Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026My headline for America's 250th birthday this month: George Washington. First in War, First in Peace, and First in Chugging. at the Bunch of Grapes tavern. www.dailypress.com/2026/04/01/t...dailypress.comThe Virginia Gazette – 250 years agoA look at what was in The Virginia Gazette 250 years ago. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Remembering today my dear friend and Wall Street Journal colleague Danny Pearl murdered 24 years ago in Pakistan 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Remembering today my dear friend and Wall Street Journal colleague Danny Pearl. 000
Reposted by Ron ShaferRon Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Attention CBS: Instead of reporting what experts said I am reporting what revolutionaries said in 1776 In today's Virginia Gazette www.dailypress.com/2026/01/03/t...dailypress.comThe Virginia Gazettes – 250 years agoA look at what was in The Virginia Gazette 250 years ago. First in a monthly series. 001
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Attention CBS: Instead of reporting what experts said I am reporting what revolutionaries said in 1776 In today's Virginia Gazette www.dailypress.com/2026/01/03/t...dailypress.comThe Virginia Gazettes – 250 years agoA look at what was in The Virginia Gazette 250 years ago. First in a monthly series. 001
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025The White House has just announced that the CBS Network has been renamed the Trump-CBS Network. 010
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025The White House has just announced that the CBS Network has been renamed the Trump-CBS Network 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025www.dailypress.com/2025/04/19/c...dailypress.comCommentary: Protecting freedom of the pressEven if you are a critic of the press, you should be concerned that the president is seeking to suppress your right to receive a free flow of information. 010
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 19/04/2025President Trump is attacking freedom of the press like John Adams. www.facebook.com/ron.shafer.3...facebook.comRon ShaferVirginia Gazette Opinion Commentary: Protecting freedom of the press Whether you are a fan of Donald Trump or not, Americans need to stand strong against the president’s threats against freedom of..... 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Well-known minister Martin Luther King gives historic speech on having dreams-- Trump Park Service 010
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025On the advice of Laura Loomer, Trump fires the Dow Jones Industrial Average for being way down. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Trump brings back the sporty Reed Smoot look from the Smoot-Hawley tariff that led to the Great Depression. 020
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Trump’s tariffs bring back the sporty Reed Smoot look from the Smoot-Hawley tariff that led to the Great Depression 051
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Today Sen. Reed Smoot is celebrating the day in 1930 when his tariff with Willis Hawley passed and led to the Great Depression. 010
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Trump- An old fashioned term that we use—eating. It meant putting food in your mouth that you could afford before I raised tariffs. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Elon Musk: I will destroy democracy if I have to bribe every voter to do it. Just don’t ask me to dance to a beat. 000
Reposted by Ron ShaferRon Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025In a move to remove divisive ideology at the National Zoo, Trump has just ordered that the Asian elephant be renamed the American elephant. 011
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025In a move to remove divisive ideology at the National Zoo, Trump has just ordered that the Asian elephant be renamed the American elephant. 011
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Trump decrees an end to divisive ideology at the National Zoo. The black pacu is removed, the Asian Elephant is renamed the American Elephant and the Emperor Newt is now called the Just Newt because “Gingrich isn’t a bigger royalty than me.” 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025We know Elon Musk lied about dead people getting Social Security payments. How many more of his savings claims are lies? It would be best for all if Elon instead used his money for dance lessons. 110
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Pete the TV guy now playing the role of defense secretary claims the attack chat texted to a journalist wasn't about "war plans." He knows this because he didn't see "war plans" on his teleprompter. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025I am 115 years old and one of those dead people over 100 Elon Musk claims is getting Social Security money from a "Ponzi scheme." Don't tell Musk, but I'm not 115. I'm one of 73 million people who worked to receive payments. Mine is less than he makes in two seconds. But I'd like to keep it. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Pentagon orders all soldiers to have Secretary Pete Hegseth hair style. Each unit will receive greasy kid stuff hair oil. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025 Tonight's Conclave: The Brutalist, "He's Still Here" Donaldo Perez demands Wicked have all White Males who speak only English, a policy of No Penny Boys and The Substance that makes Demi Moore's skin crawl. He accuses Anora's Mikey Madison of failing to negotiate with Russian attackers. 000
