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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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there is a fundamental contradiction between "home as affordable shelter" and "homes as appreciating assets." in order for the latter to be true, prices must go continually up, which requires some combo of supply restrictions & subsidies, and also tends to produce this:

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This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

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This is what I mean by news outlets willingly letting themselves get language-policed by the far right. You used to be able to just call this a "Nazi salute." Now it's "a provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month."

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I’m begging the media to call Nazi salutes … “Nazi salutes.” You can write “he gave a Nazi salute.” That’s the proper journalism. Describe things as they are even if people get mad.

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For today's newsletter, I wrote about @chriswarcraft.bsky.social and what Democratic elected officials can learn from him www.readtpa.com/p/democrats-...

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Lawfare is tracking over 70 cases of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s executive orders and actions, as well as cases on behalf of the Trump administration to enforce them. Check out the tracker here, updated by @annahickey.bsky.social: www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

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Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

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post a meme made by you

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Will someone please think of the poor landlords ... "Three quarters of rental units inspected by a Dublin local authority last year did not meet minimum legal standards, according to newly released data" #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #HousingCrisis www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/thou...

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I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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First graf of this story should have said: "In the starkest example yet of Vladimir Putin's profound influence on Donald Trump, Trump falsely claimed that Ukraine was responsible for Russia's unprovoked invasion..." It did not. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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UPDATE: It's happening now. German police entered the new venue to break up our meeting with Francesca Albanese and Amnesty International. The miss no chance to prove that totalitarianism is back in Germany even before the AfD has won gvt

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I am furious that decent people are embarrassed by their substandard housing, as if they made bad life choices instead of being victims of an exploitative system. This is EXACTLY how FFG wants us to feel because it deflects from their repeated failures. This failure is 100% theirs, not ours.

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This would be tragic and horrible anywhere, but feels worse in a country obsessed with writing about soil and land.

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This is fucking incredible.

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I will straight up go and work for someone in Congress for free if this is their entire thing. I will build a team for that person who works exclusively to counter extremism, and the influence of the authoritarian Silicon Valley crew if a person like this comes to any kind of power in govt.

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Ireland's energy regulator today published a long-awaited policy governing the connection of new data centres. Astonishingly, the policy makes NO provision for regulating the GHG emissions arising from data centres - which all evidence points to is very substantial - and actually..

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This is a concerning milestone. Bringing new investigations and prosecutions is different than just dismissing cases against allies.

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I wrote, “Capitulation to a politician's ego is antithetical to the values of the library profession and sets a dangerous precedent.”

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We spoke to some current and recently fired FAA officials about Trump and Musk’s purge. “The danger to the national airspace can't be understated. This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Einstein s'adressant à des étudiants universitaires noirs à Lincoln University. Einstein speaking to black college students at Lincoln University. #polyglot #LangSky #BlackSky

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Neither the English-language nor the French-language mention the abolitionist intentions behind the Statue of Liberty. The person who proposed the monument in the first place was Édouard de Laboulaye, president of the French Anti-Slavery Society and supporter of Lincoln during the Civil War.

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In case you haven't noticed, Russia and the US are now allies against the rest of Europe. Interesting paradigm shift, interesting times ahead.

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This is quite brilliant.

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Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.

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Democrats talked about fascism but they also spent the election campaigning with Liz Cheney to flip Republicans. Those republicans simply don’t exist. And then when they lost Biden smiled and welcomed the fascist to the White House, validating all the voters who said the fascism talk was “politics.”

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Just absolutely clueless www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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Pedestrianisation is good for the city! Not a surprise to anyone who has ever studied the literature on the topic, but good news nonetheless. Hopefully this will help DCC’s CEO make brave decisions in future.

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"This woman is a force of nature. Her courage is contagious,’ says chair of The Rights Forum". Let's hear it for Francesca Albanese! 🙌🏽 www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

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There isn’t a way to interpret the Trump administration’s decision to outright dismiss these EEOC gender identity cases other than “the Trump administration wants more stuff like this to happen more often” apnews.com/article/eeoc...

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The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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