Jon Sinton

Atlanta

Columnist at Coronado Eagle & Journal

Serial media entrepreneur, writer, bassist, dog guy, would-be cook

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A Convenient Lie

4 days ago | coronadonewsca.com | Jon Sinton

The administration says that antisemitism at Harvard is what’s fueling the order to remove international students. But antisemitism has little to do with that, or the executive order to defund research at Harvard, one of the preeminent research institutions in the world. Antisemitism is a ruse. It is a convenient lie.
Raid!

1 week ago | coronadonewsca.com | Jon Sinton

During his presidency, George H. W. Bush resigned his membership in the National Rifle Association. The organization, drunk on their own rising power under Ronald Reagan and flaunting the Second Amendment, made a call to arms to stand up against the “jack-booted thugs” in the military and law enforcement. My, how times have changed.
Losing Ground

2 weeks ago | coronadonewsca.com | Jon Sinton

The MediaTucker Carlson’s Daily Caller website ran this headline: “60 Minutes’ Anchor Ruins Graduation With Deranged Anti-Trump Tirade”I believe this is the best illustration of the power of right-wing media in the absence of a modern liberal media. They rake 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley over the coals and make it seem as though the students hated his commencement address (they didn’t), and that he’s the deranged one (he isn’t).
Retribution Is His

3 weeks ago | coronadonewsca.com | Jon Sinton

He told us he was “our” (read: “his”) retribution, and now a New Jersey Congresswoman believes him. Lamonica McIver (D-Duh) accompanied the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, to a private prison engaged by the Trump administration to hold immigrants (but is not licensed to be occupied). She was arrested on frivolous assault charges that won’t stand the light of day. There’s so much to unpack here that I’ll just have space to touch on the lowlights. Here’s a partial list.
The Fox News Presidency

1 month ago | coronadonewsca.com | Jon Sinton

With Judge Jeanine Pirro, we’re now up to 23 Fox talking heads running the administration. I guess that’s what 48% of Americans voted for.
What We Lose

1 month ago | coronadonewsca.com | Jon Sinton

Because fewer than half of us (not a mandate) decided, for reasons that will be known only to history, that they’d like Donald Trump to be president again, we are left to weigh the costs. They are financial, environmental, civic, reputational, and emotional. AmeriCorps:California Attorney General Rob Bonta was an AmeriCorps volunteer. He credits it with giving him a social perspective and inspiring a career of public service: “I am not alone.
Techno-Medievalism

1 month ago | coronadonewsca.com | Jon Sinton

My colleague and friend, John Parikhal, has a knack for integrating history, culture, and trends in ways that often make you think he can see around corners. I invited him to expand on the kind of unique observation he’s famous for.
The Broligarchs

2 months ago | coronadonewsca.com | Jon Sinton

The New Oligarchs—primarily techies, with a few fossil fuel billionaires thrown in— are rich beyond the dreams of avarice. They are richer than anyone in the history of the world. They are so different from you and me, they might as well be, as the author Michael Wolff says, Martians. We can also call them the “Broligarchs.” If there is one consistent thing about them, it is that as far as they are concerned, society’s rules and laws do not apply to them.
Relationship Over

2 months ago | coronadonewsca.com | Jon Sinton

(An open letter from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney)Here’s what it might look like:Dear President Trump: It is with great reluctance that I write this letter because I, like so many Canadians, am a huge fan of Americans. In our long experience, Americans are open, fair-minded, and always have their friends’ backs. You, sir, are the opposite of most Americans; you decidedly do not have our back, and we are decidedly not your fans.
Amateur Hour

2 months ago | coronadonewsca.com | Jon Sinton

Let’s take a quick look at sober (keyword, that) reactions to Signalgate: •Georgia Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff had the most obvious assessment: “My first reaction…was ‘what absolute clowns.’ Total amateur hour, reckless, dangerous… [T]his is what happens when you have basically Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials.” •Foreign policy pro Timothy Snyder posted: “These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world, and they are...