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Kristin Humbargar
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Pathetic.

Putin isn't even on Truth Social but it'll get back to him, and he will just laugh his ass off. Just like the rest of the world is laughing at us right now.
April 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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A recent book on Hitler’s rise to power examines how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following.
The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers
The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.
www.newyorker.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The new administrator of the E.P.A. is likely to reverse the long-standing federal position that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger the public—a “truly and deeply disgraceful” form of basic science denial, Bill McKibben writes.
Trump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered
It’s in this country that scientists, funded by or working for the government, came to understand the role of carbon in our atmosphere.
www.newyorker.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Elon Musk is now trying to flip the balance of power on the top court in one of the country’s most important swing states.

Read @ariberman.bsky.social on the very high stakes in Wisconsin and the Tesla founder's plot to buy the state supreme court.
Elon Musk is trying to buy the Wisconsin supreme court
“His attack on democracy isn’t limited to gutting the federal government. He wants it all.”
www.motherjones.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Weird little tidbit I came across randomly yesterday…
Under a subheading: ritual politics and power …. Hmmm?!?
February 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I made this collage a few years ago. Somehow it feels the most relevant today. I’d love to hear your interpretations, perspectives given our crazy times.
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February 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Just as I thought…
He thinks Gaza is a new real estate venture…
Insanity
February 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I know this is happening…
It’s all quite surreal, in disbelief…

It feels like being in 2 worlds.. with hope that all that we know will prevent a full collapse…
Uncertainty…
holding grief a bay
For the moment
February 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president?
After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president?
The confusing and vague executive order underscores how complex sex is and why it’s hard to reduce it into a neat binary Has the moment we’ve all been waiting for arrived? After both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris failed to break the biggest glass…
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Donald Trump is assembling a government of the ultra-rich like the country has never seen before. All told there are about 15 reported billionaires joining the administration if Trump has his way.

So America, it's time to get to know your billionaire overlords.
Meet The American Oligarchy: Trump's Ultra-Rich Cabinet and Advisors
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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January 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM