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As luck has it, I'm writing about Grant's Attorney General Amos Akerman, who said that Reconstruction required a firm hand with lawbreakers. "It is the business of a judge to terrify evil men, not to coax them.”

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I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

submitted 59 days ago • 396 comments

CARNEY: “.. we have to prepare for America’s threats to our very sovereignty. They want our land, our resources, they want our water, they want our country.” 🇨🇦 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 59 days ago • 60 comments

My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity

submitted 61 days ago • 162 comments

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

submitted 64 days ago • 57 comments

This is grotesque

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Astonishing is a good way to describe it

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Come on NY Times. Courts don’t “urge.” Courts order. There is a court ORDER that the Administration is flagrantly violating by pretending that it can’t do anything to get him back in the US.

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Amen

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Harvard squarely standing up to the Trump. Its lawyers to the regime: “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 64 days ago • 6 comments

The president is conducting a press event with the primary purpose of flouting the decisions of the courts and the letter and spirit of U.S. law. It is a press event to celebrate the Constitutional crisis and serial violation of human rights he has set in motion.

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Exiling people beyond the protection of US law without due process is not only unconstitutional, it's a rejection of the entire American revolutionary project. Sending people "beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" is one of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.

submitted 66 days ago • 82 comments

Good thread

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LOL!

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Good thread

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Trump: "Have you noticed that lots of law firms have been signing up with Trump? $100 million. Another $100 million for -- ah -- damages that they've done ... they give me a lot of money considering they've done nothing wrong."

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I’m no fan of Rand Paul, but he is right. The tariffs are based on there being an “emergency.” There is no emergency, and there is no basis for the tariffs, or any other “emergency” measure.

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Judge Thacker, Fourth Circuit, today: Government’s action “snatching” Garcia off the street and sending him to El Salvador without due process is “unconscionable”

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Good article but calling it “Trump’s fight against antisemitism” is to agree that this is what he is actually doing, when he insults Jews with whom he disagrees, surrounds himself with people who do Nazi salutes, echo the Great Replacement theory, demonize Soros, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

submitted 73 days ago • 18 comments

I attribute it to Trump's skill as a conman. The marks always believe they are in on the con.

submitted 73 days ago • 12 comments

Bessent is a craven careerist and coward if he believes Trump is harming the economy and says nothing and goes along with this.

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I get the desire to explain what the Trump administration is doing through rational political science, I really do. But such an approach misses a fundamental truth. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/there-are-...

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What is taught to senior military leaders at our nation’s War Colleges is that a nation’s power emanates from four areas: -Strength of diplomacy -Strength of economy -Strength of its military -Strength of truthful public information. All combine to determine power on the global stage.

submitted 73 days ago • 43 comments

political cartoon circa 1908

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Scenes like this explain why Trump et al. are so intent on crushing American universities. Authoritarians want to create their own reality, free of those (like professors) with the empirical expertise to question their claims.

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

Who is being the most honest I wonder …

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This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting. Go Denmark, Go Greenland!

submitted 74 days ago • 382 comments

What a dumb headline

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Excellent thread

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NEW: A major digitization project at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City has been put in limbo due to uncertainty over a $250,000 federal grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Trump administration put the entire staff on leave this week.

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Who the hell is running this country?

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After health secretary RFK Jr.’s ‘radical transparency’ pledge, HHS has shuttered much of the agency's communications and FOIA operations.

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The juxtaposition of these two paragraphs in today’s @statnews.com newsletter — wow

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