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Karen Schwartz
Karen Schwartz
@pithywidow.bsky.social
Former Marie Claire contributing editor, NY Sun columnist and occasional NYT Styles writer. Ex-tweeter.
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When you are not satisfied by ruining the Knicks game three
Trump on Balogun: "That wasn't even an infraction...this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call nobody could believe...he's our best player, or one of our best players. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant...yes, I asked for a review by FIFA."
Who could have imagined
Anti abortion activists said “leaving abortion to the states” would alleviate partisan rancor and get the justices out of the “abortion umpire business.” Now they’re demanding the courts force pro choice states to help enforce abortion bans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Sunday morning cartoon
WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
Stop quoting Orwell start quoting The Emperor Has No Clothes challenge
It’s still hard to wrap my head around the fact that Trump not only threatened to “blow up” another Middle Eastern country, this time, he was talking about a U.S. ally. The State Department then acted as if this were a good thing, worthy of amplification and promotion. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
The Apprentice reality show would not lie though Ed
So Trump casually threatens to blow up Oman - an ally, a helpful friend in the region, a responsible Gulf power. He releases an AI meme showing Iran with the stars & stripes. And there are people who still think he's a deal-making genius. Galactic idiocy.
Running the country like he did his businesses
Every new thing that’s happened in the Iran war since early March has been Trumps attempt to find a way out of facing the fact that he lost the war in the first days of the conflict. It’s like he bought a stock at $100. A few days later it dropped to $1 and the company was delisted.
Straight line between this and manipulating the 80s NY tabloids
GOP has "abandoned the idea of crafting policy. They are a full-time media operation, trolling and creating content. The president is checked out. There is no turnaround coming as long as Trump/GOP are in power." On the pod, @dceiver.bsky.social nails the moment: newrepublic.com/article/2108...
Their government needs a better covert social media strategy
Why is no one free until Palestine is free? What about the Congo? Sudan? Mauritania? Niger, Libya? Obama put sanctions on Dan Gertler who was driving the genocide in the Congo. Trump lifted them. Biden put sanctions back. Trump lifted them again. Do the people of the Congo not count?
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