Patt Morrison
Pulitzers-sharing LA Times columnist, multi-Emmy-winning broadcaster, best-selling author, animalista. @pinkshotdogs veggie dog named for me. Famous author proclaimed me "the queen of all LA media." But that author was Dave Barry. Pref pronoun: royal "we."
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- Reposted by Patt MorrisonHillary was right about everything….
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonCartoon by Mike Luckovich | Creators
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- "We come in peace for all shareholders."
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- Reposted by Patt MorrisonIn stories like this, the news media should include a sentence reading: “Many recent accusations by Homeland Security against protesters and observers have fallen apart when more facts have been revealed.”
- Reposted by Patt Morrison365 Challenge No. 1 - 2026 publish daily old unpublished pics Day 37 - Light, reflections and shadows, Wat Paknam Temple, Bangkok, Thailand 2014 #fotosbyfaj #faj365challenge2026 #photography #blueskykin #bangkok #thailand #reflections #watpaknan #temple More at fotosbyfaj.com
- An old colleague who had covered the Nixon-Khrushchev "kitchen debate" retired there and sat around telling newspaperman stories.
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonEvery American needs to watch this:
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonToday we remember Alice Ball, an African American chemist who developed the 1st effective treatment for leprosy prior to antibiotics. After Ball died at 24, a male colleague stole her research. Ball was not recognized until a historian found her original thesis. Feb 28 is Alice Augusta Ball Day
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonOperation Metro Surge is hurting small business and doing long-term damage to Minnesota’s economy. It’s time for this campaign of retribution to end. www.kare11.com/article/news...
- Trump will hound these people as he did Abrego Garcia because a court told him he was wrong and ordered him to undo his deed.
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- Reposted by Patt MorrisonI hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonAll mothers are important, of course, but one of the most important mothers in American history was born on this day in 1784. Nancy Hanks married Thomas Lincoln in 1806. Their second child, born Feb. 12, 1809, was a son they named Abraham. She died at age 34 in 1818. Image: Appalachian History.
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonSomeone explain to me why the men’s names are redacted?
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonThis is Zephyr. He is a professionally trained bed bug detector. When he recognizes the scent of live bed bugs, he gives an alert by sitting and smiling exuberantly at his handler. We're pretty sure no one has ever been more excited to find bed bugs in their life. 13/10 (TT: emmercrew)
- I recently read that white U.S. citizens are putting Spanish-language bumper stickers on their cars and driving around with Spanish-language radio stations blasting, like the "shift cold" or military decoy tactic, to draw ICE resources away from brown people. Does anyone know whether it's worked?
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- Reposted by Patt MorrisonBad Bunny is expected to perform solely in Spanish during the Super Bowl halftime show, highlighting Latin identity at America's most-watched event.
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonThis pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonAmazon dropped $75M on the Melania doc — with a big chunk going into the Trumps' pockets. Since then, Amazon Web Services got a $580M Pentagon contract. And this week, Pete Hegseth visited Blue Origin facilities as the DoD overhauls how it hands out defense contracts. Always follow the money.
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonSad but true: “Day after day, we are seeing actions taken, decisions taken, that ultimately are dismantling the purpose of journalism and the protections that sustain it.” deadline.com/2026/02/cbs-...
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonToday in #BlackHistoryMonth, 2/4/1913 #Rosa Parks was born. 1955 refused to move to the back of the bus in a planned #directaction against #JimCrow, sparking Montgomery Bus #Boycott. Later in her life, she became a supporter of the Black Power Movement and an anti-Apartheid activist.
- The second most dangerous place in America [after the ICE-y streets of Minneapolis] is between Kash Patel and a TV camera. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonSomeone created an open, fully searchable version of the Epstein email archive Warning : NSFW (unless you work in the White House, of course) www.jmail.world
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonIt’s been weeks since Trump admitted that Putin lied about the made-up strikes on his residence, and he still hasn’t done anything about it. Now Putin has broken his one-week ceasefire, and Trump is defending him. How weak can a man be?
