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Doug Fisher

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Journalist. Retired sr. instructor Univ. of SC. Former AP news editor, radio, TV, newspaper before that. Co-author "Principles of Convergent Journalism." Otherwise, woodworking, cooking .

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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 9h
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 9h
Meta = evil once again.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A U.S. Air Force member jailed since August for publicly calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment is being held in solitary confinement 24 hours a day, according to his attorney. www.military.com/air-force-ma...
military.com
Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s Impeachment
Maj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Thanks a lot SCOTUS. Citizens United, the gift that keeps on giving 🤮. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Bessent yet again proving himself to be a d*ckhead.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump is so desperate about the midterms he will do anything, including ignoring Congress and selling out Ukraine. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Trump says US to get diesel from Russia, relaxing pressure on Moscow to ease prices before midterms
Trump says the U.S. will obtain diesel from Russia, relaxing years of US pressure on Moscow to combat prices ahead of midterms.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey look, more blatant corruption. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is nuts. Alabama now requires all government employees, including journalists working for public radio, to use Gulf of America. (I assume this also applies to college papers at state schools?) The state is a Third World banana republic. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Alabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts Colleges
Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don't try to mess with this Pope.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
go.bsky.app/HGA4wmR A good starter pack!
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Superb.
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Oatsie @alexcsinger86.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Imagine if President Obama had flown around the country with a substitute wife because Michelle hated his guts. The media would have filed impeachment papers themselves
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sweet, sweet election year bribery.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The district court admits it's breaking some ground, arguing that the changed tech context requires a rethink. Appeals courts have been mixed on their reception to that, esp, as the district court acknowledges, numerous cases have avoided going that far. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#62 in United States v. Kyle (N.D. Okla., 4:26-cr-00189) – CourtListener.com
OPINION AND ORDER by Judge Sara E Hill, ruling on motion(s)/document(s): #47 Granted (Re: 47 Opposed MOTION to Suppress ) as to Melisa Susan Kyle (kjp, Dpty Clk) (Entered: 10/01/2026)
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And the tpp of the court's ruling isxquite a read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#64 in United States v. Cox (S.D. Fla., 0:25-cr-60249) – CourtListener.com
ORDER granting 30, 47 Motion as to Chelsea Michelle Ann Cox.The Information 1 is DISMISSED. Closing Case for Defendant. Signed by Judge David S. Leibowitz on 10/1/2026. (DSL) (Entered: 10/01/2026)
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is so very *not* good. "[The SEC] didn’t ask for comments. It simply adopted a final rule, effective on publication, that lets a single Commissioner act as the entire Commission whenever every other Commissioner is disqualified from a matter." www.corpgov.net/2026/09/sec-...
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SEC Quorum Rule: A Commission of One, Adopted Without Public Comment
New SEC quorum rule lets one Commissioner act as the full Commission. Adopted without public comment, here's why it matters and what to do.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Emergency court filing from Pike's lawyers seeking to "halt and stay" the botched execution tonight in Tennessee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
EMERGENCY MOTION TO HALT AND STAY EXECUTION
The Tennessee Department of Correction began the execution of Petitioner
Christa Gail Pike at approximately 8:00 p.m. CDT. According to counsel witnessing the execution:
1. Both syringes of pentobarbital have been administered.
2. Ms. Pike has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat and is
audibly snoring.
3. Curtains have gone down twice.
4. It took counsel approximately 7 minutes to be connected via phone.
Accordingly, the Petitioner requests and order immediately staying her execution
and ordering immediate medical care.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike, media witnesses said
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Tennessee Unable To Carry Out The Execution By Lethal Injection Of Christa Gail Pike, Witnesses Say
Pike had been scheduled for execution after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned an appeals court ruling that stopped the lethal injection just an hour before it was to start.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Which is what? That's reassuring.
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Fred Vultee @fredvultee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Your occasional reminder that government action is not the only threat to media freedom. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The ethical, moral and philosophical chaos we call AI prompts a modest proposal: Lock everyone involved in an arena and make them watch a continuous loop of "Fail Safe" (1964) until they get the point. We created the technology. We are responsible. Not the technology. m.youtube.com/watch?v=VUZU...
