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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

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I saw headlines about Trump's education secretary making this mistake, and I just assumed she was reading, because I have mistaken that word myself while reading. But she was not reading. Jesus Christ, she was not reading.

submitted 29 days ago • 39 comments

#GVerse via @calltoactivism.bsky.social "Stephanie Ruhle is one of the only voices in the media who tells it like it is and always speaks truth to power. I wish we had another 100 like her. Watch this video. It’s 100% truth."

submitted 29 days ago • 75 comments

Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.

submitted 37 days ago • 67 comments

Winning?? Is that what is happening? Really?!?

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words "America’s astonishing act of self-harm" on.ft.com/3YjtOLV

submitted 37 days ago • 700 comments

NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:

submitted 39 days ago • 115 comments

I can't wait to see pictures of folks in MAGA hats out in the blistering heat picking vegetables, slathering hot tar on roofs and framing new homes after all our immigrants are deported.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

youtu.be/_DyNjjSxO8s

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration helped bring back the Tate brothers (charged with rape and sexual trafficking), hosted Conor MacGregor (multiple allegations of sexual assault), and now invited Dom Lucre (horrific CSAM stuff) to the White House. These are the people they're celebrating and defending.

submitted 49 days ago • 153 comments

As we discuss here: when Donald Trump talks about big, across-the-board tariffs, he's talking about hiking prices — including up to $10k for new homes. It is not America First. It is a giant sales tax on AMERICANS.

submitted 52 days ago • 12 comments

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

submitted 54 days ago • 2673 comments

If you’re protesting this weekend, know your rights.

submitted 57 days ago • 63 comments

Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them. There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 57 days ago • 234 comments

What Donald Trump is doing to Mahmoud Khalil goes against a bedrock principle of our democracy and the First Amendment: we can disagree with what someone has to say, but we don't use government power to punish them for saying it. This should alarm every American.

submitted 59 days ago • 27 comments

And now Trump and declared a national emergency and and escalated trade war with Canada. A deranged madman is running the country. Trump is nuts too.

submitted 61 days ago • 1085 comments

Protest and boycotts against Tesla could have a chilling effect on future foreign billionaires’ ability to buy the presidency and turn the United States into a fascist autocracy

submitted 64 days ago • 58 comments

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

submitted 60 days ago • 1282 comments

I’ve been feeling a particular affinity for the French these days … not just because I’ve watched Casablanca so many times lately that I know the words to the first verse of La Marseillaise forward and backward

submitted 65 days ago • 406 comments

Spotted in Canada…

submitted 66 days ago • 454 comments

What a front cover...

submitted 66 days ago • 545 comments

(WSJ) - The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows back on its plans to impose steep tariffs on imports, a senior official at the International Chamber of Commerce warned. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

submitted 68 days ago • 272 comments

Reporter: Do you still think Zelenskyy is a dictator? Trump: Umm did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question

submitted 73 days ago • 806 comments

Democrats on #TeamMaryland are working 24/7 to stop the Trump-Musk administration's illegal dismantling of vital federal agencies and their targeting of federal workers. Today we met with union leaders and legal experts to discuss the road ahead. We will not back down.

submitted 74 days ago • 13 comments

Since my piece dropped yesterday, Trump went on TV and proposed his "gold card" for immigration, saying he "knows some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people." #OWNED c: @atrupar.com

submitted 74 days ago • 65 comments

Elon Musk spent $280 million to elect Trump, and now Trump has given him the keys to the federal government. It’s the most corrupt bargain in American history and we need to shut it down NOW.

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What Elon Musk and Donald Trump are doing at NIH isn’t just illegal — it will literally cost American lives⬇️

submitted 79 days ago • 8 comments

He who rambles on about Hannibal Lecter, Arnold Palmer’s dick size, windmill cancer, and turning Gaza into a real-estate play, and thinks he’s saving the county, should have his head examined.

submitted 84 days ago • 925 comments

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 85 days ago • 296 comments

There’s something particularly sick about the richest man on earth trying to shut down an agency that has returned BILLIONS of dollars to Americans who were cheated by big corporations. We need to shut down the Elon Musk operation NOW.

submitted 88 days ago • 9 comments

My favorite so far

submitted 88 days ago • 61 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Candidates for national security roles in the new administration have been posed loyalty questions, such as: Was Jan. 6 an inside job, and Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? They were asked to give straight "yes" or "no" answers. Here's our story. wapo.st/3EF3aWN

submitted 91 days ago • 359 comments

New OMB Director Russell Vought claimed we are living in a "post Constitutional time" Republicans are trying very hard to make sure this is true

submitted 93 days ago • 122 comments

What? Lying, you say? Trump? He keeps causing problems and chaos, so he can dial it back and appear to “fix” them. He lies about shit to scare you and then … eureka … he’s figured out how to fix what wasn’t broken!

submitted 92 days ago • 3 comments

Please repost to join this apt apology to our neighbors.

submitted 98 days ago • 370 comments

share, Share, SHARE!!

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

submitted 103 days ago • 156 comments

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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submitted 123 days ago • 1242 comments

People have really short memories. This really hasn’t worked well for X. It’s going to work even less well for Meta. Community Notes is a great concept but it struggles to perform. Is Meta going to have a transparent Notes program? How is Zuck going to incentivize people to work for free?

submitted 124 days ago • 183 comments

“Trump’s demand that Smith’s report be suppressed is a useful reminder that he really hates truthful accounts of January 6th, even if—especially if—they are based on testimony under oath from many different individuals, including many who worked for him.“

submitted 124 days ago • 496 comments

Via Adam Tooze adamtooze.substack.com China is cracking down on economists who say negative things about the economy. Can I say that it's extremely easy to imagine the Trump administration following a similar path?

submitted 127 days ago • 43 comments

No, America's postwar boom wasn't because we'd bombed our competitors into ruin paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trade-in-t...

submitted 127 days ago • 52 comments

Donald Trump will be president for another term. But he will forever be a convicted felon and an adjudicated sex abuser.

submitted 128 days ago • 467 comments