Michael Huggins
@michaelhugg2591.bsky.social
DWM, technical writer, skeptic, avid reader, never-Trump conservative who votes Democratic, Renaissance and Baroque music, walking for fitness, museums, historic sites.
Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump facing GOP pushback over his comments on Rob Reiner | PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump facing GOP pushback over his comments on Rob Reiner
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including President Trump garnering rare backlash from members o...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump facing GOP pushback over his comments on Rob Reiner | PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Trump attack on Rob Reiner tests the limits, even for his MAGA base - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Trump attack on Rob Reiner tests the limits, even for his MAGA base
The president accused the Hollywood director, who was stabbed to death along with his wife, of having “Trump derangement syndrome.”
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December 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Trump attack on Rob Reiner tests the limits, even for his MAGA base - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Rob Reiner’s son held in his parents’ killings, police say - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Rob Reiner’s son held in his parents’ killings, police say
Nick Reiner, the 32-year-old son of filmmaker Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, was arrested and booked on murder charges after his parents were found dead Sunday.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Rob Reiner’s son held in his parents’ killings, police say - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Brown University shooting: Police release photos, offer $50K reward in search for gunman - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Brown University shooting: Police release photos, offer $50K reward in search for gunman
Brown said that it doubled its security staffing but that there is no immediate threat to the campus.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Brown University shooting: Police release photos, offer $50K reward in search for gunman - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Rob Reiner, Actor Who Went on to Direct Classic Films, Dies at 78 - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
Rob Reiner, Actor Who Went on to Direct Classic Films, Dies at 78
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December 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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The FBI Spent a Generation Relearning How to Catch Spies. Then Came Kash Patel. www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-...
The FBI Spent a Generation Relearning How to Catch Spies. Then Came Kash Patel.
As China’s spies grow more aggressive, the FBI is distracted and off-balance.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The FBI Spent a Generation Relearning How to Catch Spies. Then Came Kash Patel. www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-...
"I keep wondering how people could have fallen for this. How could people not know, after living through Trump’s first term, that he’ll say anything—whatever works for him in the moment? Did people really just forget that? Apparently, they did." - Michael Tomasky, The New Republic
December 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"I keep wondering how people could have fallen for this. How could people not know, after living through Trump’s first term, that he’ll say anything—whatever works for him in the moment? Did people really just forget that? Apparently, they did." - Michael Tomasky, The New Republic
Sorry, but You Had to Be an Idiot to Believe Trump Could Lower Prices | The New Republic newrepublic.com/post/204349/...
Sorry, but You Had to Be an Idiot to Believe Trump Could Lower Prices
The president’s disastrous affordability rally merely reraises the question: How could anyone have fallen for his campaign promises in the first place?
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December 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Sorry, but You Had to Be an Idiot to Believe Trump Could Lower Prices | The New Republic newrepublic.com/post/204349/...
Person of interest in Brown University shooting is 24, from Wisconsin: live updates - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Live updates: Person of interest in Brown U. shooting is 24, from Wisconsin, officials say
Police have a person of interest in custody — 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson — Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said, after a gunman killed two and injured nine others at Brown University.
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December 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Person of interest in Brown University shooting is 24, from Wisconsin: live updates - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Video shows ‘hero’ disarming Bondi Beach gunman in Australia - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Video shows bystander tackling and disarming Bondi Beach gunman
The New South Wales Premier said the man, seen in video taking down a gunman at the attack on the Jewish community in Australia, was a “genuine hero.”
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December 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Video shows ‘hero’ disarming Bondi Beach gunman in Australia - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Bondi Beach shooting at Hanukkah event in Australia kills 15: live updates - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Live updates: 15 killed in Bondi Beach shooting carried out by father and son, Australian officials say
Police said the shooting, which injured at least 40 people, was a terror attack targeting the Jewish community. A gunman was also killed; another suspect was injured.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Bondi Beach shooting at Hanukkah event in Australia kills 15: live updates - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this
Person of interest taken into custody in Brown University shooting, officials say www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...
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December 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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"The president has incited dozens of crises, but he has become the most profound crisis of them all, as his recent attempts to prove otherwise have shown. All of this happened in a single week." - Charles P. Pierce, Esquire
December 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"The president has incited dozens of crises, but he has become the most profound crisis of them all, as his recent attempts to prove otherwise have shown. All of this happened in a single week." - Charles P. Pierce, Esquire
"...the president seems [to] be caught in an endless loop of rage and recrimination. This is not a man fit to be by himself in any room with sharp corners, let alone in the Oval Office....
December 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"...the president seems [to] be caught in an endless loop of rage and recrimination. This is not a man fit to be by himself in any room with sharp corners, let alone in the Oval Office....
Trump's mind is failing
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Senile? We’ll show ’em who’s senile, won’t we, Mr. President? Mr. President? Mr. Prestident? Hey, Kristi, can you give him a little nudge? Okay, now hold a mirror under his nose.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Trump's mind is failing
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2 dead, 8 injured in shooting at Brown University, mayor says - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
At least 2 dead, 8 injured in shooting at Brown University, authorities say
Shots were reported at the Barus and Holley Engineering building, a popular place for students to study.
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December 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
2 dead, 8 injured in shooting at Brown University, mayor says - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
King Charles III shares cancer treatment update and promotes benefits of early diagnosis | AP News apnews.com/article/king...
King Charles III says his cancer treatment is being reduced as he promotes benefits of screening
King Charles III says that early diagnosis and treatment will allow doctors to reduce his cancer treatment in the new year.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Brooks and Capehart on Trump’s recent series of setbacks | PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Brooks and Capehart on Trump's recent series of setbacks
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including how President Trump's string of seeming disappointments this week is ra...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Somalia Is What ‘America First’ Looks Like - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
So This Is What ‘America First’ Looks Like
The practical application of Trump’s isolationism is hardly the big break he promised.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Somalia Is What ‘America First’ Looks Like - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Trump Confronts His Political Reality - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump Confronts His Political Reality
The president has entered the lame-duck era of his career.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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King Charles to Address the Country About His Cancer Tomorrow (Friday) at 8pm theroyalist.substack.com/p/king-charl...
King Charles to Address the Country About His Cancer Tomorrow (Friday) at 8pm
Buckingham Palace hasn't said what Charles plans to say in his unprecedented TV message.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
King Charles to Address the Country About His Cancer Tomorrow (Friday) at 8pm theroyalist.substack.com/p/king-charl...