Jane Rosenberg LaForge
@elrosenberglaforge.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, book reviewer, former adjunct professor, former journalist, blah blah blah blah blah
2025: the year in scandalous #books, particularly #memoirs. As long as major #authors with major book deals with major #publishing houses keep writing these things, I'll keep posting about them. Cheers! www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
The Salt Path and 2025's most scandalous books
In 2025, personal stories proved popular and powerful – but several controversies raised questions about the future of the memoir genre.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
2025: the year in scandalous #books, particularly #memoirs. As long as major #authors with major book deals with major #publishing houses keep writing these things, I'll keep posting about them. Cheers! www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Happy Christmas to me and a bunch of other #poets! The anthology of every issue of Makeout Creek, a #litmag that published for 20 years, is available and my #poem "Allenwood" is inside! Buy your copy here: makeoutcreek.com/products/eve... & get a preview in the thumbnails below, and thank you!
December 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Happy Christmas to me and a bunch of other #poets! The anthology of every issue of Makeout Creek, a #litmag that published for 20 years, is available and my #poem "Allenwood" is inside! Buy your copy here: makeoutcreek.com/products/eve... & get a preview in the thumbnails below, and thank you!
Leaked via Canada (thanks, Canadiens) #60Minutes report #journalism that was canned at the Capitulation Broadcast System last night. #FreePress #FirstAmendment Follow the link: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Leaked via Canada (thanks, Canadiens) #60Minutes report #journalism that was canned at the Capitulation Broadcast System last night. #FreePress #FirstAmendment Follow the link: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
Posting what I hope is a thread here about the Capitulation Broadcasting System and #BariWeiss, who is a pretty sorry excuse for a #journalist and I should know, I was often called one myself. All's I can say is if I did the crap she does, I'd be fired. Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly, roll over.
She really tried to explain away this decision with “gotta hear both sides”. Phenomenally stupid and useless person.
The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
December 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Posting what I hope is a thread here about the Capitulation Broadcasting System and #BariWeiss, who is a pretty sorry excuse for a #journalist and I should know, I was often called one myself. All's I can say is if I did the crap she does, I'd be fired. Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly, roll over.
So here's some very bad behavior I missed when it was originally reported in June 2025 about a certain #writer. Not news, but still shocking. Because I am so easily shocked and refuse to surrender my naivete because that way leads to trouble. #writinglife #authors share.google/qZZbvJMNS6gt...
James Frey’s New Cancelled-Guy Sex Novel Is as Bad as It Sounds
With a status-obsessed comeback book, the author of the fabricated memoir “A Million Little Pieces” attempts to rebrand.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
So here's some very bad behavior I missed when it was originally reported in June 2025 about a certain #writer. Not news, but still shocking. Because I am so easily shocked and refuse to surrender my naivete because that way leads to trouble. #writinglife #authors share.google/qZZbvJMNS6gt...
Meanwhile at the Capitulation Broadcasting System......
Trump's capture of the CBS mainstream media is complete.
CBS News pulled a “60 Minutes” report about the Trump administration sending detainees to a maximum security “mega prison” in El Salvador just hours before its scheduled broadcast Sunday.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
CBS News pulled a “60 Minutes” report about the Trump administration sending detainees to a maximum security “mega prison” in El Salvador just hours before its scheduled broadcast Sunday.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
CBS postpones '60 Minutes' story on Trump deportees at the last minute
The broadcaster said Sunday that the segment would be aired at a future date, a move that drew criticism from the correspondent behind the reporting.
www.nbcnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Meanwhile at the Capitulation Broadcasting System......
Got a #rejection, or should I say #rejections, yesterday. Felt bad about it but ok. Then I see this morning the #litmag magazine has a 60 percent acceptance rate on @duotrope.com holy cow! now i feel like doodly squat
December 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Got a #rejection, or should I say #rejections, yesterday. Felt bad about it but ok. Then I see this morning the #litmag magazine has a 60 percent acceptance rate on @duotrope.com holy cow! now i feel like doodly squat
So the #EpsteinFiles release turns out to be a #coverup, etc etc etc. We used to call this obstruction of justice, and it was an impeachable, criminal offense. Oh Hell what do I know. Only the past. Only the past.
December 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
So the #EpsteinFiles release turns out to be a #coverup, etc etc etc. We used to call this obstruction of justice, and it was an impeachable, criminal offense. Oh Hell what do I know. Only the past. Only the past.
All the news is bad/and the sky is gray/I'd never go for a walk/on a winter's day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK...
December 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
All the news is bad/and the sky is gray/I'd never go for a walk/on a winter's day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK...
Reposted by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died.
Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died.
My thanks to @nysoclib.bsky.social for including my #book of #poems, "The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated," in its list of work published by library members this year. Also included: my Broadstone Books press mate Ruth Kessler's "The Country of Elsewheres." Thanks for a wonderful gathering Dec. 16.
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My thanks to @nysoclib.bsky.social for including my #book of #poems, "The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated," in its list of work published by library members this year. Also included: my Broadstone Books press mate Ruth Kessler's "The Country of Elsewheres." Thanks for a wonderful gathering Dec. 16.
Today's Faustian bargain: we can have movies in theaters again, or we can have state-run #media. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...
