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Basically ever since UVa desegrated and became co-ed, groups of right-wing alumni have been trying to run it behind the scenes. That's what's happening here -- the lead in DOJ is of course a UVa Law grad, and the Trump admin will have lots of right-wing UVa alumni. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

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Former President Barack Obama issued a warning about the future of American democracy, while speaking at an event in Connecticut. Obama cautioned that the country is “dangerously close” to normalizing behavior “consistent with autocracies.”

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To demand both absolute power and absolute impunity is the demand of a tyrant. New from me in the NYT, on the Trump administration’s attempt to zero out noncitizens’ rights, and how that inevitably implicates citizens as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

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In this sobering conversation, @peter-wehner.bsky.social —former Bush advisor and longtime conservative—explains how Trump’s executive orders have effectively dismantled PEPFAR, the lifesaving global AIDS relief program. 🎧 Watch now: youtu.be/Y_srO5k5-Yo

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Suprematist Design for a Façade, by Vera Ermolaeva, 1920, 📸 by @kelcgrant

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Take some time to read this really powerful portrait from @gabrielleemanuel.bsky.social on the difference PEPFAR has made in one little girl's life, and how it's unraveled after the Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid, which the House voted to codify yesterday. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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We heard directly from more than 150 researchers, scientists and investigators about their terminated NIH grants and the science that’s being lost. Full story ⤵️

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Ka - Iron Age ft Roc Marci youtube.com/watch?v=TMcU...

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The first known detention by the US Marines in their recent Los Angeles deployment is of... a US Army veteran on his way to an office at the Department of Veteran Affairs building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Pathetic: ABC’s GMA, World News Tonight, This Week, CBS’ Mornings, Evening News, Face the Nation, NBC’s Today, Nightly News, Meet the Press, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal all failed to cover Trump's new office for ethnic cleansing.

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Incredible reporting. As part of the deal to send peeps to Salvadoran gulag, USG stayed silent on Bukele’s peeps stealing US aid money, which they sent to MS-13 as pay offs to gang leaders as part of the show of fighting crime — & the US has also agreed to return gang leaders from US custody. WUT

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The Free Press getting caught with bad data on Twitter and a correction that sources the correct data from . . . the Daily Wire . . . is amazing. x.com/thefp/status...

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Education-related travel to the US brought in over $50 billion in 2023,making it one of America’s largest service exports—almost as much as the totality of US exports of goods to France www.cgdev.org/blog/trumpon...

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given that the State Department is planning for an office of remigration, i suspect it's not going to end with just banning legal immigration

submitted 17 days ago • 27 comments

Just calling people waiting for work at Home Depot invaders doesn’t make it so.

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Here is an interesting graphic display: Detailed, interactive map from "The Impact Project" of Trump/Doge layoffs and grant-terminations, by regional effect. (County by county.) theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...

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The United States Justice Department micromanaging how the Harvard Law Review’s internal reprimand of a student editor is insane

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is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

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Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”

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The Langtons from South Africa were given a fast track to refugee status in America. The Mehraz family from Myanmar, who saw their neighbors rounded up and shot to death, is struggling after cuts to refugee resettlement agencies.

submitted 26 days ago • 21 comments

Death and the Maiden, by Camillo Verno, 1895, 📸 via @bleachereport.bsky.social

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My column from Singapore, ahead of Pete Hegseth's debut at Asia's top security forum. Macron already spoke today, calling for "new coalitions" betw Europe and Asia And this is what Jose Ramos-Horta, president of Timor Leste and Nobel laureate, said about the new Trumpian status quo wapo.st/4jowkbu

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They want this to apply to GS-5 jobs and above, which means people applying to be, e.g., nursing assistants at VA hospitals are going to have to explain how they'd help implement Trump's executive orders...

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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

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Pope Leo XIV’s first US bishop appointment is a former refugee Bishop Michael Pham is the first Vietnamese American bishop to lead a US diocese.

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Yesterday, I saw Musk's biographer Walter Isaacson wheeled out for a TV interview under the chyron "Musk: Back to Business" and it really feels like the media is entirely happy to go along with a concerted PR effort to increase Musk's finances by downplaying what he did to your government.

submitted 29 days ago • 154 comments

This. The morality tale isn't that Musk is disappointed. It's that Trump and he vandalized the government under false pretenses and a lot of innocent people got hurt, including taxpayers. Thousands died already from "feeding USAID into the woodchipper".

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Searching for a better life, young Ethiopians risk all to reach Saudi Arabia : www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

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