Friday, June 27, 2025

New York Times: 10 years and counting of normalizing and sanewashing Donald Trump

 


When it comes to political reporting, there's plenty that's wrong with the New York Times.
June 2025
Malpractice in Journalism, starring the New York Times: Omitting the name of Russell Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget AND co-author of Project 2025.  (6/22)

May 2025

March 2025
The Right is riding high with Trump because US corporate media is not doing its job. They’re paving the road to authoritarianism.  (3/25)

January-February 2025
New York Times goes all in to normalize latest round of Trump chaos and confusion.  (2/5)Trump administration unleashes first volley in Project 2025 attack on public broadcasting and the New York Times is asleep at the wheel. (1/31)

November 2024

October 2024
New York Times headlines mash-up of VP debate:  Vance 'made Trumpism sound polite, calm and coherent' with a cascade of false and misleading statements. (10/6/2024) 
Majority of 13 writers charmed by the smarm of JD Vance.  (10/2)

September 2024

July-August 2024

June 2024

May 2024

January 2024

2023

2019

2018


Madison Wisconsin construction news: GEF 2 and GEF 3 await the wrecking ball

 
Take what might be a last look.

Photos by Retiring Guy









The State Natural Resources Building, also know as General Executive Facility (GEF) 2, was constructed in 1978 and occupied in April of 1980. It contains 223,270 GSF of office space on six (6) stories above ground. There are also two basement levels (first level accesses Plaza between GEF 2 & 3).

Constructed in 1978 and occupied in April, 1980, General Executive Facility (GEF) 3, contains 167,735 GSF of office space on six (6) levels above ground. There are also two (2) basement levels of parking containing 86,117 GSF.


GET ME REWRITE: RFK Jr. Is systematically undermining vaccine science and endangering health while spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. dithers

 
Headline:  American Progress, 6/27/2025
President Donald Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a decades-long vaccine skeptic, as secretary of health and human services (HHS) is already undermining public trust in highly safe and effective vaccines. During his February 2025 confirmation hearings, Kennedy made a series of promises to Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-LA), pledging to “work within the current vaccine approval and safety monitoring systems, and not establish parallel systems” and to “maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.” Despite Sen. Cassidy’s skepticism and expressed reservations, he ultimately granted Kennedy his linchpin vote, predicated on ongoing communication and collaboration. 
In just his first few months as secretary, Kennedy has already broken these promises, endangering America’s vaccine system’s credibility and leaving families and communities exposed to imminent health threats in the process. [emphasis added]

Related posts:
March 2025
Chapter 1.  (3/10)   Censored
Chapter 2.  (3/10)
Chapter 3.  (3/10)
Chapter 4.  (3/11)
Chapter 5.  (3/12)
Chapter 6.  (3/12)
Chapter 7.  (3/13)
Chapter 8.  (3/14)
Chapter 9.  (3/14)
Chapter 10.  (3/14)
Chapter 11.  (3/14)
Chapter 12.  (3/14)
Chapter 13.  (3/15)
Chapter 14.  (3/18)
Chapter 15.  (3/19)
Chapter 16.  (3/19)
Chapter 17.  (3/21)
Chapter 18.  (3/22)
Chapter 19.  (3/26)
Chapter 20.  (3/28)
Chapter 21.  (3/29)
Chapter 22.  (3/30)

April 2025
Chapter 23.  (4/1/)
Chapter 24.  (4/2)

May 2025

June 2025

West Point graduate Lucien K. Truscott IV gives Trump's bonehead defense secretary Pete Hegseth a much-needed history lesson

