David Boardman
@dlboardman
Journalist/educator. Dean, @TUKleinCollege. Chair, @LenfestInst and @TheMarkup. Board, @SolJourno, @RCFP. Former editor of @seattletimes. Sixers.
This is truly outstanding journalism from a surprising source: @militarydotcom.
NEW: Aside from the naked partisanship on display at yesterday’s speech at Ft. Bragg, we’ve learned that troops were screened for loyalty and appearance. The Army also allowed the sale of MAGA merch directly to troops. @StevenBeynon and I report: military.com/daily-news/202…
Tell me you don’t understand American history without telling me …
The Democrats ran the Confederacy. They organized the KKK. They passed and enforced every Jim Crow law. This was over 150 years from the 1820s to the 1960s. But now, somehow, the bigoted spirit of the Democrats has mysteriously migrated to the GOP and MAGA?
So good. Hubris always loses.
Bill Ackman changed tennis forever 30 for 30: 'Net Worth' now streaming
"Stunningly, more than 1,000 counties — one out of three — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist," Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack found. "And the ‘better off’ parts of the country are in lousy shape, too."
According to a new report detailing "severe shortages" in local news, the number of journalists working in the US has dropped by more than 75% since the start of the century — from 40 journalists for every 100,000 residents to just 8.2 journalists now. muckrack.com/research/local…
The loss of local news relates to so many other problems plaguing the US: Polarization, radicalization, loneliness, lack of trust in everyone and everything. So this new data is vital 🧵
A sad, shameful and deeply troubling day in American journalism. More cowardice from the C-suite.
It's the news that CBS News journalists have been dreading for months – Paramount's settlement with Trump is now official. Here's our story in case you missed it overnight: cnn.com/2025/07/02/med…
This is a massive story that's not getting nearly enough attention: Chinese diplomats had planned to physically attack the Taiwanese vice-president by ramming their car into her in Prague. Stunning. newsweek.com/china-planned-…
The man most hailed as the greatest mayor in NYC history, Fiorello LaGuardia, was the son of immigrants.
POSOBIEC: 24 years after 9/11, NYC may have a radical Muslim mayor thanks to mass immigration humanevents.com/2025/06/25/jac…
There is a direct connection to RFK Jr's firing of CDC vaccine advisers and actions to undermine vaccination here at home. RFK Jr is now proving to be a direct threat to children's lives in the US and around the world.
Come back to Seattle! #sonics
The crowd is going mild for the Thunder championship parade
This story is appalling. She was 5 months pregnant, yet doctors at the ICE detention center didn't give her any prenatal care, or an ultrasound, even as she got sicker and sicker. When they finally took her to the hospital, she was shackled the entire time of her miscarriage.
“After she was arrested by ICE in Lenoir City, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus ended up at the Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana, where she experienced the unimaginable. After pleading for medical help for days, she lost her mid-term pregnancy.”
.@rcfp, joined by 29 NPR member stations, is urging a federal court to rule that President Trump’s executive order targeting the public broadcaster is unconstitutional — and to block the government from enforcing it. rcfp.org/briefs-comment…
First they came for the copy editors…
Top notch, Politico. Top notch!
What are your rights if ICE comes to your home or work? inquirer.com/news/philadelp…
We’re supposed to host the World Cup next year. What athlete or spectator would want to come here? Why would any foreign national feel safe visiting America right now?? American soft power is more important than American hard power and we have destroyed it
Australian TV reporter Lauren Tomasi was shot by LAPD with rubber bullets while covering the protests in L.A.
Truth Social has crashed from the traffic surge and in so doing accidentally created a hauntingly poignant image.
This is pure gold.
My God. Scott Galloway on uncensored leaves Piers Morgan speechless as he brutally ends the career of Elon musk in just a few sentences that perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with the Tesla personality and his ride or die supporters on social media
My God. Scott Galloway on uncensored leaves Piers Morgan speechless as he brutally ends the career of Elon musk in just a few sentences that perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with the Tesla personality and his ride or die supporters on social media
Wow. Even DJT's propaganda agency, @OANN, is feeling the heat.
OAN chief Pentagon correspondent Gabrielle Cuccia says she was fired after criticizing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's media restrictions at the Pentagon (@brianstelter / CNN) cnn.com/2025/05/31/med… mediagazer.com/250531/p2#a250…