Notes from a retired newspaper publisher
Friday December 26, 2025; 3:32 PM EST
  • 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]#

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