Reposted by Ron ShaferRon Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025 Tonight's Conclave: The Brutalist, "He's Still Here" Donaldo Perez demands Wicked have all White Males who speak only English, a policy of No Penny Boys and The Substance that makes Demi Moore's skin crawl. He accuses Anora's Mikey Madison of failing to negotiate with Russian attackers. 001
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025 Tonight's Conclave: The Brutalist, "He's Still Here" Donaldo Perez demands Wicked have all White Males who speak only English, a policy of No Penny Boys and The Substance that makes Demi Moore's skin crawl. He accuses Anora's Mikey Madison of failing to negotiate with Russian attackers. 001
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025The FDA is investigating what caused Rubio to be spineless. 010
Reposted by Ron ShaferRon Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025In the name of peace, Vance and Rubio offer to give Zelensky a free lesson on cowardly fawning over Trump, including drooling. 001
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025In the name of peace, Vance and Rubio are offering Zelensky a free lesson on cowardly fawning over Trump, starting with drooling. 020
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025In the name of peace, Vance and Rubio offer to give Zelensky a free lesson on cowardly fawning over Trump, including drooling. 001
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025In the name of peace, Vance and Rubio offer to give Zelensky a free lesson on cowardly fawning over Trump, including drooling. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Tearing down the houses wapo.st/4bjcD2kwapo.stBefore Trump, this president ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cutsAndrew Jackson set the standard for the most tumultuous presidential term ever — at least until now. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025www.facebook.com/share/1Er2RW...facebook.comRedirecting... 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Elon Musk being asked to list all the ways he violated the Constitution last week. He said he took a buzzsaw to it, so help me Dolley Madison. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Elon Musk is proof that even the world’s richest man can’t buy a sense of humor above junior high level. Call him the Pee Wee Herman of DOGE— with apologies to Pee Wee Herman. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Today is George Washington's birthday. You can read how his half-naked statue went viral in my book that also includes a story on how a Napoleon ancestor started the FBI. And more! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHZS522R 000
Reposted by Ron ShaferLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs 339105784643
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Trump next will require reporters to start calling the Atlantic Ocean the Gulf of Mar-a-Largo. Or else! 010
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025THIS JUST IN. PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID HE WILL BAR ANY NEWS AGENCY THAT REFUSES TO REFER TO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AS "THE GULF OF MAR-A-LAGO." TRUMP SAID HE CAN SEE THE OCEAN FROM HIS FLORIDA ESTATE, SO CHANGING THE NAME IS THE AMERICAN THING TO DO. OR ELSE! 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025To celebrate the ban of Associated Press, Trump reportedly is doing an American Hat Dance. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Here is Fort. Bragg’s original namesake, from my book on Amazon “A Half Naked George Washington. And Other True Tales From History.” wapo.st/3CXZwa5wapo.stWho was Fort Bragg named after? The South’s worst, most hated general.Mike Pence and Ron DeSantis say they would restore the Fort Bragg name if elected. Its namesake was a “merciless tyrant” who helped lose the Civil War. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Trump awards himself the Mark Twain Prize for American humor after asking, “Who the hell is Mark Twain?” 010
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Move over Conan. Trump awards himself the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Award for American Humor after asking top advisors, “Who the hell is Mark Twain.” 010
Reposted by Ron ShaferJill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Sorry to my neighbors who just heard me yell FUCK OFF to myself in my apartment 5732
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Trump declares himself head of the Kennedy Center and declares that the next winner of the Mark Twain Award for American humor will be Elon Musk. 010
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Trump declares himself head of the Kennedy Center and awards himself the center's next Mark Twain Award for American Humor. Trump clinched the humor award by asking "Who the hell is Mark Twain?" 010
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Today on Fox: For more on why people should get jobs based only on merit, let’s go to Steve Doocy’s son covering the White House. Take it away Peter. 000
Ron Shafer @rshafer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025My former Wall Street Journal and until now Washington Post colleague Greg Jaffe is a great reporter. (Speaking as the Post’s oldest freelancer) 000
