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Commissioner Slaughter and I just sued to clarify that we're still FTC commissioners. But this is bigger than us. This is about economic stability. If the President can break a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling to fire us for no reason, he can do it to the Fed, the FDIC and SEC.

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All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

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NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and that is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

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Listen everyone. I’ve see classified stuff before. This in the Atlantic is the kind of stuff that gets the highest classification. I had to have TS clearance to hear the names of the people we targeted in Iraq when i was with TF16 and 17. And still some names were withheld until op was over….

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BREAKING: Four U.S. soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have been killed, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

submitted 1 day ago • 166 comments

Well, they lied. Obviously.

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Gift link: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

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“We are currently clean on OPSEC” I declare to my group chat as I disclose operational details of an in progress airstrike to a group chat on unsecured devices that includes a journalist. Just the absolute stupidest, lowest quality soldier imaginable.

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“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.

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it is BUCK WILD that they are just texting this shit to each other

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NEW: Trump officials accidentally invited the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to their Signal group chat. Hours after bombs dropped on Yemen, they partied at a $1-million-per-seat Mar-a-Lago dinner: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Uh oh the Trump administration accidentally added us to their group chat

submitted 3 days ago • 138 comments

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.

submitted 7 days ago • 1047 comments

I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism. From Around the Horn:

submitted 8 days ago • 780 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 9 days ago • 1711 comments

My thanks to His Majesty King Charles III for his warm welcome and gracious hospitality today. Canada is fortunate to have a steadfast defender in our sovereign.

submitted 10 days ago • 709 comments

President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemy Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua raises a bunch of messy (but really important) legal questions. Via "One First" (and cross-posted at @justsecurity.org), I take a shot at asking and answering five of them: www.stevevladeck.com/p/132-five-q...

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 22 days ago • 1580 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 22 days ago • 1733 comments

Good on the ABA events.americanbar.org/event/11ba8f...

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

That’s right. 🇺🇦

submitted 23 days ago • 331 comments

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

submitted 27 days ago • 161 comments

Remembering Harry Belafonte at his birthday. Here with Dylan on harmonica. Harry Belafonte - Midnight Special youtu.be/sRVlYpDAOEI?...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This Looting Index put together by @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social is useful. BTC not in it but does include: TSLA FNMA (privatization grift) UMAC (drones) PLTR (Teil) CXW (private prisons) AXON (cop tech) CLBR (gun retail SPAC) JEMA (lol - EM ETF) MSTR (leveraged bitcoin) ROIV (Vivek's co)

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

I know I keep banging on about this, but it's simply unfathomable to me that legitimate news organizations continue to participate in the WH press pool.

submitted 29 days ago • 113 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 40 days ago • 2961 comments

There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...

submitted 39 days ago • 71 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 40 days ago • 502 comments

I somehow managed to miss this magisterial write up on the financialization of soccer from @michaelcaley.bsky.social & @themlg.bsky.social when it was released in January. Well done, lads. [Gift link]

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New story on one of consequences of the Trump administration’s cuts at USAID: The system designed to alert the military about humanitarian aid workers locations in war zones is offline 🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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A thing to understand here is that Wired + Teen Vogue is Condé Nast — this is the Newhouse family being basically the only good billionaire publishers. Other than them, it’s the indies of the new alt media and stalwarts like ProPublica and then basically crickets.

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Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight. "I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

submitted 49 days ago • 200 comments

We put all the federal lawsuits challenging President Trump's various Executive Orders here. We'll update as they come in. www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...

submitted 55 days ago • 26 comments

If you've somehow managed to miss these spellbinding 1978 renditions of Tangled Up in Blue, then the most mesmerising and life-changing of the lot is this one, from the Charlotte Coliseum on Dec 10, 1978 www.youtube.com/watch?v=keJr...

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

Dyson Daniels with the easiest rebound of his life.

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Still the best 2 minutes 21 seconds of electric guitar ever caught on film. Magic Sam playing Earl Hooker's cheap-ass Japanese Les Paul copy with flower power stickers on it, live in Europe back in the 1960s. The tone is in his fingers. Good lord, it's GREASY! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Q9...

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Happy 75th birthday, Tom Waits. In no particular order, here are 75 great Tom Waits performances, lyrics, songs, quips, quotes and roles. Could have done 75 more. 94matthewingate.substack.com/p/1949-tom-w...

submitted 110 days ago • 5 comments

Link your number one* live single-song Bob Dylan performance YouTube video in the replies. Bonus points for saying why it's your top choice today. * One video per customer For me: Pancho & Lefty w Willie Nelson. Perfect pairing, full of character, and his '93 voice is just right for the song.

submitted 119 days ago • 37 comments

88 years ago today, Robert Johnson stepped into a San Antonio hotel room and changed music forever. His first recording session and recorded blues classics like 'Sweet Home Chicago,' 'Terraplane Blues,' and 'I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom.' The birth of a legend.

submitted 122 days ago • 212 comments

hbd to prolly my fave ragtime composer scott joplin

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theres cool, and then theres cool, and then theres Denzel

submitted 124 days ago • 5 comments

If any assignment editors are reading -- I bet a full accounting of all the financial support Elon Musk and his companies received from the federal government would make for great reading when he inevitably tells all the poors they have to start making sacrifices.

submitted 124 days ago • 92 comments

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