TODAY Special Edition: “Beat the Press”
YESTERDAY Elections “Rigged” When Democrats Win
FAMILIAR TUNE: President Trump is springboarding off the slow count in the California primary to claim the election was rigged against Republican candidate for Los Angeles mayor, Spencer Pratt.
Attached is a link to a special edition of my sister Emily Rooney’s podcast “Beat the Press” in which Emily and I talk about what our father, Andy Rooney, would do or say during the current meltdown at CBS and “60 Minutes.”
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Business Keeps Hiring
Saturday, June 6, 2026
YOU’RE HIRED: Employers added 172,000 jobs in May, indicating that business is healthy even while wages are not keeping up with the cost of living for people doing the work. Many of the added jobs are in restaurants, bars, and hotels. …
Read more$70 Billion to Fight Immigration
Friday, June 5, 2026
THE MONEY WALL: The Senate stayed up all night while Republicans rammed through a $70 billion immigration bill that pays for President Trump’s hard line through the end of his presidency. The vote was 52-47, a big win for Trump and …
Read moreRepublicans Defect on War Powers
Thursday, June 4, 2026
THE WAR ROOM: Four House Republicans joined the Democrats in a vote to direct President Trump to withdraw US forces from the Iran theater or win approval from Congress to continue the fighting. The Democrats broke into cheers. The undeclared war has entered …
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Page Two: 1984 in 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
Take Back the Flag
Monday, January 13, 2025
Subscribe and Read
Thursday, October 31, 2024
The Most Corrupt Justice
Monday, October 2, 2023
Democracy and Video in the Dark
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Page Two: Do the Right Thing
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Page Two: Sound Recall
Monday, September 13, 2021
Page Two: Cuomo Must Go
Friday, August 13, 2021
It's Been Said
"Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."
- Donald Trump courting the vote of the Christian right