 
HeadlineNational Memo, 6/26/2025
In history. Got that? 
Hegseth was standing there in the Pentagon where General George C. Marshall, working in conjunction with General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British General Bernard Montgomery and General Omar Bradley planned and executed the D-Day invasion of France on June 6, 1944. 
That invasion involved a fleet from eight different navies of 6,939 vessels, including 1,213 warships, 4,126 landing craft, 289 escort vessels, 277 minesweepers, and 864 merchant craft. Beginning around midnight, 2,200 American, British and Canadian bombers attacked targets along the coast and inland German military positions. 
According to the Eisenhower Presidential Library, about 133,000 combat and support troops landed on French soil during the 24 hours of D-Day. 73,000 American troops, including the airborne troops who parachuted and flew on gliders behind enemy lines and Army Rangers who climbed the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, came ashore at Omaha and Utah beaches. Approximately 83,000 British and Canadian soldiers landed at Sword, Juno, and Gold beaches. 
There were at least 10,000 allied casualties on D-Day, with more than 4,000 soldiers confirmed killed. 
The Normandy landing on D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history involving one of the largest one-day bombing campaigns in history. 
The Secretary of Defense needs to go downstairs to the Pentagon’s department of military history, assuming it survived DOGE, and do some reading.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first-known use of 'bonehead', as in a stupid person : NUMBSKULL, occurred in 1903.

  1. attention span
  2. ball boy
  3. clone
  4. creepage
  5. community spread
  6. game point
  7. memory lane
  8. overpromote
  9. revisionism
 
Related post:
June 2025
Excuses, excuses:  Why these Republicans aren't attending Trump's birthday party military parade in Washington DC.  (6/14)

May 2025
CARRIER OVERBOARD!!!!  This is your U.S. Department of Defense under the woefully incompetent leadership of Pete Hegseth.  (5/2)

April 2025

March 2025
February 2025

January 2025

December 2024

MISCREANT PREACHERS: Sodomy in the Name of the Lord (#143 in a series)

 
Photo and headline:  KFOR, 6/26/2025 

According to the department, on Sunday, June 22, the Laverne Police Department requested OSBI to investigate allegations of sexual assault. 
OSBI agents launched an investigation and identified 66-year-old Christopher Cassel, a pastor in Laverne, as the suspect. 
Cassel was arrested and booked into Harper County Jail on two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of distribution of narcotics, and one count of furnishing alcohol to a minor, OSBI officials said.
   
"See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father." (Matthew 18:10) 

 
Other miscreant posts:
June 2025
Justin Rhodes.  (6/26)
Dominic Foor.  (6/14)
Ryan McElrath.  (6/10)
Jim Mustain.  (6/7)
Nathan Roach.  (6/3)

May 2025
Daniel Lamppin.  (5/30)
Alan Buresh.  (5/29)
Daniel Champ.  (5/13)
Paul Dyal. (5/11)
Leo Parker.  (5/8)

April 2025
Brad Swink.  (4/12)
Jaime Arriaga.  (4/10)
Darren Day.  (4/8)

March 2025
Joshua Lucero.  (3/26)
Jeffrey Summers.  (3/24)
Sergio Guardia.  (3/22)
Marvin Upton.  (3/21)
Rodger Strong.  (3/20)
Britt Taylor.  (3/19)
Daniel Menelaou.  (3/15)
Robert Morris.  (3/14)
Jose Saez Jr.  (3/12)
Waymon Jordan.  (3/8)

February 2025
Jesse Santos.  (2/26)
Ruel Barbee.  (2/16)
Lee B. Patrick.  (2/14)
Timothy Nall.  (2/7)

January 2025
John Fiedler.  (1/26)
James McMillan.  (1/25)
Jeffrey Merrow.  (1/18)
Johel LaFaurie.  (1/17)
Jeff Taylor.  (1/16)
Dallas Majewski.  (1/15)
Bruce Hollen.  (1/14)
Timothy Nall.  (1/9)
 
December 2024
Edward Monk.  (12/23)
Joshua Lough.  (12/22)
Ignazio Medina.  (12/20)
Anthony Odiong.  (12/19)
Vincent Bishop.  (12/9)
Arturo Alarcon.  (12/8)
Hunter Eubanks.  (12/7)
Roy Shoop.  (12/5)

November 2024
James McMillan.  (11/30)
Stephen Melton. (11/29)
Charles Sulivant.  (11/24)
Geoffrey Carter.  (11/22)
John Radcliff.  (11/21)
Garrett Harmon.  (11/20)
Edward R. Monk.  (11/16)
George Bell.  (11/14)
Jose Mora.  (11/13)
William Pounds.  (11/12)
Charles Randall.  (11/9)
Jackson Gatlin.  (11/7)
Charles Goff.  (11/1)

