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Sam Litzinger

@samlitzinger.bsky.social
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Mostly retired #journalist (ex-CBS News, ex-AP, etc). Master’s degree in #philosophy. Friend to #animals. Usually annoyed about something. My audio obituary for CBS News Radio: on.soundcloud.com/6tMcY2ZIjYbefssAwm 
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks, Trump...
Sign at my local Mexican restaurant announcing it's raising the price of its steak fajitas
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Digging through my papers and found a fun old comic. Darned hippies.
Hippie girl wondering if she's really a hippie
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump is insane.
The arch will now be a “top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch.”
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You have to wonder if there's even a single coherent thought among them...
Several women stare adoringly at Trump during a rally
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Great to see such a big turnout... "Hundreds rally outside shuttered Kennedy Center, chanting ‘Hands off!’"
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hope Mitch looks as good as Jeremy!
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You might hope that all Americans would see these Trump social media posts and finally realize he is literally insane…
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Going through some of my old CBS News photos. How about this crew? L-R Christopher Glenn, Charles Osgood, Andy Rooney, Dan Rather, Richard C. Hottelet (Photo by Charlie Kaye)
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Excellent photo in the NY Times:
Iranian woman dressed in black, back to camera, watching black smoke rise after an air strike
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I rarely go into DC now that I’m retired but just drove past the statues on Memorial Bridge (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art...). Trump has ruined them by dumping gold paint all over them. They’re now giant blobs. Trump really is a short-fingered vulgarian. (Before and after photos below.)
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Your new ground transport is ready for you, Mr. President. The Iranians will never spot you in this!”
Garbage truck
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“We’re just about ready to get you on the plane, Mr. President…”
Pig in a cargo container
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Always glad to have these visitors…
Two adult deer and a fawn grazing
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Anybody do Billy Joel’s old band yet?
Billy and partner dressed as knights or something standing in the middle of flayed cow carcasses
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Trump is insane.
Fake photo of Trump kissing Christ on the crossFake photo of Trump dressed in an Elvis jumpsuit
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Really looking forward to not watching “60 Minutes” and seeing this:
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Our president is a dangerous adolescent who thinks he’s a great warrior but has no understanding of war, its costs or its consequences. He is a human failure.
Trump posts cartoonish image of jets attacking Iran’s Kharg Island
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Trump is a truly foul human being…
Trump posts American war deaths highlighting the “small” number of deaths in the Iran war
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
An easy choice: vote for the bin face and not the f*ck face…
Count Binface and Nigel Farage
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Damn that Ambrose Burnside!
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This photo of Trump symbolically ringing a bell to open the stock market is so disturbing. The fiendish grin on Trump’s face, the little kids who have no idea what’s going on applauding and laughing, the sycophantic adults, the golden gaudiness of the Oval Office. Just ugh.
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Mitch calling…
Skeleton talking on the phone
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I dunno, Mitch McConnell seems fine to me…
The Crypt Keeper
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 4th from the nation’s capital! Hope all the visiting rain-soaked MAGA folks enjoy Trump’s speech!
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Looks like some serious thunderstorms heading toward DC…
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I think the NY Times might get more clicks by not showing photos of columnist/podcaster Ross Douthat…
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A perfect photo of Trump’s Great American State Failure…
Mostly empty space
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Looks like another day of huge crowds at Trump’s big event on the National Mall! And Fox is there!
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“One of Italy’s leading newspapers, Libero, devoted its entire front page to Trump’s false claim that Meloni “begged” him for a photo at the G7. The paper’s massive headline reads: “TRUMP È UN COGLIONE.” The vulgar Italian word coglione is commonly translated as “idiot,” “moron,” or “asshole.””
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Swamp Thing was there just the other day. Had a lot of praise for Trump’s work.
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Four weeks ago today. I hope CBS News Radio has merged happily with the background static of the universe. My audio obituary: on.soundcloud.com/e0I0CtbHSNWW...
Image of a gravestone with a microphone and the birth and death years of CBS News Radio
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Imagine being Trump’s barber at this point…
Trump showing his bald spot and tortured comb-over
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What an awful, awful person…
Hegseth grimacing and scowling at NATO headquarters
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This photo of one of our foster kittens makes it seem as if she’s starring in a 1940s film noir…
Black-and-white photo of a kitten bathed in light in a dark room
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Can you spot the Surrender Monkey in this photo? (Hint: not the guy on the right)
Trump (l) shakes hands with Macron (r)
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Our latest batch of foster kittens (six!) is about to go back to the shelter and then on to forever homes. They’re getting a little chicken breast mixed into their kitten food and seem pretty excited about it. #Cats
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Painful but accurate.
Cartoon of Cronkite announcing the death not of JFK but of CBS News
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Makes you proud to be an American, doesn’t it?
The White House obscured by Trump’s ugly fighting arena
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Trump going into the dumpster, baby!
Kennedy Center worker wheels garbage bin under Trump’s name
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
CBS correspondent Richard C. Hottelet (1917-2014)
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Dick ended up flying over the D-Day beaches in a bomber. Below is his original script (note corrections and censor’s stamp) and here is his on-air report via the now sadly defunct CBS News Radio network: youtu.be/xJ3Lm9Y2ync 2/2
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
You might be interested in this. It’s CBS correspondent Richard C. Hottelet’s copy of Eisenhower’s order on press coverage leading up to D-Day. Dick told me he was pretty much allowed to go anywhere he wanted, although his reports had to be approved by a censor. 1/2
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Two weeks ago today, they pulled the plug on CBS News Radio. Its website is still up, an internet ghost.
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I hear these guys may be available cheap. They haven’t had a gig since 1945.
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