Award-winning Journalist. 16-Yr Host of NPR's "On Point.” Illinois farm kid, Asia hand, Alaska oilfields vet. Pro honest, humane democracy.

Berlin, Germany
Joined March 2009
Read this. Think about this. George H.W. Bush's gracious handoff to Bill Clinton. It's beautiful.
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Essentially due to the decision of one man. Pretty wild. It’s the stuff I read in history books and think that’s too wild to be true…
Diesel prices have jumped 65% since the Iran War began — to $6.28 a gallon. That's hitting farmers, truckers, and industry hard in several states that will decide control of the Senate.
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Corruption no longer adequately describes what Trump is doing.
Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.
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Elon Musk has cemented his record as the largest individual political donor in modern American history. Musk poured $446 million of his own money into this year’s midterm elections, mostly aimed at preserving the Republican Party’s control of Congress. wapo.st/4igb5Kq
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They kicked us out of the Washington Monument for filming this. But Trump CANNOT stop us from releasing it next Tuesday. One week before the election. CORRUPTIONLAND.org
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Trump drags America into the Axis of Evil. It’s a nightmare. VOTE MAGA OUT.
Very valuable and very sober analysis "The plot against Ukraine (and Europe): We are now part of the axis of evil." By David R. Lurie publicnotice.co/p/trump-puti…
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Pure dictator crap. Putin style. In the USA!
In 27 years as a Foreign Service officer, I executed policies of presidents I voted for and presidents I did not vote for. That’s what a nonpartisan service does. This is outrageous.
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Gag. Vote MAGA out for God’s sake. All of ‘em. Then stand by your vote!
She got $50 million ! For arranging a pardon!! $50 million. $50 million. $50 million.
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Gag. Vote MAGA out for God’s sake. All of ‘em. Then stand by your vote!
She got $50 million ! For arranging a pardon!! $50 million. $50 million. $50 million.
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Just rampant idiocy.
Pete Hegseth demanded his team to bring Eisenhower's globe in his office, despite warnings that only historians should move the iconic globe. His staff dropped it and broke it.
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Pete Hegseth reportedly wanted Dwight Eisenhower's globe in his office, but did not want to wait for historians to move it and went rogue. Hegseth's staff then attempted to move it themselves and broke the historic globe.
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Holy shit! Lawrence O'Donnell is reporting on the absolute catastrophe, horror, and chaos caused by the devastating attack that destroyed the U.S. Naval base in Bahrain. Operating in total secrecy — like all fascist authoritarian tyrannies — the Trump regime has blocked war correspondents from entering the area to report on what truly happened and the terror that ensued. Until now, threats of retribution against U.S. service members by the administration have kept everyone silent. Despite their clear responsibility to safely evacuate families and children from the base, the regime failed miserably, leaving families and children still displaced. This shocking failure underscores the utter incompetence of Trump and Pete Hegseth, both of whom continue to blatantly lie to the American people about the unfolding war with Iran.
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Weidel: "Prolonging the war and shooting drones into the hinterland of Russia, destroying refineries, houses, and buildings near Moscow, is a huge provocation." Host: "It's defending itself." Weidel: "No, it's not." Host: "Every night, drones and ballistic missiles rain down on Ukraine..." Weidel: "This strategy is very risky, and we've been criticizing it. We want to end this war. It doesn't help if a country [Ukraine] launches drone attacks against a country [Russia] that has nuclear weapons. It doesn't make sense, it's very risky and very stupid. We need to end this, and we need to actually put pressure on Ukrainian president to have the willingness to end the dying and stop this very risky strategy for all of Europe."🔚 Folks, here is Weidel's imaginary reality: black is white, the victim is to blame for the crime against them, and defending your home against a bloody, illegal invasion that murders children and razes towns is "stupid," while letting Russia occupy you and carry out a country-wide Bucha massacre is probably smart. And defending yourself is risky! Risky, did you hear that? Well, no shit, just standing there and catching Russian ballistics with your face is risky, too. So we may as well take the risk and, hear me out, fight back? ​Please don't vote for this evil Russian appendix in Germany!
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Time tunnel to 1930s Germany
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Now that Witkoff has called Putin a "humanitarian," I think the Ukrainians should name something after him. Recall that the term Molotov cocktail was coined by the Finns, because the Soviet Foreign Minister insisted that incendiary bombs were "airborne humanitarian food deliveries." So the Finns called their improvised incendiary bombs, "Molotov cocktails." I don't want to get too dark, but calling children's burial shrouds, "Witkoff sheets," or prosthetic legs and arms "Witkoff limbs," or mass graves "Witkoff developments," would be poetic justice. Witkoff already has more money than he'll ever need. But making his grubby immoral sycophancy to a mass murderer an indelible part of history would have value.
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🚨🚨BREAKING: Dolly Parton’s sister, Stella Parton, says a Tennessee voting machine repeatedly switched her selection to Republican Marsha Blackburn, forcing her to correct her ballot THREE TIMES before voting. She’s not alone. Other Tennessee voters have reported similar problems while attempting to vote for Democrats.
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Whoa. The U.S. added 90% fewer jobs in 2025 than originally reported. That’s not a rounding error. That’s a massive difference between the economy Americans were told we had and the one we actually had.
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Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.
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