The Baltimore Sun’s new right wing owners are damaging the paper

At this point, I mostly subscribe for the sports columns by Mike Preston.

.@baltimoresun staffers protest after new owners begin publishing @FOXBaltimore stories in the newspaper https://t.co/C9WwtXvFaq Union calls out reference in one piece to “illegal immigrants,” and an Armstrong Williams column denouncing “the transgender movement" as “a cancer." pic.twitter.com/AO9r7AL9MZ
— Baltimore Brew (@BaltimoreBrew) June 10, 2024

UPDATE: Armstrong Williams has a tart reply after staffers demand @baltimoresun mgmt stop using Fox45 stories and protest his column likening "the transgender movement" to "a cancer." https://t.co/C9WwtXvFaq "Constructive criticism is always welcome, if ultimately unpersuasive." pic.twitter.com/IqoGwF1CPr
— Baltimore Brew (@BaltimoreBrew) June 10, 2024

STATEMENT FROM THE BALTIMORE SUN GUILD 🧵

Within the past few weeks — without notifying the dedicated journalists of the Baltimore Sun Guild — The Sun began publishing articles from Fox45, a TV station within Sinclair Broadcast Group, owned by Sun co-owner David Smith. (1/9) pic.twitter.com/fgrd68vTiI
— Baltimore Sun Guild ☀️ (@baltsunguild) June 10, 2024

A worse than usual Trump lie

Why tell a lie that can be disproven in a minute?

The Inflation Reduction Act, which capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for Medicare patients, was signed in 2022. Trump was famously not President in 2022.

All he does is fucking lie, about everything. pic.twitter.com/Hcpm10qwb5
— Chris Jackson (@ChrisCJackson) June 8, 2024

Crime is down

New FBI data shows crime is down in America.
Murders ⬇️ 26.4%
Rape ⬇️ 25.7%
Car theft ⬇️ 15.2%
Assault ⬇️ 12.5%

Joe Biden's America…https://t.co/uVyUJGzFjP
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 11, 2024

Violent crime is down and the US murder rate is plunging https://t.co/FCgJdgjJI0
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) June 11, 2024

Significant drop in violent crimes and robberies, with 77% of agencies reporting: FBI Releases 2024 Quarterly Crime Report and Use-of-Force Data Update — FBI ⁦@FBI⁩ https://t.co/byBTsXn8Lk
— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) June 11, 2024

Covers: Dancing in the Moonlight

The Instagram post below on “Dancing in the Moonlight” is a cool story.

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Covers: Play It All Night Long

“Play It All Night Long” is a 1980 Warren Zevon song that was covered by the Drive-By Truckers.

https://twitter.com/americanauk/status/1800333587994104185?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

The Wall Street Journal hatchet job on Biden

Maybe the media went too far this time.

Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: The widespread media condemnation of a shoddy front-page Wall Street Journal article about President Biden “slipping” with age suggests we may have reached a journalistic inflection point. https://t.co/fUcljiTqt1
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 9, 2024

It is rare for @Poynter to weigh in on how bad a news story was, but the @WSJ hit piece on Biden was that bad. https://t.co/H86p4eq0g4
— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) June 6, 2024

Wow: A spokesperson for The Journal told me that the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper, which is under the stewardship of newish editor Emma Tucker, "stands by its reporting." If Tucker is comfortable with such shoddy journalism, it is worrisome.
https://t.co/Ve8GOaEPql
— Jennifer "Trump Convicted Felon" Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@JRubinBlogger) June 6, 2024

Biden’s team seethes over another age piece — and sours on The Journal https://t.co/WmqHJR11Js
— POLITICO (@politico) June 5, 2024

I was there & went on record to @WSJ w/ opposite recollection that's not quoted in the story. Bottom line: Anonymous Republican sources didn't raise these issues in real time, day after, or week after. Trying to do so now reeks of political hit job.https://t.co/PBNdBu6gYr
— Senator Jack Reed (@SenJackReed) June 5, 2024

The White House is firing back against a WSJ report that Biden "appears slower" and "has both good moments and bad ones" in meetings with congressional leaders. https://t.co/kY3GNvjbKq
— Axios (@axios) June 5, 2024

Covers: Promised Land

“Promised Land” is a great Chuck Berry song from 1964. I know the 1973 cover by the Band best.

Elvis’s version is in this

wimp

in French!

Covers: Crying Time

“Crying Time” is a 1964 Buck Owens song best known from the Ray Charles 1967 cover. This Instagram post reminded me of it.

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A roundup of tweets, reels and Instagram posts on farts

Got to vary it up a little here.

Good morning!

Ever wonder what a Beaver fart sounded like? YW🤌 pic.twitter.com/1G2z70u9sQ
— DJ DOGE (@djdoge69) February 13, 2024

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Biden can’t please all Democrats on two issues

It’s impossible for Biden to take a stand on Gaza and immigration that will appeal to the whole range of Democratic voters. I think that’s one reason that Republicans don’t want to solve immigration now – they know it’s causing dissension within the Democratic Party.

To Democrats on the left who won’t support Biden because of his policies: I don’t agree with him either but he’s much better than Trump. You will regret doing anything that hurts Biden and thus helps Trump.

Some political background re: Biden's right turn on immigration. His polls on "dealing with border security" last year were so bad even black and Hispanic voters said they trust the GOP more on the issue. This is an issue where progressives may be out of step with their own base. https://t.co/M0dykp72wv
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 4, 2024