Exactly. The election is about We the People, not the undemocratic MSM in the USA. That should include Twitter. The more we abandon these platforms for information and flock to new more democratic ones the better informed we will be. There is so much nefarious goings on right now. I am glad the MSM is finally picking up on ProPublica's leaked Project 2025 training videos stories. Here is a link to it.
They are the real deal when it comes to reporting in the Public interest. There are clips throughout to illustrate points in their summary, and at the end there is a link to the entire 14 hours of training videos. It is scary stuff and we deserve to know what is planned for us. I have read about 10 chapters and the forward of Project 2025, which is a slow slog through poorly written prose, but still one sees the whining nature of the people writing as they complain over and over again about the Biden administration. This should not be able to be funded by an organization that has non-profit status.
Let’s be honest, while MSM has work to do in many ways, the toxicity truly exists with right wing media and social media. I looked at the Fox Non-News app this morning and it is utterly devoid of meaningful honest information and reporting. I don’t know the data, but Fox, Non-NewsMax and right wing commentators serve as a huge source of the made up stories and disinformation and misinformation that spreads so readily then on the internet and SM. We need strategies to get at those issues. Some, but an insufficient number, are beginning to discuss this. This will require a 5-10 year effort to address with expected huge resistance from the right as they are the primary creators and spreaders of such disinformation. As only one example, see https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-reality/id1614432176?i=1000664746004
I have a family member (retired military) who swallows the newsmax crap hook, line, and sinker. He also reads the Epoch Times, put out by Chinese cult, as far as I can figure out from Google searches. The Epoch Times puts out just enough articles with facts in them that people think it's a legitimate news source. Of course, these days, the msm are not legitimate news sources.
I feel for you about your family member Jenn. I have a family who enjoys arguing at family meals, but we channel a lot of that arguing energy into playing Scattergories. It beats dragging out the dictionary and encylopedia like we used to to prove a point, because here we just argue and then vote on whether we accept someones very stretched creative response and defense. Epoch Times sent me their stuff, and I tried to unsubscribe from them. For a while they appeared in my promotions column which I delete 100% each day regularly. Nasty Botlike work. I agree about MSM in the USA, it has turned into clicks and likes addicted source, much like a junior high girl.
I had an acquaintance over for dinner who declared that Kamala was a “lying bi**h”. So I tried to look up what lies she’s supposedly saying. Per FactCheck.org, she’s been lying about the connection between Project 2025 and DJT. Their “proof” of the lie is that Trump has publicly distanced himself from Project 2025.
How calm. Someone says that to me, they are going to be getting follow up emails from me of every article that talks about Trump lying. That is if I have their email. Luckily here in Germany I just have people asking me if I think Trump can win in a horrified tone. I say he can win, but will he?
I am both angry and heartsick at the failure of the MSM. It is a sad reality that they have clearly abandoned their honored mission to now collude with the maga cult of hatred. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Robert, for your sanity and dedication to excellent reporting and actionable information. You are a lifeline for me.
Well said, Diane. About an hour into the “show,” I went to cnn.com to get an update. Six stories appeared on my screen—ALL about Trump. Although pleased that the stories were not particularly flattering, it also struck me…there was NOTHING about Harris on that screen. I think Trump would consider that a win.
The algorithms keep 45 as the headline. He should be shunned and his lies deemed propaganda.
That statement is a generalization.
In reality, I don't wish any harm to the person, just that he receive the professional help he obviously needs! Shudder to recognize the "bullet we dodged" when 45 was not assassinated on live TV just before the RNC. MSM still has not acknowledged it was a young white male with access to an assault style rifle that caused the tragedy - and 45 was shot AT, not shot. America's domestic terrorism is the danger.
Algorithms aren't what is keeping Trump in the headlines. The media people making decisions about what to cover and how do. Algorithms are a mathematical analytical tool created by people for various reasons and used by people, in this case, to help make decisions. MSM is a general term that includes all media with large audiences, and cannot be ascribed with singular intent. Different outlets cover things differently. We weaken our arguments and make our concern meaningless when we fail to use terms that are specific and appropriate. It's easy to ascribe an action or an intent to an entire group of unnamed people, but it doesn't really say anything. That is exactly the kind of lazy reporting that we are supposedly trying to counter. I hope we can take more care to THINK about what the terms we use actually mean.