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Fail Safe 1964 Ending
YouTube video by bill lange
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
MUST READ [Tge] Justice Department no longer takes on public corruption in any meaningful fashion ... investigation sparked by Kao’s revelations is dead ... government is no longer talking to an informant who had offered a road map to corruption in Congress. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A really touching tribute from staff at The (Charleston) Post and Courier to Autumn Phillips, the former execitive editor, who died earlier this month. (At the time, she was the newsroom's "editor at large.") www.postandcourier.com/news/autumn-...
postandcourier.com
‘She made us writers’: Charleston journalists remember Autumn Phillips and the mark she left behind
Autumn Phillips’ influence stretched far beyond the stories she edited and the bylines she left behind. We gathered memories from former and current Post and Courier staff to remember Autumn, who left...
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For 2023. And they already had been granted extensions.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today's ICEcapades: -- ICE removes from public database locations where it's holding people pending final deportation orders. apnews.com/article/ice-... - US won't send or heavily redacting docs needed by potential deportees to show they're in the US properly. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Professor Amanda Sturgill @drsturg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A worthy goal could be to live your life so well that it inspires an obituary like this: www.npr.org/2026/09/18/n... I've written quite a few in my time. You put in the extra work on people who mean a lot to you, and Rose Friedman obviously did.
npr.org
Editor Rose Friedman, who helped shape NPR's cultural coverage, dies at 38
Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In which Rick Scott admits he's incapable of doing his job.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
America’s Added Fuel Cost Clock: now online and available live on the web for you to see the numbers climb in real time :( hoping if and when prices fall I'll get to the savings in real time... patrickdehaan.com/fuelclock.html
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Stop stop stop treating this $5k check thing like it’s real. It’s just…not.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This may be her pièce de résistance. @ellecordova.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/v/1K2z...
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
😄😄
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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How the game is played: the Data Center Coalition— including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.—set up astroturf websites in states. They're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on TV ads, and buying millions of YouTube views, with pro-data-center messaging.
screenshot from YouTube ad for Virginia Connects, founded by the Data Center Coalition, showing a Little League game and a parent holding a cell phone
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hot Potato country, that is.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'd make a list of all that's out of kilter here, but Bluesky has a word limit. Look forward to seeing @justinwolfers.bsky.social take this apart.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If nothing else comes out of these four years, it must be the courts realizing it's time to get off their deliberative arses to prevent this. Unless,of course, they like becoming irrelevant. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/u...
nytimes.com
Trump’s Speed on the White House Ballroom Threatens to Outpace the Courts (Gift Article)
In his breakneck construction of a grand ballroom and in many other initiatives, critics say, the president has tried to outrun judicial review.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Lawless.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You know how Trump et al. didn't seem to have fully thought through what could happen with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz? Well, now let's turn our attention to Canada, the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence Seaway ... and the Welland Canal. Look it up.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google wastes no time bootlicking.
Screen shot of Google Maps that now labels Lake Ontario as Lake America.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A good explainer of what os actually happening with the Postal Service mail-in ballot csees and how things might play out.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It was very nice of MSNOW to go back to what I wrote six months ago and point out that my concerns were well-founded and that things turned out the way I warned they would. But this is one case where I wish I’d been wrong.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fantastic! Canada: Take your Lake America and shove it. Portraying Trump as an eagle may be mis-casting, though.Guess no weasels were available. youtu.be/PUKa7tHbrFA
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Canadian Resistance Army - Lake Ontario (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by demonflyingfox
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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“The grand jury also concluded that Ashley Moody, who was the attorney general at the time, was aware of the plans to divert the $10 million to Hope Florida and ‘authorized’ her former chief deputy, John Guard, to sign …” www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
cbsnews.com
Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So many questions about what the alternative result of killing is.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22/08/2026
There is a broad and durable political coalition in Canada to stand up to Trump. The political coalition for hammering Canada with tariffs in the US is basically confined to a few Twitter posters.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
JUST IN: Judge Talwani chides the Trump admin and Postal Service for publishing a final rule restricting mail-in ballots late Friday night, even though it can't take effect because of two court orders. She says it'll cause confusion and may enjoin it.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
More legal BS by this administration.
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Hard, hard agree.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
GOP STRATEGISTS: We’re going to attack the hell out of this El Sayed guy, Michigan Senate is winnable for us. TRUMP: What if I crush Michigan businesses, especially the auto industry, just before the election?
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Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A ticking time bomb.
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