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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 6h

Trump is signaling to politicians and the public that opposing him has a cost, including the threat of imprisonment. America is now in a dangerous period, in which Trump can order investigations and indictments against his enemies. He is criminalizing Americans’ ability to challenge their leaders.

Opinion | James Comey. Letitia James. Who’s Next?

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 14h

A preferred narrative vs. data showing that incidents remain limited and localized. Local officials say most demonstrations remain peaceful or quickly disperse, and reports of sustained violence are rare.

MAGA media wages asymmetric warfare on antifa

MAGA-aligned journalists frame their coverage as exposing the "truth" mainstream outlets ignore.

www.axios.com

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15h

“Anybody who takes the stuff during pregnancy ... is irresponsible,” RFK Jr. told Trump. “It is not proof. We’re doing the studies to make the proof.” The nation's chief health officer also claimed Tylenol is a danger to a fetus in the placenta. A fetus develops in the uterus, not the placenta.

Kennedy reups unproven Tylenol-autism link during Cabinet meeting as Trump repeats 'don't take it'

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has reasserted the unproven link between the pain reliever Tylenol and autism, and suggested people who opposed the theory were motivated by hatred for Preside...

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15h

A thorough and informative history of Trump's quest for a Nobel Peace Prize, which this year was awarded to Marìa Corina Machado for "promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."

Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize dream crushed

Trump’s interest in the Nobel Peace Prize is longstanding.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15h

A former Trump-appointed inspector general weighs in on "border czar" Tom Homan accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents in a corruption probe. Believe it or not, the IRS requires individuals to report all income, even illegal income such as bribes. Sounds absurd, but it is the law.

Opinion | I Investigated Corruption. The Homan Affair Is Full of Red Flags.

www.nytimes.com

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15h

Is someone trying to stoke the embers of the Reichstag fire? The Federal Protective Service, the agency tasked with protecting federal buildings, reported "no indication of a dangerous escalation of tensions" before Trump announced his troop surge.

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Never let facts get in the way of a desired narrative. A right-wing influencer appears on Newsmax from inside the cordoned-off ICE building, falsely claiming the windows are blacked out because “Democrats keep shooting sniper rounds into ICE facilities.” Police report there has been no sniper fire.

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland

www.nytimes.com

mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Photographer Branson DeCou captures the necessities in “Woman with Baguette and Wine” (Paris, 1925).

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 16h

When democracy dies. Alfred Partikel’s “At the Haystack” (1919). Popular during the Weimar Republic, Partikel was declared a degenerate artist when the Nazis took power. His work was banned and he disappeared in 1945.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich weighs in on the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive and authoritarian law-enforcement policies.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Editorial cartoonist Daniel Boris unveils the “Department of Vengeance,” noting that Trump is turning the U.S. Department of Justice into his personal bureau of prosecuting his perceived political enemies. First former FBI Director James Comey, and now N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 16h

The Cuban editorial cartoonist known as Ramses lauds Nobel Peace Prize recipient Marìa Machado, who built one of Venezuela’s most important political movements and lives in hiding from President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian government.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Editorial cartoonist Deb Milbrath titles her work “A Ship of Fools.”

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1d

The arrival of the National Guard — coupled with Trump's calls to arrest Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker — could open a volatile new chapter in American history.

How Chicago became ground zero for Trump's military crackdown

"This has never happened before," said Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1d

A primer on what happens when you relentlessly attack the credibility of a preeminent public-health agency, appoint a conspiracy theory provocateur to head the agency, and follow up with Trump falsely declaring without evidence that Tylenol is unsafe for pregnant women.

Trust in federal health leadership is failing under RFK Jr., new poll finds | CNN

Most of the American public does not approve of the way Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running the nation’s health agencies, according to a new KFF poll, and there’s erosion of trust in reliable vaccine inf...

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1d

A wakeup call? “There is a hot debate in Washington about the looming ACA premium hikes, but our poll shows that most people in the marketplaces don’t know about them yet and are in for a shock when they learn about them in November,” KFF President and CEO Drew Altman said.

Despite Budget Concerns, Three-Quarters of Public Say Congress Should Extend the Enhanced ACA Tax Credits Set to Expire Next Year, Including Most Republicans and MAGA Supporters | KFF

A new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds more than three-quarters (78%) of the public say they want Congress to extend the enhanced tax credits available to people with low and moderate incomes to make th...

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Enrollees living in states won by Trump in 2024 were even more likely to have subsidized coverage. In Florida, West Virginia, and Alabama, 98% of people enrolled in Marketplace coverage received federal financial premium assistance, and 99% do in Mississippi.

More Than 3 in 4 ACA Marketplace Enrollees Live in States Won by President Trump in 2024

As Democrats push for an extension of the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits, new data from KFF show the extent to which states won by Trump in 2024 have come to rely on the ACA Marketplaces and the t...

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1d

(Gift article) Giving credit and blame where it's due. That said, getting to the next stage, where Hamas will have to give up its arms and, even harder, its claim to run Gaza, may prove even more difficult than bringing the living and dead hostages home.

With Mideast Deal, Trump Is on the Brink of a Major Diplomatic Accomplishment

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Trump claims he is not politicking for the prize. But his naked hunger to win has shifted foreign diplomacy. It may have helped spur Hamas and Israeli officials to strike a bargain in hopes of being able to announce a buzzer-beating peace after two years of war so that Trump can take home the gold.

Trump wants a Nobel Prize. He’ll learn Friday if his campaign paid off.

President Donald Trump’s long quest for a Nobel Peace Prize has sparked an unusual global scramble.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Victims are not faceless. Betty Spiegel was stripped of her German citizenship and incarcerated in 1940. In September 1942, she was deported to Auschwitz and gassed.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1d

The warning label did say, “Never punch in Cretaceous period.”

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Take a stroll in Henri Sacchi’s “Ellas" (2024).

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Editorial cartoonist John Deering mocks Trump’s Herculean effort to inflate the danger of Antifa as a pretext to send troops into Democratic-run cities.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich weighs in on Trump’s Herculean effort to inflate the danger of Antifa as a pretext to send troops into Democratic-run cities.

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