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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1h

The cool thing about being an MSM oped writer is that your editors never expect you to have an original idea. It’s great if you come up with one, but it isn’t at all necessary.

Opinion
Opinion by Marc A. Thiessen
Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
His Gaza agreement, though still fragile, adds to an unprecedented peacemaking record.
Today at 09:05 PT|
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2h

Jeez bsky.app/profile/jfal...

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2h

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3h

Or how about 3?

If the implementation of all the stages of this peace plan rebuilds a pathway for Israeli-Palestinian peace, that gould be worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe even two.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3h

When you’ve completely run out of op-ed ideas.

OPINION
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Give Trump the Nobel for Gaza, if He Does the Hard Parts to Come
Oct. 9, 2025, 9:10 p.m. ET

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10h

It’s not the Tylenol, you moron.

It’s the smoked-whitefish salad that the annoying uncle smears on the lips of that 8-day old boy.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 1d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

WSJ always had a big gulf between Opinion and News, but at least that edit page has an internal consistency to it. This one is all over the map, and not in an interesting heterodox way.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

And the HR guy was like, “ok we’ll talk to him about it”

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

Thawing out ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument

A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was "arguably worse than Watergate" — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential...

www.pbump.net

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

Today’s Washpost house editorial

The announcement that Israel and Hamas have agreed to President Donald Trump's plan to end the two-year war in Gaza could be the biggest diplomatic achievement of bis second term. Indeed, if the deal holds, Trump can legitimately bolster his claim to be a peacemaker worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

Agreed. His editorials are so ineptly written that the latter makes a bit more sense. But both could be true.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

I’m not saying that the Washpost’s new Opinion editor was sent on a mission destroy that section’s reputation.

I’m just saying that if someone were sent to destroy the Opinion section’s reputation, they’d be doing exactly what this guy is doing.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17h

This too. bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 1d

You got me wondering. Data from statmuse dot com

Postseason Games Homers Homers per game
Giancarlo Stanton 47 18 0.38
Babe Ruth 41 15 0.37
Mickey Mantle 65 18 0.28
Aaron Judge 64 17 0.27
Bernie Williams 121 22 0.18
Derek Jeter 158 20 0.13

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

What possible reason could explain why Ruth or Mantle didn’t hit as many postseason homers as Jeter or Stanton? Guess they weren’t that good.

POSTSEASON HR FRANCHISE HISTORY
BERNIE WILLIAMS
22
DEREK JETER
20
GIANCARLO STANTON
18
MICKEY MANTLE
18
AARON JUDGE
17
BABE RUTH
15

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

and I'm not even a grandfather

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Josh: What's for dinner tonight?

OOPS

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that "Pam: I have reviewed ..." TruthSocial post from Trump, the one that looked a lot like a private message?

Yes, it was supposed to be a private message.

Trump "was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Bovino also says he can arrest you if "you're gripping the steering wheel so tightly that I can see the whites of your knuckles."

Trump Watch @trumpwat.ch · 1d

Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino: "We need reasonable suspicion to make an immigration arrest. Notice I did not say probable cause, nor did I say I need a warrant? Perhaps you look panicked when you see a Border Patrol agent. Perhaps you look scared ..."

So they scare people and then can arrest them.

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 1d

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Posobiec is *this close* to saying "did you know the Nazis were actually National Socialists?"

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord, even the cameraman IS WEARING A MASK

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