My fellow Americans, ours is a rogue state.
Trump's desperate.
Even before Mamdani takes office, the #BrokenTimes continues its vendetta against him and his "socialist policies."
The Governor Can Show Mamdani Who Has the Mandate https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/opinion/hochul-mamdani-new-york-democrats.html?smid=tw-share
Imagine a life so simple that you pin blame for all ills on a single factor: a screen. That's how the moral entrepreneurs Twenge (here) & Haidt make their livings. The #BrokenTimes enables *their* addiction.
The Screen That Ate Your Child’s Education https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/opinion/laptop-classroom-test-scores.html?smid=tw-share
Compare #BrokenTimes and #BrokenPost coverage to Die Zeit, which consistently tells more truth than they.
Translation: "One lie too many. Trump has turned the Republican Party into a den of lies."
Five times (I counted) rude Joe interrupted Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, trying to bully him into saying the city needs 5,000 more police. When finally allowed to speak, Johnson was brilliant in response.
What "domestic unrest"? Truth is, there should be domestic unrest over the fascist takeover, but there isn't. This headline implies permission to react to something that doesn't exist.
Trump order calls for broader National Guard role in domestic unrest https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/25/trump-national-guard-domestic-unrest/
There seems to be a new beat at the #BrokenTimes: Conversations with people you wouldn't want to be stuck in an elevator with.
How Did Jillian Michaels End Up Here? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/well/jillian-michaels-profile.html?smid=tw-share
We need the #BrokenPost to remind us that fighting a fascist dictator is "risky."
Newsom runs against Trump in California map campaign. It’s risky. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/22/newsom-redistricting-trump-california/
The #MurdochJournal learned nothing except how to spread fascist propaganda.
"Officers are allowed to decide whether to wear masks covering their faces, because more ICE officers have been assaulted or doxxed since Trump took office."
We Spent Six Hours at ICE Training School. Here’s What We Learned.
One might hope that Washington's newspaper would display shock and anger at the takeover of the city but instead the #BrokenPost accepts the fascist framing: "immigration enforcement."
Immigration enforcement shaped first week of Trump’s D.C. takeover https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/18/trump-dc-takeover-crime-immigration/
Lead story in Der Spiegel: JD Vance's brat summer: fishing and grilling in Great Britain.
It's already burning, dear Guardian.
Democrats are fighting fire with fire over redistricting – but will democracy burn?
Blood on their hands
Man fleeing Ice raid outside LA Home Depot hit and killed on freeway
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/14/los-angeles-ice-raid
I wonder whether the symbolism of meeting in Alaska will turn out to be Trump thinking it's a good deal for Russia to buy Crimea and Donetsk for what the US gave Russia (2¢ and acre) and call it the art of the deal. Or he'll try to get Ukraine to buy its own land back.
No, no, no. Tesla's are not autonomous. They are dangerous. They would be deadly in New York.
Tesla is taking early steps to bring its robotaxis to New York City
I do not find this on home pages of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ; only a small headline on The Guardian. A journalist has been murdered. Where is the outrage--about anything?
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza https://aje.io/0pa37x
Identify theft used to be the game of mobsters and spies. Now: "We detail how dishonest researchers exploit the peer-review system by creating fraudulent reviewer profiles to manipulate paper evaluations"
No, idiot. The tariffs are flowing *from* US companies and consumers and voters. It's an unprecedented tax, the #TrumpTax.
They want to kill education. They are succeeding:
Public schools are closing as Arizona’s school voucher program soars https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/05/arizona-public-school-closures-voucher-program/
What a #BrokenTimes framing: What's the best way to surrender to a fascist? How about, instead, asking how best to fight for academic freedom, independence, and democracy? Good Lord.
Is There a Smart Way to Cede Power to Donald Trump? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/opinion/trump-havard-brown-universities.html?smid=tw-share
FFS. #BrokenTimes questions historians filing amicus briefs to the courts. What's the trouble? "What they are hearing is a generally liberal message."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/supreme-court-historians-advocacy.html
No, no, no. You'd think a university would be capable of learning.
Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/politics/trump-harvard-payment.html?smid=tw-share
Die Zeit asks whether parents should send their children to the US now.
Soll mein Kind da noch hin?
https://www.zeit.de/familie/2025-07/auslandsaufenthalt-usa-kind-schule-donald-trump
Sure, let's put the education of our next generation in the hands of an influencer-podcaster and AI with guides to entrepreneurship, public speaking and financial literacy. Yeesh.
A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/ai-alpha-school-austin-texas.html?smid=tw-share
He was the last SS guard, about to be tried when he died at 100. Let this warn the ICE agents who think they are only guards, following orders. Your masked crimes against humans and humanity will mark you to the end of your days.
The Last SS Guard
Good God. Look who Morning Joe brings out to comment on (read: attack) Mamdani: Donny Deutsch (from whatever crypt he's been hiding in), ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt, Adams booster Al Sharpton, and (most respectful to him) a Republican. This is Islamphobic. The Times is as bad.
Bingo.
Trump falls into the Netanyahu trap
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/22/trump-falls-into-the-netanyahu-trap-israel-iran-us
Good Lord, the #BrokenTimes plays into the hands of the pronatalist (read: eugenicist) right. Under his eye.
"If birthrates do not change, the eventual result would be human extinction."
The Feminist Case for Spending Billions to Boost the Birthrate https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/world/americas/the-feminist-case-for-spending-billions-to-boost-the-birthrate.html?smid=tw-share
America's racism for all to see.
A Town That Pioneered the Juneteenth Holiday Is Now Calling Off the Party
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/juneteenth-holiday-plano-illinois-canceled-5a987fb3?st=qX6TjV
WHAT? They really do want to kill us.
E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/epa-trump-asbestos-ban-delay.html?smid=tw-share