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Karoline Leavitt lies more than Kayleigh McEnany who lied more than Stephanie Grisham who lied more than Sarah Sanders who lied more than Sean Spicer who lied constantly.

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We were so close to a Middle East peace deal, but then a Hamas militant saw an Instagram post of a campus protest, and they were like, 'Sorry, Bibi, all bets are off'

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The case against Abrego Garcia hinges largely on a document from a suspended Maryland cop. Thanks to @gregsargent.bsky.social, we now know why that cop was suspended: "Providing confidential information to a sex worker he was paying in exchange for sexual acts." newrepublic.com/article/1940...

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In an alternative universe, Paula Xinis is the US district judge overseeing the Mar-a-Lago case -- instead of Aileen Cannon -- and we're likely spared these four years of drift toward authoritarian rule.

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Starting a news org is hard. Keeping it afloat is even harder. A big, well-funded nonprofit in Houston is about to close -- after spending $5.5 million in 2023 and $7.9 million in 2024. (The latter number was $2 million more than it brought in.) Via @sewell.bsky.social www.cjr.org/news/houston...

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ICYMI, for the past few days, two Florida newspapers have been all over this bubbling scandal involving DeSantis's wife and a charity she oversees. Now, the GOP-dominated state Legislature is on the trail. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

This is the most thorough dissection yet of the the feds' case against Abrego Garcia. It has everything -- from the chilling reasons why he fled El Salvador, to the flimsy evidence filed by a suspended cop that has put him in jeopardy. Via @rparloff.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abre...

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When a career DOJ lawyer tells a judge the truth -- in this case, about the illegal rendition of Abrego Garcia -- he gets suspended by the Bondi cabal. And his boss gets suspended too, for a 'failure to supervise' the attorney. Gift link ⤵️ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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The National Review today. "Bukele’s Remarks Do Not Alter Trump Administration’s Duty to Comply with Court Order" "Temporary Tariff Exemptions Only Add to Trade-War Turmoil" "Howard Lutnick Makes No Sense" "The Trade War Is Scaring People" "Peter Navarro Is Not the Way"

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The University of British Columbia has seen a 27% jump in applications from U.S. students for grad school. One American parent said she wanted her daughter "to be somewhere where she's free to make her own choices." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are currently questioning the intellectual bona fides of Harvard University. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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Well, it looks like Harvard’s pushback against Trump has fortified a vertebra or two within Columbia’s board of trustees. Here’s a note just sent by the acting university president to the Columbia community. She refers to “overly prescriptive requests” by the Trump gang.

submitted 18 hours ago • 34 comments

Perhaps someday, these stories that refer to the hundreds of millions, or billions, of dollars in suspended government contracts will specify how universities were using that money — and what the impact of these cutoffs will be on research in medicine and science. That day is not today.

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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

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Several great writers have left the Washpost's Opinion section, but none of the terrible ones have

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Tinpot dictator participates in Oval Office press conference. Also pictured: the president of El Salvador

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And the rest of the White House press corps did ... [fill in the blank]

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“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue" -- Harvard (unlike Columbia) gives the middle finger to Trump www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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It took less than 6 weeks for Trump to lose 14 points on his ability to handle the economy. www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-tr...

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Clarence and Sam and John and Brett and Neil must feel pretty proud of their protectee and his respect for judicial norms

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This story is amazing! There's one source -- quoted in the Guardian, BBC, Newsweek et al -- who runs a sex-toy company called Peaches and Screams and provides quotes on everything from how to walk your dog to how to change your pillow. Via @robwaugh.bsky.social pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

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The Palin vs NY Times defamation suit goes into reruns today with a new trial in Manhattan. The editorial that's the focus of the suit ran in 2017. I looked into thousands of pages of depositions etc in 2020 to write this piece. And here we are in 2025, doing it again www.cjr.org/opinion/how-...

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This is like the first question on the SAT (“3x=12”) that is designed to reassure students that they’ll do ok on the rest of the test www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Old enough to remember when Musk and Trump made fun of Nancy Pelosi’s husband, the victim of such an attack

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“Trump fucked us.” — Financier who saw a $10.25 million offer on his Manhattan apartment fall through, after the market collapse www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

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Somewhere among the discarded drafts littering the monkeys’ open plan office is a complete and perfect copy of “King Lear”

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Sobriety is overrated.

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