Reza Shaer
@rezashaer.bsky.social
California based attorney, focus on #startups & investor immigration. Frustrated student of #Iran history & politics in my spare time.
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"Today we’re in thrall to a con man who denigrates the very idea of truth and uses media only to distract and divide. And so the CPB board members broke their plowshares lest they be beaten into swords by a deranged demagogue. It was their last act of patriotism."
This is tragic:
This is tragic:
"Defunded by Congress and fearing the Trump administration might pervert the organization to further undermine free media, the board members agreed it was better to salt the earth than leave behind a place for Trump to plant his poisonous, choking weeds." — @lizdye.bsky.social
Corporation for Public Broadcasting's patriotic goodbye
Better nothing than a MAGA mouthpiece.
www.publicnotice.co
January 7, 2026 at 3:42 PM
"Today we’re in thrall to a con man who denigrates the very idea of truth and uses media only to distract and divide. And so the CPB board members broke their plowshares lest they be beaten into swords by a deranged demagogue. It was their last act of patriotism."
This is tragic:
This is tragic:
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Agree or disagree with the merits of the operation, you can't help but be in awe of the Wehrmacht's Blitzkrieg of Poland
January 4, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Agree or disagree with the merits of the operation, you can't help but be in awe of the Wehrmacht's Blitzkrieg of Poland
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President Donald Trump is moving to block states from erasing medical debt from credit reports, reversing consumer protections and keeping millions burdened by bills they can’t afford.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
January 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
President Donald Trump is moving to block states from erasing medical debt from credit reports, reversing consumer protections and keeping millions burdened by bills they can’t afford.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
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finally, we're living through precedented times
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 AM
finally, we're living through precedented times
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If y'all need a script, here you go. You can call 202.224.3121 and ask for your representative. The script is included below in this thread as well.
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January 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
If y'all need a script, here you go. You can call 202.224.3121 and ask for your representative. The script is included below in this thread as well.
eocampaign1.com/web-version?...
eocampaign1.com/web-version?...
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Kidnapping Maduro and taking over Venezuela would be illegal even if Congress had authorized it.
January 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Kidnapping Maduro and taking over Venezuela would be illegal even if Congress had authorized it.
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Iowa-based journalist Laura Belin compares Bari Weiss' adventures at CBS to Putin's makeover of supposedly independent Russian media, which she covered for RFE-RL twenty years ago. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
On "fair" reporting and what happened at "60 Minutes"
Laura Belin: I was alarmed (though not surprised) when CBS News boss Bari Weiss intervened to stop “60 Minutes” from airing a segment.
www.bleedingheartland.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Iowa-based journalist Laura Belin compares Bari Weiss' adventures at CBS to Putin's makeover of supposedly independent Russian media, which she covered for RFE-RL twenty years ago. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
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As immigration law expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick wrote on social media, “Weiss is making up a ‘debate’ that has already been settled.”
So often the way with the Bari Weisses of the world. Pretend there’s a controversy on something settled and insist on endless debate.
So often the way with the Bari Weisses of the world. Pretend there’s a controversy on something settled and insist on endless debate.
The key idea that propelled Bari Weiss’s online career is that the media is ideologically biased and can’t be trusted to relay the facts.
But her stated reasons for canceling the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT are factually wrong, revealing again her own bias.
www.justsecurity.org/127901/fact-...
But her stated reasons for canceling the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT are factually wrong, revealing again her own bias.
www.justsecurity.org/127901/fact-...
Fact Checking Bari Weiss: The Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes "Inside CECOT"
Analysis of Bari Weiss's stated justifications to 60 Minutes staff for not airing segment on CECOT prison.
www.justsecurity.org
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
As immigration law expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick wrote on social media, “Weiss is making up a ‘debate’ that has already been settled.”
So often the way with the Bari Weisses of the world. Pretend there’s a controversy on something settled and insist on endless debate.
So often the way with the Bari Weisses of the world. Pretend there’s a controversy on something settled and insist on endless debate.
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My two-year-old niece correctly identified a giraffe and an elephant in pictures, displaying a level of cognitive mastery that can only be described as presidential.
December 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
My two-year-old niece correctly identified a giraffe and an elephant in pictures, displaying a level of cognitive mastery that can only be described as presidential.
