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@jamellebouie.net this is typical of #strongmen and fits the psychological portrait laid out in my book. Democratic leaders represent the nation vs authoritarians who claim to embody it.

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"Kennedy’s wide-ranging “Make America Healthy Again” report, released last week, cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the news organization NOTUS found that some of those studies did not actually exist." apnews.com/article/maha... Story by Amanda Seitz

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Ron DeSantis took over the New College of Florida, this is how it’s going. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Jake Tapper's ratings are at their lowest point in a decade. This is what happens when you betray your audience in hopes you can sell some books to Trump supporters (a bad strategy since they won't read it and hated you to begin with)

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Make AI Hallucinate Again.

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“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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TACO Trump. Big talker, no deals.

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Cosplay Barbie

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The updated total is that TACO Trump has now pardoned NINE former Republican members of Congress convicted of crimes.

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When we were reporting the Trump book, we knew there were many, many women out there who couldn't talk to us because they had signed NDAs. NDAs enable bad actors to keep committing crimes in the dark. This would be an important step forward. observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

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The federal courts have been doing an impressive job of standing up to Trump. This includes SCOTUS, at times. But not always. See its latest gift to presidential power--conveniently ignoring a 90-year-old precedent. My latest for New Yorker www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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😂😂😂😂

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Tariffs, Trump’s pattern of illegality, and the “Carol effect” Join Norm Eisen and @aprildryan.bsky.social for Coffee with the Contrarians—LIVE at 9:15am ET on Substack!

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One thing we never talk about is how NASA was not allowed to fail in the same ways that SpaceX does. For NASA, they’ve been under a strict microscope of not wasting taxpayer dollars in their pursuits. The bar was always high. SpaceX has a lower bar, all while still using taxpayer dollars.

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Biden tried to make community college free, but the Republicans blocked him. Because of Trump's dementia, he can't remember this and apparently most Republicans have caught his dementia.

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Said it before, I’ll say it again. We shouldn’t privatize NASA. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/s...

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Can we have Harvard grads and plumbers or is this a zero-sum thing? bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Of course they find Bluesky annoying and uninviting. They spend most of their time in spaces that are awash in cognitive dissonance. Every morning, they wake up knowing they'll have to cover a sociopath whilst pretending he's not a sociopath. Most spaces enable that bet hedging. Bluesky doesn't.

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We honor all who made the ultimate sacrifice—among them, my friend Navy SEAL David Collins. He came home, but the war followed. After enduring repeated blast waves, he eventually took his own life, but not before donating his brain to science in hopes that future veterans might be saved #BrainInjury

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May 26, 2025

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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 138. Some wild stuff in this one - definitely nothing normal about this weekend in politics that’s for sure. Here is everything that happened. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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I am trying very hard not to break things right now after seeing the Secretary of DHS indicate she doesn’t understand a legal concept so essential to the principles of a free society it dates as far back as the MAGNA CARTA.

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He should have finished that last sentence…done enough damage.

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Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽

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🚨NEW AD: As Republicans plow full-steam ahead this week to pass their Medicaid-slashing Billionaire Tax Scam, they'll have to answer to families like Amy’s: “Look me in the eye and tell me that a billionaire’s yacht is more important than my health care.”

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Fact check: No, Secretary Noem. Habeas corpus is not a constitutional right the president has to remove people from the country. It is a right the people have to combar the arbitrary use of executive power. I have a handy explanation for you here. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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Some GREAT good news for a change: The streets of Romania are erupting in celebration tonight. Nicusor Dan, Romania’s pro-EU candidate beats hard-right rival to win the presidential election. Many say he has done the impossible 53.92 vs 46.08%🥳 The world is rejecting Trumpism. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Sending prayers and well wishes to President Biden, Jill, and the entire Biden family. President Biden has spent his life helping others battle cancer, and I know he will bring the same tenacity and courage to this fight.

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The president’s son.

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“Trump has begun to realize he has overplayed his hand.” I’ll never get over this persistent, irresistible, and insatiable compulsion that people have to attribute rationality to Donald Trump, despite everything that he has done over so many years to demonstrate he lacks it.

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Everything he touches goes bankrupt.

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⚡️'Putin did not show up' — EU to adopt Russian sanctions on May 20 after Putin snubbed peace talks with Zelensky.

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Bondi was a lobbyist for Qatar. She has no business advising Trump on the plane they want to bribe him with.

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WATCH LIVE from Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Pete Buttigieg joins VoteVets for a town hall on the MeidasTouch Network. Veterans, military families, and Iowans speak out on the stakes—and the policies failing those who served.

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Bloomberg: the trade deal is a victory for China’s Xi Jinping

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I suppose the New York Times will run daily stories on this until he resigns, unless Secretary of Defense is a less newsworthy job than a college administrator?

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The amount of Russian soldiers in this picture is how many are killed or wounded every three days

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This Mother’s Day, I’m honoring the woman who carried me through it all. An immigrant. A survivor. A quiet force of strength who never let life break her. She taught me when to fight, and when to walk away.

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TRY AND STOP ME: New Trump Third Term Plot launches. ‘The constitution is unconstitutional’ because only the president is term-limited If you think he’s joking or trolling you’re making a fatal mistake. This is plot No. 4 GET THE NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST: tinyurl.com/mwtscbc8

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Chinese embassy speaks out on US-China trade negotiations claiming US has reached out multiple times using several communication channels

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