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Is there fentanyl on the boats from Venezuela the Trump administration is blowing up? No. I explain and discuss @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Venezuela Doesn’t Produce Fentanyl. Trump Is Targeting It Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Is there fentanyl on the boats from Venezuela the Trump administration is blowing up? No. I explain and discuss @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
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Important piece on how we got here.
Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.
Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.
Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
A Small Texas Think Tank Cultivated Covid Dissidents. Now They’re Running US Health Policy. - KFF Health News
Fueled by covid backlash, a libertarian author created the Brownstone Institute in 2021. In recent months, people with ties to the group have catapulted to the highest levels of U.S. government, exerc...
kffhealthnews.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Important piece on how we got here.
Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.
Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.
Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
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The modern conservative movement is more opposed to America’s WW2 actions than they are to literal Hitler
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The modern conservative movement is more opposed to America’s WW2 actions than they are to literal Hitler
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Like, is he effectively public-domaining his mark by doing so?
It would be awesome if his narcissism bit him in the ass.
It would be awesome if his narcissism bit him in the ass.
First of all, the incredible corruption of Trump using his own name in official government platforms should be grounds for impeachment. (Note: *Republicans* dubbed ACA “Obamacare.”)
But has anyone investigated the TRADEMARK implications of Trump using his name/brand for government activities?
But has anyone investigated the TRADEMARK implications of Trump using his name/brand for government activities?
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Like, is he effectively public-domaining his mark by doing so?
It would be awesome if his narcissism bit him in the ass.
It would be awesome if his narcissism bit him in the ass.
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“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”
Families "horrified" after daycare teacher pulled out of school by federal agents.
The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee, who cares for infants, is legally allowed to work in the United State...
www.chalkbeat.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”
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I wrote this now to warning everyone about what to expect next from Trump and the GOP and how we can fight back. I hope you read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
What Comes Next After the 2025 Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I wrote this now to warning everyone about what to expect next from Trump and the GOP and how we can fight back. I hope you read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
This
We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time.
Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.
Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.
'Blunt Corruption': Trump DOJ Hands Google an Antitrust Win After Tech Giant's Ballroom Donation | Common Dreams
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is contributing $22 million to the president's ballroom project.
www.commondreams.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This
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My colleagues @brookings.edu are out with a new piece that highlights the benefits of mail voting
They find that mail voting is secure & fraud is exceedingly rare, especially in universal vote-by-mail systems
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
They find that mail voting is secure & fraud is exceedingly rare, especially in universal vote-by-mail systems
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
Mail voting fraud: Data points to low risk and high benefits for voters | Brookings
Analysis finds mail voting fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare and shows universal vote-by-mail boosts access, turnout, and cost efficiency.
www.brookings.edu
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
My colleagues @brookings.edu are out with a new piece that highlights the benefits of mail voting
They find that mail voting is secure & fraud is exceedingly rare, especially in universal vote-by-mail systems
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
They find that mail voting is secure & fraud is exceedingly rare, especially in universal vote-by-mail systems
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
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NEW: In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, a pair of Democratic senators said the DOJ’s efforts to seize voter data from states “appear to be driven by blind allegiance to the President’s unlawful” sweeping anti-voting order and pose serious privacy risks.
DOJ Efforts to Seize Voter Data ‘Pose Serious Risks’ to Privacy and National Security, Senators Warn
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
NEW: In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, a pair of Democratic senators said the DOJ’s efforts to seize voter data from states “appear to be driven by blind allegiance to the President’s unlawful” sweeping anti-voting order and pose serious privacy risks.
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BREAKING: Trump administration must fully fund food aid benefits by Friday, US judge rules reut.rs/3LtkSQz
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
BREAKING: Trump administration must fully fund food aid benefits by Friday, US judge rules reut.rs/3LtkSQz
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t worry because if they’re detained, agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And…
www.propublica.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t worry because if they’re detained, agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
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A scoop that I’m not happy to report:
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
heated.world
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A scoop that I’m not happy to report:
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
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Local news brings us closer to each other, even as the powerful work to tear us apart. This beautiful piece about Gael the sidewalk astronomer, who is losing his TPS (but would prefer us to focus on the stars) by
@samdelgado.bsky.social @51st.news really exemplifies that. 51st.news/mount-pleasa...
@samdelgado.bsky.social @51st.news really exemplifies that. 51st.news/mount-pleasa...
Astronomer Gael Gomez impacted by Trump revoking TPS
But Gael Gomez wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.
51st.news
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Local news brings us closer to each other, even as the powerful work to tear us apart. This beautiful piece about Gael the sidewalk astronomer, who is losing his TPS (but would prefer us to focus on the stars) by
@samdelgado.bsky.social @51st.news really exemplifies that. 51st.news/mount-pleasa...
@samdelgado.bsky.social @51st.news really exemplifies that. 51st.news/mount-pleasa...
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note how the messaging has shifting from "we're targeting criminals" to "we're deporting everyone"
Kristi Noem: "We will continue to do this work until there are no longer anybody in our communities that's here illegally."
October 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
note how the messaging has shifting from "we're targeting criminals" to "we're deporting everyone"
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Republicans control the govt. They broke it and they decided to shut it down to deny people affordable healthcare and now denying foodstamps to poor children in America.
They own all of this ... they own the cruelty and all of the suffering.
