Uri Berliner
@uberliner
Dad, husband, Free Press contributing editor.
This is the way
scoop: donations to NPR and PBS stations have exploded, with donors across the country giving in unprecedented numbers since Congress cut federal funding nytimes.com/2025/07/24/bus…
"The Senate just voted to cut federal funding for the news organization I worked at for 25 years. It only has itself to blame." Must-read by @uberliner in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/happy-indepe…
The nuclear weapons program that didn't exist was undamaged and can come roaring back from non-existence at any time, so that which shouldn't have concerned you before should terrify you now. Got it.
“Early on, I learned that when I tuned the world out, I was able to tune in a mysterious, God-given music. It was my gift, and it allowed me to interpret and understand emotions I couldn’t articulate.” Rest in peace, Brian Wilson. rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…
Older I get, more I respect the weird eccentric who tunes out 98% of current events to obsess over their niche hobby, such as restoring pre-1920 mechanical calculators, or tracking and cataloging every urban pigeon bloodlines, or walking every city with more than 5 million…
Headlines like this are why I left public radio. This is from Colorado’s NPR network. No mention of antisemitism or even Israel.
"I'm just saying that White Houses intimidate people. Reporters are human. Reporters want to be able to have careers. Nobody likes being attacked.” -- Oh come on man. You can't Democracy Dies in Darkness one second then "I'm a tiny little kitten. Boo hoo" the next. Just…
CNN’s @JakeTapper: Those smeared as right-wing conspiracists were “100% right” about Biden’s mental decline. “We all should, in retrospect, have been much quicker to label what we saw. There was a reluctance to say, ‘He seems addled. He seems like maybe he can't do the job,’…
Editorializing in news headlines is old school manipulation. Interesting that NPR doesn’t hesitate to label Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claim as FALSE but doesn’t do the same for Amnesty International’s charge of ‘genocide’ by Israel. The legacy press plays by its own titled rules
Yes, @Harvard has been ideologically captured. Also yes, the government's response is lawless, chilling, & dangerous. It's possible to hold both views at once. eternallyradicalidea.com/p/harvard-in-t…
Free speech is a value of convenience for many people, something they appeal to when their side is censored. That's why it was seen as a liberal value during the McCarthy, civil rights, and Vietnam War eras, and as a conservative value during the age of political correctness and…
Recently, @SLOTUS granted me her first interview since her husband, @JDVance, was elected vice president. We met at the vice president's residence, at the Naval Observatory, in D.C. I hope you'll read. thefp.com/p/usha-vance-s…
The campaign to liberate Greenland is moronic and misplaced. Please focus on debt, deficit, and enlarging economic and personal freedoms.
As a law-abiding Canadian working in the U.S., Jasmine Mooney, 35, thought getting a new visa would be easy. Then she was handcuffed and put in an ICE detention center. thefp.com/p/jasmine-moon…
The police said nothing happened. So did eyewitnesses. But none of it mattered for a 12-year-old accused of being a hate criminal and his 11-year-old friend. My latest for @TheFP thefp.com/p/evanston-hat…
@uberliner strikes again—with great effectiveness. thefp.com/p/uri-berliner…
The New York Times and the Case of the Missing Knife thefp.com/p/new-york-tim…
