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No no no! These university leaders don’t get it. If you negotiate one on one you don’t buy peace; you just expose the whole sector and yourselves to more shakedowns. See law firms. The only response is to unite in collective action and fight the Admin’s illegality. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

Fiona Hill: "The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression."

Whether one supported the pro-Palestinian protests at Harvard, or thought that the university was not doing enough to combat antisemitism, the Harvard community is now unifying in the face of Trump's unprecedented assault on the university. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Steven Pinker clearly describes Trump's "Harvard Derangement Syndrome" in a NY Times op-ed today, even while acknowledging incidents in the past where Harvard has not always nurtured free speech. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

While you were sleeping, House Republicans rammed through a bill that kills rooftop solar, clean manufacturing, heat pumps for everyday Americans, clean energy projects, and funding to cut pollution. Now it's up to the Senate to stop this bill from jacking up energy bills and torching the economy.

Trump and Rubio are enabling far worse conditions in Gaza than Biden and Blinken did. But as a dedicated Leftist podcaster, I never talk about this because they're neither Democrats nor Jewish.

If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history.

He got a lot of glowing press because journalists and elites all fall head over heels for random people in hard hats, but let's be clear: Randy Bryce is among the WORST candidates Democrats have ever fielded in a swing seat. If they pick him, they will lose handily.

In Russian-occupied Ukraine, Russians also arrest Ukrainians for tattoos

The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans. You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.

Remember Emil Bove? Trump is reportedly considering him for a Circuit Court nominatiom (bc of course he is) 5/19/25 1/ www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/p...

Contrary to the narrative from the president, sources say that the Trump administration was the one that approached Qatar about acquiring a Boeing 747.

JUST IN: According to exit polls, moderate, pro-EU candidate Nicușor Dan has defeated far-right populist George Simion—a Trump and Putin admirer—in Romania’s presidential runoff

Yes, the level of invention, fiction and fanatacism here hard to put into words. This bill is going to explode the deficit which is a reason Moody’s downgraded. They cannot admit to the clear “sky is blue” reality of what they are doing.

My latest—an overview of the trends on white Christian decline and religiously unaffiliated rise—including breaks by political party—from brand new PRRI Census of American Religion data. www.whitetoolong.net/p/white-chri...

Let's be real: if Republicans pass the House budget bill as is, it will murder the US nuclear industry, ruin our chances of winning the AI race (by constraining power supply), concede the global auto sector to China, and vaporize about half a trillion dollars of US manufacturing investment...

from @propublica.org: State Department officials campaigned to force Gambia to license Starlink, even threatening to cancel development projects. US diplomats now work on behalf of Elon Musk? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I’m reliably told this is cutting edge research with lots of commercial and defense applications that no one in their right mind would shutter.

SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...

bsky.app/profile/atru... Sen. Hassan laced into RFK Jr today about hiring vaccine skeptic David Geier to lead a study about the alleged connection between vaccines and autism. Learn more about Geier in the linked Medpage story. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

This one weird trick could raise electricity bills by 10%: go.auroraer.com/l/885013/202...

I will block any arms sale to a nation that is doing direct personal business with Trump. We should have a full Senate debate and vote. UAE's investment in Trump crypto and Qatar's gifting of a plane is nuclear grade graft. An unacceptable corruption of our foreign policy.

Important news from US-China trade talks: 1. The US will cut the rate at which it taxes Americans who buy stuff from China, to 30% 2. China will cut the rate at which it taxes Chinese folks who buy stuff from the US, to 10%. It's another Ross and Rachel moment: A 90-day pause.

Marco Rubio on #PriceControls less than a year ago:

Since I administered the WH emoluments rules, let me explain why this is forbidden Trump expressed interest in it before it was offered He is going to use & benefit from it a while in office And he's going to keep using it after he leaves! Functionally, it's a gift to him & so it's illegal

I'll be writing about him soon but this from Michael Sean winters is a great start

The shameless corruption is just off the charts ... A foreign government "gifting" a literal plane to Trump who will keep it after he leaves office and I promise you, this story will last 24 hours, at most.

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

NEW: The Washington Post obtained internal cables revealing that the U.S. government is pressuring countries facing tariffs to approve Elon Musk’s Starlink. The most corrupt administration in history

Trump crypto fireworks this morning.... Rep Maxine Waters and other Dems will walk out of a GOP controlled House hearing in protest and start their own hearing "to properly investigate Trump’s crypto ties, including his memecoin, WLF, and more."

Musk might not be good for finding waste, fraud, and abuse in government, but he sure knows how to do it.

Its satire but.... is it.

Breaking: Pete Hegseth used Signal more extensively for official Pentagon business than previously disclosed, engaging in at least a dozen separate chats

Trump literally posted the image on his own social media account...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.

Oh wow. Note: This response (below, which is real) to Trump’s tweet depicting himself as pope is from the New York State Catholic Bishops, who represent the collective bishops of the state. Among them is Cardinal Dolan of NYC, who Trump appointed to his new religious liberty commission this week.