Notices by Brian Jopek (brianjopek@mastodon.world)

It’s been a decade since my first book, Front Row Seat at the Circus, was released. On that book tour, I remember being asked over and over about the chapter I wrote on media bias—especially my focus on Sinclair Broadcast Group. At the time, I argued that Sinclair posed a more serious long-term threat to factual journalism than even the major corporate news outlets. And now, ten years later, I stand by that. In fact, I think the danger is even greater. - Jim Heath

https://jimheath2010.substack.com/p/the-media-is-losing-its-courage-and

Musk’s time at the helm of DOGE might not have saved taxpayer money, but it has changed the world in other ways. Musk has used his time in the government to end investigations into his companies, score government contracts, and get the government to press countries to accept his Starlink communications network as a condition of tariff negotiations. According to John Hyatt of Forbes, Musk’s association with Trump has made him an estimated $170 billion richer. - HCR
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-30-2025?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKnuwBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHt-v9NsxBjZaPhyvqL6BunVGnW9Pz2ifdzCk98W5fsF5Pig3dwhhcBHpMY6d_aem_LS4Z-rTBWrSx2hKFeHratQ

True story.

Jacob’s remains were recovered in March, 2024.
#NeverForget

“I like people who weren’t captured, OK?” - Donald Trump, 18 July, 2015.

“U.S. Army Pvt. Jacob Gutterman, was captured and died as a prisoner of war in the Philippines during World War II. He was laid to rest today at Arlington National Cemetery, May 28, 2025. Gutterman was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese.” - Defense POW/MUA Accounting Agency. Photos by Sean Everette.

BHAHAHAHAHAHA

Cartoon by Joe Heller.

"The man who seeks to inspire one set of Americans to hate another because of difference of creed, because of difference of locality, difference of occupation, or of wealth, or any other intended difference for his own gain, is a curse to the republic." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 3 June,1903.

In what has become a Memorial Day tradition for him, on Monday Donald J. Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Podiatrist. - Andy Borowitz
#Satire

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-honors-those-who-helped-others-1aa?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKhSg5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtM4BLN52GUk1Fpi3iioqnk3fWrJ9RVOe4RM0S0DySGXxuOgfaC4Wn2BYkqb_aem_Vhilhx1r7afGQ8QSxk4fZA

Cartoon by Michael de Adder.

you really have to admire MAGA’s commitment to ignorance. just because Dear Leader doesn’t understand how batteries work, the entire wingnut outrage-industrial complex has to go on live TV and beclown themselves by. parroting the stupidest shit imaginable.
how is it not a cult? - Jeff Tiedrich

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-week-in-stupid-may-24-edition

Fascism is here. - John Pavlovitz

I KNEW it! 😁

Sure is.

I’m glad the FBI investigated and made them stop selling this - oh wait.

That did not happen because Biden wasn’t a fucking toddler. - Rachel Hurley

MAGA is definitely afraid of books. And women in the military. And black people. And Native Americans. And Japanese Americans. And … you get the picture.

“It is the broadest and most detailed directive so far on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign to rid the military of diversity and equity programs, policies and instructional materials. And it follows similar efforts to remove hundreds of books from the libraries at the military academies.” - Lolita Baldor
https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/05/09/pentagon-orders-military-to-pull-all-library-books-on-diversity/?utm_campaign=fb_at&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7DOIBsgENDp610mRB5fDywVF7QeBlMcP5IBrePIjU3gqt4xV53HTtdU_srSg_aem_28_lSJdBFPl9thGq7egJoQ

I could see it.

Alex, I’d like “How really fucking obtuse and stupid is Charlie Kirk and the rest of MAGA” for $2,000, please. 😡

“The right either is being intentionally obtuse or really do want to deport people who are here legally.” - Jay Kuo

Thanks to, as Lawrence O’Donnell refers to the FOTUS, the “I don’t know president.”

“More than 70 percent of the baby gear purchased by Americans is manufactured by U.S. companies in China, according to the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA).” - Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/07/car-seats-cribs-shortages-tariffs/

Iraq combat veteran here, Gold Star dad of another Iraq combat veteran, his little brother is a veteran and my dad is an Army veteran. No need at all for a REALLY expensive military parade just because the FOTUS (a/k/a Mr. “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart”) wants one for his friggen birthday.
#FucktRump
#VeteransAgainsttRump

Probably shouldn’t give him any ideas.