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Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

Huh

The ADL has now publicly *congratulated the Trump administration* for arresting green card holder Mahmoud Khalil

More details here: www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detain...

The details are disturbing. It basically looks like a kidnapping. They even got his legal status wrong but proceeded to detain him anyway. The agents didn’t even identify themselves at first and refused to show a warrant. His wife is 8 months pregnant

Again, numerous economists called Trump’s economic plan disastrous — which is why I am dying on the hill that the economy wasn’t the primary concern for voters. That’s simply how many voters rationalized voting for white supremacy.

Remember when Taibbi tweeted out his text messages with Elon in which he said "I've repeatedly declined to criticize you..." Anyway...

This entire thread is cursed

Happy International Women's Day to this classic banger

Trump cuts Ukrainians off from intelligence. Putin takes advantage and kills Ukrainian civilians. Trump praises Putin. Here’s why Ukraine must share the blame.

“Officials liked what the man in the van set out to do - give all the children delicious candy - but have been frustrated by his reckless abduction approach”

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

January 6 apologist Ed Martin, who just demoted prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases, says he is against "assaults on police officers."

black student enrollment at the university of virginia barely cracks 7 percent and that is too much for glenn youngkin and his toadies www.baconsrebellion.com/uva-board-di...

lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

Appeasing fascists by abusing their enemies proves ineffective at Columbia. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...

Interesting. New contracting memorandum from Secy of Defense says military contracts shld stop including language that bars contractors from running segregated facilities.

The Pentagon has marked 26,000 photos for deletion to purge evidence of diversity. The photos include the 1st black pilots in WWII, the 1st women to pass infantry training & the plane that dropped the Hiroshima bomb because it’s called the “Enola GAY”. This is real. We’re living in a horror story.

I reported this in mid-Feb. But I did not know that the threat came from Trump himself. "He told Trudeau that he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border ... was valid &...wants to revise the boundary. He offered no further explanation." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...?

NOW: Protesters outside the federal Immigration court building in Dallas are calling for James Rodden, an ICE attorney we identified as the operator of an anonymous racist X account, to be fired.

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

If you’ve got $20,000 a month to spend on a “PhD level” ai agent, just hire a person.

"We should try to privatize everything we possibly can, and that would be my recommendation," Musk said later. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Whenever the New York Times gives Trump style points, it reminds me of a line in Mel Brooks’ “The Producers”: “The Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.”

Said it before, but I think you have to sort of invert Marx to get current politics: A lot of rhetoric that’s supposedly about economic interests is a mask for cultural interests. They get reframed for pollsters as being about economics, because that’s a respectable thing to worry about.

Every time a career lawyer is pushed out, you can assume they were told to do something illegal.

NEW from me: DoD hired Kingsley Wilson, a deputy press secretary with a very very long history of bigoted and xenophobic posts www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As we turn our eyes to Selma this week for the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, I want to take a moment to remind us of just what we've lost since the VRA was gutted in 2013. It's not pretty 🧵

Reminder: if you predicted half the things happening now (threatening to take Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal; lawless mass firings; complete defiance of Congressional prerogatives; mass pardons of violent supporters) even a couple of years ago, Serious Thinkers would have dismissed you. /1

This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.

Can anyone tell me if this is good?

Kingsley Wilson, the newly-appointed DoD Deputy Press Secretary, believes in a thoroughly-debunked antisemitic conspiracy theory. I've mostly only seen this theory promoted by mask-off neo-Nazis. archive.is/dPvse

EXCLUSIVE: A Hitler-quoting ‘Aryan’ has the attention of JD Vance and Elon Musk—who is @captivedreamer7? My latest with @kylebazgo.bsky.social for @dailydot.com identifies the likely operator of the anonymous racist account as Geoffrey Martin, a Canadian. www.dailydot.com/debug/captiv...

SCOOP: Some of the DOGE staffers are drawing salaries from the agencies they are cutting. We got some new details: www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

christopher cantwell, the once-infamous "crying nazi," has faded into obscurity since his release from federal prison two years ago. he went silent online a month ago, promising to return eventually. he was arrested over the weekend & charged with felony strangulation.

another great investigation into white supremacist activity in Tennessee by the legendary Phil Williams.

So what you're saying is that the party funded by a guy who did a Nazi salute, allowed Nazis back on to Twitter as soon as he bought it, and supports far right parties across Europe that genealogically descend from the fascists of the 1940s era might not be an authentic critic of antisemitism? Hm.

All those cops beating up students was a great idea Democrats!

Earlier today the LA Times had AI-generated counterpoints to a column from @gustavoarellano.bsky.social. His piece argued that Anaheim, the city he grew up in, should not forget its KKK past. The AI "well, actually"-ed the KKK. It has since been taken off the piece. www.latimes.com/california/s...

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

What I mean by "Belt Tightening" is that federal employment has essentially flatlined- if not declined- since the 1970s despite a population that has continued to grow. We've effectively been doing more with less since before the Berlin Wall fell. It's almost like we were already *very* efficient.

🚨 NEW from @dlhnh.bsky.social and me. We have identified the man known as "Zoomer Historian", a Hitler-apologist content creator and Homeland Party activist with over 171,000 subscribers on YouTube. Meet Sam Wilkes: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/03/03/z...

SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

“Don’t believe the career experts who showed their work. Believe the partisan idiots with an agenda who won’t show their ‘proof’”

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

And disregarding the legal restrictions on US arms transfers imposed by the Arms Export Control Act in the process.

Colorado evangelical minister, Richard Merskin, has been found guilty of raping his own daughter. krdo.com/news/2025/02...