They own all of this ... they own the cruelty and all of the suffering.
Trump proved that Rs *could* open the government by ending the filibuster
but Thune and Johnson, defying Trump (so far), said, no, we own the shutdown, the skyrocketing ACA price increases, denying people food
They do own it all - but, here they are admitting it
Media should report accordingly
but Thune and Johnson, defying Trump (so far), said, no, we own the shutdown, the skyrocketing ACA price increases, denying people food
They do own it all - but, here they are admitting it
Media should report accordingly
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson pour cold water on President Donald Trump's proposal to end the filibuster.
October 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Republicans control the govt. They broke it and they decided to shut it down to deny people affordable healthcare and now denying foodstamps to poor children in America.
They own all of this ... they own the cruelty and all of the suffering.
They own all of this ... they own the cruelty and all of the suffering.
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Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
October 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
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"Why Is Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ Focused on Deradicalizing Palestinians, Not Israelis?"
Israel violated the ceasefire, while Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian woman and US journalist, and Israeli rioters shut down a soccer match, writes Zeteo's @premthakker.bsky.social.
Read/share/subscribe:
Israel violated the ceasefire, while Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian woman and US journalist, and Israeli rioters shut down a soccer match, writes Zeteo's @premthakker.bsky.social.
Read/share/subscribe:
Why Is Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ Focused on Deradicalizing Palestinians, Not Israelis?
Israel violated the ceasefire, while Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian woman and US journalist, and Israeli rioters shut down a soccer match.
zeteo.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"Why Is Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ Focused on Deradicalizing Palestinians, Not Israelis?"
Israel violated the ceasefire, while Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian woman and US journalist, and Israeli rioters shut down a soccer match, writes Zeteo's @premthakker.bsky.social.
Read/share/subscribe:
Israel violated the ceasefire, while Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian woman and US journalist, and Israeli rioters shut down a soccer match, writes Zeteo's @premthakker.bsky.social.
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We have reached the stage where legacy media simply ignores Trump's targeting of political opponents for prosecution. Meanwhile, commentators and pundits find ways to dismiss it or - in some cases - normalize it.
I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE
I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE
Why Smart People Keep Getting Trump's DOJ Scandal Wrong
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
We have reached the stage where legacy media simply ignores Trump's targeting of political opponents for prosecution. Meanwhile, commentators and pundits find ways to dismiss it or - in some cases - normalize it.
I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE
I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE
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It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.
October 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.
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I’ll be damned.
We have finally found the politically salient suit that is just too dumb for Kacsmaryk to rule for the Republican position.
We have finally found the politically salient suit that is just too dumb for Kacsmaryk to rule for the Republican position.
JUST IN: Rep. Ronny Jackson's lawsuit against Gov. Gavin Newsom over California's redistricting effort was thrown out today by Judge Matt Kacsmaryk.
Jackson failed to show he faced a cognizable injury from CA's redistricting plan, Kacsmaryk says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Jackson failed to show he faced a cognizable injury from CA's redistricting plan, Kacsmaryk says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I’ll be damned.
We have finally found the politically salient suit that is just too dumb for Kacsmaryk to rule for the Republican position.
We have finally found the politically salient suit that is just too dumb for Kacsmaryk to rule for the Republican position.
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The @nytimes.com climate section is profiling federal scientists who have been terminated and their work.
I spoke with tsunami expert Corina Allen, who worked to ensure tsunami alerts made it to the public. She was fired in February.
Read her story and others':
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
I spoke with tsunami expert Corina Allen, who worked to ensure tsunami alerts made it to the public. She was fired in February.
Read her story and others':
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
She Made Sure That Tsunami Warnings Reached the Public
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The @nytimes.com climate section is profiling federal scientists who have been terminated and their work.
I spoke with tsunami expert Corina Allen, who worked to ensure tsunami alerts made it to the public. She was fired in February.
Read her story and others':
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
I spoke with tsunami expert Corina Allen, who worked to ensure tsunami alerts made it to the public. She was fired in February.
Read her story and others':
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
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Third party funds must be deposited in the U.S. Treasury and appropriated by Congress and apart from that I believe service members aren’t allowed to accept outside compensation so
Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."
October 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Third party funds must be deposited in the U.S. Treasury and appropriated by Congress and apart from that I believe service members aren’t allowed to accept outside compensation so
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Ahead of Trump's pardon of Binance founder Chanpeng Zhao, Binance's newly hired lobbyist Charles McDowell met with the president and Trump Jr. at the Charlie Kirk medal of freedom ceremony.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...
October 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Ahead of Trump's pardon of Binance founder Chanpeng Zhao, Binance's newly hired lobbyist Charles McDowell met with the president and Trump Jr. at the Charlie Kirk medal of freedom ceremony.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...
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This is—and I want to say this with precision, so please bear with me—some fucked-up shit.
www.thedailybeast.com/leavitt-says...
www.thedailybeast.com/leavitt-says...
Leavitt Says Trump Can Tear Down Jefferson Memorial if He Wants
The press secretary’s stunning remarks came as dramatic photos showed the full extent of Trump’s East Wing demolition.
www.thedailybeast.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is—and I want to say this with precision, so please bear with me—some fucked-up shit.
www.thedailybeast.com/leavitt-says...
www.thedailybeast.com/leavitt-says...