@davidfrum.bsky.social on the one price Trump brought down: cocaine.
“The price tells you: Is the substance scarce or is it abundant? ... it's become, over the Trump years, more abundant—despite killing all these people and blowing up all those boats—which tells you it doesn't work.”
Lincoln: “This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom”
Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you”
Reagan: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Trump: "I examined his ass"
Thank you to everyone who helped make This Is The Plan a NYT bestseller! Now that you have the book, the next step is to start organizing. Let me know how you're getting involved in the comments! 🧯🔥
If you were the secretary of transportation, you might also get to go on vacations funded by the corporations you regulate that are supposed to be for a television show that for some reason never airs
NEW: Regarding the claims that Rep. Max Miller withheld his toddler's "blue bunny," I have some new screenshots suggesting there was a pattern of Miller not giving the bunny back. There were pleas from multiple people on multiple dates. (Thread: 1/8)
Ossoff: "Handing an out-of-control executive even more unfettered power just makes it even more vital that we restore checks and balances and constrain this president using our power as citizens as voters in these midterm elections."
“They say Sanitation is like one big family, and we take that quite literally. Having my son on the job means the world to me.”
Assistant Chief Christopher Hancock, father of Chris Hancock, Jr. Sanitation Worker.
“It’s a great feeling, knowing that my father shares his 35 years of experience with me.”
Police Officer Tyrice Miller II, son of NYPD Inspector Tyrice Miller.
President Donald Trump has unveiled the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet now converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft.
Inflation hasn’t been this bad in years. Trump took a healthy economy and ran it into the ground with reckless tariffs and a Middle East war that is driving up the cost of everything from groceries to gas.
Introducing 250 to 250: A series of one-minute stories of the many people, places, and events that have built our country and remind us of the power of each person to make history. #WeAreAmerica250
United States Representative Chrissy Houlahan shares how the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, proposed by Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith, changed the military forever. #WeAreAmerica250
Heather Cox Richardson tells the story of the Constitutional Convention, where 55 delegates constructed the framework for a new government. #WeAreAmerica250
Pete Buttigieg is a former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a veteran, and the 19th U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Buttigieg tells us about the Erie Canal, the engineering marvel that opened up the interior of the United States. #WeAreAmerica250
Ariana DeBose is a dancer, singer, and Academy Award-winning actress. DeBose tells us about the inspiring and pioneering life of Puerto Rican singer, actress, dancer, and activist Rita Moreno. #WeAreAmerica250
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut tells us about Charter Oak, a lasting symbol of independence and American ingenuity at keeping it. #WeAreAmerica250
Dr. Jason Herbert is a historian, public scholar, and outdoorsman from Kentucky. Herbert tells us about the Acadians, French settlers expelled from British Canada, who helped to create today’s Cajun culture. #WeAreAmerica250
Sylvia Salazar is a Colombian-born engineer turned political content creator and activist. She is the founder of Tono Latino. Here, Salazar details the life of pioneering Latino journalist Rubén Salazar, who sought the growth of the Chicano movement in the 1960s. #WeAreAmerica250
United States Representative Jamie Raskin is the ranking member of the House Committee on the Judiciary. Here, Representative Raskin shares how Thomas Paine’s Common Sense defined the stakes of the American revolution. #WeAreAmerica250
Maura Healey is the 73rd Governor of Massachusetts, the state’s first woman and first openly LGBTQ person elected to the position. Governor Healy recounts the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the opening salvos of the Revolutionary War.
Cleve Jones is a human rights advocate, author, and lecturer who joined the gay liberation movement in 1972, co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983, and founded the AIDS Memorial Quilt—one of the world’s largest community arts projects—in 1987. #WeAreAmerica250
Former Montana Senator Jon Tester is a third-generation farmer and former school teacher who has served at the local, state, and federal levels of government. Tester explores the origins and influence of Yellowstone, America’s first national park. #WeAreAmerica250
Dr. Jelani Cobb is an author, journalist, and Dean of Columbia Journalism School. Cobb tells the story of John Peter Zenger, a newspaperman whose trial for printing critical statements about the royal governor of New York helped to define freedom of the press. #WeAreAmerica250
We are living through the 1965 novel “Night of Camp David” by Fletchers Knebel, about a president suffering from paranoia and mental instability who is making dangerous decisions about foreign policy.
I’ve been traveling. Did the Sunday shows talk at all about the fact that Trump’s 60 days for his attack on Iran under the War Powers Act is up this week, or did all last night’s dinner incident take up all the oxygen?
An America destroyed by madness was on full display after the chaos of an assassination attempt at the WCHA dinner, in a nation so numb to gun violence and so drunk on corruption that Trump and journalists wanted to party on
Gunfire of the Vanities: My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions.
1. We unequivocally reject violence.
2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.
There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash.
ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to.
The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty.
Budgets are moral documents.