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Opinion | Trump Is Breaking the Rule That Every Barroom Brawler Knows – The New York Times | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/26/opinion-trump-is-breaking-the-rule-that-every-barroom-brawler-knows-the-new-york-times/ > At what point do we start charging people (including […]

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Chinese Economic Coercion during the THAAD Dispute – The Asan Forum | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/26/chinese-economic-coercion-during-the-thaad-dispute-the-asan-forum/ > Remember that whole TPP thing? Cancelling that must have made China very happy. «the widely reported […]

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MAGA maximalism: Trump’s base loves Wisconsin judge arrest | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/26/maga-maximalism-trumps-base-loves-wisconsin-judge-arrest/ > There will always be such people, along with their enablers and demagogues. Ideally, they’ll be driven underground […]

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Dammit. Somebody drank all my wine.

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#PostLaw #AmericanAutocracy #FBI Dir #KashPatel said Friday the bureau had arrested a #Milwaukee #judge & charged her w/obstructing an #immigration arrest op last week—the 1st known instance of Justice prosecuting a local official for allegedly interfering w/immigration enforcement since […]

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Trump Directs Justice Dept. to Investigate ActBlue, Democrats’ Cash Engine – The New York Times | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/25/trump-directs-justice-dept-to-investigate-actblue-democrats-cash-engine-the-new-york-times/ > «Elon Musk, the president’s billionaire adviser […]

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#MAGA #RFK #Insanity #Doolally

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U.S. races to head off economic shock from China rare earths limits – The Washington Post | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/24/u-s-races-to-head-off-economic-shock-from-china-rare-earths-limits-the-washington-post/ > Mr. Thucydides! Imagine meeting you here! «“China knows […]

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Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting University Accreditors – WSJ | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/24/trump-signs-executive-order-targeting-university-accreditors-wsj/ > (gift) “Trump this” and “Trump that.” Trump is a racist, sexist sock puppet for a racist, sexist […]

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http://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/23/9356/ > Threw some money at Jordan Wood to defeat Susan Collins on Maine.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant | CNN Politics http://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/21/homeland-security-secretary-kristi-noems-bag-including-3000-in-cash-is-stolen-from-dc-restaurant-cnn-politics/ > Wow, who walks around with […]

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Stop Waiting for a Formal Declaration of “Crisis” | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/21/stop-waiting-for-a-formal-declaration-of-crisis/ > Good to-do list from Jennifer Rubin: «And when Democrats (because, let’s be honest: there is no critical mass of Republicans prepared to […]

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I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click share. How come? I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

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Kilmar Is Alive – by Evan Hurst – Wonkette http://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/19/kilmar-is-alive-by-evan-hurst-wonkette/ > This won’t fit on a poster, will it? «Now it is time for these goddamned Trump Nazis to bring Kilmar home, just like every fucking court has said. And then bring all the […]

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Never seen it framed this way by all recent elections Wild

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US Consulate Lagos - Scaling back USAGM operations will enable CGTN, RT, and Viory “to expand their reach. … China may capitalize on the USAGM retreat to expand its soft power reach in Nigeria, while Russia's influence, which has waned, may be revitalized in the absence of USAGM from Nigeria.”

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Tired: Teachers using tools to find students cheating with AI. Wired: Teachers using tools to figure out how many of their new students are bots who are just there to submit enough AI-completed assignments that they can claim financial aid in someone else's name. This story from the Voice of […]

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‘We are all afraid’: Speaking to Alaska nonprofit leaders, Murkowski gets candid on upheaval in federal government – Anchorage Daily News | Here, Read This […]

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Bedtime. Good night, West Coast.

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Trump administration plans to end IRS free tax filing program, sources say | AP News | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/16/trump-administration-plans-to-end-irs-free-tax-filing-program-sources-say-ap-news/ > Hey, non-voters… You chose this over a qualified Black woman.

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$15 minimum wage history https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/15/15-minimum-wage-history/ > «The multihued group of activists, supported by the local SEIU and Seattle-area community groups, won a ballot initiative in the airport town, Sea-Tac, to raise airport worker wages to $15. The mar…

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Opinion | The Vibe Shifts Against the Right - The New York Times, Michelle Goldberg https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/15/opinion-the-vibe-shifts-against-the-right-the-new-york-times-michelle-goldberg/ «When liberalism was firmly entrenched, its discontents could treat athoritarian ideas as […]

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Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action – Rebecca Solnit | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/14/millions-stood-up-april-5-hands-off-day-of-action-rebecca-solnit/ > «Some of those people may not agree with us on everything. We are going to need to value what we have […]

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Murderbot | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/14/murderbot-2/ > Honestly, if they manage to capture this in the show, I’ll be impressed. «Another tech walked up to me. “Um, SecUnit, we need someone to help move this cabinet—” “Then you should find someone…

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Building peace in a dangerously polarized US | UMNews.org https://herereadthis.blog/2025/04/13/building-peace-in-a-dangerously-polarized-us-umnews-org/

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WordPress.com's "enter the fediverse" feature is broken again, so my posts aren't filtering through. (The separate "share all your posts to Mastodon" feature isn't as nice as "enter the fediverse".) I chose WordPress.com as a POSSE solution. It's not great, but until I write an xml processor […]

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Oh my god it looks like there's a chance they won't fuck up Murderbot

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Public service announcement: this is not a dire wolf. It is a genetically modified grey wolf made to resemble an extinct species, so a bullshit company can raise more money for their bullshit projects. #Deextinction is a scam on so many levels I don't even […] [Original post on spore.social]

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DAN RATHER IS A SELF-AGGRANDIZING NETWORK TV TWIT. There. I said it.

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Via Angry Staffer: There’s so much GOP cope happening today. “At least #Wisconsin approved voter ID so libs can’t cheat” Wisconsin has required voter ID since 2015. You spent millions of dollars and got your ass kicked for a rule that already existed and that fundamentally changes nothing.

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DAN RATHER IS A SELF-AGGRANDIZING NETWORK TV TWIT. There. I said it.

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