Posts by Dan Froomkin

[ad_1] Ever since he intemperately attacked Iran over three months ago, Donald Trump’s every prognostication about the war has commanded major news headlines. Whether he is declaring victory, threatening annihilation, or insisting that a peace deal is two or three days away — all of which he has done, in succession, many times now — his words are splashed across…Read More

[ad_1] The pavement outside the Delaney immigrant detention center in Newark, N.J., has become the front line of the resistance against the brutality and cruelty of the Trump regime. What’s happening there deserves more coverage than it’s getting from our major news organizations. National news outlets should be on the ground, filing daily reports, while their colleagues use the events…Read More

[ad_1] Any thinking journalist is aware by now that when Donald Trump says something – especially about the war in Iran – it may or may not be true. (And probably isn’t.) This has been well documented. Consider the April 29 Washington Post article headlined: “Trump’s statements on Iran increasingly contradict each other,” or the May 6 Associated Press article…Read More

[ad_1] There was no “weaponization” of the Biden Justice Department. There are no “victims” who deserve “compensation”. The $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund the Trump administration announced on Monday is not a legal “settlement” of Trump’s risible lawsuit against his own IRS. Everything about this heist of tax dollars is a lie and a fraud. In its scope and its…Read More

[ad_1] There can be no doubt about this one. The federal arrests of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for covering a Minneapolis protest represent a prima facie violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press. Without that guarantee, journalists are in danger anytime they produce anything the government doesn’t like. Without that guarantee, we are…Read More