Mark Jacob
@markjacob
Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
Here's a reminder that Trump threatened 102 days ago to commit genocide against a nation of 93 million people. The story lasted a day or two and the news media moved on. The madman stayed in office to make new threats and kill more people in an illegal war.
I wonder if there’s a 3-letter word that starts with L, ends with E and has an I in the middle and means the same thing as “conflict with reality.”
The ex-wife of the ICE agent who fatally shot a man in Maine shared a voice mail in which he told her he wished someone would slit her throat. Relatives say he’s mentally ill, raising questions about how ICE screens its agents — and whether it really wants vicious thugs.
No prominent figure in the U.S. government has ever awakened the ghost of Goebbels like Stephen Miller does whenever he speaks in public.
Here’s Politico helping Republicans claim that it’s a problem to give Americans health care but it’s no problem to spend tens of billions of dollars to bomb Iranians, including 100+ schoolgirls.
Trump says he’s going to charge a 20% tax on all cargo going through the Strait of Hormuz. To Trump, the U.S. military serves as muscle to support his international crime spree.
Trump is promoting a Michael Savage video calling for democratic socialism to be made a crime and its leaders deported. I’m noting this in case anyone has any doubt that Trump wants to rule as a dictator. We need to take this stuff seriously.
I’m getting tired of this “war threatens peace” approach to headline writing in legacy media. There’s no ceasefire because they’re not ceasing fire.
The New York Times catches up to a 5-day-old story about Trump social media posts targeting Somali immigrant kindergartners, and it excuses itself by saying “the posts nearly slid by.” They didn’t slide by me and others, who wrote about it on Monday. Keep up, NYT. This is presidential hate speech.
I'm going to keep taking cognitive tests until everyone realizes I don't need to take cognitive tests!
May 12: "We control the Strait," Hegseth says. July 10: U.S. begs Iran to let ships through the Strait.
As this United Press story from the 1950s explains, hundreds of Japanese nationals in Hawaii after WWII belonged to a club called Hissho Kai, which means Certain Victory Club. These people believed Japan had won the war and the “surrender” in Tokyo Bay was fake news. 2/🧵
What does MAGA have in common with elderly Japanese men living in Hawaii after World War II? They're all members of the Certain Victory Club. A short thread. 1/🧵
Combatants are blowing each other up day after day. Is this phenomenon something that’s called “war”? The New York Times is uncertain.
The New York Times says widespread noncitizen voting doesn’t exist, but it puts the phrase “noncitizen voting” in its main headline, which is likely to make more people think it exists.
The Holocaust and the Rwandan massacre didn’t start with murder. They started with rhetoric. 4/🧵
Today Trump reposted this, casting kindergartners as dangers to our society because of their families' religion. 3/🧵
“Infantino defends FIFA’s integrity” has as much validity as “Dahmer touts vegetarian recipes.”
The World Cup is supposed to bring shared entertainment and joy to people around the globe. But Trump is trying to fix the result in his usual corrupt fashion. Republicans ruin everything.
Laura Ingraham is telling these fascists they should take off their masks and proudly show their white supremacist faces, just like she does.
Dear Wall Street Journal, It‘s tiresome when you assign a selfish horse-race motive to everything that happens in politics. Yes, Democrats are “seizing on Trump’s soaring wealth.” But it‘s more than a “campaign opportunity“ — they’re appalled by a crook ruining our country.
It’s outrageous that a government whose Constitution forbids the “establishment of religion” has been hijacked by Christofascists.
What an upbeat way for the New York Times to say that Alito is trying to turn our country into a dictatorship.
The New York Times says Trump’s “windfall” is unusual. It should say it’s corrupt.
Clark is 4th in the league in fouls drawn, which is not surprising considering how much she handles the ball and how aggressively she goes to the hoop.
The official White House account on X is often twisted. This isn't a picture of “unity” – it shows the surrender of white supremacists after their racism led to a war that killed 600,000+ Americans. And the quote is not from the Civil War – it’s from Francis Scott Key’s poem about the War of 1812.
Unfortunately, the NY Times likes to soften Trump‘s corruption with cute language. His UAE crypto scam “blurred the line between foreign policy and private enterprise.”
Fox News' website just added its 22nd post about Caitlin Clark in the last 6 days.