That's why what Robert points out in today's newsletter is such an amazingly brilliant strategy by Harris. Do you see what she's doing??? She is talking--constantly, daily, all the time--to the American people. Directly. Only to the American people. With no MAGAmedia distortion, lying, or misrepresentation to intervene between her and citizens. She has effectively cut out the MAGAmedia, about which we have all been lamenting and heartsick over for the last 6-12 months. They are now like bullies in the schoolyard where all the healthy normal kids have gone elsewhere and they are left only with each other to bully. Let's see if they do that, or just deflate and melt into puddles of MAGA mess and wash away with the next rain. Harris should NEVER do a media interview. Let them come to her rallies and report on what she says there if they want (I doubt they'll want).
Thanks for this review of the Musk/Trump debacle last night. It saves me from watching it. But the principal takeaway -- that DJT's speech pattern may reveal cognitive or other health issues -- is crucial. As someone who did watch parts of the staged "press conference" last week, I want to emphasize how serious the concerns are.
Two points: DJT'S speech patterns are discontinuous, wildly ungrammatical and disturbed. No logical connection, little or no connection to the "questions," simple, repetitive vocabulary. A speech psychologist or geriatrician could more precisely describe the incoherence, but anyone can see and hear it.
Second, a thoughtful and empathic friend reminded me that we have a septuagenerian who has suffered a bullet wound from an attempted assassination only a few weeks ago. Given what we have seen of his family relationships, diet and dissimulation on health matters, it is virtually inconceivable he has gotten any treatment for handling the trauma in a healthy way. The "hunkering down" is one way of dealing with the aftereffects of a trauma. But we can bet there's been no therapy or counseling. The man has, or is facing, PTSD. Untreated, this can lead to greater problems.
We need to realize that the deeply flawed DJT is not well, is almost certainly not getting appropriate care, and is unlikely to "recover" on his own.
Well said Nancy. If I were the Speech-Language Pathologist providing an initial assessment of this man I would get him to a neurologist post haste. Trump is a meal ticket to tens of thousands of parasites who see him as their savior, their man who can propel them into the fantasyland they perceive as "the good life". Reading Pema Chodrun, "Living Beautifully", I am struck by how far removed trump and his tribe are from any means at all of ever finding even a glimpse of peace of any kind. It's always been about 'more'. Never, ever, ever, enough. I perceive the man as a victim of his own making, as well as a victim of elder abuse by those who wheel him out on an appliance dolly for his adoring fans. It.Is. Over. Folks. There appears to be not even one person alive who will show him enough love to save him from his own demise. Can't buy me love, hay Donald?Kamala Harris is giving the press what they are due, a view of the Fast Train doing The People's work. PS, Still wondering why the right auricle shows no sign at all of a wound of any sort. More theater of the absurd?
Love the reference to Pema Chodron, Jim, thank you. My wish for Trump is probably his worst nightmare: that he become the most sensitive, caring, compassionate, empathetic being alive on the planet today. I wish for him peace, contentment, joy, and an appreciation of the life he is "living beautifully. The Navajo have an expression, hozhono. It means the Beauty Way. May Trump find it and follow it. Hey, I can always dream, right?
NYT’s headline: “Musk Tees Up Softball Questions for Trump on X, After Technical Problems.”
There is no mention of substance, slurring or lisping. And this is most incredible, Trump spoke for 2 hours, but the NYT didn’t print a single thing he said. If a reporter watches a 2 hour speech and their only assessment is “it started 40 minutes late” I have to wonder, “what are they hiding and why?”
PTSD stands for POST traumatic stress disorder. Trump may have appeared strong with his fist bump at the time of the shooting, but an event of that nature could easily induce an apparently delayed stress response. Added to other stresses, physical symptoms would not be surprising.
I fully agree with Robert that the public deserves more details on his neurological status.
The brain injury was there prior to the shooting….
Ohhhhh… you mean an injury related to the shooting.
Well, then, the answer is yes, apparently the whizzing bullet spun his ear around so now the lobe is on top and the hard cartilage is on the bottom. The now famous “ear spin” also wound the clock mechanism that holds the putrid brain matter from leaking out of his mouth to tight so the insanity is leaking out of his pie hole at twice his normal lying ass rate.
Simply stunning. When I first saw these photos by Robert I thought of this not realizing his name was spelled differently from the Space Telescope! Robert is a world class photographer.
All Hubbells / Hubbles in America are descendants of Richard Hubbell, who came to the New Haven Colony (in Connecticu) in the 1640s. The name was spelled Hubbell, but Hubbble is a common misspelling. Edwin Hubble's grandfather gave up correcting people and changed the spelling. But we are both related to Richard Hubbell
I used to wonder if you were related til I realized the spelling was different. So thank you - you’re related after all! Richard Hubbell must have had an astronomy gene. Your photos remind me of the ones I’ve seen from the Hubble telescope.