October 2024
Stephen Johnson.  (10/27)
Josh Howerton.  (10/26)
Craig Stone.  (10/26/2024)
Steven Lawson. (10/25).  
Scott Crenshaw.  (10/25)
Byron Copeland.  (10/25)
Josiah Anthony.  (10/25)
Ronald Goines.  (10/24)
Tony Cammarota.  (10/24)
Robert Morris.  (10/24)
Mike Buster.  (10/23)
Tony Evans.  (10/23)
Terren Dames.  (10/23)
James Randolph.  (10/23)
Matt Queen.  (10/18)
Roy Shoop.  (10/12)
Gabriel Mills.  (10/3)

September 2024
John Raymond.  (9/27)
Juan Barrios.  (9/23)
Demiro Johnson.  (9/22)
Glen Dean McCoy.  (9/22)
James Swanson.  (9/21)
William Dunfee.  (9/21)
Steven Lawson.  (9/20)
Rocky Goodwin.  (9/19)
William Johnson.  (9/17)
Tim Ballard.  (9/13)


Out-of-scale home on Middleton Street in Middleton Wisconsin (June 2025 construction site visit)

 
Photos by Retiring Guy


Red square indicates location of new construction.

Around Town Middleton WI: Lush vegetation along Tiedeman Pond walking path


Photos by Retiring Guy









The route


Around Town Middleton posts:
2025

2024
July-December 2024
In memoriam.  (10/19)

January-June 2024

November 2023

September 2023

June 2023

May 2023
Best double cheeseburger ever (Village Green).  (5/5)

April 2023

March 2023

February 2023

January 2023
Bathroom advice.  (1/11)
Vin Santo restaurant reopening date postponed again.  (1/7)

October 2022
The Club Tavern still sits empty (2022 edition)  (10/20)
According to a recent Next Door post, this apartment building allegedly has roaches. (10/15)

August 2022
"Tactical Urbanism" at the intersection of Elmwood Avenue and Middleton Street.  (8/29/2022)
The G Spot.  (8/11/2022)
July 2022
Turfbot mower.  (7/28)

May2022


January 2022

November 2021


September 2021
February 2021

January 2021

December 2020

November 2020

October 2020

August 2020

December 2019
Roman Candle survives the cut, even without the availability of convenient parking.  (12/12)
The Monona side of town.  (12/6)

November 2019
Bike rack at Sauk Trail Elementary School.  (11/8)
Not everybody's on board in the Meadows neighborhood.  (11/4)
 
October 2019
Matching car and garage door.  (10/11)

September 2019
Around Town Middleton: Bees love ornamental onion plants.   (9/4) 

August 2019
60-year-old resident arrested for armed robbery.  (8/21)
Staff and visitors may now park in the MCPASD Services Center lot .  (8/2)

June 2019
"ROAD WORK AHEAD" trumps "DRIVE LIKE YOUR KIDS LIVE HERE" on Park Street.  (6/27)
Free lunch Friday.  (6/24/2019)
CBD, just like everywhere else in Wisconsin.  (6/24)
 
February 2019
According to chapter 8.07 of the city ordinances....  (2/4)

January 2019
More than a snow fort, but not a standing-room igloo.  (1/2)
 
December 2018
This section of sidewalk was replaced in 1980.  (12/18)
The post office's new and improved self-service kiosk.  (12/18)

November 2018
Spell checker.  (11/19)

August 2018
Must be on a tight schedule.  (8/6/)

July 2018
What type of seeds?  (7/6)

June 2018
If it's not one thing, it's another.  (6/23)
Bloom Bake Shop to reopen as Bloom Bindery, a bakery/bookstore.  (6/15)

May 2018
The Tiedeman Pond frog chorus.  (5/15)

March 2018
Tiedeman Pond winter fish kill.  (3/30)
Hear that lonesome whistle blow.  (3/22)
Explosion on Elmwood Avenue.  (3/20)
Googling 'Henry Hubbard'.  (3/18) 
A not-so-faded Flo strikes a new pose.  (3/12)

February 2018