Carla Trounson (Hickson)
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whatever else republican house speaker mike johnson (and the congressional republicans who serve under him) ever do in this life, this headline will last forever and ever, for their whole blessed lives.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
(gift link, no paywall)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
July 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
whatever else republican house speaker mike johnson (and the congressional republicans who serve under him) ever do in this life, this headline will last forever and ever, for their whole blessed lives.
(gift link, no paywall)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
(gift link, no paywall)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.
June 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.
June 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.
Trump Declares Dubious Emergencies to Amass Power, Scholars Say www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...
Trump Declares Dubious Emergencies to Amass Power, Scholars Say
In disputes over protests, deportations and tariffs, the president has invoked statutes that may not provide him with the authority he claims.
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Trump Declares Dubious Emergencies to Amass Power, Scholars Say www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...
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🚨BREAKING: U.S Department of Justice files voter suppression lawsuit targeting North Carolina voter registration. The weaponization of DOJ for political gain is here. Subscribe to Democracy Docket to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
May 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
🚨BREAKING: U.S Department of Justice files voter suppression lawsuit targeting North Carolina voter registration. The weaponization of DOJ for political gain is here. Subscribe to Democracy Docket to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
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BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear:
The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here.
Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead.
This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.
The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here.
Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead.
This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.
May 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear:
The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here.
Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead.
This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.
The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here.
Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead.
This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.
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4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.
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3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
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2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
This is good reporting, lays it out clearly: “The Department of the Navy’s purge of 381 books there picked sides in the racism debate, and those that examine and criticize historical and current racism against Black Americans lost.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
April 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite:
‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’
‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’
April 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite:
‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’
‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’
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Their crime is being Latino in a country quickly emerging as majority non-white. Tell a conservative Latino friend.
60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP
Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador
A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.
cbsn.ws
April 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Their crime is being Latino in a country quickly emerging as majority non-white. Tell a conservative Latino friend.
“This is not what we voted for.” Yes, yes, it is. You just didn’t think it could destroy you, too.
April 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This is what happens when you’re willing to risk it all over ending pronouns and Black history. Hope those cultural wars pay the bills.
April 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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This is what happens when you’re willing to risk it all over ending pronouns and Black history. Hope those cultural wars pay the bills.
April 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is what happens when you’re willing to risk it all over ending pronouns and Black history. Hope those cultural wars pay the bills.
Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
April 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
April 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
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Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
April 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.
Heroes
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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February 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.