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At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.

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Dear @nytimes.com: If you yourselves know that what Trump is saying is nonsense, put that in the headline.

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H/T John Oliver. www.tiktok.com/@catching_dr...

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My favorite from today’s 50501 March in Boston.

submitted 7 days ago • 133 comments

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

submitted 7 days ago • 891 comments

Kudos to NPR’s “Fresh Air” for stating the facts plainly: “The Trump Administration continues to break the law.”

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Notable/Quotable: “Identifying [difficult people’s] strengths, I follow them, and identifying their weaknesses, I reform myself accordingly.” ~ Confucius

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As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

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Trying to put income inequality into perspective. Geographically, 335 million Americans would live in Durham, NC (the red dot) while the eight wealthiet people would live in the rest of the country.

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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One of the truly great resignation letters of all time. Emil Bove is engaging in unethical and likely even criminal conduct at the highest levels of DOJ. This is a time for all men and women of principle to stand up while so many in the GOP remain silent. AUSA Scotten is a hero.

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Notable/Quotable: “There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.” ~ Marion Milner

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Dear New York Times. Pretend Kamala Harris is president and she’s hired George Soros to create DOGE, and Soros brings in his personal team to enter into and dismantle numerous government agencies without legal authority. What would you write? Great. Go write it now about Musk.

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Notable/Quotable: "The effect you have on others’ lives is the highest expression of your own.” ~ Maya Angelou

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Notable/Quotable: “Let the judgments of others be the consequence of your deeds, not their purpose.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

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Enjoyed this evening’s Research and Innovation Symposium highlighting amazing scientific work that Mid-America Transplant helps fund. I’m honored to be board chair of Mid-America Transplant Foundation and am grateful for people who work to save lives through organ and tissue donation and transplant.

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I'm not commenting on the substance of these Cabinet picks, but for Senate Democrats to vote in favor while their Article 1 powers are being trampled makes me think they don't understand our current constitutional crisis.

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Notable/Quotable: “One can see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Notable/Quotable: “We speak of ourselves as blessed, but what can that mean except that others are not blessed, and that God has picked out a few of us to love more? It is our responsibility to care for one another and find equality where none may have existed in the the past.” ― Ann Patchett

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The places we’re pulling foreign aide dollars from now are the places we’ll be forced to send American soldiers to risk their lives in ten years.

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Keep your messaging simple: “Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.” That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.

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Notable/Quotable: “Money doesn’t buy you happiness. But it does upgrade despair.” ~ Richard Greenberg

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This is how a Cuban American who understands the lessons of what happened in Cuba acts in the face of the current tyranny.

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Powerful message from @jimacosta.bsky.social, the son of a Cuban refugee, as he resigns from CNN today: “It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant…Do not give in to the lies. Don’t give into the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope.” Thank you Jim. We will get through this, together.

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Notable/Quotable: “We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net.” ~ John Adams

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Notable/Quotable: “When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins.” - Benjamin Cremer

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Notable quote: “The most ignorant are generally the boldest and the readiest to write.” - Baruch Spinoza

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if the project of legacy news organizations was explicitly to frame Trump's actions as being as acceptable-as-possible without going so far that they alienate their overwhelmingly liberal readership how would it look different exactly

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The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

submitted 32 days ago • 1264 comments

What if, instead of trying to mimic Trump's racist cruelty, Democrats criticized it as immoral and wrong? An outlandish idea that some say might work.

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

I’ve programmed my F1 key to insert “I told you so.” I may lose my sanity over the next four years, but I will not succumb to carpal tunnel syndrome

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Great to reconnect with my friend and Eisenhower Fellowships colleague Bernardo Altamirano while in Mexico City.

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Notable quote: “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” ~ George Fraser

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Notable quote: “The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.” ~ Carl Jung

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Notable quote: “Every thought a person dwells upon, whether he expresses it or not, either damages or improves his life.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For those not paying attention to El Salvador now might be a good time to start. What has Bukele done that Musk says "needs to happen" in the US: Suspension of due process, total militarization of the country, mass arbitrary imprisonment, mass torture and death in custody...

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Notable quote: “Democracy is the political enactment of a spiritual idea: the sacred worth of all human beings.” ~ Sen. Raphael Warnock

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It is a huge relief to know that President Biden will be able to give Jimmy Carter the state funeral he so deserves.

submitted 57 days ago • 783 comments

Honest. Decent. Principled. A Lifetime of Selfless Service. #ThankYouJimmyCarter 🙏

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“Race is not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities because of genetic differences. Race is a political category that has staggering biological consequences because of the impact of social inequality on people’s health.” — Dorothy E. Roberts, Fatal Intervention (pp 11)

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Notable quote: “Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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Sound about right.

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