I have an astrophotography telescope with a computerized drive. The "camera / telescope" takes ten second exposures over a long period--usually one hour, at minimum. The telescope drive rotates the scope so that it "locks on" to the target and compensates for the rotation of the Earth.
The telescope then "stacks" the accumulated images so that the faint photons that make it through the light pollution of LA are built up into an image. That is the way the Hubble Space Telescope and Webb Telescope work as well.
Even with all that, the images are dim and the stars usually overpower the photo. So, i use a software program to "remove" the stars, I then adjust the exposure and contrast of the target, and then I "add" the same stars back into the photo.
Mr. Hubbell, please explain why the media is not holding Trump's feet to the fire and why coverage is so lopsided. I watch MSNBC exclusively having given up on CNN. Why is it that I am only getting comprehensive and accurate news about the election fron your newsletter, Heather Cox Richardson, Michael Moore, and the Hopium Chronicles? Is there something going on with the media that we do not understand?
The Washington Post has become increasingly worse by the day, esp. after hire of new Murdoch tabloid head. Only Jennifer Rubin, Eugene Robinson and one or two other op=ed writers are worth reading. NYT started going downhill even earlier. Even MSNBC has Trump apologists like Katy Tur.
Follow. The. Money. The media moguls have been losing money ever since Biden was sworn in. No-drama Biden and Harris just don't plump up that bottom line the way Trump and his unpredictable antics do. Trump in charge means lots of clicks and views...they refuse to think beyond to what else it might mean.
I can only speculate how these giant media corpses (intentional pun) expect to function when Trump and his goosestepping cohorts come marching in, wielding their Project 2025 auto-pen orders to take over their organizations to publish only what "the state" sanctions.
I promise I’ll go look, but are the Hopium Chronicles also a substack? And Michael Moore? (I already subscribe to Heather and feel lucky that I found her so early through friends on FB as a fellow Bostonian.)
Personally I am glad the Vice President is not giving the media interviews. They are getting placed on a shelf because they are ineffective, bias and boring. The media has proven itself as useless giving trump a pass for years. Any interview snagged by a “journalist” needs to be required to submit questions for review for her approvals. Like many I stopped reading newspapers, listening to anything besides BBC, NPR, even UTube articles at times. Listening to complaining by the press might give them pause, they have degraded the craft and have fully earned the criticisms.
Agree 1000%, Laura! The way to get news has shifted. We can't get it from the MAGA media--the NYT, WaPo, Fox, all the same--any more. We must shift our thinking and get our news from these wonderful political blogs, foreign newspapers, social media from trusted sources, watching events ourselves on YouTube without filters. Everything is different in 2024. I sincerely hope the old MAGA media *will* be placed on a shelf because they are ineffective, biased and boring, as you say. I also hope Harris refuses to give any media interviews and just keeps talking directly to the American people! She's on to a winning strategy, in my opinion. Let's expect more brilliant strategy from her.
In her new book, The Art of Power, Nancy Pelosi writes eloquently of trump’s seeming mental decline back in 2019. I’m reading the book on Kindle. In chapter 2 there is a section called “The Trump Deviation” with Speaker Emeritus Pelosi discussing observations from psychiatrists on trump’s mental decline as well as her own experiences attempting to deal with him on crucial budget issues. This was back in 2019 when Trump shut down the government for 34 days in a dispute over his demand for a border wall. I feel this book is well worth reading in our crucial election period. Good news: Swifties for Kamala are very organized with a free account on Substack. They are also on Instagram. They have Zoom organizing meetings and are diving in to Project 2025. We just learned about this yesterday from an article in the Guardian US edition. There is no paywall but I’ve subscribed to it for quite a while.
Thanks for the recommendation on The Art of Power. And thank you for letting us know about the Swifties! Young people will organize and gather in ways that are different from the pols of my youth (Daly in Chicago and other machine Democrats), just as we were different as young people 50 years ago, but we old folks should do all we can to to support their work. David Hogg's Leaders We Deserve is another example.
I also just listened to Chris Hayes interview David Hogg on his podcast, All in with Chris Hayes (episode from Aug 9th). He is a very articulate young man and is planning for the future by encouraging young people to run for office. He pointed out how Joe Biden became a Senator at 29! I'm isolating with Covid so have some time on my hands :)
I sent the NYT a copy of the report in today's TEN about Trump's $937,989 fine and "conversation" with Elon Musk, along with this note:
Your bias is showing (again), as it is when you fail to report the slurred words and rambling racist "conversation" Elon Musk had with Trump on X --the Times jumped all over Biden for similar symptoms, but not a word about Trump's apparent mental decline.
