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Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would conduct a review of Smithsonian exhibitions to assess their “alignment with American ideals” giving museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions
The Trump administration said it would give museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”
nyti.ms
August 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would conduct a review of Smithsonian exhibitions to assess their “alignment with American ideals” giving museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”
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60 minutes is only the start apparently www.status.news/p/skydance-c...
July 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
60 minutes is only the start apparently www.status.news/p/skydance-c...
I highly recommend this dark comedy pointed squarely at techbro hubris and the consequences for NPCs, i.e. the rest of humanity.
youtu.be/27cN2_k0JF0?...
youtu.be/27cN2_k0JF0?...
Mountainhead | Official Trailer | Max
YouTube video by Max
youtu.be
June 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I highly recommend this dark comedy pointed squarely at techbro hubris and the consequences for NPCs, i.e. the rest of humanity.
youtu.be/27cN2_k0JF0?...
youtu.be/27cN2_k0JF0?...
At the root of all the crazy, there is a fundamental disagreement about what America is. Is it an idea, an aspiration? Or is it land and ethnicity? (“Blood and Soil”) David Brooks does an excellent job of zeroing in on the fundamental rot at the core of trumpism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
Opinion | I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge.
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
At the root of all the crazy, there is a fundamental disagreement about what America is. Is it an idea, an aspiration? Or is it land and ethnicity? (“Blood and Soil”) David Brooks does an excellent job of zeroing in on the fundamental rot at the core of trumpism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
All he had to do was keep building stuff and enjoy being the world’s richest person. Instead he set out to prove beyond any doubt that he’s a horrid ignorant piece of shite.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
All he had to do was keep building stuff and enjoy being the world’s richest person. Instead he set out to prove beyond any doubt that he’s a horrid ignorant piece of shite.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had proposed this, the GOP would be in the streets with pitchforks and
torches.
I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
torches.
I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had proposed this, the GOP would be in the streets with pitchforks and
torches.
I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
torches.
I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
“Privacy advocates, student unions and labor rights organizations have filed lawsuits to block data access, questioning whether the government could weaponize people’s personal information.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“Privacy advocates, student unions and labor rights organizations have filed lawsuits to block data access, questioning whether the government could weaponize people’s personal information.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
WSJ received a Pulitzer for documenting how Musk turned himself into an oligarch above the law.
www.wsj.com/articles/mus...
www.wsj.com/articles/mus...
Musk Above the Law
Elon Musk in 2024 became a singularly powerful force in U.S. politics, business and government. The Wall Street Journal showed how he operates.
www.wsj.com
May 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
WSJ received a Pulitzer for documenting how Musk turned himself into an oligarch above the law.
www.wsj.com/articles/mus...
www.wsj.com/articles/mus...
The people in ICE detention are not just poor field workers, they’re also brilliant scientists. The ignorant but brutal exerting control over the educated is a classic feature of authoritarian regimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The people in ICE detention are not just poor field workers, they’re also brilliant scientists. The ignorant but brutal exerting control over the educated is a classic feature of authoritarian regimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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Some people still don't seem to get it. 🤔 This isn't some complex 4-dimensional chess game he's playing.
More background & links here:
markfiore.substack.com
More background & links here:
markfiore.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Some people still don't seem to get it. 🤔 This isn't some complex 4-dimensional chess game he's playing.
More background & links here:
markfiore.substack.com
More background & links here:
markfiore.substack.com
A great read. The system of checks and balances has been breaking down for a long time, setting the stage for an immoral buffoon with insanely poor judgment to come along and destroy us.
www.vox.com/politics/407...
www.vox.com/politics/407...
The real reason Trump is destroying the economy
Trump is imposing ruinous tariffs because American democracy is no longer strong enough to stop him.
www.vox.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A great read. The system of checks and balances has been breaking down for a long time, setting the stage for an immoral buffoon with insanely poor judgment to come along and destroy us.
www.vox.com/politics/407...
www.vox.com/politics/407...
“It turns out that there’s a price for taking all the soft power America has accrued since World War II and setting it on fire. Who knew.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
Opinion | Why Did So Many People Delude Themselves About Trump? (Gift Article)
Wall Street mistook demagoguery for wisdom.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
“It turns out that there’s a price for taking all the soft power America has accrued since World War II and setting it on fire. Who knew.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
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@rexhuppke.bsky.social: Not helping the general panic is the fact that Trump continues to utter quotes like this on live TV: “I said we're gonna try to get groceries down. Right? An old-fashioned down but a beautiful term. Eggs.”
OK. Have we tried giving him a nap? www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
OK. Have we tried giving him a nap? www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Trump babbles his way through doing a bad job and the polling proves we know it | Opinion
President Donald Trump is not well-liked and, according to new polling, few Americans understand why anyone would approve of the job he's doing.
www.usatoday.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@rexhuppke.bsky.social: Not helping the general panic is the fact that Trump continues to utter quotes like this on live TV: “I said we're gonna try to get groceries down. Right? An old-fashioned down but a beautiful term. Eggs.”
