Category: Power to the People

R.I.P. Bill Moyers

~ susie

A real journalist.

Bill Moyers has died. He was 91.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T20:52:28.705Z

I remember the story about an informal dinner in the WH; LBJ asked him, at the other end, to say grace. Moyers started, and LBJ interrupted: "Bill, can you speak up? I can't hear you.""I'm sorry, Mr. President, I wasn't addressing you."

— Frank Lynch (@fplynch.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T21:14:09.005Z

RIP to a real one. Stood up for the truth in a sea of lies.Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2…

— Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T20:16:28.971Z

Democracy wins

~ susie

"This ruling stands as a powerful rebuke to a dangerously cynical strategy that would have retroactively stripped thousands of eligible North Carolina voters of their right to vote," said Lali Madduri, Partner at Elias Law Group.

— Elias Law Group (@eliaslawgroup.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T15:32:24.382Z

Jefferson Griffin tried to win an election by disenfranchising military voters serving overseasThat’s awfulWorse-his attempt was limited only to troops from Democratic countiesThat’s cravenThis is what the Republican Party has becomeA cabal of anarchists without any values-save onePower

— Adam Cohen (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T18:40:21.893Z