Notes from a retired newspaper publisher
Friday, December 26, 2025
Tweets#
  • Something schools seldom require.#
    • Funny thing. A moral center needs to be revalidated regularly by reviewing your life experience. — These Are Not The Mores You Are Looking For, by @utahprez https://t.co/T9NYKfcfrn [Link]#
  • A lesson.#
    • Reasonable people prefer bottom-up governance and reject the thuggery of top-down rule. — It’s Trump’s world, we just live in it., by @donsurber https://t.co/D8KDZ8t3tr [Link]#
    • Vote for bottom-up governance over top-down rule. — The Inescapable Weight of Choice, by @utahprez https://t.co/1sjhsEACGI [Link]#
  • Journalism often has been a job for those unable to find anything better.#
    • When journalism ceases to be journalism. — Beyond Fact-Checking: The Systematic Parsing of Conservative Politics, by @utahprez https://t.co/Dnh27JOqAj [Link]#
  • The misuse of government.#
    • Rediscovering compassion with a system of charity that works without grift. — The Humanitarian-Industrial Complex, by @utahprez https://t.co/pWR7TYHx57 [Link]#
  • The wheels of justice grind slowly.#
    • All Georgia election officials had to do was investigate, and they didn’t. — AS USUAL: 5 Years Too Late, Fulton County Proves Trump’s Call To Raffensperger Right. https://t.co/mBKm5dUwvN [Link]#
  • Trump bombed thuggery.#
    • Consequences. — I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM, AND I GOT SEVERAL: Nigerian foreign minister: President Tinubu gave ‘go-ahead’ on strikes. https://t.co/aYvAVPBGF7 [Link]#
  • Nailing NYTimes shallow thinker.#
    • @AGHamilton29 Bravo! Sullivan dredged up a comedian’s category error that credentialed pseudo-journalists mistakenly took as gospel when their real job is to help refine one’s mental map of reality. Sound journalism should be like price discovery in Economics: Find value, not a narrative. [Link]#
  • Sometimes you rent half a story.#
    • Buy copies you can own in their entirety. — “SACRILEGE”: Amazon Prime slammed for streaming ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ with key scene cut out https://t.co/biLbFIiFaj [Link]#
Retweets#
  • You are in charge of what you know and what you choose to believe.#
    • RT @readswithravi: Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:... ... “It is foolish to think that you have to rea… [Link]#
  • Individuals are the smallest minority, and one significant to that minority.#
    • RT @KurtSchlichter: TLDR: His problem with freedom of speech is that it allows one person to actually make a difference, and the ruling cla… [Link]#
  • Self-healing concrete rediscovered.#
    • RT @histories_arch: For the first time, researchers have identified exactly what Roman builders were adding to their concrete to make it la… [Link]#
  • Reason to be sent back home.#
    • RT @AGHamilton29: This is factually false. ... ... Unlawful entry is a criminal offense under 8 U.S.C. 1325. [Link]#
  • Time for Australia to correct its original error before the country fails completely.#
    • RT @RobMcCathie: Let‘s make sure we all understand exactly what NSW Premier Chris Minns is saying here. What he‘s saying is that successive… [Link]#
    • RT @Artemisfornow: Australia says the quiet part out loud.... ... They won’t be allowed to complain about changes to the country they didn’t vote… [Link]#
  • The NYTimes chastized for hubris.#
    • RT @MZHemingway: Just because the vast majority of the New York Times is noticeably hostile to Christianity doesn’t change the fact that th… [Link]#
  • Where is Congress when the judiciary needs a lesson in the Constitution?#
    • RT @MarioNawfal: 🇺🇸 FEDERAL JUDGE TEMPORARILY BLOCKS TRUMP ADMIN FROM DETAINING "ANTI-DISINFORMATION" ACTIVIST IMRAN AHMED... ... "Anti-disinform… [Link]#
  • Don’t waste time earning a degree in Journalism.#
    • RT @AGHamilton29: The fact that this person worked as the public editor at the NYT and is now a leader at Columbia’s Journalism School show… [Link]#
  • Reich caught posturing politically.#
    • RT @RockChartrand: Robert and his ilk don’t care about the poor or the middle class. If they did, they’d care about what actually raises wa… [Link]#
    • RT @JoeConchaTV: Hi Robert - you were the biggest supporter of the failed Inflation Reduction Act, so maybe take two seats on this one. htt… [Link]#
  • Bennett’s book on ethics was contrived.#
    • RT @EYakoby: Former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett just registered as a foreign agent for Qatar.... ... He’s being paid $30K/month to c… [Link]#
  • Pretentious, but never intellectually capable.#
    • RT @ThomasSowell: "Anyone who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than oth… [Link]#
  • Journalism fail.#
    • RT @JoeConchaTV: This. Isn’t. News. [Link]#
  • Personal choice versus contrived social duty.#
    • RT @RockChartrand: I agree that Marxism borrows heavily from Christianity, especially the moral idea of sacrifice of the able for the needy… [Link]#

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