Sad to see a once-great paper falling so low; fortunately we former readers are finding much more reliable sources of truthful news, and dropping our subscriptions to the hopelessly biased and failed NYT.
I'd have cancelled my subscription, but I already did that last week.
What a wonderful note, Tom! Thank you for sending it. I write The Hill almost every day myself, pointing out biases and requesting specific coverage of issues they're ignoring. It's amazing to me how The Hill blows hot and cold--almost as if they have a staff of Trump followers and another staff of rational journalists.
Christina, good for you for keeping after them; I think reader feedback makes an impression, especially short and to-the-point comments. The lure of profit is likely too strong to expect MSM to provide anything approaching "fair & balanced", but it does help to keep highlighting their failures. And sharing these letters can inspire others to add their voice..
The Project 2025 proponents’ strategy seems to have been to prop up a deteriorating Trump by any means necessary, and then to have their hand-picked VP candidate standing at the ready to enact the plan. But now Trump is falling apart too quickly and Vance turns out to be a turnoff— so that outcome is beginning to seem less likely.
Robert, I applaud the efforts of The Rural Democracy Initiative. I would like for Indiana to get some attention, and some assistance, for the work going on here, especially in the southern part of the state. Talk about an area that has been written off! But good people are running for office here, all the down the ballot, and it would be worth your time to check out the Indiana Rural Summit, Woke Women of Morgan County, or the campaigns of Jennifer McCormick (Governor), Dr. Valerie McCray (US Senate), Destiny Wells (Attorney General). This is a powerful group of excellent candidates, running against a truly awful slate of GOP candidates.
James Todd, thanks for the encouragement about Indiana. We are being written off as a deep red state and, while we have to distribute our communal and personal resources wisely, remember Obama took Indiana in 2008 and no poll showed him leading in the state. I was living in Crawfordsville at the time, and even in red Montgomery County, Democrats were worked hard to get out the vote. I will check out your leads. Thank you.
"Hello, major media. Are you there? Are you listening? Do you care?" Yes. Maybe. Not a bit as long as the revenue keeps flowing.
We've been done letting Trump bully us for several years and it hasn't impacted his behavior in the least. Possibly the financial collapse of a "major media" player will turn their attention back to their customers, but I'll not hold my breath.
Dave, I'm hoping for such news every day. I read that Heather Cox Richardson has 11 million subscribers, and the MAGA New York Times has 10 million. Their going out of business would indeed send a widespread cultural message. Remember when Arthur Anderson went under? Goldman Sachs? Although I think we all have a lot of nostalgia for the NYT, we don't actually need them. Corruption will tell.
I read today that Substack was the new "era" of journalism and news. Reporters can make a good living doing good work on a Substack platform as opposed to the toxicity of a newsroom where editors and owners can demand and enforce bias, not to mention attract clicks for badly written headlines.
Yes, but the situation could also turn dangerous given how increasingly crazy Trump, Vance, MAGA, and now Musk might become, and crazy could carry a high danger level. Robert did, as always, an amazing job of summarizing recent events as did Heather Cox Richardson, and to me it is frightening.
Fortunately, I think we’d all agree that the country (we) are in good stable hands with Biden, Harris, and now Walz. And the Dems need to keep this risk in mind as I’d assume and hope they are doing. We all remain diligent and increasingly and gently try to use this information to pull folks toward the only rational options for Nov, Harris/Walz…
Exactly. The election is about We the People, not the undemocratic MSM in the USA. That should include Twitter. The more we abandon these platforms for information and flock to new more democratic ones the better informed we will be. There is so much nefarious goings on right now. I am glad the MSM is finally picking up on ProPublica's leaked Project 2025 training videos stories. Here is a link to it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election
They are the real deal when it comes to reporting in the Public interest. There are clips throughout to illustrate points in their summary, and at the end there is a link to the entire 14 hours of training videos. It is scary stuff and we deserve to know what is planned for us. I have read about 10 chapters and the forward of Project 2025, which is a slow slog through poorly written prose, but still one sees the whining nature of the people writing as they complain over and over again about the Biden administration. This should not be able to be funded by an organization that has non-profit status.
I think this is the link you wanted to share, Linda.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election
Yes. Thank you Lynell. I have now added it.
