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The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...

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‘What Is Our Country Becoming?’ Four Columnists Map Out Where Trump Is Taking America. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...

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In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.

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Last year I wrote about why Portugal (despite spending a fraction of what the U.S. does and is one of Europe’s poorer countries) has such a higher longevity rate. This is hard to wrap our heads around but we need to.

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Omaha,NE @maddow.msnbc.com

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How Would We Build Homes Without Immigrant Labor and Foreign Materials? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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How South Korea’s Democracy Prevailed Over a Reckless Leader www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...

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Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa

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Steve Rattner on Just How Bad Things Will Get Under Trump’s Tariffs www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

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Yep. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

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‘You’re not listening to us’: Hoosiers air frustrations as public officials face access scrutiny www.newsfromthestates.com/article/your...

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Universities Like the One I Run Aren’t Afraid to Let People Argue www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...

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So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

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Asked my smart economist friend about how #TrumpTariffs help Americans or even the rich, because I couldn't see it, and he said, "It doesn't. He's destroying stuff. It doesn't benefit anyone...except our enemies."

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Jeffries: "It was a terrible week. So what happens on Sunday? Trump says, intentionally, 'I'm serious about running for a third term.' He can't run for a third term! ... why does he say it? ... to distract from the terrible week that they've had. We're not gonna take the bait."

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More than 600 Iron Range steelworkers out of work as auto industry cuts orders because of tariffs www.startribune.com/iron-range-l...

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Nebraska voters passed a minimum wage increase. LB258 guts it. I’m calling on the advocacy community: Boycott the businesses of senators backing it. Picket their offices. Fill the rotunda. Your vote is not theirs to undo. #NELeg

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Peoples lives aren’t metaphors. Demand that our elected officials talk about our lives & their godawful plans in plain honest language, because it’s our lives. We aren’t a house remodeling job, we aren’t a car engine to tinker with, we aren’t a balance sheet. We are the people.

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Here’s some fraud and waste that doge can cut.

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Not that it makes any difference to the GOP or "the base" at this point, but: For reasons of self-respect and later "what did you do during The Troubles, mommy and daddy?" questions, news organizations should not come even this close to legitimizing anti-American BS. www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...

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China is trying to recruit U.S. government scientists fired by DOGE www.politico.eu/newsletter/c...

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A plan by a Wall Street backed mining company to team up with the Trump administration and move ahead with seabed mining in the Pacific Ocean violates international law, diplomats from more than 35 nations say. nyti.ms/3YaZwuG

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I asked a number of people who study democracy and history where they thought the U.S. would be in 5 or 10 years. Gift link: wapo.st/44bN4i6

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What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary? Poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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One gambling counselor said he has a number of patients who dropped out of school, stopped going to class, or lost scholarships. Almost all of them, he says, are gambling student loan money. chroni.cl/3E1Xd6q

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Good Krugman piece on what happens when you let a reality TV show star run the economy paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

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@nbcnews.com what in the name if all that is holy are you doing with this headline. Disgraceful www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Just think what the reaction would be if Joe Biden, in his first months in office, had openly discussed overruling the 2nd Amendment. But Trump can do the same for the 22nd Amendment and it’ll be forgotten by evening and won’t prompt howls of outrage from every elected Dem or NYT headline writer.

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So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

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‘They’re trying to bankrupt me’: A dairy farmer in West Virginia is feeling Trump’s government spending cuts, which ended up killing a lifeline for his business — a butter contract he had with a food bank that lost its funding reut.rs/4cgLvSo

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SCOOP: DOGE wants to rebuild SSA's codebase in months, risking benefits and system collapse, sources tell me. The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI. www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

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That time Mr. Rogers went to the Senate to defend funding for public broadcasting

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How Analytics Marginalized Baseball’s Superstar Pitchers www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/m...

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The Leaked Signal Chat, Annotated www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are.

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If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

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GOP Rep. Bacon: "We made a mistake. We passed legislation that gave the president some temporary tariff authorities. I think we should look back and maybe restore the power back from Congress and take away the authorizations."

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With the #Signalgate scandal, we see our government openly compromising our national security, the better to violate our rights. I explain here: snyder.substack.com/p/signalgate...

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"Most people, including a lot of journalists, don’t understand what an executive order even is. It’s not a law or even a quasi-law. An executive order is really just a memo from the president to his staff..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/notes...

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8 Great Noir Thrillers www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...

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Columbia Faculty Protests as Trump Officials Hail University Concessions www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...

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