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What an amazing strategic military success. I can't imagine how demoralizing this is inside the Kremlin. kyivindependent.com/enemy-bomber...

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"it’s hard to think of a more anti-conservative figure than President Donald Trump or a more anti-conservative movement than MAGA... They want to empower the federal government in order to turn it into an instrument of brute force that can be used to reward allies and destroy opponents."

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"If you heard the conversations U.S.A.I.D. staff had with the DOGE people, there is no word in any language that captures the level of obliviousness about what U.S.A.I.D. actually did,” said Power. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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The ICE Raids in Nashville Aren’t About Public Safety www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...

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There's a stunning provision tucked into the budget bill that would limit courts' ability to enforce contempt orders, and therefore to uphold the rule of law. This deserves real alarm. If the Senate values the separation of powers, it must remove the provision.

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PBS sues Trump over executive order to cut funding www.cnbc.com/2025/05/30/p...

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Elon promised $2T in DOGE cuts. That quickly shrunk to $1T, then to $165B and now to a congressional pkg with only $9B in cuts. “Big Beautiful Bill” will add $4T to deficit while inefficiencies created and under-collected taxes will cost FAR more than DOGE ever claimed to “save.”

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Voters have spoken and MAGA doesn't care - why let the voters have their way.

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Florida Latinos "... the government’s data, obtained by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune & a team of journalists from VENEZUELA, showed that TRUMP OFFICIALS KNEW THAT ONLY 32 of the deportees had been convicted of crimes & that most were NONVIOLENT offenses..." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Welcome to the new enemies list, Nashville. Comprised of any jurisdiction with Democratic governance. 🙄 www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

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When you're so totally absorbed in a death cult you might lose touch with how viscerally people might object to government officials nonchalantly saying "Well we're all going to die." While true, we can do much to preserve health and life. No one wants the government hastening needless deaths.

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So pointless, counter productive, and unnecessary. Probably one of the worst unforced policy errors in American history.

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The mendacious performative rhetoric from the MAGA right is ridiculous on its own. But stochastic harassment, including threats to physical safety of government officials, has become a common tool in the MAGA playbook. "Do things our way or you might get hurt." www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

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Estimated DOGE savings: $16 billion. Projected addition to budget deficit from House bill over next decade: $3 trillion to 5 trillion @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/05/30/d...

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A very insightful read from the always astute Adam Serwer. A thirty minute read. Well worth it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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How to get yourself quoted in dozens of lawsuits.

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A case study in textbook authoritarianism: Day by day, we’re seeing the Justice Department effectively decriminalize and wave away crimes by Trump’s friends and instead selectively focus investigatory resources on Trump’s adversaries and enemies. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/crime-is-n...

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“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. “If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us."

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Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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I'm tired of the shameless deceit and dishonest rhetoric. O'Connell is a city mayor, not a federal agent or employee. In a federalist system like ours, city officials have no role in enforcing federal actions. Trump and Ogles are weaponizing government. www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

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These repeated assaults on established legal precedent are getting very tiresome. This isn't controversial. Students in school are not unlimited in what they can express, particularly if it's demeaning or hostile to other students. www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/p...

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The Trump administration is trying to purge DEI efforts from the US military. But many of America’s biggest military blunders occurred because there wasn’t enough diversity in the armed forces.

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How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

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This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump ban on Harvard’s international students

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I love the summertime and patio weather. And good food. Lots of new places to try. www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...

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What kind of dumb people willfully undermine one of the brightest jewels of higher education, a magnet for talent and a driver of significant scientific and medical research?

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Trump told us these people were so dangerous they couldn't afford due process to prove how dangerous they were. They had to go straight to the foreign concentration camp. Turns out at least one in five of them didn't even break US immigration law

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Fresh spring basil means homemade pizza!

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McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

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