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Trump keeps using Mafia-like threats to get firms "not to publicly attribute price hikes to tariffs." When Mattel's CEO talked of this, he responded: “We’ll put a 100% tariff on his toys, and he won’t sell one toy in the United States... I wouldn’t want to have him as an executive too long.”

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Days after their “it’s smart politics to abandon transgender people to the far-right hate mob,” we now get “it’s wrong to display the Pride flag” from our paper of record. Happy Pride Month!!

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Reporter: “What do you think the future of DOGE will be and who is exactly in charge?” Former DOGE staffer: “I have no idea…To be honest, even when I was there, it was unclear who was in charge.” #WITAOD

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🧵We feds are all struggling desperately with this question: do I stay and keep fighting or am I becoming complicit in a fascist regime? We commend the bravery of our dear colleague Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos who resigned today in protest of the changes made to COVID-19 vaccine recommendations.

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Trevor Kirk, the LASD deputy caught on camera throwing a Black woman to the ground in a WinCo parking lot, has been sentenced to 4 mths in prison after prosecutors fought to have the felony jury verdict effectively erased and turned into a misdemeanor: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

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The design of imperial walkers is only marginally less insanely inefficient than the design of the imperial senate chamber.

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It could be just me, but some of the few things that stand out in my memory of high school US history—as bad things, but long buried in the mists of time—are all making comebacks under Trump. The Alien and Sedition Acts. The Spoils System. Canadian border disputes. Probably smallpox, soon.

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ICE dressed up like utility workers who offer "free estimates" if invited inside. Neighbor recorded the ICE goons and intervened, just before a young boy let them into his home. Tucson Electric Power was not told ICE agents would be impersonating their utility workers as part of the ICE raid.

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I don't know whether Elon v Trump is real or going anywhere. But both have real weapons to use which they haven't. Elon can spend money pumping up resistance to the big beautiful bill. Trump can start yanking the contracts Elon gave himself running doge. Until those things happen, meh.

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In seriousness, the Ono example teaches us the same lesson we’ve been learning over and over again. Higher ed can’t compromise its way way. It can’t offer up DEI (reluctantly or enthusiastically) and expect that to be enough. The goal is total domination and there is little incentive to compromise.

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Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

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sounds like this ex-congressman is pulling a max federal salary for ... well, not much work. Internal Docs Raise Questions About Trump IRS Pick Billy Long’s ‘No-Show Jobs’ And ‘Strange’ Schedule Inside A Powerful Agency talkingpointsmemo.com/news/billy-l...

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Joe Walsh went from a Tea Party republican congressman til today he is a registered Democrat. This is due to Trump and MAGA. Joe believes we need a big tent and we need to fight like hell to get our country back. I agree with Joe, how about you?

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"Adam Smith championed free markets but warned that when businessmen gathered, within minutes their talk would turn to restricting markets. What if Smith’s 'bad guys' had $1 billion and an antitrust get-out-of-jail-free card at their disposal?" www.wsj.com/opinion/semi...

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You might as well just hold on to your convictions, since abandoning them all is clearly not a viable strategy against eroding higher ed governance

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I regret to inform you that the Fidesz-on-Mendota party is at it again, rewriting the rules of the game to further delegitimate Governing While Democratic

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Walked into a bar in D.C. tonight and a stranger looked me dead in the face and said, “Who is the administrator of DOGE?” The movement lives. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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This is what’s needed. Intelligent people witnessing the dangerous consequences of foolish gutting of important agencies and both warning the public and urging them to call their representatives. Next we likely need meteorologists leading street protests.

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It really is as stupid as they think these throwaway votes, as they see them, are an easy way to game metrics like DW-NOMINATE so they can't be tagged as "the most liberal senator," because that's remembered as having been an effective attack line against John Kerry more than twenty years ago.

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The top priority for Trump 2.0 is to punish the libs and science is lib-coded despite “STEM” being centrist to conservative coded because the pro-STEM rhetoric is really just anti-humanities rhetoric, they don’t actually support science and half of them think the Earth is 6,000 years-old.

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An inspiring story: U Mich president withdraws his signature on a letter defending academic freedom because he wants to leave and get paid to join Ron DeSantis's war on higher education, and then doesn't get the Florida job because he supports vaccination www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/haha...

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My prediction: Hegseth will be coming after the USS Abraham Lincoln soon. Expect that aircraft carrier to be renamed after a mediocre Confederate general.

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Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

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There’s obviously no animating principle here beyond “they’re not straight white men.” Tubman, Chavez, and Evers all served in the military — as did Harvey Milk.

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"If you stand for nothing, Burr, what will you fall for?"

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"The official also said that the timing of the announcement -- occurring during Pride month -- was intentional." Fuck right off, Pete. We don't need your ship to honor Harvey.

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Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

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Trump has revoked guidance that directed hospitals to provide emergency abortions to women when necessary to stabilize their medical condition — eg when women are experiencing medical emergencies and need abortion to prevent organ loss or severe hemorrhaging, among other serious complications

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Kate Shaw is a national treasure, and I’m so glad she’s not taking shit from the Hawley and Kennedy. And I say this notwithstanding the fact that Kate and I have pretty different views on nationwide injunctions, the subject of this hearing.

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What I like most about this Musk/GOP fight is the absence of any angle for Musk. It's not like he's a sincere fiscal hawk, or that this somehow positions him better with liberal customers. He's just mad his friends don't like him anymore so he's pouring his drink on their board game.

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sesame street posted support for pride so of course conservatives are going “sesame street is grooming your kids” do they understand how insane they sound

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"Republicans are weird" remains a devastating, indisputably-true statement, and everyone who isn't part of MAGA should say it all the time. It works in every situation, even outside "culture war" stuff. Sure, there are strong merits to USAID, FEMA, CFPB—but also, destroying them is weird.

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