-off is a strategy after the fact that he and his cult followers have intentionally planted and enacted the idea by limiting access of a free press, suppressing free speech and assembly, usurping the power of the purse, firing the military leaders, the inspectors general, and others who could oppose him and have installed sycophants as courtiers.
Please call out this coup, call it what it is, and remind the country and the world that the United States does not have monarchs, that our country was formed by resistance to the tyranny of a mad king and that we're not going back.
Mr Cheung should be careful who he says has peanut sized brains. They still have the reach of the entirety of America and can talk about his peanut sized genitalia. 🤣
Is there any possibility of tracking how much money will be looted from the treasury and various branches of government by trump and his cronies? Publish that daily?
Someone really ought to rename Mar a Lago, Casa de El Tonto sin Idea and Trump Tower, Faulty Towers. Hey, this could become a new board game. Anyone out there, feel free.
Leigh, I’ve been pondering a remake of the movie, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ Of course, after showing Trump what America would be like if he had never been born, Clarence might convince Trump that he really needs to stay alive.
And then there's the performative surrender by the billionaire press owners. If you haven't yet found a reason to unsubscribe to the Washington Post, here you go - this one tops them all:
This morning, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced a new policy, mandating the paper’s opinions section to focus on supporting free markets and personal liberties and ordering those pieces with opposing view to “be left to be published by others.” The move was praised by the White House.
One is left to wonder how Bezos’ support for personal liberties squares with his mandate for limited views on the opinion pages.
I double dog dare them to allow the MeidasTouch bros and Substack writers in. 🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓
While this absurd and retaliatory 'schoolyard fight' (banning the AP from the Oval and AF1) from our toddler president continues, the AP will stand proud. I have always wondered how much the very staged "press conferences" really added to discussion, or revealed new truths. I think they've been contrived for years. I would not expect to hear objective truth from Karoline Leavitt any more than Sean Spicer from a previous administration, and so many more. We need the AP and I suspect they will prevail. As Mark Twain said in 1906, "There are only two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe and only two -- the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here."
Donald Trump is a Russian asset, and has been for decades. When will America finally confront that seminal realization ? Dr. Richard France
Short answer: No. Just look at the recent U.N. vote in which Trump condones the invasion of Ukraine.
Go to Google, look up Gulf of America. Then report as misleading or incorrect and add "this body of water is called the Gulf of Mexico" 😊
I reported to both Google Maps and Bing Maps and sent them "a shame on you" note. I then checked out MapQuest, and they still show it as Gulf of Mexico. I sent them a note thanking them for not "kissing the ring" and keeping the name the entire world recognizes. I will be using them (unless they change it). The ones that don't kowtow need to hear a thank you from us.
Yes!!! Will do!
Wikipedia has this: "Name "Gulf of America" redirects here. For the Russian waters formerly known as the Gulf of America, see Nakhodka Bay. For the coastline along the southern U.S., see Gulf Coast of the United States." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico
I don't 'google', I use DuckDuckGo (highly recommend). A search on Gulf of Mexico, first page of results had only two items using "Gulf of America". One was an NBC article about the renaming by #47.
The Nature Conservancy website has a current article (updated Feb. 9) titled "Gulf of America Dead Zone". As a nonprofit likely to be targeted by the current regime, I'm assuming they've used it in self-defense. A search of the website on the phrase suggests there has been a database-wide editing to replace "Gulf of Mexico" with "Gulf of America" (229 articles). I'm disappointed in the organization. https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/priority-landscapes/gulf-of-america/stories-in-the-gulf-of-america/gulf-of-america-dead-zone/
Yes, I’ve been doing that! 😀
For abusers like Trump and toadies like Cheung the ratchet only goes in one direction: Louder and more obnoxious. It’s gotten them much farther than being decent human beings would have, given that they’re sub-mediocre people.
And where’s the outrage?
Right here, baby.
Right on, baby!
You know the old saying about what floats to the top.
The judge in the AP case did an excellent job of reciting the factors impacting upon whether AP, or any other new organization, has standing to demand access. If there were a contractual agreement specifying access, there would be something for the court to hang its hat on. But I have not read of any existing contract. What has traditionally occurred is clearly not legally binding on the office of the president.
