Brian Karem

1 week ago | open.substack.com | Brian Karem

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1 week ago | salon.com | Brian Karem

Donald Trump made his personal transformation of the White House nearly complete Wednesday morning. He already announced his intentions to add a ballroom — “the biggest and best ever” — to the East Wing and has begun paving over the lawn of Jackie Kennedy’s iconic Rose Garden. (“It’ll be like nothing anyone has ever seen before,” he promised.) Now he’s installed two giant flagpoles, one on the North Lawn and the other on the South Lawn.

1 week ago | brianjkarem.substack.com | Brian Karem

You can buy it here, or wherever fine books are sold. This is a cautionary tale I hope and not a postmortem-though it may seem like one. I also hope to present solutions to the problems written about here. You may or may not agree with them, but I hope you think about them— at least a little more than we think about the clickbait that passes as journalism on a variety of platforms these days. The tale is about the apparent death of independent journalism.

1 week ago | open.substack.com | Brian Karem

Donald Trump going after Bruce? Come on. Not even close. You always need to laugh![Verse 1]Madman bombers, wormers and Christians acting somber screaming at DemocratsGetting angry at their neighbors as the village idiots throw money in his hat.

2 weeks ago | salon.com | Brian Karem

Terry Moran is the latest casualty in Donald Trump’s war against reality. Moran, the former senior White House correspondent for ABC News, recently posted on X that Trump and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller are “world-class haters.” Trump, Moran wrote, uses hate as a means to obtain the glorification that is “his spiritual nourishment.” For Miller, on the other hand, “hatreds are his spiritual nourishment,” Moran said. “He eats his hate.”He ain’t wrong.