Tim Feran

Tim Feran

@timferan.bsky.social

Veteran journalist still on the beat as a freelancer in Columbus, Ohio

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So if this is how incompetent the current DOJ folks are (re: the episode of Schmitt risibly accusing the brilliant Jack Smith) what chance does Harmeet Dhillon think she has against the best minds at Harvard? Good luck….

So Ramaswamy is running a commercial using HIS BARBER claiming that Vivek is “for the working man.” Might have been better if Vivek had a better haircut. I can’t decide if he looks more like Beavis or Butthead.

OK, Matt Damon, enjoy your success. But by the way… In Ancient Rome, a slave would whisper ‘Remember you are mortal’ in the ears of victorious generals as they paraded through the streets after coming home, triumphant, from battle. Kind of “caveat emptor” to crypto fools. Fortune favors the brave??

The stories all quote McConnell as “he said in a statement.” Any time someone sends me a PR release with “a statement” in it, the first thing that I and my editors say is, “How about if I do a quick phone call and get some actual quotes and not this canned crap.”

So the Trump regime is dropping the plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. She would have replaced Andrew Jackson. You know who pushed for the Tubman $20? Joyce Beatty.

@thegodshow.com Thanks, God, for forcing a delay to the Felon In Chief’s speech. He began at 11:15 which, as he is a TV ratings conscious fellow, must have really, really hurt. Prime time ends at 11 PM. He’s a sad loser, thanks to God!

These people aren’t very bright, are they. “The issue was all-consuming for the president’s political base, but also potentially compromising for the president himself in ways that officials in the new administration didn’t fully understand. Any path forward would be fraught.”

I was always impressed with what Jackson said in his speeches. The centrists who scoffed at him seemed cynical or blind or both, at least in my view. Good piece from Michael Tomasky.

What caught my eye was the reference to “Russia Russia Russia.” There’s been some speculation about Epstein trying to connect with Putin… seems like Trump is sweating about that, too.

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Maybe I missed something but it seems like the only people that have been ‘found guilty’ are Epstein and Maxwell. Who else (donors & politicians) is he talking about??

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Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

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The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:

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I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

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It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.