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The 31-month sentence for Lucy Connolly for a tweet has been the subject of fierce media coverage. Here I set out a balanced explanation of this sentence and how, had she not followed good legal advice, the sentence could have been even heavier. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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The UK and the EU have reached a new agreement which, both sides argue, will make it easier to trade, travel and defend the continent. Still need to wait on details, but some quick thoughts on why compromise ≠ necessarily loss of sov: thread 1/7

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This is nonsense

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Georgia forcing the family of a brain dead Black woman to pay for her to remain on life support so the state can gestate her fetus is why we need pro-birth accountability laws that force a state to pay for all costs attending a forced birth. www.11alive.com/article/news...

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Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.

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Maura Healey evaded having to comment on this story last week because “we don’t know all the details.” Well, here are the details. And they make it even worse. Abolish ICE and salt the earth of the office after. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨 TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts. MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here. Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️ OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid

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This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

submitted 12 days ago • 304 comments

Essential reading from Ian Dunt

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People need to stop conflating vaccines being safe vs being effective. We know they are effective - see the rates of measles, smallpox, polio etc in last 100 years. Are they safe? I think so - but I’m fine with any research needed to confirm that.

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"You rely on Medicaid? If you lose your job, Republicans in Congress want to rip your healthcare away too. We're going to say 'hell no' to a Medicaid job loss penalty"

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This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

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Spotted in Durham, NC today (📷: Barbara Lau)

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 37 days ago • 341 comments

NEW How the United States constitutional crisis is intensifying And what the US government should realise about a cavalier approach to obligations By me Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-un... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...

submitted 37 days ago • 21 comments

Years before we knew Musk was a Nazi, I saw Consumer Reports give the Tesla 3 a bad score for safety because of its braking distance, which they then changed because Tesla released an over the air software update so reduce the braking distance. That right there made me say I’d never buy one.

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

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submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

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NEW How Trump used emergency legislation for his tariffs policy The constitution provides that it is for Congress and not the president to set the terms of trade By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to certain items cease to be available at any price

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On a positive note, at least Russia is in the passenger seat of the car that Trump decided to drive off a cliff. Oil prices are now over 30% below what was needed for their 2025 budget and they blew through all their financial loopholes in 2024.

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“In a healthy economy, companies compete on quality and price. But in captured ones, firms succeed by forging the right relationships, giving them little incentive to innovate or be efficient.” www.foreignaffairs.com/world/econom...

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funniest fucking way to violate the One China policy lmao

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Retaliate, de-escalate, or wait -- that is what is being debated in countries on the receiving end of Wednesday's US tariff announcement. Just now, China opted for retaliation. It will impose 34% tariff surcharges on all US goods as of April 10. US stock futures are down 2% on the news and oil 5%.

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Nothing - absolutely nothing - prevented news organizations from running this headline before the election, when it was equally true as now and could have made a difference.

submitted 52 days ago • 8 comments

🧵 Ten reasons authoritarian leaders deliberately crash their own economy while attempting full overthrow of democracy:

submitted 57 days ago • 102 comments

When the United Kingdom invaded and occupied neutral Iceland in 1940. Often politely overlooked in history books. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasio...

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Same story, posted same time: Bluesky - 393 reposts, 551 likes Twitter/X - 3 retweets, 7 likes

submitted 63 days ago • 328 comments

Among the lost positives consigned to the dusty corners of the dictionary is ‘reck’, meaning ‘care’, ‘heed’, and ‘consideration’. Which means we can be reckful instead of reckless (and feckful, gormful, ruthful, ept, kempt, couth, consolate, and many more).

submitted 67 days ago • 87 comments

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

submitted 70 days ago • 2069 comments

R.I. doctor prevented from returning to US after visiting her parents in Lebanon www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/14/m...

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Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

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For the first time in 10 years, a child has died from measles in the United States. Vaccines prevent measles. Americans need to hear our top health officials say clearly: every child in America should get vaccinated against this terrible disease.

submitted 74 days ago • 171 comments

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

submitted 76 days ago • 40 comments

honest question: did they just ctrl+f for "gay" bsky.app/profile/brad...

submitted 78 days ago • 166 comments

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 85 days ago • 843 comments

“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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From my 2017 essay, "Send the interns." pressthink.org/2017/01/send... It is relevant again because we have headlines today like this from Politico. "White House seizes control of press pool, will decide which outlets cover events with president."

submitted 87 days ago • 18 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 87 days ago • 1213 comments

Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

submitted 91 days ago • 140 comments

McConnell really had an awful final act. Could have retired at age 78 in 2020, gone out on top locking in the conservative SCOTUS. Stuck around for four years of Biden judicial confirmations, followed by two years of Trump making fun of him and memes of him falling down and glitching.

submitted 92 days ago • 37 comments

Just one thousandth of what they said! No big deal.

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