Budd Shenkin
@BuddShenkin
Retired pediatrician, health policy analyst, reader, wide interests, athlete
Europe doesn't yet realize that it's in a proxy war with China
China will help Russia build a seaport and a naval base on Lake Donuzlav in occupied Crimea.
“This was a deliberate statement [by Western nations] to divert attention from their refusal to take any meaningful action to achieve the objectives they lay out,” Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of Jadaliyya and a former UN official who worked as a special adviser on Israel-Palestine…
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CBS NEWS POLL: Trump's approval trends among ages 18-29 Early February 🟢 Approve: 55% (+10) 🟤 Disapprove: 45% JULY 🟢 Approve: 28% (-44) 🟤 Disapprove: 72% Net 54 point negative swing
More evidence of how the courts are fixed for Trump - Trump judges sit on the Boesberg contempt issue. Appalling. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/…
Great job here by @ossoff, correctly labeling Citizens United the worst court decision in modern American history and fairly ascribing blame for rampant corruption to the establishments of BOTH major political parties.
There is a very big opportunity for a Democrat to run a presidential campaign explicitly against the Master Plan that legalized corruption. MasterPlanPodcast.com This from @Ossoff is an example of what such a campaign could sound like. This is the message.
Democrats need to be officially protesting this, get a picket line around the fucking White House. RAISE A STINK!! Hear that, Chuck @SenSchumer ? Hear that? What the hell are you doing that's more important????
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you have seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage ... they get their drinking water and they brush their teeth where…
I was there! Amazing!!!
This is instantly one of my favorite Dave Flemming calls ever
I'm writing a post-modern French novel. My chapters are very brief. Here's one. buddshenkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/leanne…
This could have been so hokey. Instead, it's so totally moving. Wow.
A nervous couple are waiting to get married when suddenly a guest rises from her seat... 😢❤️
.@tcm - watched 1776 last night and liked it - had found it ridiculous before. Am I getting wiser, or deteriorating? We report the facts - you decide.
Because, at @nytimes, we have the Worst Sulzberger ever. Basically, a collaborator.
Hey @tylerpager and @nytimes - why did Trump calling bankers ‘Shylocks’ not get a mention in your very lengthy piece on his Iowa rally? nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/…
MSM is bored with Russian terrorism and Ukraine heroism. Would rather report latest Trump lies. Subtle Trump withdrawal of support for Ukraine and support for mother Russia doesn't make it anymore. MSM - don't wake me, please, they say, let me doze.
⚡️Russian cruise missiles bound for western Ukraine, Air Force warns. Russian cruise missiles are flying toward multiple Ukrainian regions, including Ternopil, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts, the Air Force warned in the early hours of June 29.
Next from SCOTUS: it's time to review the legality of slavery.
Any Democrat who does not endorse immediately enlarging SCOTUS should be rejected out of hand.
🇺🇸 Aux États-Unis, se moquer du Vice Président sur les réseaux sociaux peut vous envoyer en garde à vue si vous êtes un touriste. Je ne veux plus JAMAIS entendre que c'est l'Union Européenne qui a un problème avec la liberté d'expression. Voyagez et dépensez en Europe ! 🇪🇺
Intelligent American citizens discuss the Iran crisis - bomb, or wait? buddshenkin.blogspot.com/2025/06/intell…
Stephen Miller, @StephenM a senior advisor to @POTUS President Donald Trump, has become known for his extreme views on immigration and his influence on the administration's policies. His hardline stance on immigration has been widely criticized for being inhumane and…
Anyone with a nomination for anyone worse than a NBA PA announcer - and now meet your xxxxx! The whole thing cries out - MUTE! What torture for a team to endure it. Plus the idiots pacing around saying "more noise." Used to be fun to be there, you know?