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Secretary of State Marco Rubio just sat down for a one-on-one interview with a man who, as @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social has reported, has claimed that "Jewish influence on the West" has led to "white genocide" and once said "Hitler actually had some decent points." www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

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Turns out we should have taken him literally

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As recently as 2023, Rubio was pushing to fund, and maybe even grow, this office.

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With the Global Engagement Center shut down, the State Department is now set to investigate whether past US efforts against foreign propaganda amounted to censorship of Americans. www.wired.com/story/global...

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The Global Engagement Center, a State Department unit that called out Russian and Chinese propaganda campaigns, has been shut down.

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NEW: Rubio didn't just kill the State Department's anti-propaganda shop today. He pledged to pull a "Twitter Files" sequel about all of its so-called "censorship" of MAGA. By me in @wired.com www.wired.com/story/global...

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NEW: Rubio didn't just kill the State Department's anti-propaganda shop today. He pledged to pull a "Twitter Files" sequel about all of its so-called "censorship" of MAGA. By me in @wired.com www.wired.com/story/global...

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In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...

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come on

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NEW: In the latest episode of the YouTube series I host, @lhn.bsky.social joins me to get into the nitty gritty of surveillance against protesters and steps you can take to protect yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL34...

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An interview with @katie-drummond.bsky.social depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/katie-drum...

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The Trump admin was ready to raid the Homeland Security Department’s civil rights and civil liberties office to fund his $200 million propaganda campaign. They changed course following our story. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The pressure on Schumer appears to be working. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

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"Surely Donald Trump will keep his word" is one hell of a business strategy from people who get paid $2K an hour to be the planet's most savvy negotiators. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

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SCOOP --> The cop who initially attested to Abrego Garcia's alleged MS-13 membership was subsequently suspended and indicted for serious professional misconduct: Sharing case info with a sex worker. This undermines Trumpworld's smears. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1940...

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This is nuts. "According to (Vera) institute representatives, a man who identified himself as Cavanaugh said on the phone call that DOGE wants to have teams assigned to every institute and agency that receives federal funds through the congressional appropriations process." wapo.st/44pCAfc #DOGE

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The DC attorney nominee has appeared dozens of times on Russian state media www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Sometimes you don't need a family office. You need a FAMILY office ... www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

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These are not the actions of someone running for mayor in New York City. These are the actions of someone angling for something else entirely.

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"They were bigger & stronger than us" – Pistons center Bill Laimbeer They say the Detroit Bad Boys Are coming to the Garden They've been here before In fact they died here. 1992 Round 1 Game Five The Bad Boys era Ended by the 90s Knicks youtu.be/KoBzxEI0DjM

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Good to see Rutgers and Georgetown supporting this effort. Lots of liberal arts colleges and Catholic universities. Ivies remain AWOL. Embarrassing.

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What a goddamn nightmare documentedny.com/2025/04/14/i...

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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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Presented without comment.

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"Since the start of 2022, the Office of the President of El Salvador paid Merlo’s firm about $1.5 million for lobbying and influence operations targeting the U.S." open.substack.com/pub/influenc...

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i think about this photo a lot

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White nationalist Laura Loomer runs into Trump border czar Tom Homan at Palm Beach Intl Airport. Loomer: Can we expect to see some more jihadist students rounded up soon and deported? Homan: Just sit back and watch.

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“Nine million children, 17 percent of all 5- to 17-year-olds, live in a U.S. household with at least one noncitizen adult who could be affected by immigration enforcement” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

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It's about to be Passover. This year, be a Moses.

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Incredible advice. I'm taking it, so should you.

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Courage is contagious. But how do we catch it? For months, @amifieldsmeyer.bsky.social and I have been asking dissidents and activists from around the world how we can topple authoritarianism. We assembled their lessons into a field guide to courage. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

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Whenever you write something like this it should be antisemitism in quotes at bare minimum or in some form making clear that they’re aren’t actually cracking down on antisemitism

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“.. millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws” lasted about a week. 🤡

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I loved this cartoon when I was growing up www.wsj.com/tech/trump-e...

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SCOOP: For the last three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a "mega API," WIRED has learned.

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NEW: The SSA is moving all communication with the press and public to X and cutting its regional office workforce by close to 90%. "Things are going to break, and they're going to break fast," a regional commissioner told managers this week. This is from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

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Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

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Yikes. A NYPD detective was just arrested in Chinatown for "forcible touching" and "sexual abuse" in the third degree.

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NEW: The Trump administration wants federal supervision of Columbia University—a consent decree—which could last for years and subject the university to contempt penalties if it doesn't conform to Trump admin demands. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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BREAKING — All FDIC employees just received an email confirming DOGE presence at the agency. "The DOGE team has neither requested nor been granted access to sensitive bank information." We'll see how long that remains true. Text of email shared with me:

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Wrote about a trio of young Democrats -- @katmabu.bsky.social , @georgehornedo.bsky.social and Deja Foxx -- and how their bids for office signify rising frustration among young voters with the status quo. “It’s time to pass the torch” - @amandalitman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

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lot of MAGA pundits spent the past four years tweeting "this is just like 1984" and are now gurgling contently as the feds post about thoughtcrime

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"Completes"? You think this is the end of it? IDK, Brad.

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jeeeeeesus boingboing.net/2025/04/09/t...

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Zuck did the same thing with the Facebook algo when what he perceived as "left-wing" news (NYT, WaPo, etc) made it through content filters in ways conservative sites did not.

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Similar claims about 120-year-olds collecting Social Security checks evaporated. Wonder what will happen with these new DOGE blockbusters? nypost.com/2025/04/10/u...

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The single biggest spender in New York's election is ... AirBnb, which is heavily, heavily regulated in the city. gothamist.com/news/locked-...

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“Your people, and you know who they are, came to me and wanted me to bid on contracts three times the going rate,” Dietl said.

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