Dan Froomkin

Editor of Press Watch (https://t.co/DyC5q3subU) ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancing. I afflict comfortable journalists. @froomkin.bsky.social

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April 5 protests were a rebellion against fear

2 weeks ago | headsupnews.org | Dan Froomkin

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April 5 protests were a rebellion against fear

2 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Dan Froomkin

Today’s political climate is full of fear, in a way that seemed unimaginable just a few short months ago. Federal workers and foreign students have been punished for speaking out against the government. Law firms and universities are submitting to extortion. Immigrants are being abducted off the streets, some despite their legal status, and some being sent to a foreign torture prison without due process.
Mainstream media falls for Trump’s insane ‘reciprocal’ tariff talk

3 weeks ago | presswatchers.org | Dan Froomkin

Donald Trump billed his “reciprocal tariffs” as a tit-for-tat measure: You tariff our products at 20 percent, we’ll tariff your products at 20 percent back. He said it again in his Rose Garden announcement: “Reciprocal — that means they do it us and we do it to them. Very simple. Can’t get any simpler than that.”It’s not good policy, but it made a certain amount of sense.
The moment has come to take to the streets

3 weeks ago | headsupnews.org | Dan Froomkin

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Wanted: 12 million protesters

1 month ago | headsupnews.org | Dan Froomkin

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Media ignores a big way to slow Trump: Flipping 3 House Republicans

1 month ago | presswatchers.org | Dan Froomkin

Conventional wisdom within the Washington press corps has it that there are several – maybe even many – Republicans in Congress who, in their heart of hearts, are not on board with MAGA. The theory is that there are still moderate Republicans out there, that they are offended by the profoundly non-conservative Trump/Musk agenda – think tariffs, siding with Putin, defunding medical research — and that they march in lockstep with the Trump regime out of fear, not out of principle.
Bernie Sanders and AOC to headline five resistance rallies in three days

1 month ago | headsupnews.org | Dan Froomkin

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Press coverage of Trump’s tariffs understates the insanity | Press Watch

1 month ago | presswatchers.org | Dan Froomkin

One CNBC analyst has spoken the truth. Will other journalists follow?
Press coverage of Trump’s tariffs understates the insanity

1 month ago | criticalread.substack.com | Dan Froomkin

Reading and watching the dutiful daily coverage of Trump’s trade war, you might well have no idea just how crazy it is. The reality is this: There’s no good reason for it, it hurts everyone, and it’s arguably going to tank the American and international economies. So it was a delightful surprise to see CNBC’s senior economics reporter Steve Liesman tell it like it is on his network on Tuesday:I'm going to say this at risk of my job, Kelly. But what President Trump is doing is insane.
Boycott Target, and other marching orders from Black church leaders

1 month ago | headsupnews.org | Dan Froomkin

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground,” the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass once declared. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”Leaders of the Black church are heeding Douglass’s words and calling from their pulpits for people to stand up for civil rights and decency against the onslaught from the Trump regime. The Rev.