Let’s be honest, while MSM has work to do in many ways, the toxicity truly exists with right wing media and social media. I looked at the Fox Non-News app this morning and it is utterly devoid of meaningful honest information and reporting. I don’t know the data, but Fox, Non-NewsMax and right wing commentators serve as a huge source of the made up stories and disinformation and misinformation that spreads so readily then on the internet and SM. We need strategies to get at those issues. Some, but an insufficient number, are beginning to discuss this. This will require a 5-10 year effort to address with expected huge resistance from the right as they are the primary creators and spreaders of such disinformation. As only one example, see https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-reality/id1614432176?i=1000664746004
I have a family member (retired military) who swallows the newsmax crap hook, line, and sinker. He also reads the Epoch Times, put out by Chinese cult, as far as I can figure out from Google searches. The Epoch Times puts out just enough articles with facts in them that people think it's a legitimate news source. Of course, these days, the msm are not legitimate news sources.
I feel for you about your family member Jenn. I have a family who enjoys arguing at family meals, but we channel a lot of that arguing energy into playing Scattergories. It beats dragging out the dictionary and encylopedia like we used to to prove a point, because here we just argue and then vote on whether we accept someones very stretched creative response and defense. Epoch Times sent me their stuff, and I tried to unsubscribe from them. For a while they appeared in my promotions column which I delete 100% each day regularly. Nasty Botlike work. I agree about MSM in the USA, it has turned into clicks and likes addicted source, much like a junior high girl.
Yes. But it's not the mainstream media. It's the MAGA media. All of it.
BTB-one of the executives & CFO, Weidong Guan, @ ET has been charged w/1 count of money laundering and 2 counts of bank fraud by SDNY Here's the NYT article. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/us/politics/epoch-times-money-laundering-doj.html#:~:text=A%20top%20executive%20at%20The%20Epoch%20Times%2C%20a,in%20a%20multiyear%20scheme%20to%20lift%20financial%20returns.
I had an acquaintance over for dinner who declared that Kamala was a “lying bi**h”. So I tried to look up what lies she’s supposedly saying. Per FactCheck.org, she’s been lying about the connection between Project 2025 and DJT. Their “proof” of the lie is that Trump has publicly distanced himself from Project 2025.
How calm. Someone says that to me, they are going to be getting follow up emails from me of every article that talks about Trump lying. That is if I have their email. Luckily here in Germany I just have people asking me if I think Trump can win in a horrified tone. I say he can win, but will he?
I should add: PDL (Pretty Darn Lame or Lazy)
Good work, Linda. Thank you!
I am both angry and heartsick at the failure of the MSM. It is a sad reality that they have clearly abandoned their honored mission to now collude with the maga cult of hatred. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Robert, for your sanity and dedication to excellent reporting and actionable information. You are a lifeline for me.
Well said, Diane. About an hour into the “show,” I went to cnn.com to get an update. Six stories appeared on my screen—ALL about Trump. Although pleased that the stories were not particularly flattering, it also struck me…there was NOTHING about Harris on that screen. I think Trump would consider that a win.
The algorithms keep 45 as the headline. He should be shunned and his lies deemed propaganda.
That statement is a generalization.
In reality, I don't wish any harm to the person, just that he receive the professional help he obviously needs! Shudder to recognize the "bullet we dodged" when 45 was not assassinated on live TV just before the RNC. MSM still has not acknowledged it was a young white male with access to an assault style rifle that caused the tragedy - and 45 was shot AT, not shot. America's domestic terrorism is the danger.
Algorithms aren't what is keeping Trump in the headlines. The media people making decisions about what to cover and how do. Algorithms are a mathematical analytical tool created by people for various reasons and used by people, in this case, to help make decisions. MSM is a general term that includes all media with large audiences, and cannot be ascribed with singular intent. Different outlets cover things differently. We weaken our arguments and make our concern meaningless when we fail to use terms that are specific and appropriate. It's easy to ascribe an action or an intent to an entire group of unnamed people, but it doesn't really say anything. That is exactly the kind of lazy reporting that we are supposedly trying to counter. I hope we can take more care to THINK about what the terms we use actually mean.
Indeed, it was Corey Comperatore who was shot with the assassin's bullet.
That's why what Robert points out in today's newsletter is such an amazingly brilliant strategy by Harris. Do you see what she's doing??? She is talking--constantly, daily, all the time--to the American people. Directly. Only to the American people. With no MAGAmedia distortion, lying, or misrepresentation to intervene between her and citizens. She has effectively cut out the MAGAmedia, about which we have all been lamenting and heartsick over for the last 6-12 months. They are now like bullies in the schoolyard where all the healthy normal kids have gone elsewhere and they are left only with each other to bully. Let's see if they do that, or just deflate and melt into puddles of MAGA mess and wash away with the next rain. Harris should NEVER do a media interview. Let them come to her rallies and report on what she says there if they want (I doubt they'll want).
Exactly 💯!