OK. Have we tried giving him a nap? www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
OK. Have we tried giving him a nap? www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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“The 5 things Pete Hegseth did last week”
- Shared classified attack plans on an unsecured commercial chat application.
- Denied doing it.
- Denied the plans were classified.
- Denied the plans were plans.
- Attacked the journalist who proved he was lying.
- Shared classified attack plans on an unsecured commercial chat application.
- Denied doing it.
- Denied the plans were classified.
- Denied the plans were plans.
- Attacked the journalist who proved he was lying.
March 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“The 5 things Pete Hegseth did last week”
- Shared classified attack plans on an unsecured commercial chat application.
- Denied doing it.
- Denied the plans were classified.
- Denied the plans were plans.
- Attacked the journalist who proved he was lying.
- Shared classified attack plans on an unsecured commercial chat application.
- Denied doing it.
- Denied the plans were classified.
- Denied the plans were plans.
- Attacked the journalist who proved he was lying.
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More details are coming out that many of those whisked away to El Salvador did not have criminal records, and do not appear to have been part of a gang of any sort:
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More details are coming out that many of those whisked away to El Salvador did not have criminal records, and do not appear to have been part of a gang of any sort:
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March 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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More details are coming out that many of those whisked away to El Salvador did not have criminal records, and do not appear to have been part of a gang of any sort:
1/
More details are coming out that many of those whisked away to El Salvador did not have criminal records, and do not appear to have been part of a gang of any sort:
1/
Look past the headline and listen to what this guy is saying. We should applaud not attack politicians of any party who will talk honestly about the looming Social Security crisis. We need a deal to fix it, not demagoguery.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
GOP Sen. John Curtis says politicians are 'not being honest' when they say they won't touch Social Security
Curtis told “Meet the Press” that people near retirement are safe from changes, but encouraged a discussion on “moving some of the variables around” for younger generations.
www.nbcnews.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Look past the headline and listen to what this guy is saying. We should applaud not attack politicians of any party who will talk honestly about the looming Social Security crisis. We need a deal to fix it, not demagoguery.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
We tend to assume that trump’s threat to the Constitutional order is obvious. But for the less well informed this article lays it out clearly and simply. Call it Constitutional Crisis 101.
apple.news/AqxizEPmQRdS...
apple.news/AqxizEPmQRdS...
With sweeping actions, Trump tests US constitutional order — Reuters
Donald Trump's sweeping assertion of power since returning to the White House is testing the U.S. constitutional system of checks and balances established in the 18th century as the president faces sc...
apple.news
March 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We tend to assume that trump’s threat to the Constitutional order is obvious. But for the less well informed this article lays it out clearly and simply. Call it Constitutional Crisis 101.
apple.news/AqxizEPmQRdS...
apple.news/AqxizEPmQRdS...
Good. Economic pain is the only thing that will wake the low-information voters up.
People around the world are choosing not to buy American products to demonstrate their anger at President Trump’s policies. “We all feel that we are doing something,” said one boycotter. “We are acting on our frustration.”
Why Shoppers Abroad Are Boycotting U.S. Goods
A growing number of Europeans and citizens of other countries are choosing not to buy American products to demonstrate their anger at President Trump’s policies.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Good. Economic pain is the only thing that will wake the low-information voters up.
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Breaking News: The Trump administration fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security. The move guts the office responsible for oversight of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Trump Fires Nearly the Entire Civil Rights Branch of D.H.S.
The move guts the office responsible for oversight over President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Breaking News: The Trump administration fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security. The move guts the office responsible for oversight of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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You know what I despise most about MAGA hate mail?
It's just incoherent. 99.99% of MAGA complaints are a farrago of terrible grammar, lurid recountings of utterly fictional sins against the Umber Demon, and pointless rage.
They read like a kind of Mad Libs for window-lickers.
It's just incoherent. 99.99% of MAGA complaints are a farrago of terrible grammar, lurid recountings of utterly fictional sins against the Umber Demon, and pointless rage.
They read like a kind of Mad Libs for window-lickers.
March 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
You know what I despise most about MAGA hate mail?
It's just incoherent. 99.99% of MAGA complaints are a farrago of terrible grammar, lurid recountings of utterly fictional sins against the Umber Demon, and pointless rage.
They read like a kind of Mad Libs for window-lickers.
It's just incoherent. 99.99% of MAGA complaints are a farrago of terrible grammar, lurid recountings of utterly fictional sins against the Umber Demon, and pointless rage.
They read like a kind of Mad Libs for window-lickers.
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At a packed town hall Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern proposed a general strike to combat the Trump administration's assault on the federal government.
March 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
At a packed town hall Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern proposed a general strike to combat the Trump administration's assault on the federal government.