Opinion | David Ellison Is Playing a Dangerous Game
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December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Today's Faustian bargain: we can have movies in theaters again, or we can have state-run #media. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...
Lecturer at Indiana University removed from classroom for equating MAGA w/white supremacy returns to teaching but with a monitor. #highereducation #FirstAmendment #academicfreedom www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
Lecturer Sanctioned Over MAGA White Supremacy Lesson Is Back in Class
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December 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Lecturer at Indiana University removed from classroom for equating MAGA w/white supremacy returns to teaching but with a monitor. #highereducation #FirstAmendment #academicfreedom www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
Reposted by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Free speech advocates have accused Trump of “shredding civil liberties” & “censorship pure and simple,” requiring visa applicants from dozens of countries to provide social media, phone, & email histories before being allowed into the US.
In a move that some commentators compared to China.
In a move that some commentators compared to China.
‘Censorship pure and simple’: critics hit out at Trump plan to vet visitors’ social media
Some warn proposal will decimate US tourism industry as free speech advocates say it will lead to people self-censoring
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December 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Free speech advocates have accused Trump of “shredding civil liberties” & “censorship pure and simple,” requiring visa applicants from dozens of countries to provide social media, phone, & email histories before being allowed into the US.
In a move that some commentators compared to China.
In a move that some commentators compared to China.
I posted a New York Times @nytimes.com story about California's housing crisis and it was labeled by Blue Sky moderators as "adult content." Because.....?
December 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I posted a New York Times @nytimes.com story about California's housing crisis and it was labeled by Blue Sky moderators as "adult content." Because.....?
"In California, the average price for a one-bedroom rental is about $2,100 a month. To afford this, a person earning minimum wage would need to work 98 hours a week." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
In L.A., $750 a Month to Live in a Backyard Storage Unit
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December 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"In California, the average price for a one-bedroom rental is about $2,100 a month. To afford this, a person earning minimum wage would need to work 98 hours a week." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
I wonder if Trump's attacks on women #journalists is a sign of encroaching dementia. This is not an excuse for his behavior. But it's been my experience that when people become senile, have hardening of the arteries, or Alzheimer's, or any age-related cognitive decline, they get mean. Or meaner.
"You are terrible!— I didn’t say that. You said that! This is ABC fake news.”
Trump reverses and crashes out on ABC’s Rachel Scott after she asks him about 2nd-strike footage he said he’d have ‘no problem’ releasing.
www.newsweek.com/trump-clashe...
Trump reverses and crashes out on ABC’s Rachel Scott after she asks him about 2nd-strike footage he said he’d have ‘no problem’ releasing.
www.newsweek.com/trump-clashe...
Donald Trump calls female reporter "obnoxious" for asking question
In recent weeks, Trump has drawn attention after slinging insults at several female journalists.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I wonder if Trump's attacks on women #journalists is a sign of encroaching dementia. This is not an excuse for his behavior. But it's been my experience that when people become senile, have hardening of the arteries, or Alzheimer's, or any age-related cognitive decline, they get mean. Or meaner.
Reposted by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
ICEBlock [an app that tracks ICE agents’ locations in real time] sues the US government after the DOJ pressured Apple to remove the app from the App Store, potentially violating the First Amendment's free speech rights.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/i...
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/i...
ICEBlock developer sues U.S. government after DOJ demanded Apple remove app from store
The developer of the ICEBlock app sued the U.S. government for alleged free speech infringements.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
ICEBlock [an app that tracks ICE agents’ locations in real time] sues the US government after the DOJ pressured Apple to remove the app from the App Store, potentially violating the First Amendment's free speech rights.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/i...
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/i...
This is what is meant by "slippery slope" in those #FirstAmendment #academicfreedom cases. Thanks, @ou.edu www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
University of Oklahoma Removes a Teacher It Says Urged Students to Protest
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December 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is what is meant by "slippery slope" in those #FirstAmendment #academicfreedom cases. Thanks, @ou.edu www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
"Students think they are customers who deserve to be catered to, rather than curious humans who might have something to learn:" What the controversy over a failing grade on a #University of Oklahoma student paper says about #highereducation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
Opinion | How One Student’s Failing Grade Became a Cause Célèbre on the Right
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December 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Students think they are customers who deserve to be catered to, rather than curious humans who might have something to learn:" What the controversy over a failing grade on a #University of Oklahoma student paper says about #highereducation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
Decided over the weekend that because of the junk he eats, our president is not a human being, but a forever chemical. His hatred, arrogance, and every bad idea he ever had will be with us forever.
December 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Decided over the weekend that because of the junk he eats, our president is not a human being, but a forever chemical. His hatred, arrogance, and every bad idea he ever had will be with us forever.
A comment on the @ou.edu student #essay controversy that I can agree with: www.kswo.com/2025/12/05/p... #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment
‘The professor was right’: Oklahoma Republican college leader criticizes essay controversy
The chairman of the Oklahoma Federation of College Republicans is weighing in on controversy surrounding a failed essay submitted by a University of Oklahoma student.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A comment on the @ou.edu student #essay controversy that I can agree with: www.kswo.com/2025/12/05/p... #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment
Inside job? Ok, but who was on the inside on January 6, 2021? Just wonderin'.
The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.
And there's the motive.
December 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Inside job? Ok, but who was on the inside on January 6, 2021? Just wonderin'.