And it's like Biden doesn't even exist anymore. He is still President, and he is still doing important things! whitehouse.gov
What she said.
Thanks for this review of the Musk/Trump debacle last night. It saves me from watching it. But the principal takeaway -- that DJT's speech pattern may reveal cognitive or other health issues -- is crucial. As someone who did watch parts of the staged "press conference" last week, I want to emphasize how serious the concerns are.
Two points: DJT'S speech patterns are discontinuous, wildly ungrammatical and disturbed. No logical connection, little or no connection to the "questions," simple, repetitive vocabulary. A speech psychologist or geriatrician could more precisely describe the incoherence, but anyone can see and hear it.
Second, a thoughtful and empathic friend reminded me that we have a septuagenerian who has suffered a bullet wound from an attempted assassination only a few weeks ago. Given what we have seen of his family relationships, diet and dissimulation on health matters, it is virtually inconceivable he has gotten any treatment for handling the trauma in a healthy way. The "hunkering down" is one way of dealing with the aftereffects of a trauma. But we can bet there's been no therapy or counseling. The man has, or is facing, PTSD. Untreated, this can lead to greater problems.
We need to realize that the deeply flawed DJT is not well, is almost certainly not getting appropriate care, and is unlikely to "recover" on his own.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well said Nancy. If I were the Speech-Language Pathologist providing an initial assessment of this man I would get him to a neurologist post haste. Trump is a meal ticket to tens of thousands of parasites who see him as their savior, their man who can propel them into the fantasyland they perceive as "the good life". Reading Pema Chodrun, "Living Beautifully", I am struck by how far removed trump and his tribe are from any means at all of ever finding even a glimpse of peace of any kind. It's always been about 'more'. Never, ever, ever, enough. I perceive the man as a victim of his own making, as well as a victim of elder abuse by those who wheel him out on an appliance dolly for his adoring fans. It.Is. Over. Folks. There appears to be not even one person alive who will show him enough love to save him from his own demise. Can't buy me love, hay Donald?Kamala Harris is giving the press what they are due, a view of the Fast Train doing The People's work. PS, Still wondering why the right auricle shows no sign at all of a wound of any sort. More theater of the absurd?
Love the reference to Pema Chodron, Jim, thank you. My wish for Trump is probably his worst nightmare: that he become the most sensitive, caring, compassionate, empathetic being alive on the planet today. I wish for him peace, contentment, joy, and an appreciation of the life he is "living beautifully. The Navajo have an expression, hozhono. It means the Beauty Way. May Trump find it and follow it. Hey, I can always dream, right?
NYT’s headline: “Musk Tees Up Softball Questions for Trump on X, After Technical Problems.”
There is no mention of substance, slurring or lisping. And this is most incredible, Trump spoke for 2 hours, but the NYT didn’t print a single thing he said. If a reporter watches a 2 hour speech and their only assessment is “it started 40 minutes late” I have to wonder, “what are they hiding and why?”
Excellent, there is no balance in corporate media. They always give Trump a pass. Time to take the Trump seriously. Thanks Robert
Take Trump seriously. Turn the blue wave into the blue tsunami. https://www.fieldteam6.org/
PTSD stands for POST traumatic stress disorder. Trump may have appeared strong with his fist bump at the time of the shooting, but an event of that nature could easily induce an apparently delayed stress response. Added to other stresses, physical symptoms would not be surprising.
I fully agree with Robert that the public deserves more details on his neurological status.
Could he also be suffering from a traumatic brain injury related to the shooting?
The brain injury was there prior to the shooting….
Ohhhhh… you mean an injury related to the shooting.
Well, then, the answer is yes, apparently the whizzing bullet spun his ear around so now the lobe is on top and the hard cartilage is on the bottom. The now famous “ear spin” also wound the clock mechanism that holds the putrid brain matter from leaking out of his mouth to tight so the insanity is leaking out of his pie hole at twice his normal lying ass rate.
It's great to have humor --- this was brilliant
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Simply stunning. When I first saw these photos by Robert I thought of this not realizing his name was spelled differently from the Space Telescope! Robert is a world class photographer.
Hubble Space Telescope
NASA (.gov)
https://science.nasa.gov › mission › hubble
Hubble explores the universe 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That means it has observed some fascinating cosmic wonders.
All Hubbells / Hubbles in America are descendants of Richard Hubbell, who came to the New Haven Colony (in Connecticu) in the 1640s. The name was spelled Hubbell, but Hubbble is a common misspelling. Edwin Hubble's grandfather gave up correcting people and changed the spelling. But we are both related to Richard Hubbell
I used to wonder if you were related til I realized the spelling was different. So thank you - you’re related after all! Richard Hubbell must have had an astronomy gene. Your photos remind me of the ones I’ve seen from the Hubble telescope.
