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"Indulging the Tate brothers to own the libs is an act of pure nihilism. The Tate brothers are a uniquely malevolent force on the viral internet. Denouncing them should be the easiest test of moral seriousness imaginable." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

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I'm struggling to get over what we saw today. The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office. That's traumatizing.

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Time to dust this one off.

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87% of jobs at Amazon pay less than $20 an hour while half of its warehouse workers struggle to cover food and housing costs. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos saw his net worth increase by $7.9 million an hour in 2023. Is this the "free market" Bezos is so desperate to defend?

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Trump has chosen grifters to lead the FBI. Kash Patel sells "K$SH" branded merch, vaccine reversal pills. Dan Bongino's entire show is telling listeners the world is ending so they buy the dozens of survivalist products he sells. I know this feels like a bad dream. It isn't.

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This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

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PCLOB members summarily fired by Trump file lawsuit seeking reinstatement www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...

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New in PN: Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud "With nothing to show for its efforts to find actual fraud, it has become clear that DOGE is the enforcement arm of a Trump administration that has no interest in working with Congress to implement its policy priorities."

submitted 6 days ago • 417 comments

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

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While you weren't looking, Trump rolled back Biden's ethics rules prohibiting executive branch employees from accepting major gifts from lobbyists. So much for "drain the swamp."

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"... after three years of fighting one of the largest and best-armed armies in the world, most of Ukraine is still free. Ukraine is also a democracy, and it is well on its way toward joining the European Union. Ukraine will never again be a colony of Russia."

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the latest federal agency to be hit with DOGE layoffs. That's the same agency that has investigated crashes involving Tesla's self-driving cars. This was never about "efficiency."

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On the theme of constitutional failure and emergency, see this piece by my friend and colleague, Johann Neem. My one reservation is that I would place the Impeachment Clause atop my list of failed provisions. jneem.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

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1) @dgraham.bsky.social is absolutely correct: we are not in a "constitutional crisis" -- we're going through regime change-- that the US republic is ending just before its 250th birthday.

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O’MALLEY: “.. At this rate, they will break it. And they will break it fast, and there will be an interruption of benefits.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The purpose of negative emotions is not to cause misery. It’s to prevent mistakes. Outrage is a signal to speak up. Anxiety is a prompt to prepare. Guilt is a reminder to repair. Disappointment is a cue to persist. Pain reveals principles. Where we hurt is a clue to what we value.

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'We're under attack by billionaires': Fired federal workers speak out on terminations abcnews.go.com/Politics/att...

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Webb and the Spiderweb protocluster? Let’s get stuck in! 👇 What is it? A galaxy cluster in formation, 10 billion light years away, composed of more than 100 known galaxies. Webb has found some new ones! https://t.co/LA0d0hVw3t https://t.co/gan8TOrP3Y

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Like images of broken light, Webb captured these carbon-rich dust shells around a binary star system. Drifting swiftly outwards, they are seeding their surroundings with carbon - one way elements spread across the universe. https://t.co/gjfLhdaP1x https://t.co/rbFjcpKjgm

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NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal

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"Look, buddy, you’re in no condition to be getting behind a desk at the Defense Department right now." theonion.com/concern...

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"While Trump threatens countries to produce zero-sum outcomes, Xi offers aid, trade, and investment opportunities to achieve win-win outcomes.. Even American allies will gradually become more cooperative with autocratic China if all we do is bully and berate them." open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...

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"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible" The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today. snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...

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Staffers at the U.S. cybersecurity agency working on countering foreign disinformation and on election security have been put on leave, according to sources who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal.

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A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

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"Pam Bondi is the first attorney general in history to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. She also just disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

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This is actually exactly accurate:

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Out of 510,000 NCAA athletes, less than 10 are transgender. They are literally writing an executive order to target less than a hundred people nationwide. Republicans spent over $110 million in anti-trans ads on a made up problem.

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