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BREAKING: The FBI has arrested a judge who helped migrants avoid ICE. This judge is a hero. www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?

*checks news* Republicans destroying democracy. *checks bluesky* You see what the Dems did wrong three months ago was … *checks news* Trump wiping his ass with constitition. *checks bluesky* Nancy Pelosi isn’t right!

There is no way for for “democracy” to function in a world that looks like this

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

I logged onto LinkedIn today expecting to see my feed filled with outrage from the lawyer connections I have – most of whom are former federal government attorneys who now work outside the federal government in private practice or in the private sector. Per a Tuesday Executive Order, /1

stop participating in this farce and pivot to investigative journalism there’s no value to be had in listening to condescending lies every day

MSNBC worries about the perception that they’re not fair to R’s while Fox eats an $800m libel settlement to preserve its ability to lie about Ds. That’s the asymmetry that gives illiberalism a structural advantage. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

This is what the traitors in the GOP are doing now. Intentionally destroying the economy to give more power to capital — as they did in the 80s. “They wanted to force an economic crisis of the magnitude of the Great Depression so that workers would have no choice.” thewalrus.ca/how-the-1980...