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Doing my part to defend democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law. #RESIST
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Most Americans agree with this. I hope Europeans know that. When Democrats regain power, I hope repairing the damage Trump & Republicans have done to our relationships with our allies will be a top priority. Americans should never forgive Trump & Republicans for the harm they've done.
December 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Most Americans agree with this. I hope Europeans know that. When Democrats regain power, I hope repairing the damage Trump & Republicans have done to our relationships with our allies will be a top priority. Americans should never forgive Trump & Republicans for the harm they've done.
This may be the single most important thing you read this year.
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How the Trump Administration Innovates the Authoritarian Playbook
Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers.
lucid.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This may be the single most important thing you read this year.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Not hyperbole. Just the literal truth.
The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.
December 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Not hyperbole. Just the literal truth.
Thanks, Trump.
"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."
December 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Thanks, Trump.
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🗽Robert Reich
Dec 05, 2025
The giant ballroom is Trump’s monument to corruption.
Trump isn’t just destroying the White House to make room for a vanity ballroom, he’s selling it off to the highest bidders, who conveniently need favors from his regime. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-mon...
Dec 05, 2025
The giant ballroom is Trump’s monument to corruption.
Trump isn’t just destroying the White House to make room for a vanity ballroom, he’s selling it off to the highest bidders, who conveniently need favors from his regime. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-mon...
Trump’s Monument to Corruption
And one of the first things to do when sanity and legality are restored
robertreich.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🗽Robert Reich
Dec 05, 2025
The giant ballroom is Trump’s monument to corruption.
Trump isn’t just destroying the White House to make room for a vanity ballroom, he’s selling it off to the highest bidders, who conveniently need favors from his regime. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-mon...
Dec 05, 2025
The giant ballroom is Trump’s monument to corruption.
Trump isn’t just destroying the White House to make room for a vanity ballroom, he’s selling it off to the highest bidders, who conveniently need favors from his regime. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-mon...
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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
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But they said cutting government jobs and axing programs would REDUCE the deficit…
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic
This rapid debt accumulation is the fastest outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the debt having reached $37 trillion in August.
www.pbs.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
But they said cutting government jobs and axing programs would REDUCE the deficit…
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
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They just don't seem to do numbers or facts very well...
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
They just don't seem to do numbers or facts very well...
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Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."
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"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst."
Everything this administration tells us is a lie.
Everything this administration tells us is a lie.
December 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst."
Everything this administration tells us is a lie.
Everything this administration tells us is a lie.
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More grift. Trump's AI "Czar" — the guy in charge of this Administration's AI policy — is reported to have hundreds of investments in AI-related ventures.
This is just the latest example of the Trump Administration using its power to benefit themselves and their inner-sanctum of billionaires.
This is just the latest example of the Trump Administration using its power to benefit themselves and their inner-sanctum of billionaires.
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
More grift. Trump's AI "Czar" — the guy in charge of this Administration's AI policy — is reported to have hundreds of investments in AI-related ventures.
This is just the latest example of the Trump Administration using its power to benefit themselves and their inner-sanctum of billionaires.
This is just the latest example of the Trump Administration using its power to benefit themselves and their inner-sanctum of billionaires.
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FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”
I did not know - and did not WANT to know - that such a thing existed.
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I did not know - and did not WANT to know - that such a thing existed.
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Don't say we weren't warned.
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Eggs, Lies and Gasoline
The unbearable lightweightness of being Kevin Hassett
paulkrugman.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Don't say we weren't warned.
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The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
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Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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 near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
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Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
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December 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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🚨🚨🚨Senator Mark Kelly with a special announcement. 1/2
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
🚨🚨🚨Senator Mark Kelly with a special announcement. 1/2