"This episode is a prototypical demonstration of Trump’s economic worldview. Faced with a policy choice that pits the interests of millions of people against the wealth of a single rent seeker, Trump has intervened in a way that benefits the billionaire."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump Has a Bridge He Wants to Sell You
The president’s closure of a trade route from Detroit to Windsor will help a billionaire and hurt basically everyone else.
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February 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM
"This episode is a prototypical demonstration of Trump’s economic worldview. Faced with a policy choice that pits the interests of millions of people against the wealth of a single rent seeker, Trump has intervened in a way that benefits the billionaire."
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Cartel’s Seized Ammunition Is Traced to U.S. Army Plant, Mexico Says
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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So a Trump attorney that aided his 2020 campaign (and wrote a memo encouraging Pence to skip counting electoral votes) was given an "election integrity" job in the administration, where he made a referral to investigate Fulton County. 1/2
February 10, 2026 at 7:58 PM
So a Trump attorney that aided his 2020 campaign (and wrote a memo encouraging Pence to skip counting electoral votes) was given an "election integrity" job in the administration, where he made a referral to investigate Fulton County. 1/2
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UNC System President Peter Hans recently acknowledged the “outright harassment” & “culture of digital surveillance” faced by university faculty & staff. How ironic that UNC is now rolling out a new policy explicitly permitting university officials to record classes without notifying instructors.🧐
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”
www.insidehighered.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
UNC System President Peter Hans recently acknowledged the “outright harassment” & “culture of digital surveillance” faced by university faculty & staff. How ironic that UNC is now rolling out a new policy explicitly permitting university officials to record classes without notifying instructors.🧐
Job qualifications for ICE appear to require shooting unarmed people and lying about it . . . Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
When Trump Officials’ Claims About Shootings Unravel in Court
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Job qualifications for ICE appear to require shooting unarmed people and lying about it . . . Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
The US and Israel: two countries heading towards internal dissolution . . . Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/m...
‘We Are Going to Live With Scars’: Yair Golan’s Battle for a Two-State Solution
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February 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM
The US and Israel: two countries heading towards internal dissolution . . . Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/m...
Donald Trump is a corrupt fraud . . . Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
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February 8, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Donald Trump is a corrupt fraud . . . Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
The US continues to slide towards dictatorship. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | ICE and Minnesota Have Pushed the U.S. Closer to Autocracy (Gift Article)
Measuring America’s slide toward democratic erosion.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:07 PM
The US continues to slide towards dictatorship. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The coup in November has now been announced beforehand. What will American citizens do?
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www.newsweek.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The coup in November has now been announced beforehand. What will American citizens do?
www.newsweek.com/karoline-lea...
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American tax dollars used to fund Elon Musk's campaign against EU privacy regulations.
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US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe
State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations
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February 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM
American tax dollars used to fund Elon Musk's campaign against EU privacy regulations.
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Human Rights Watch - 2026 Annual Report
United States - "The US took significant steps backward on immigration, health, environment, labor, disability, gender,
criminal justice, and freedom of speech rights, among others."
www.hrw.org/sites/defaul...
United States - "The US took significant steps backward on immigration, health, environment, labor, disability, gender,
criminal justice, and freedom of speech rights, among others."
www.hrw.org/sites/defaul...
www.hrw.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Human Rights Watch - 2026 Annual Report
United States - "The US took significant steps backward on immigration, health, environment, labor, disability, gender,
criminal justice, and freedom of speech rights, among others."
www.hrw.org/sites/defaul...
United States - "The US took significant steps backward on immigration, health, environment, labor, disability, gender,
criminal justice, and freedom of speech rights, among others."
www.hrw.org/sites/defaul...
To all those outside the US who keep asking, "Why is this happening?" This is why: the Republicans are fascists . . .Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
Polls Show Strong G.O.P. Support for Trump on Immigration
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February 4, 2026 at 1:41 PM
To all those outside the US who keep asking, "Why is this happening?" This is why: the Republicans are fascists . . .Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
"CNN announced a deal with Kalshi last month to integrate the site’s data into its broadcasts, which has led to betting odds showing up in segments about Democrats possibly retaking the House, credit-card interest rates, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster
Why is the media obsessed with prediction markets?
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February 1, 2026 at 1:19 PM
"CNN announced a deal with Kalshi last month to integrate the site’s data into its broadcasts, which has led to betting odds showing up in segments about Democrats possibly retaking the House, credit-card interest rates, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Yes, please . . . “I’m simply asking the question if perhaps our canonical affairs committee could give recommendations at least to those of us who are border bishops, on the possibility of canonical penalties for Catholics involved in [family separation].” open.substack.com/pub/thepilla...
Will bishops thaw Weisenburger ICE proposal?
Amid national immigration controversy, might a long frozen question about canonical penalties be revived?
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January 30, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Yes, please . . . “I’m simply asking the question if perhaps our canonical affairs committee could give recommendations at least to those of us who are border bishops, on the possibility of canonical penalties for Catholics involved in [family separation].” open.substack.com/pub/thepilla...
15 years ago I sat through presentations in which university staffers would talk about how wonderful cell phones were going to be for education. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films
The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.
www.theatlantic.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:34 PM
15 years ago I sat through presentations in which university staffers would talk about how wonderful cell phones were going to be for education. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump radicalizes another crazed MAGA supporter. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Brother calls Ilhan Omar suspect ‘right-wing extremist,’ has hated Somalis for years
Exclusive: ‘In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t,’ Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother told The Independent
www.independent.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Trump radicalizes another crazed MAGA supporter. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
The NatCons do want civil war. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis
The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.
www.theatlantic.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:23 PM
The NatCons do want civil war. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
I'm not "dialoguing" with folks who support armed mercenaries murdering a man who was using his cell phone to record them. It's time for organization and resistance.
January 28, 2026 at 3:06 AM
I'm not "dialoguing" with folks who support armed mercenaries murdering a man who was using his cell phone to record them. It's time for organization and resistance.
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“What is very clear here on the ground in Minnesota is that ICE is not really, and DHS is not really, functioning as an immigration agency. The immigration is a pretext. It is conducting itself as a terror agency, as a state terror apparatus.” slate.trib.al/K1ImuQF
Everyone Saw CBP Kill Alex Pretti
Minneapolis is in mourning again – but still fighting back.
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January 26, 2026 at 12:36 AM
“What is very clear here on the ground in Minnesota is that ICE is not really, and DHS is not really, functioning as an immigration agency. The immigration is a pretext. It is conducting itself as a terror agency, as a state terror apparatus.” slate.trib.al/K1ImuQF
MAGAs are as unfamiliar with the text of the US Constitution as Vance's Christian nationalists are with the text of the Bible.
January 25, 2026 at 5:56 PM
MAGAs are as unfamiliar with the text of the US Constitution as Vance's Christian nationalists are with the text of the Bible.