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Michael Gauger

@mtgauger.bsky.social

Writer/editor focused on American history (especially the Progressive Era and World War I) and political science, funding for youth music education. Proud University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee alumnus. Opinions mine. A repost isn’t necessarily an endorsement.

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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h ago

“.. I hope that there will be some accounting someday — probably after President Trump is gone — about why we were there, and was it worth it? But none of that is gonna happen right now," that member said. @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/08/24/n...

In candid interviews, National Guard members speak out about D.C. deployment

As President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., enters its second year, three guard members who served many months on the mission share their reactions with NPR.

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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h ago

Of the 3 Washpost executives involved in Attiah's firing, two of them -- Will Lewis and Adam O'Neal -- are now out the door. Neither will be missed.

Lawyers for The Washington Post and Ms. Attiah made their arguments before Ms. Espinosa in June during a hearing that included testimony from Ms. Attiah; Adam O'Neal, then the opinion editor at The Washington Post; and Wayne Connell, the company's chief human resources officer. Ms. Attiah was represented by Democracy Defenders Action, a progressive nonprofit co-founded by the lawyer Norman Eisen, and by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. In his testimony, Mr. O'Neal said that he saw Ms. Attiah's posts the morning after Mr. Kirk died and sent them to Mr. Connell, according to a transcript of the hearing obtained by The New York Times. "Karen's social media feed yesterday and today is beyond the pale, completely unacceptable for someone associated with Opinions," Mr. O'Neal wrote, according to the transcript. Soon after, Mr. O'Neal and Mr. Connell met with Will Lewis, then the chief executive of The Washington Post, to discuss the posts, according to the transcript. They ultimately decided to fire Ms. Attiah.
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 6h ago

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 5h ago

She’s way too good for the cesspool that Bezos has made of WaPo’s opinion section, but hooray! And a delicious irony is that two of the three idiots who fired her have themselves been fired in the meantime.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 6h ago

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦@bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 18h ago

Don't Call Me Shirley - Leslie Nielsen

ALT: Don't Call Me Shirley - Leslie Nielsen

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Joe Sudbay@joesudbay.bsky.social · 18h ago

Seeing reports Collins is blowing off Vance in Maine tomorrow surely a Republican Senator dissing the Republican VP visiting her state it will get top billing in Politico Playbook, Punchbowl, Axios, Semafor....surely LOL. Just kidding, they'd only cover that if a Dem Senator did it to a Dem VP

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2d ago

Steve Hilton is hoping we don’t know the difference between a tax hike and an inflation adjustment. California didn’t “just raise the gas tax.” The 2.2 cent increase was the annual inflation adjustment required under SB 1, a law passed in 2017.

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

SCOTUS has done this again and again: without determining the merits of the case, claim that it is an emergency to allow Trump to continue to upend the status quo until his changes become irreversible.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d ago

Chief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay In the ballroom case—which effectively allows Trump to keep doing what he’s doing while the full Court decides whether to let him keep working indefinitely while the case moves forward (which it probably will, given this intervention).

Nicholas Slayton@nslayton.bsky.social · 3d ago

Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...

Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion

The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.

stripes.com

Chase Madar@madar.bsky.social · 3d ago

Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is the report the President is threatening a lawsuit over. #StreisandEffecting www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Trump Administration’s $1.7 Billion National Guard Deployments Fail To Reduce Urban Crime

New CAP analysis reveals the Trump administration’s costly National Guard deployments have failed to reduce violent crime despite its claims of success.

americanprogress.org

Center for American Progress@americanprogress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Lawyers for President Donald Trump issued a letter demanding the Center for American Progress retract a factual report or face a $5 billion lawsuit.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 3d ago

affordable, fast broadband is woke

Trump FCC Weakens U.S. Broadband Speed Goals To The Benefit Of Elon Musk And Comcast

I've spent the better part of a lifetime studying and writing about the way corrupted lawmakers and U.S. telecom giants work hand in hand to erode U.S. broadband standards and mapping so they can obscure the way corruption and monopoly result in limited broadband competition -- resulting in shitty, expensive, spotty, and slow U.S. internet...

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wow this headline. It’s Harvard’s fault (for its “epic fight”) that Trump is punishing it. The “epic fight” was entirely defensive and a moral necessity. The NYT, which falsely reported that Harvard was on the brink of surrender, apparently holds a grudge. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

How Harvard’s Epic Fight With Trump Is Costing the University

The federal government has slowed Harvard’s funding, despite the university’s legal victories. The conflict is forcing hard choices on campus.

nytimes.com

Lisa Jarvis@lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 3d ago

My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com: thoughts on Moderna & Merck's successful Phase 3 trial for its mRNA-based vaccine in melanoma. We are on the cusp of finally realizing scientists' decades-long dream of teaching the immune system to spot and destroy cancer cells. Pretty amazing! (🎁 link)

Moderna and Merck's Cancer Vaccine Is the Advance We've Been Waiting For

Scientists are on the cusp of fulfilling a decades-long quest: to use vaccines to teach the immune system to spot and destroy cancer cells.

bloomberg.com

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago

Hannity on AOC: Wow, she couldn’t answer a question about Taiwan! Hannity on Darline Graham: Why is everyone making a big deal about this question on Taiwan? People can’t event find it on a map!

Kim Lane Scheppele@kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 4d ago

Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4d ago

Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.

All of the NSF’s directorates are awarding fewer new grants, but the hardest hit is the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE) directorate, which the White House proposed eliminating in its 2027 budget request to Congress. SBE has so far awarded 84 new grants this year, about 11% of its average, mainly in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and decision-making. Much of its portfolio, such as sociology, archaeology, political science, economics and geography, has received zero new awards. “I don’t think they’ve realized yet that there’s no awards,” one NSF staff member says of researchers in those fields. “That’s going to be clear soon.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

🤦 Bessent's media tour was a disaster 🤦 "There's nothing magic about the $40 trillion number. We can grow our way out of that" "After the deportations that we've seen and the closing of the border, we don't need to produce as many jobs" Bessent's spin of bad data was pathetic. Here's a supercut:

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d ago

Pretty rich they they’re dong this at the same time that his neglect and stupid ego war have turned an aircraft carrier into Lord of the Flies.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...