Robert,
How do you manage to get these photos in LA with background light pollution? City lights so often make 'star gazing' difficult.
I have an astrophotography telescope with a computerized drive. The "camera / telescope" takes ten second exposures over a long period--usually one hour, at minimum. The telescope drive rotates the scope so that it "locks on" to the target and compensates for the rotation of the Earth.
The telescope then "stacks" the accumulated images so that the faint photons that make it through the light pollution of LA are built up into an image. That is the way the Hubble Space Telescope and Webb Telescope work as well.
Even with all that, the images are dim and the stars usually overpower the photo. So, i use a software program to "remove" the stars, I then adjust the exposure and contrast of the target, and then I "add" the same stars back into the photo.
Thank you for the ongoing gift of these photos!
I read this twice and still have no idea what it means LOL
WOW!! Just, wow!
Mr. Hubbell, please explain why the media is not holding Trump's feet to the fire and why coverage is so lopsided. I watch MSNBC exclusively having given up on CNN. Why is it that I am only getting comprehensive and accurate news about the election fron your newsletter, Heather Cox Richardson, Michael Moore, and the Hopium Chronicles? Is there something going on with the media that we do not understand?
The Washington Post has become increasingly worse by the day, esp. after hire of new Murdoch tabloid head. Only Jennifer Rubin, Eugene Robinson and one or two other op=ed writers are worth reading. NYT started going downhill even earlier. Even MSNBC has Trump apologists like Katy Tur.
I wish Eugene would jump ship. I adore him.
Follow. The. Money. The media moguls have been losing money ever since Biden was sworn in. No-drama Biden and Harris just don't plump up that bottom line the way Trump and his unpredictable antics do. Trump in charge means lots of clicks and views...they refuse to think beyond to what else it might mean.
I can only speculate how these giant media corpses (intentional pun) expect to function when Trump and his goosestepping cohorts come marching in, wielding their Project 2025 auto-pen orders to take over their organizations to publish only what "the state" sanctions.
Simple: the major media corps are owned by Trump donors.
If Robert had the answer to your question he would win the Nobel Peace prize.
I promise I’ll go look, but are the Hopium Chronicles also a substack? And Michael Moore? (I already subscribe to Heather and feel lucky that I found her so early through friends on FB as a fellow Bostonian.)
Hopium is a substack and is very informative. Don’t know about Moore.
Simon Rosenberg. He is positive and informative and full of charts and polls.
Personally I am glad the Vice President is not giving the media interviews. They are getting placed on a shelf because they are ineffective, bias and boring. The media has proven itself as useless giving trump a pass for years. Any interview snagged by a “journalist” needs to be required to submit questions for review for her approvals. Like many I stopped reading newspapers, listening to anything besides BBC, NPR, even UTube articles at times. Listening to complaining by the press might give them pause, they have degraded the craft and have fully earned the criticisms.
On the shelf. In the corner. In Time Out.
Agree 1000%, Laura! The way to get news has shifted. We can't get it from the MAGA media--the NYT, WaPo, Fox, all the same--any more. We must shift our thinking and get our news from these wonderful political blogs, foreign newspapers, social media from trusted sources, watching events ourselves on YouTube without filters. Everything is different in 2024. I sincerely hope the old MAGA media *will* be placed on a shelf because they are ineffective, biased and boring, as you say. I also hope Harris refuses to give any media interviews and just keeps talking directly to the American people! She's on to a winning strategy, in my opinion. Let's expect more brilliant strategy from her.
We must get NPR more funding.
Why? They don't often report on Trump's insanity either (the recent wonderful fact-checking article excepted).
Because they’re our last independent media.
In her new book, The Art of Power, Nancy Pelosi writes eloquently of trump’s seeming mental decline back in 2019. I’m reading the book on Kindle. In chapter 2 there is a section called “The Trump Deviation” with Speaker Emeritus Pelosi discussing observations from psychiatrists on trump’s mental decline as well as her own experiences attempting to deal with him on crucial budget issues. This was back in 2019 when Trump shut down the government for 34 days in a dispute over his demand for a border wall. I feel this book is well worth reading in our crucial election period. Good news: Swifties for Kamala are very organized with a free account on Substack. They are also on Instagram. They have Zoom organizing meetings and are diving in to Project 2025. We just learned about this yesterday from an article in the Guardian US edition. There is no paywall but I’ve subscribed to it for quite a while.
