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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o... “One of the most frustrating elements of our post-election national conversation was the insistence in some quarters that the election represented a repudiation of censorship and cancel culture. It did not.”

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Incompetent, yes, if the stated goals for tariffs were the real ones. But tariff policy as implemented is about just 2 things: 1) focusing attention and groveling on the narcissist in chief and 2) chaos.

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Well done!

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What a front cover...

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If Republicans in Congress want to help make our country safe, I have some ideas for them.

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I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers. Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u... “But at this point I think they’re trying to break the academic enterprise. And cutting academic science has impacts on the educational mission of the entire university.”

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www.forbes.com/sites/zachev... Average daily volume was 11,500 and then: “On Dec. 30, trading shot up to 358,000 shares, kicking off a surge that saw daily volume average 1.2 million shares a day through Feb. 10, 2025—when it skyrocketed to 23.7 million shares …”

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Ouch.

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So, it is now crystal clear (although it should have been already) that the fate of the republic and the constitution is in the hands of John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett.

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Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.

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This is the kind of threat that is intended to get people to pre-comply. The appropriate response from any college president should be f*ck you.

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Call it by its name: Trumpcession

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According to the USDA, total ag exports in 2023 were just a hair under $179 billion. In case you're curious...

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Cartoon by David Sipress.

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How bad is this? Let me count the ways Also, and related, short of firing Powell (or trying, anyway) screwing with economic data would be just about the dumbest (and worst) thing to do apnews.com/article/trum...

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An excellent full-page ad in the #nytimes Thank you Grant Grissom and thank you @nytimes.com for printing it, which clearly the @washingtonpost.com would not have.

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“CFPB has been under a “stop work” order since Vought took over the agency on an acting basis. No work has been performed…”

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www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... To quote the great Robert Penn Warren, the Trump administration “was conceived in sin and born in corruption,” a particularly apt quote because it comes from:

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Oh you could say I dabble in Photoshop #teslatakedown @niedermeyer.online

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The police have started arresting the folks who managed to get inside the store.

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www.nytimes.com/interactive/... So maybe that whole idea about the rule of law being an important foundation for commerce was right?

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The Thought Police are working overtime at #X searching out any account that might say something critical about #Elon or #DOGE. A few weeks back I deleted my X account with this message:

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A thought for the day

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www.reuters.com/legal/govern... “The council's standards committee said it would assess the proposed changes in light of recent actions by President Donald Trump's administration, to ensure it can enforce the standard in compliance with the law.”

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Wow!

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Apple 🍎 DEI EMPLOYER OF THE DSY DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION

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news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-l... A useful overview of current status of SEC crypto enforcement.

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The case for X being a 1A state actor now is at least colorable. It is controlled by a government official, who uses it for government business, with no real boundary in practice between the government and his private interest in it. It is little different from if a .gov website allowed comments.

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"Moderate" Republicans vote for Trump Nominee A after A assures them they won't do X. After confirmation, they immediately do X. "Moderate" Republicans say Nominee B assured them they won't do X. After confirmation, they immediately do X. Repeat with Nominees C, D, E, F, G, etc.

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www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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www.publicnotice.co/p/sullivan-c... The NY lawyer oath: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of … according to the best of my ability.”

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I don’t have the skills to do it, but if someone could animate #trump and #musk to the soundtrack of Captain & Tennille’s Muskrat Love, I would love to see it. youtu.be/N2BuP-NcJ5Q?...

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TWO DAYS AGO, a government employee declared in a court filing that Elon Musk is actually not in charge of or an employee of DOGE. MINUTES AGO, the President of the United States said: “I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency and put a man named Elon Musk in charge.”

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This was just 233 days ago:

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Donald Trump makes bid for control of independent US regulators https://www.ft.com/content/9d097840-cad0-49d2-8d27-5f59b4628f10

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