September 2009
Weisberg: The only way to defeat the crazy is to confront the crazy, @Slate, who says GOP wants to kill the elderly. http://tr.im/xAiG #hcr
August 2009
Weezer Hosts 24/7 Radio Station →
For Jake Day.
APME survey: Newspaper cuts clip younger workers →
I love NY. RT @michaelluo: NYT’s scribe Michael Powell looks at a Brooklyn judge rejecting foreclosures Brooklyn-style. http://bit.ly/15ojwO
Taliban makes gains in Northern Afghanistan, expanding the war and threatening a new key supply route from Central Asia. http://tr.im/xzRT
Story for @trobertson and @RichForestano to read via @romenesko. Sports reporters being hired by college sports depts. http://tr.im/xzD7
It's time to embrace American royalty -... →
The Associated Press: Newsstand sales of US... →
RT @knolan4: Trying to get a grip on the fact that for the first time since the 80s, I will not be going back to school this year. Woah.
Wind Farms Set Wall Street Aflutter @WSJ →
#cleantech #wind
Paper Owner Freedom Plans to File For Chapter 11 -... →
Military terminates Rendon contract | Stars and... →
NYT ed board, with “regrets,” endorses the use of a parliamentary move so the Senate only needs 51 votes to get #hcr done. http://tr.im/xubK
Ted Kennedy on the Assassination of Martin Luther... →
RT @mattyglesias: RT @drgrist: WaPo ombudsman: readers want more basic explanatory journalism, less horserace. http://tr.im/xred
Unfollowed @craig_crawford for his want to bait Obama into politicizing #Kennedy eulogy so he could get readers/GOP react. http://tr.im/xqB3
Thoroughly moved by the #Kennedy funeral mass.
Secret camps and guillotines? Groups make birthers... →
@WSJ: Newspaper War Disturbs the Peace In a Summer... →
Obama’s Vineyard Visit Sparks Tabloid’s Sneers at an Old Broadsheet
Watching the #Kennedy funeral. The flag-draped coffin is being taken into the basilica at this very moment.
Finally. RT @jayrosen_nyu The Church of the Savvy’s priorities-inside takes on political maneuvering-are becoming an issue http://tr.im/kkdQ
RT @romenesko: The Army now admits it used the Rendon Group’s profiles of journalists to reject embed candidates. http://is.gd/2EtqT
RT @cbellantoni: Just crossed AFP: Cheney slams Justice probe into alleged abusive interrogation techniques as “outrageous political act”
Must read by Sam Tanenhaus in Sunday’s NYT Week In Review about the loss of the last real New Deal liberal. http://tr.im/xnNp
When Reagan died in 2004, Bush used his name and legacy for political advantage whilst campaigning. http://tr.im/xmCH (via @glenngreenwald)
Interesting: The videogame Rock Band goes social with a network for bands to upload their own music for everyone to play. http://tr.im/xmgL
Something every newspaper should create TODAY. A bank of all its twitter accounts: feeds and blogs. @WSJ does it here: http://tr.im/xlwF
It took them awhile…Washington Post discovers you can take the bus to New York City! http://bit.ly/1fMgbm (Via @mattyglesias)
WatchMariachi El Bronx - “Cell Mates” on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
The Associated Press: Newspaper slump deepens as... →
Interested to see what’s in this trove. And what isn’t. RT @TWI_news: Even More CIA Documents to Be Disclosed Monday http://bit.ly/s4ldf
Stellar reporting over at @thinkprogress about who is doing the stealth lobbying on behalf of insurance companies. http://tr.im/xhSn #hcr
Time for GOP to abandon this as stalling tactic: One of its own, Sen. Inhofe, refuses to read #hcr bill http://tr.im/xhDM via @sunfoundation
The Secret Government →
By @chrislhayes
RNC uses push-poll survey to make up the idea that Democrats will deny health care coverage based on voter registration. http://tr.im/xgPO
In all the #Kennedy lionizing, we shouldn’t forget how friendly he was with defense contractors. http://tr.im/xgAA (h/t @TWI_News)
Also, disclosure: @Laura8923 was my roommate when I lived in DC during this past winter and spring. She’s big in the climate youth movement.
Check out @HofstraU student @Laura8923, who’s heading to Copenhagen to push for a strong treaty at the UN Climate Talks. http://tr.im/xboc
I’m interested in #Kennedy’s work deregulating the airline and trucking industries. Does anyone know where I can find extensive info on it?
RT @romenesko: Gawker catches Mark Penn using his WSJ column to drum up business for his PR firm. http://is.gd/2Ag79
Wow: RT @jamaldajani: Foreign Policy Magazine: Eyewitness account of a car bombing in Kandahar w/exclusive images http://bit.ly/6qoN5
Big #NFL news: RT @nyjets: Coach Ryan just made it official. @Mark_Sanchez will be the starting QB for the season opener.
“For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”
RT @ThePlumLineGS: Top Bush terrorism adviser admits CIA docs don’t prove torture worked, as Cheney vowed: http://tinyurl.com/lwtp6q
RT @villagevoice: RT @sewell_chan Ted Kennedy’s New York: http://bit.ly/PfQYe (via @NewYorkology)
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) died late Tuesday night after a long fight with brain cancer. Obit from Boston Globe: http://tr.im/x9N6
RT @PElliottAP: AP Source: Kennedy to be buried at Arlington.
RT @bannerpilotband: Full stream of the new Banner Pilot album over at punknews.org. Go check it out!