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"It buzzes when the president is ready to pardon me." Via Brendan Loper.

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And who will repay the new $2.4 trillion in debt that Trump is incurring to shower trillions we don’t have to the rich? Younger Americans, of course. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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He’s facing trial for identity theft. He faked death threats against Trump, attributing them to the key witness against him to get the witness deported. wapo.st/45AHzdB

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ICYMI: Trump is proposing lots of devastating cuts to HHS in his 2026 budget request. But one of the cruelest is a single line that ends all funding for a program that keeps low-income people from freezing to death in their homes. His justification? DEI. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Who is ICE getting to mask up and abduct people in America without criminal records? At least one body-snatcher in the Nantucket raid had a tattoo associated with Nazis and white supremacists. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/03/m... @bostonglobe.com

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The Washington Examiner (the conservative news outlet) reports that Stephen Miller screamed at ICE officials: "What do you mean you're going after criminals? Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?" Kinda blows up the narrative that they care about public safety.

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Avoid context. Make up parallel facts. The intellectual arguing that America should have a right-wing king named his company after a Jorge Luis Borges short story where a secret society invented a land that plowed over facts. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Readers, get used to more of this from fearful researchers: Background sourcing of an academic “who declined to speak on the record out of concern that the administration might punish his institution.”

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I got a lot of death threats after I confronted Nancy Mace at a tech conference in DC and I guess it's nice to know that most of them were probably just from her and her bot army? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Sometimes a sub-headline can go a long way:

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China, like the US today, had two powerful dynasties that turned inward, isolationist, to make China great again. Both weakened, and were defeated by foreign powers. This analysis is solid to its last three words www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

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How many of the 238 people sent to a gulag in El Salvador actually were convicted of violent crimes? 11. Yes, 11. Trump Administration Knew Most Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Had No U.S. Crime Convictions www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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America 2025 (at the public library)

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The U.S. war on knowledge dankennedy.net/2025/05/30/t...

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This is the plane that is illegally dragging out people in America to hellhole prisons abroad. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

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Recommended: Ariel Dorfman’s play “Death and the Maiden,” a surprisingly contemporary 34 yo play that reveals consequences of authoritarian rule—even after the tyrant is gone.

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Making America Vulnerable Again: RFK’s HHS cancels funding for Moderna to develop vaccines to combat bird flu

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Career swindlers. Convicted tax evaders who defrauding banks of more than $30 million. To be pardoned by America’s first convicted felon-in-chief. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people." - Charlie Chaplin in "The Great Dictator" www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY...

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A tax cheat kept $10 million from paychecks of the nurses, doctors and others employees under the pretext of using it for their Social Security, Medicare and US income taxes. Trump pardoned him after his mom gave Trump $1 million to attend dinner and meet with him. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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Uprooting a cemetery. Plowing over farmland that sustained families for centuries. The Vietnamese had no choice. Mr. Trump wanted it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...

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The U.S. administration is using 'the Khashoggi trap' — ensnaring law-abiding people by asking them to come in for a piece of paperwork ... and then 'disappearing' them. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

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From Mike Luckovich, via @gregmitch.bsky.social @ajc.com

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Now we’re stuck with it, and will cost another $1 BILLION in taxpayer dollars before it could be used as an Air Force One www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

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Looking for a comparison to Trump? One historian cites the drunken, impeached Andrew Johnson, who managed to "affirmatively made government work worse and to prevent it from treating its citizens equally." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o...

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Who knew that threatening Social Security would prompt 276,000 Americans to sign up earlier for benefits? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/b...

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Separating families in Waltham, Mass., without warrants or identification.

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Tulsi Gabbard fires authors of intelligence assessment that Venezuela is NOT invading the United States. She wants someone to agree with fabricated reason to deport people without due process. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Changes to the ACA and Medicaid Could Lead to About 14 Million More Uninsured People www.kff.org/policy-watch...

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