Notes from a retired newspaper publisher
Saturday, January 3, 2026
Tweets#
  • Cronkite overreached.#
    • @nick_field90 Cronkite was buffaloed. [Link]#
  • About journalism.#
    • @RadioFreeTom @tonydokoupil News is what I need to know to plan my better future. It fits into a grid: 1) what I need to know. 2) what I want to know. 3) what the editor believes I need to know. 4) what the editor believes I want to know. And I am the final arbiter of whether you succeed or fail. [Link]#
  • Ahistorical.#
    • Following its own narrative, the @NYTimes has ceased to be a credible source of news. — Trump Is the Jan. 6 President https://t.co/seLuWVDEja [Link]#
  • Oops!#
    • FAFO — The United States Captures Nicolás Maduro and his Wife https://t.co/dQ5ErKaYR9 [Link]#
Retweets#
  • Taking Maduro out.#
    • RT @overton_news: Secretary of War, @PeteHegseth, just gave the single greatest address of his ENTIRE career. ... ... “This is America first. Thi… [Link]#
    • RT @JDVance: And PSA for everyone saying this was "illegal":... ... Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You… [Link]#
    • RT @jsolomonReports: Democrats don’t even know their own history. Obama was behind the overthrow of Libya’s Gaddafi and Joe Biden openly e… [Link]#
    • RT @AGHamilton29: Good time to remind people that the Biden admin also recognized Maduro was not legitimate and a threat to U.S. interests,… [Link]#
    • RT @DavidAsmanfox: Dictator Maduro may be going to jail, but his PR firm inside the Beltway is still hard at work. [Link]#
    • RT @shipwreckedcrew: I want to credit @willchamberlain for this point -- which I RP‘d -- but add a bit of substance.... ... Osama Bin Laden was i… [Link]#
    • RT @EFischberger: Breaking: Qatar is pissed over Trump’s capture of narco-terrorist warlord Nicolás Maduro. The reason is twofold:... ... 1. Both… [Link]#
    • RT @wretchardthecat: What the press has still not realized is the potential flood of Venezuelan supply would reduce the geopolitical risk p… [Link]#
    • RT @jammles9: @RubenGallego Dear Leftists,... ... It is not surprising you would support a leader who murders his own people. You have made this… [Link]#
    • RT @Milajoy: China went to meet with Maduro today to discuss joining forces, then Trump captures Maduro the same day. ... ... Savage.... ... In fact, t… [Link]#
    • RT @JDVance: The president offered multiple off ramps, but was very clear throughout this process: the drug trafficking must stop, and the… [Link]#
    • RT @SecRubio: Maduro is NOT the President of Venezuela and his regime is NOT the legitimate government. Maduro is the head of the Cartel d… [Link]#
  • Double standards.#
    • RT @TimRunsHisMouth: Apparently leftists only apply their “separation of church and state” to Christianity… [Link]#
  • Giving Mamdani his due.#
    • RT @CGasparino: Mamdani is proof most college professors of the past two decades probably never read Solzhenitsyn as they cranked out a gen… [Link]#
  • She knew the law but thought she was special.#
    • RT @mattsmith_news: BREAKING: Hannah Dugan is resigning immediately as a Milwaukee County judge after her felony obstruction conviction htt… [Link]#
  • Time for some learing.#
    • RT @Kasparov63: 🎯 Mamdani‘s "warmth of collectivism" line, naive or ominous or both, is becoming a teachable moment. It would be nice if pe… [Link]#
  • Bad taste.#
    • RT @VickieforNYC: The twin towers were unable to be lit green tonight. [Link]#
  • About that communism...#
    • RT @PeterSweden7: Czech Republic just BANNED Communism.... ... Promotion of the ideology and symbols is banned, including singing the Socialist a… [Link]#

Last update: Saturday January 3, 2026; 4:35 PM EST.