Martin Kaufmann

Recovering journalist, long-time travel editor, plotting my next adventure.

[Martin Kaufmann @MartinGKaufmann]

So of course @CNN is hanging out in Helltown (h/t Norman Mailer) with drag queens on America's 250th while @FoxNews is celebrating Americana with the tall ships, flyovers and the National Mall. Pretty easy to see why Fox hammers CNN in the ratings week after week after week.

[Martin Kaufmann @MartinGKaufmann]

Same @dnyuzcom homepage: "Fans flock to Madison Square Garden" for Swift-Kelce wedding. Scroll down three stories and Dnyuz says wedding "attracts small crowds as NYC temps spike." That's journalism (said no one).

[Martin Kaufmann @MartinGKaufmann]

Miguel Cairo and @RobLongSports are TV gold. It's about the only entertaining thing about the @orioles at the moment.

[Beth Ann Nichols @GolfweekNichols]

Yes. This is a great example for those doing media training! Players will get asked the same question they don’t like many times. Part of the job.

[Straight Florida @StraightFlorida]

Nothing screams pure Florida quite like treating a prehistoric swamp assassin like a $5 Harbor Freight multi-tool.

This tipsy swamp Macguver leans over the boat, shoves a cold one straight into the gator’s mouth, and uses its front tooth like a armored can opener to puncture the can so they can shotgun it.

Pure Florida ingenuity mixed with an extra chromosome.

Look at the sheer heartbreak on that dinosaur’s face when he gets used and discarded. The gator thought he was finally getting initiated into boys’ night — maybe even scoring a cold one for himself. Instead he got used as a living can opener and left ghosted like a Tinder date who realized he was broke.

The disappointment is palpable. That gator didn’t just swim away — he’s out there right now, circling with pure spite and alcohol withdrawal, plotting his revenge. By tonight he’ll be lurking under docks with a serious taste for domestic light beer and a salted human thigh.

Don’t leave your coolers unattended, boys. The local wildlife is officially on a bender and they’re coming for the 12-pack.

Only in Florida. Absolute chaos. 🐊🍺

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A Coast Guard jumps onto a moving boat and safely stops it in Maryland.

[Romi Bean @Romi_Bean]

This Frenchman describing Buc-ee’s is the only thing you need today

(IG: Erosbrousson)

[RoadMN @RoadMN]

In just over two hours South Carolina has counted 66% of the vote.

South Carolina Election Budget ~$1.5 million
California Election Budget ~ hundreds of millions

[Martin Kaufmann @MartinGKaufmann]

@RichDubroffMLB As they say on @MLBNow (probably the best studio sports show in history, btw) Ernie Clement "was up to no good." Even the @TorontoStar columnist suggested as much. @orioles https://t.co/X665TETuJu

[Martin Kaufmann @MartinGKaufmann]

@ScoringChanges Even the @TorontoStar columnist can't defend Clement or the Jays on that play, but some guy on X who pretends to be a rules expert can? Got it. @orioles https://t.co/X665TETuJu

[Daily Caller @DailyCaller]

TILLIS: "Did you actually tell [Bill] Pulte you were going to punch him in the face?"

BESSENT:: "No sir. I actually said I was going to kick his a*s."

TILLIS: "Good. I share the emotion."

[CJ Pearson @Cjpearson]

The Trump administration has now turned Columbus Circle and Meridian Hill Park from eye sores full of squalor to what our capital city should like.

It turns out you can just make your cities safe and beautiful.

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine_]

Dear Canada: we aren’t being held back by America. We’re being held back by Canadians who got very comfortable telling us we’re being held back by America.

Our own Prime Minister proudly went up on stage calling us a ‘middle power.’ Canada…the second largest country on earth. Third largest oil reserves. Largest freshwater supply in the world. Arctic sovereignty over territory the entire world is about to want desperately. G7 economy. Educated. Neighbours with the largest economy on earth…

And Canadians clapped. They clapped like he’d said something inspiring.

We have every ingredient to be ungovernable in the best possible way. To be the country the world needs. To be the partner America respects, Europe envies, and China can’t afford to cross.

Instead we’re clapping for middle.

Until Canadians get half as angry about being sold small as they get about a Trump post, nothing changes.

Stop clapping for people who don’t believe in your potential. Who stifle your growth, and who don’t want you to figure out what we could be if they actually tried.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Robert Reich forgot the 6th and most common way:

6) Build something millions of people actually want

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Hey Kaitlan,

Remember when you and everyone else at CNN actually believed Biden when he said that he wouldn't pardon his son, and then immediately after the trial he pardoned his son and made fools of you all? That was awesome.

[Buck Sexton @BuckSexton]

Dear Rage commenters:

If Israel wanted to kill all 2 million Gazans the next day, they could have. They didn't. If "genocide" was their intent, why would they only kill 3% if they could easily kill 100%? Why drop leaflets, provide humanitarian aid, medical care etc?

You have no answer, because there isn't one. Your "genocide" claim makes no sense. You haven't thought rigorously about any of this.

[Buck Sexton @BuckSexton]

Israel doesn't train dogs to rape Palestinian inmates. That's a vicious, stupid lie pushed by a slimy little propagandist. But this newest blood libel is meant to distract you from the latest released evidence- including video recordings that *no credible person says are fake* of Palestinians doing the most sadistic, grotesque things imaginable on Oct 7- raping corpses while they are mutilating and murdering them, lighting genitals on fire, shooting out the eyes and genitals of helpless victims, forcing husbands to watch as their wives and children are raped and murdered-

And Palestinians did this on the *orders of their elected government* with months of planning to do exactly what they did. It wasn't spontaneous. The monstrous cruelty, the sexual degradation was the point. They knew Oct 7 wasn't going to win a war, or gain any territory. It was just an orgy of Jew hate and violence. The Palestinians were mass murdering, child rapist terrorists who did all this and were gleeful about it. They made phone calls boasting to their family members.

Did anyone in the Hamas government express remorse or regret about any of this? Or anywhere in Gaza? Of course not. They ordered it. They delighted in the extreme pain and cruelty of the Oct 7 operation against Jews.

So now some Americans, including ones who claim to be conservative, are taking the side of Hamas and claiming this was a genocide?

What do these people really think Israel was supposed to do in response to Oct 7?
Fight an imaginary "gentle" war?
No response at all?
Give up?

Childish thinking. Absurd moral preening. War is hell, but Hamas brought that hell upon Gaza.

[Martin Kaufmann @MartinGKaufmann]

@alexchristy17 Gotta appreciate the diversity here: five rich, white, Democrat men whining about how oppressed they are. Absolutely zero self-awareness.