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Although many hoped otherwise, we do not seem to be returning to a world in which the center left and the center right compete over tax rates or budgets. Every election is now existential www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Last week, @rhodesben.bsky.social and I did a Munk Debates against Kevin Roberts and Kellyanne Conway on whether Trump is leading America into a new golden age. We won. This is from my closing statement. There’s nothing golden about a movement that bathes in gratuitous cruelty.

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Further purges of the US security services. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

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When 15 million Americans lose their health care and plunge into personal crisis, none of them are going to give a shit about a made-for-clicks twitter fight between two billionaires arguing about who gets the bigger share of the corruption spoils.

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The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.

submitted 3 days ago • 131 comments

Heard on the Street: Foreign investors have a new reason to be wary of U.S. government debt

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The Telegraph - A senior official who dismantled the US government's Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/06/03/trump-official-shut-russia-propaganda-unit-kremlin-ties/

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President Trump on Wednesday commuted the sentence of a California venture capitalist and major political donor who had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for violating lobbying, campaign finance and tax laws, and obstructing an investigation into Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee.

submitted 9 days ago • 58 comments

The corruption is clear as day. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

“Tuesday was his first court date, and he was trying to do the right thing,” Phoenix immigration attorney Issac Ortega said of his client. During the hearing, the attorney with ICE agreed to close the case. After the hearing, federal agents detained his client. Story via @tucsonsentinel.com

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