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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

US military action is done with the American people’s money in the American people’s name, as is DOJ. The people’s elected representatives in Congress have oversight authority. They are 100% entitled to this info.

You know who doesn’t have to disclose legal advice? Personal attorneys and advisors.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13d

Trump has gone completely mad. We have to force this conversation.

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13d

Trump gets humiliated at the UN, Kimmel returns, he drops further in the polls and just goes fucking crazy at the White House today. Insane new tariffs, Comey, war against his domestic opponents, shutting down the government.

He is losing it, and it’s getting dangerous out there.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

We shall see if one of the most unpopular presidents in American history who is presiding over an economy he’s trying to wreck and the poisoning of our diplomatic relations can consolidate a dictatorship. I’m pretty skeptical he has the juice, especially in his decayed state.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 18d

Truly outrageous. Erasing the evidence of mounting suffering won't make it go away.

It's just a matter of time before he cancels the annual homeless count.

WSJ headline: "Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s but now says the report has become ‘overly politicized’"

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21d

It is OK to call fascists fascists.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21d

As always, there are zero demands, expectations, or criticisms of the far right authoritarians. Only Democrats/The Left/Those Liberal Academics Must (Not) Do Things. No one else has agency in 🇺🇸 politics, least of all the party/people overseeing the worst Article I constitutional crisis in history.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 23d

Our imbecilic leader is turning the most powerful military in the history of the world away from Russia and China towards attacking small boats of poor, unarmed men in the Caribbean.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 23d

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad.
Or wasn't, until now.

CNN @cnn.com · 23d

The US military killed three people in another deadly strike on a vessel in international waters around South America allegedly "transporting illegal narcotics" from Venezuela, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post. https://cnn.it/4na60EM

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 23d

Where's the Democratic rebuttal to what Vance said?

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 23d

In all seriousness, Vance’s unhinged diatribe really reminds me that this country is in dire straits. I can’t even wrap my mind around how bad things are and how impossible everything feels. How are we supposed to stay here and write and stay like… alive?

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 23d

Incredible tragedy that this great country has fallen under the control of these madmen, and that the Roberts Court and Republicans in Congress have failed to provide any meaningful check. The country is suffering under their many manifest failures, and somehow it is going to get worse now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d

Stephen Miller: “We are gonna channel all the anger we have over the organized campaign to led to this assassination to uproot & dismantle these terrorist networks … we are going to use every resource we have at the DOJ, Homeland Security & throughout this govt to dismantle & destroy these networks"

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 23d

at the center of the efforts to destroy civil society in russia, hungary, georgia and elsewhere is the stigmatization, harassment, & criminalization of NGOs. that's what this is about, a full-on assault on democratic debate & freedoms.

this is not hyperbole. it's right here.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23d

Vance: "There's no unity with people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers...Soros' OSF and the Ford Foundation...benefit from generous tax treatment...How do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 23d

Charlie Kirk's murderer has been apprehended and will face trial under our existing laws. Kirk's widow, however, states in this fundraising "battle cry" email that she believes far more people are responsible for Kirk's death, some nebulous "they" who represent the "evildoers" who killed him.

My cries will echo around the world like a battle cry D
Inbox x
Erika Kirk <info@restoringamericaalerts.com›...
Unsubscribe Sun, Sep 14, 3:55 PM (18 hours ago)
to me -
TURNING POINT USA
Seth,
I want to thank you for loving my husband.
For standing with us in the worst days of our lives. For praying. For mourning. For remembering.
But now, I need you to listen closely...
Because the evildoers who took Charlie's life? They have NO idea what they have done.
They didn't just try to silence a man...
They tried to silence his message — a message of patriotism, of faith, and of God's merciful love.
Instead, they ignited something even greater.

They didn't just try to silence a man...
They tried to silence his message - a message of patriotism, of faith, and of God's merciful love.
Instead, they ignited something even greater.
If they thought my husband's mission was powerful before...
They have NO idea what they have just UNLEASHED.
Not just across this country... But in me.
They have no idea the fire they've lit inside this wife.
And to those listening across America... Let me be clear: The movement my husband built will not die.
I refuse to let that happen.
And I know all of us will refuse to let that happen, too.
Charlie's mission will grow: Stronger. Bolder. Louder. Greater than ever.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23d

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23d

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson

By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

www.thecrimson.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 24d

What a bizarre spectacle it is to watch Democratic politicians and prominent opinionists on the center/center-left attempt to valorize Charlie Kirk.

It is not just utterly detached from the reality of who Kirk was/what he did – it also misunderstands why political violence is bad.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 24d

Sunday reading: The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire

I wrote about the murder of Charlie Kirk, political violence in the United States, and the Trumpists’ desire to find a pretext for purges and mass arrests.

This week’s piece:

The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire

The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink

thomaszimmer.substack.com

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 24d

Ending crime reports wouldn't make the world safer; ending disease reports wouldn't make the world healthier; and ending pollution reports won't make the world cleaner.

E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters

www.nytimes.com

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Dave Tuffs @davetuffs.bsky.social · 24d

Trump will not attempt to influence Putin and he has no allies.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 24d

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 25d

The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment

Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25d

Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.

"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25d

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.

A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Screenshot of article excerpt: The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant.

“I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.” ProPublica obtained a copy of the grant application and confirmed that those words were included.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26d

How do we expect foreign investments when we treat foreigners like this?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26d

“.. Their roundup and the .. video showing some Korean workers shackled with chains around their hands, ankles and waists have caused public outrage and a sense of betrayal in South Korea, a key U.S. ally.”

@apnews.com #Hyundai
apnews.com/article/sout...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26d

Your regular reminder that, whatever problems they may have, there are exactly <zero> societal institutions that are <more> protective of disagreement & debate & viewpoint diversity than universities.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26d

the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 26d

Economist Thomas Piketty:

"a country that refuses to make its richest citizens pay the same tax as the middle & lower classes...[...].is a country that has abandoned its sovereignty."

BH: a country has no real government if the rich enjoy the protection of the law w/out paying their fair share.

ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 26d

"Un pays qui refuse de faire payer à ses plus riches citoyens le même impôt que les classes moyennes et populaires, qui renonce à toute possibilité... c'est un pays qui abandonne sa souveraineté" a dit notre commissaire @thomaspiketty.bsky.social dans BFMTV

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 26d

This combined disinterest in understanding Trump for who he is with insistence on condemning the opposition for what they aren't is not new but is very important to recognize.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26d

Trump is engaged in a Russianification of American foreign policy: no soft power, no ideals, no persuasion, anti-democratic, zero-sum logics and hostile policies toward our erstwhile allies and their citizens. Russia has never been better than this, but the US is pissing away the basis of its power.

Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio
X.com
The political persecutions by sanctioned human rights abuser Alexandre de Moraes continue, as he and others on Brazil's supreme court have unjustly ruled to imprison former President Jair Bolsonaro.
The United States will respond accordingly to this witch hunt.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 27d

Denunciations of political violence are too tasteful for the moment. Piously expressing respect for Kirk’s work and incantating the importance of “debate” are capitulations to Republicans’ invoking standards to which the right no longer pretends to adhere.

newrepublic.com/article/2003...

Charlie Kirk and the Empathy Trap

Democrats will never be as cruel as Republicans after a political assassination. That’s to their credit. But it may not be to their advantage.

newrepublic.com

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