MsJG

I went all the way to the Capitol to deliver this message to Congress.

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Happy Pi Day!

Six Nations Super Saturday! Ireland v. Scotland, then Wales v. Italy, wrapping up with France v. England. Looks like I'm not leaving the house and ordering in. 🏉🍕🍺
#SixNations #Rugby #IREvSCO #WALvITL #FRAvENG

Five cut-out-and-keep bookplates Each reads ‘ex-libris’ then has a space for the owners name. The design reflects the genre: Sci-fi: Nanotechnology tracks the book, monitors its condition and summons a retrieval drone if necessary. Horror: An ancient curse creates feelings of unease, rising to apalling, abject horror unless the book is returned. Romance : Acts as an invite to the county's grandest ball, but revoked if not returned in a polite and timely manner. Crime: Tailed by a dishevelled Gumshoe who Seems cynical, but loves books more than dames and bourbon. Fantasy: A fellowship of heroes lead the borrower on an epic quest to return the tome to its Rightful shelf.

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

Sneakers have gotten me pretty far... fighting for child care, helping pass the Affordable Care Act, forcing Trump to sign a bill that completely rejected his budget request...

We need more moms in tennis shoes in government—and less crooks in dress shoes. 👟👟

A well-earned three points at the STōK Cae Ras 🤌

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DOYLE MAKES IT TWO!

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Wait. I mean I'm working and just listening and not watching on the TV over my desk.

I'm watching the #WREvSWA stream with Rob & Ryan doing the announcing. I'm finding that a lot of their reactions are the same as mine when they're watching a match. #Wrexham #Swansea

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#FridayThe13th #Advice

Why isn’t Barron over there yet?!

Thanks! 🥱🛌🏼😴😃

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Crap sleep last night. Gonna have to take a lunch nap today.

Happy Friday (or Saturday to my southern friends)!

I'm on a flight that’s been five hours delayed and the flight attendant just got on the PA and said, “Please get out of the aisle and into your seats so we can get on our way as quickly and painfully as possible.”

I appreciated her candor.

I saw something, so I’m saying something.

What. The. Fuck.

Trump and Secretary Hegseth cannot blame anyone else for the bombing of an Iranian elementary school.

They need to take responsibility and make sure it never happens again.

This is a horrific tragedy and a deep moral stain on our history. There must be accountability.

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cough (like off in scoff)
drought (like ow in cow)
though (like o in no)
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Enough.

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”

-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

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Totally did not think that was it. Heh!

Live updates: About 140 US troops wounded in Iran war, 8 severely, Pentagon says The Pentagon said Tuesday that about 140 U.S. service members have been wounded since the start of the war. It said the “vast majority” of the injuries were minor, with 108 service members having alre...

Our brave servicemembers will always answer the call and they have my unwavering gratitude and support.
 
War is not a game, and right now, Trump is risking American lives on a war of choice with no clear objective or endgame.
 
The men & women who serve deserve better.

Republicans LOVE cozying up to criminals… Why is that? Birds of a Feather.

Agreed!

We are a secular democracy. If you don't like the freedom of religion, you are welcome to move somewhere else.

In America, you can be Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or anything else. It's written into our Constitution. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Get lost with this garbage.

Trump knows his kids & grandkids won't have to fight this war with Iran that he's sending Americans into. He knows higher prices at the grocery store & gas pump won't affect him.
 
It's American families that will pay the price for Trump's reckless decisions.

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

RFK Jr.'s Pick for Surgeon General Cashed in Promoting Companies With a History of Unsafe Products RFK Jr's pick for surgeon general promoted in her newsletter companies with allegations of selling unsafe products

America’s top doctor shouldn’t be someone who peddles junk science to get rich off a grift.

Casey Means can’t even practice medicine.
 
I will vote NO on her confirmation.