I would like see major media withdraw coverage of the White House and negotiate a contract where access is guaranteed by those who are members of the White House Correspondents' Association. If that does not happen, we should expect to see more of the deeply offensive behavior on the part of Trump and his minions in the White House press office.
Trump has chosen a perfect foil in Karoline Leavitt, who is a deeply flawed individual, wholly dishonest, unethical, deceitful, cruel, malicious, in her conduct toward others outside of the White House.
As for me, a former journalist who has worked at the White House reporting for UPI when Helen Thomas was there, it is a bitter pill to swallow to see the degradation of the press by Trump and Leavitt and others within their sphere of influence. It's wrong on every level. It's contemptable and beyond acceptable within our civil society. I would go so far as to call Trump's and Leavitt's behavior psychopathic, deliberately cruel, and willfully unlawful in their singling out reporters to malign and harass with their false accusations of fake news, etc.
I believe some of the reporters who have been targeted by Trump and Leavitt should hire lawyers and sue for malicious defamation and other legal violations of their rights as citizens. If I were them, that is exactly what I would do, without hesitation.
It's a nightmare. Hopefully we will not loose the free press. However, I am worried that many mainstream media outlets a bowing to Trump. Just look at the Washington Post today. It is a very sad day when long term employees quit over the owners telling them what they can put in their opinion section. This has to stop!!
Has no one noticed that the constitution is no longer watertight? The amendments only temporarily matter depending on the Judges and justices making current rulings on it. Past decisions (case law) no longer apply.
The first amendment is only available to GOP to lie without repercussions. The first amendment does not apply to anyone else as a consequence of Trump's ruling. The Trump judge's decision is an indication of the mental and judicial juggling that this judge will go through to at best not upset Trump at worse curry favour. Supreme Court justice positions are brewing...
Shakedown is the name of the new game now. I hope some brave judge kicks this nasty bunch of thieves and thugs in the butt.
Thank you for your service, your courage, and your integrity. Please challenge the KING rhetoric being planted about the current occupant of the Oval Office, and about “Third Term and Beyond” being unconstitutional. Please push back hard, loudly, often, and publicly on every possible platform that this is not a joke, although when questioned about it, the Grifter-in-Chief laughs it off. Please amplify that he has no intention of leaving office ever. The laugh-off is a strategy after the fact that he and his cult followers have intentionally planted and enacted the idea by limiting access of a free press, suppressing free speech and assembly, usurping the power of the purse, firing the military leaders, the inspectors general, and others who could oppose him and have installed sycophants as courtiers.
Please call out this coup, call it what it is, and remind the country and the world that the United States does not have monarchs, that our country was formed by resistance to the tyranny of a mad king and that we're not going back.
We're here because stupid people didn't want a black woman for President!
tRump does not care about courts or law. Get all the injunctions against him you want, he will ignore them
And the expense of “defending” these illegal actions in court … how does that save the U.S. money again?
Mr Cheung should be careful who he says has peanut sized brains. They still have the reach of the entirety of America and can talk about his peanut sized genitalia. 🤣
Is there any possibility of tracking how much money will be looted from the treasury and various branches of government by trump and his cronies? Publish that daily?
Someone really ought to rename Mar a Lago, Casa de El Tonto sin Idea and Trump Tower, Faulty Towers. Hey, this could become a new board game. Anyone out there, feel free.
Market Largo - where everything is for sale!
Leigh, I’ve been pondering a remake of the movie, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ Of course, after showing Trump what America would be like if he had never been born, Clarence might convince Trump that he really needs to stay alive.
And then there's the performative surrender by the billionaire press owners. If you haven't yet found a reason to unsubscribe to the Washington Post, here you go - this one tops them all:
This morning, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced a new policy, mandating the paper’s opinions section to focus on supporting free markets and personal liberties and ordering those pieces with opposing view to “be left to be published by others.” The move was praised by the White House.
One is left to wonder how Bezos’ support for personal liberties squares with his mandate for limited views on the opinion pages.
WTH