Award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, author. Named Top Columnist by SPJ in 2021. Spy novel "High Hand" got 2019 prize for predicting Trump/Russia.
@s8mb Sam, I appreciate this post, but most outlets disclose payment rates. I see that at least one other respondent here has asked about this. Grateful if you could respond.
I'm very unhappy with X just now. While many friends and colleagues have left X in the three-plus years since @elonmusk purchased it, I have stayed with X. I have been a premium member for many years. As a syndicated columnist, I post my work on X, which can be seen in my profile. However, X just emailed me an invoice that more than doubled my annual premium- membership cost -- from $168 to $395. Research reveals this is a higher tier called Premium-+. I did not ask to go to a higher tier and don't need it. X just stole $227 from me with zero contact. Every way it says I can inquire about this does not work -- not email ("Our customer support options have changed and this mailbox is no longer monitored"), not DM, no phone support. Let's see if this post prompts someone at X to reach out to me. @AngelaZepeda@kcoleman This @wikipedia article describes my biography: https://t.co/A8YJiNHPP7
Watching the @DetroitPistons play the @cavs. @espn@ESPNNBA is soooo annoying -- 10-minute "in-game interview" with @spidadmitchell! Even if it was a Piston, I don't want a long interruption in the live game -- especially in the third quarter. Mitchell had nothing original to say, one cliche after another. Come on, ESPN -- get your act together. 😡
The #venezuelainvasion by @realDonaldTrump was so many distractions ago, it's hard to remember how risky it was. My recent column puts it within the broader erratic foreign policy of #Trump@POTUS. Honored that it ran in more than 120 newspapers and #news outlets including the @stltoday, @TheBuffaloNews, and @OWHnews #STLouis #BuffaloNY #omahacentral: https://t.co/UCbRunOkF3
Did @kevinolearytv really just pull a completely bogus number out of his butt? No one really knows how many undocumented foreigners are in the US, but the highest number I've heard in years of covering #Immigrationpolicy#Immigration is 12 million. Watch/hear O'Leary double that figure based on complete fiction:
Seems like @realDonaldTrump#Trump has backed off his threat to make #university sign rightwing "compacts". Typical BS bluster from the #orange man. Honored that my column criticizing the idea ran in 100-plus newspapers and other #news outlets including @orlandosentinel, @MiamiHerald, #fortworth @startelegram:
Counterpoint: Trump’s compact would cripple universities
There are exceptions to the saying, "Don't speak ill of the dead." #CharlieKirkshot is one of them. Honored that my column about him ran in some 60 #newspapers and #news outlets around the #country. Among them: @CityofFortWorth@startelegram, @CityofMiami@MiamiHerald, @KansasCity@KCStar. He was a #racist and engaged in #Antisemitism. #miami #fortworthtexas #kansascity:
https:/www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/counterpoint-lionization-of-kirk-is-all-wrong/ar-AA1MNxJM
Brilliant writing and original observations from Japan by my longtime friend and partner in culinary chaos, Peter Sibley:
The seen and unseen https://t.co/Ni9TwvyC6r
In researching my most recent column, I was surprised to learn that the #gender gap is growing on American campuses -- mainly because fewer white young men of the #Trump persuasion are applying. To put it in words their clueless leader might say, they think it's for sissies (and that's a sanitized version of the P-word). Which gives attending #college a new and historically important mission:
https://t.co/A1iOTeII9l
@FoxNews cites as proof of bias a report finding that 85 percent of coverage of @realDonaldTrump on @ABC@NBCNews@CBSNews is biased. No, it's not biased. It's because 85 percent of what @realDonaldTrump says is appalling. If anything the coverage is biased toward #Trump === almost everything he says is appalling. #election #PresidentialElection2024