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DC based recovering journalist: FEER, AFP, lots of bylines elsewhere; Asia (esp Thailand), Saudi, US. Author "The King Never Smiles" bio of Thai King Bhumibol. Clarinet Django/gypsy/manouche, swing, jazz, Takoma Park Community Band. šŸ‡«šŸ‡· šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø
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NEW: Palantir threatened to call police on @wired.com reporter @carolinehaskins.bsky.social and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm's work with the Trump administration. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/palant...

Guess everyone here is going back to TwitterX, at least for the day.

Just imagine if Ukraine was like Russia, attacking schools and hospitals and markets instead of military targets. i doubt the Trump folks appreciate this.

FBI agents are now visiting Charlottesville’s public defenders *at their homes*. It’s naked intimidation of our justice system.

Classic. AFP’s Gabriel Bouys photographs the 30th national rally of the Citroen 2CV Clubs de France association in Agde, southern France. The archetypal French car, the 2CV (deux chevaux), meaning "two horsepower", was built between 1949 and 1990 by carmaker Citroen

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

Nicolle Saroukos, a U.S. military wife, was jailed, strip-searched and deported when she simply tried to visit her husband in Hawaii. Saroukos, an Australian, had a valid visa. This is how the Trump regime treats military families: youtu.be/0cYsSl-twEg?...

BREAKING Zelensky proposes three-way meeting with Trump and Putin

BBC: ā€œUS halts student visa appointments and plans expanded social media vettingā€ The Trump war on universities hots up. Chilling. www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

APOLLO: ā€œIt’s been nearly two weeks since the China/US trade deal, but container traffic from China to the US hasn’t shown a strong rebound. .. Are 30% tariffs on China still too high? Or are US companies simply waiting to see if tariffs will drop further before ramping up shipments?ā€

A weak, spineless US president capitulates to Russia. Exactly what Vladimir Putin wanted. Next: Donald Trump capitulates to Xi Jinping.

Spotted in Kansas City, Missouri: Patriot Front—a white nationalist hate group—holding its annual Memorial Day march in front of the national WWI museum and memorial. They wore masks, carried shields and flags.

This is the woman who just got promoted to press secretary for the Department of Defense ā€œProud to be an enemy of globalist Ukraineā€

Three weeks from right now, we will be taking to the streets across the country on No Kings Day. Over 1,000 events are planned in response to Trump’s $100 million birthday parade in DC. We hope you will join us on June 14: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Of 14,777 unique articles on the NYT's homepage over the 310 days from 1/1/24 to Election Day, 293 articles–almost one a day–focused on Biden’s age compared with just 27 articles focused on Project 2025, a ratio of 10.9 to one mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/new-yor...

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

How dead-donkey dumb are Trump’s top people? This ā¬‡ļø

Records show Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 and $5 million worth of Trump Media shares on April 2. That same day, after the market closed, Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, sending the stock market plunging. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...

You can't make this up. ICE left a 12-year-old completely abandoned on the street after abducting the adult he was with. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

75 YEARS OLD TODAY šŸŽ‚ Happy 75th Birthday to Stevie Wonder

Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ā‰ˆ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ā‰ˆ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ā‰ˆ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...

Presidential libraries should just be nationalized. You don't get a "presidential library" paid for by donations from people who suck up to you. It's an obvious conduit for graft. You just get your stuff jammed into the National Archives along with everything else.

Uhh, anyone notice that Trump said today his US-China trade deal could lead to China taking control of Taiwan? "I think it's going to be great for unification and peace."

Hey look on the bright side, at least ā€œI’ll keep the $400 million plane after I leave officeā€ is an admission he’ll leave office

I made 38K my first year teaching in Arkansas. I held a BA. I made 41K in Missouri after 16 years of teaching. I held an MA. See the problem?

This right here......

This David Nasaw piece is very very wrong in this on Musk, in some ways dangerously wrong. I don't like Musk, but he has been key to advancing projects 2025 and in other areas: /1 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...

ā€œPresident Donald Trump has been personally involved in discussions inside the administration over potentially suspending habeas corpusā€ www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/p...

Leo XIV is believed to be the first pope to have retweeted @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Team Francis wins. The world wins. Not Team Benedict. Not Opus Dei. Lots of ā€œwe lostā€ drinking on Team Leonard Leo tonight. www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...

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