Thanks for the recommendation on The Art of Power. And thank you for letting us know about the Swifties! Young people will organize and gather in ways that are different from the pols of my youth (Daly in Chicago and other machine Democrats), just as we were different as young people 50 years ago, but we old folks should do all we can to to support their work. David Hogg's Leaders We Deserve is another example.
I also just listened to Chris Hayes interview David Hogg on his podcast, All in with Chris Hayes (episode from Aug 9th). He is a very articulate young man and is planning for the future by encouraging young people to run for office. He pointed out how Joe Biden became a Senator at 29! I'm isolating with Covid so have some time on my hands :)
Also writing postcards!
Yay for SWIFTIES!
I just listened to Jen Psaki interview her on her podcast, Inside with Jen Psaki. It is wonderful!
I sent the NYT a copy of the report in today's TEN about Trump's $937,989 fine and "conversation" with Elon Musk, along with this note:
Your bias is showing (again), as it is when you fail to report the slurred words and rambling racist "conversation" Elon Musk had with Trump on X --the Times jumped all over Biden for similar symptoms, but not a word about Trump's apparent mental decline.
Sad to see a once-great paper falling so low; fortunately we former readers are finding much more reliable sources of truthful news, and dropping our subscriptions to the hopelessly biased and failed NYT.
I'd have cancelled my subscription, but I already did that last week.
What a wonderful note, Tom! Thank you for sending it. I write The Hill almost every day myself, pointing out biases and requesting specific coverage of issues they're ignoring. It's amazing to me how The Hill blows hot and cold--almost as if they have a staff of Trump followers and another staff of rational journalists.
Christina, good for you for keeping after them; I think reader feedback makes an impression, especially short and to-the-point comments. The lure of profit is likely too strong to expect MSM to provide anything approaching "fair & balanced", but it does help to keep highlighting their failures. And sharing these letters can inspire others to add their voice..
The Project 2025 proponents’ strategy seems to have been to prop up a deteriorating Trump by any means necessary, and then to have their hand-picked VP candidate standing at the ready to enact the plan. But now Trump is falling apart too quickly and Vance turns out to be a turnoff— so that outcome is beginning to seem less likely.
Robert, I applaud the efforts of The Rural Democracy Initiative. I would like for Indiana to get some attention, and some assistance, for the work going on here, especially in the southern part of the state. Talk about an area that has been written off! But good people are running for office here, all the down the ballot, and it would be worth your time to check out the Indiana Rural Summit, Woke Women of Morgan County, or the campaigns of Jennifer McCormick (Governor), Dr. Valerie McCray (US Senate), Destiny Wells (Attorney General). This is a powerful group of excellent candidates, running against a truly awful slate of GOP candidates.
I am tired of Indiana being ignored!
James Todd, thanks for the encouragement about Indiana. We are being written off as a deep red state and, while we have to distribute our communal and personal resources wisely, remember Obama took Indiana in 2008 and no poll showed him leading in the state. I was living in Crawfordsville at the time, and even in red Montgomery County, Democrats were worked hard to get out the vote. I will check out your leads. Thank you.
"Hello, major media. Are you there? Are you listening? Do you care?" Yes. Maybe. Not a bit as long as the revenue keeps flowing.
We've been done letting Trump bully us for several years and it hasn't impacted his behavior in the least. Possibly the financial collapse of a "major media" player will turn their attention back to their customers, but I'll not hold my breath.
Dave, I'm hoping for such news every day. I read that Heather Cox Richardson has 11 million subscribers, and the MAGA New York Times has 10 million. Their going out of business would indeed send a widespread cultural message. Remember when Arthur Anderson went under? Goldman Sachs? Although I think we all have a lot of nostalgia for the NYT, we don't actually need them. Corruption will tell.
I read today that Substack was the new "era" of journalism and news. Reporters can make a good living doing good work on a Substack platform as opposed to the toxicity of a newsroom where editors and owners can demand and enforce bias, not to mention attract clicks for badly written headlines.
When the chips are down Americans stand up. Whether the press wakes up or not…When we fight we win.
Right on , excellent & right on target. Trump is seriously not well.
Yes, but the situation could also turn dangerous given how increasingly crazy Trump, Vance, MAGA, and now Musk might become, and crazy could carry a high danger level. Robert did, as always, an amazing job of summarizing recent events as did Heather Cox Richardson, and to me it is frightening.
Fortunately, I think we’d all agree that the country (we) are in good stable hands with Biden, Harris, and now Walz. And the Dems need to keep this risk in mind as I’d assume and hope they are doing. We all remain diligent and increasingly and gently try to use this information to pull folks toward the only rational options for Nov, Harris/Walz…