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonYour Daily Cartoon! open.substack.com/pub/jackohma...
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonJeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonPuppy Bowl 2026 Promises Adorable, Adoptable Pups On Super Bowl Sunday
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonSo weird how this keeps happening. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonJacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonI swear this clip is not edited. Trump pivots from downplaying the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti ("two people out of tens of thousands and you get bad publicity") to in the very next breath claiming "we've been very tough on the waters," leaving Tom Llamas baffled ("the waters?")
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonWell done
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonIf I die, I want my remains to be scattered at the US Capitol. Do not cremate me.
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonSo there was just a very loud and sustained "Fuck ICE" chant during a pro wrestling show on live primetime television, if you wanna get a sense of the vibe shift. (One of the wrestlers, Brody King, is an outspoken prigressive and wore an "Abolish ICE" shirt at a Mexico show in June.)
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonI do not make this comparison lightly.
- "In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world," photojournalist @cengizyar.com writes. "The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home." More: propub.li/4acxEeY
- "Legal, ethical, moral."
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonOn February 4, 1913, civil rights icon Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonJeff Bezos, one of the richest people on Earth, just eliminated hundreds of union jobs at the Washington Post. Solidarity with @postguild.bsky.social. Join them tomorrow, February 5 at 12:00 p.m. for a rally to #SaveThePost.
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonY’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto
- @pbump.com Sometimes the institutions aren't crumbling; they're being deliberately dismantled to create a vacuum for those strongmen to step in.
- These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- Guess Jeff Bezos is still paying off that flashy Venetian wedding of his? www.nbcnews.com/business/med... Among the layoffs -- the reporter who covers Amazon.
- Exactly like what Donald Trump has done to the United States of America:
- Former executive editor @postbaron.bsky.social says the Post is "a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction." www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
- Garcia is a Democratic congressman from the Long Beach area:
- Reposted by Patt Morrison#BlackHistoryMonth 3/28 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒆𝒚 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒎 (1924-2005) became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress and represented New York's 12th congressional district for 7 terms. She helped to create the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonGeorge Washington Carver developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics. #BlackHistoryMonth
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonThey’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonStyle section matriarch Myra MacPherson has died. “When I sought my first newspaper job, there were no women covering anything but society news, fashion. I fought my way out of that niche..." www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonDr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first #NativeAmerican woman to become a physician in the United States. A member of the Omaha tribe, she campaigned for public health & for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of her tribe. #WomensPhysiciansDay #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine
- We are enjoying our dinner a deux. One of us is using a fork.
- #DidYouKnow that February 3rd is recognized as #NationalDoggyDateNight? ❤️💛💙
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonExplore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonI want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonTRUTH.. #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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- Somehow I think Hillary Clinton will be saying a lot of things the GOP committee members do not want to hear, or to be heard. File under "be careful what you wish for ... "
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonGabbard said in a letter to Congress that Trump personally asked her to be on site as federal agents executed the search warrant on an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia. The incident has raised serious questions about election security and federal authority. to.pbs.org/4c9BckN
- Yet more assaults on journalism and the First Amendment ... not expecting to win but just to sue and sue and sue news outlets -- especially smaller ones without much money -- into pre-self-censoring to avoid conflict before it can happen. This is psychological prior restraint.
- Uh-oh:
- This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reminder: Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago's law school.
- No notice, and apparently no written search warrent in #Georgia either. And yet Trump was alerted months ahead of time about an impending FBI search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-war...
- "National security" to protect a gold-plated folly of a room no one needed, filled with Mr. and Mrs. Diamond-Swagged Gazillionaires who put him in power? Very Putinesque logic. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
- Speaking of testicular shortcomings ... this ditty was popular with British servicemen in WWII, @adamkinzinger.substack.com share.google/qlPIstiQ7n1Z...
- Reposted by Patt MorrisonThree rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
- Reposted by Patt Morrisonhappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
