Whitewashed. Popular Information, surveying 105 articles in 36 mainstream U.S. publications, finds them sanitizing new White House chief of staff Stephen Miller’s racist worldview.
■ Miles Taylor, a Trump administration whistleblower turned documentarian: “I worked with Stephen Miller every day. He’s going to fail. Catastrophically.”
■ Columnist Elaine Soloway wonders whether Miller’s Russian Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors knew hers.
’Tis the season. November’s an apt time to thank Chicago Public Square readers whose generous support over the years has kept this service coming for, gosh, close to a decade—beginning today with Ted Naron, Eric Hochstein, Athene C, Melissa Harris, Peter Ostrowski, Paula Weinbaum, Molly McDonough, Tom O’Connell, Karen Conti, Dave Hodgman, Carol Stukey, William O’Donnell, Lilia Chacon, Marlen Garcia, Melanie Minnix, Joel Hood and Sherry Skalko, Phil Huckelberry, Chris Koenig, Sherie Palmer, Katie Roberts, Larry Dahlke, Thomas Witt, Paul Herrick, Kay Luft, Stephanie Textor, Linda Biondi, Laurel Saltzman, Deborah Stone, Ken Saydak, Dave McGovern, Anne White, Charles C. Allen II, Pat Nash, Carol Lavoie Harper, Fritz Mills, Deb Abrahamson, Daniela Dolak, Jeryl Smith, Cindy Moriarity, Christa Velbel, Frank Heitzman, Thomas Vivian, Sandra Slater, Paulette Cary, Logan Aimone, Mike Quintero, Timothy Wilson, Mary Ellen Nelligan, Brian Rohr, Michael Johnson, Ken Hildreth, Aris Georgiadis, Jane Williams, Kevin Iverson, John D. Abel, Tony Recktenwald, Suzanne Vestuto, Valerie Stankus, Tim Colburn, Gary Kochanek, Timothy O’Neill, James P. O’Brien, Liz Meisterling, Janean Bowersmith, Yolanda Bada, Leigh Daeuble, Craig Gunderson, Julie Ross, Pamela Jameson, Jim Maguire, Ellen Mrazek, Leigh Behrens, Valerie Morrow, Theresa Rattenbury, Jim Kelly, Michael Cornfield, Susanne Riedell, Mary Sebahar, Jon Randolph, Ron Castan, Tracey Thomas, Gordon Meyer, Patrick Dahlstrom, Minna Houlihan, Victoria Engelhardt, Mary Lanus, David Painter, Angela Mullins, Christine Mackey, Sharon Kurth, and Sherry and Margaret—in memory of Jack Helbig.
‘A disaster.’ Last Week Tonight host John Oliver lays out a devastating case for ending the damage done by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and for “impeaching and removing this f*cking asshole as soon as possible.”
■ See Oliver’s show here.
■ Columnist and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich: “Stephen Miller knows Hegseth would be a convenient fall guy for the war.”
Ya think? Trump tells 60 Minutes last week’s vote suggests his deportation policies “might be too tough.”
■ But lest anyone think he’s going soft, he also said he couldn’t forgive his political enemies—even if that would get him into heaven—“because I do hate some of my enemies and I always will.”
■ Columnist Jeff Tiedrich is gobsmacked that Trump’s team OK’d the interview: “Dear Leader was so befuddled, and so compromised—both cognitively and ethically—that even a complete lightweight … was able to nail him to the wall on corruption.”
■ See the interview here.
■ In a new memoir, former President Joe Biden says Trump’s 2021 Capitol insurrection “should follow him to his grave.”
■ Over the weekend, Trump used his Truth Social platform to threaten Democrats with imprisonment …
■ … as his administration moved to shut down Planned Parenthood.
■ Law and Chaos columnist Liz Dye: Trump’s sycophantic Attorney General Todd Blanche “took to the Sunday shows to complain about Democratic lawmakers being so mean to the Trump administration.”
■ CNN’s Brian Stelter on a sea change for Joe Rogan’s podcast, once a platform for Trump’s reelection and now “a place for a whistleblower-style conversation alleging ‘corruption’ at the highest levels of the Trump administration.”
■ Historian Heather Cox Richardson sees “signs that the president is deeply concerned about anyone getting a window into how his administration has been operating.”
‘Golly, I like these politicians.’ On Facebook, former Tribune columnist Mary Schmich celebrates last week’s big election winners: “Good people saw a calling and an opportunity in the madness.”
■ Journalist and filmmaker Steven Beschloss: “Young voters … have overwhelmingly said … that the country is on the wrong track.”
■ Journalism professor Jeff Jarvis dives into the stats: “Who didn’t join this great pluralistic election? The uneducated.”
■ Columnist Mike Gold: “Trump will have a hard time …getting any part of his agenda through Congress. Should he actually attempt to get one of his Nazibots a permanent job in his cabinet after New Year’s Day, he will not have the votes.”
■ Law professor Joyce Vance: “Whatever else happens this week, it won’t be a great one for the Trump administration, and that’s enough for me.”
■ Columnist and cartoonist Jack Ohman cautions, “We all have to keep up the volume so this never, ever happens again.”
■ Science fiction author Cory Doctorow’s not upbeat: “America … cannot be relied upon to serve as the world’s hyperpower. Trump forever … destroyed its capacity to even try.”
AIiiiii! Artificial intelligence company Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang is under investigation for an affair with a woman who The New York Times reports was gathering intel for the government of China.
Truck off. Elon Musk says Tesla’s discontinuing its (ugly, ugly, ugly) steel-plated pickup …
‘Hell yes.’ Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg: “You could be forgiven for overlooking that more than two-thirds of Chicago voters—68%—said ‘yes’ on the referendum question: ‘Should Chicago develop a permanent festival and outdoor event space?’”
■ WBEZ: The outcome “doesn’t mean the city is destined to develop a Summerfest-esque destination anytime soon.”
■ Tribune critic and editorial page editor Chris Jones (free link): “Kicking Lollapalooza out of Grant Park would be madness.”
■ To no avail, hundreds of people gathered in the park yesterday for a (vain) stab at pushing The Bean “seven inches to the left.”
She won her job back—but won’t take it. Fired Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah—awarded by an independent arbitrator with reinstatement and full back pay after her dismissal apparently for refusing to genuflect before the memory of slain reactionary activist Charlie Kirk—is taking a hard pass, because she wouldn’t have “the guaranteed freedom and institutional support to do what I loved: use my voice, seek truth, and serve readers.”
■ WBEZ’s going with a team of three staffers—at least temporarily—to replace departing In the Loop host Sasha-Ann Simons.
■ Join their ranks today for as little as $1, just once, and see your name atop tomorrow’s roll call.
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