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A since-deleted tweet by former KKK grand wizard David Duke is nearly identical to the statement today made by Vice President JD Vance
December 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A since-deleted tweet by former KKK grand wizard David Duke is nearly identical to the statement today made by Vice President JD Vance
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if nothing else it's shown that going full fascist on immigrants has blown up in their faces - despite how little the media has covered the human stories that are there for the plucking.
“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air
’60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on Trump Deportees Sent to El Salvador Megaprison 2 Hours Before Airtime
"60 Minutes" abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air.
ca.news.yahoo.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
if nothing else it's shown that going full fascist on immigrants has blown up in their faces - despite how little the media has covered the human stories that are there for the plucking.
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I also have been assuming that the primary purpose of this conflict is domestic
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I also have been assuming that the primary purpose of this conflict is domestic
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
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This Christmas, let’s ban the world’s most miserable gift-giving game | Dave Schilling
This Christmas, let’s ban the world’s most miserable gift-giving game | Dave Schilling
White elephant parties – in which people are invited to steal each other’s gifts – are the last thing we need right now
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This Christmas, let’s ban the world’s most miserable gift-giving game | Dave Schilling
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He’s going to rename the Washington Monument next.
The Donald J. Trump Giant and Very Normal Looking Penis
The Donald J. Trump Giant and Very Normal Looking Penis
December 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
He’s going to rename the Washington Monument next.
The Donald J. Trump Giant and Very Normal Looking Penis
The Donald J. Trump Giant and Very Normal Looking Penis
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I *hate* Forrest Gump. Not only is it...wait for it...
totally reactionary
...it's a mess in its timelines
The moral of Forrest Gump is "be a moron and obey and never question and you'll prosper, and if you don't, you'll get AIDS and die."
totally reactionary
...it's a mess in its timelines
The moral of Forrest Gump is "be a moron and obey and never question and you'll prosper, and if you don't, you'll get AIDS and die."
damn, really? Forrest Gump?
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I *hate* Forrest Gump. Not only is it...wait for it...
totally reactionary
...it's a mess in its timelines
The moral of Forrest Gump is "be a moron and obey and never question and you'll prosper, and if you don't, you'll get AIDS and die."
totally reactionary
...it's a mess in its timelines
The moral of Forrest Gump is "be a moron and obey and never question and you'll prosper, and if you don't, you'll get AIDS and die."
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This is absolutely abominable and happening at the worse possible time for any country to try and do anything to stop this continuing
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
This is absolutely abominable and happening at the worse possible time for any country to try and do anything to stop this continuing
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Remember: The average American cannot afford an unexpected $1,000 medical expense. In a country with notably expensive health care, fronting medical expenses because of bad insurance policies and then waiting to do a big tax deduction is not going to be an option for the vast majority of people.
Hawley is pitching his colleagues — and Trump — on a new health care plan that would allow all tax payers to deduct up to $25K/person in medical expenses.
Hawley told us he recently discussed the idea with Trump: “I said...'no taxes on tips, no taxes on health care’, and he goes ‘oh I like that."
Hawley told us he recently discussed the idea with Trump: “I said...'no taxes on tips, no taxes on health care’, and he goes ‘oh I like that."
Hawley pitches new health care tax plan
The Missouri Republican is proposing making it easier for more tax payers to deduct medical expenses — and has pitched Donald Trump on the idea.
www.politico.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Remember: The average American cannot afford an unexpected $1,000 medical expense. In a country with notably expensive health care, fronting medical expenses because of bad insurance policies and then waiting to do a big tax deduction is not going to be an option for the vast majority of people.
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Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...
Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger
Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.
Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out.
The Trump administration’s demand for companies to pay a $100,000 fee to hire an immigrant worker using an H1B visa has created turmoil among rural health providers.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.
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What in the actual hell
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
What in the actual hell
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Not just Jared but almost all the gulf monarchies plus a pass through entity for the ccp.
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Not just Jared but almost all the gulf monarchies plus a pass through entity for the ccp.
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good reminder that ezra notwithstanding, charlie kirk was and turning point usa is a vicious proto-fascist organization devoted to harassing and silencing political enemies and glorifying violence.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
good reminder that ezra notwithstanding, charlie kirk was and turning point usa is a vicious proto-fascist organization devoted to harassing and silencing political enemies and glorifying violence.
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Trump is summarily executing people suspected of being drug dealers, without providing any proof.
How close are we to Trump ordering the execution of Americans he considers opponents? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-illegal-executions
How close are we to Trump ordering the execution of Americans he considers opponents? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-illegal-executions
December 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Trump is summarily executing people suspected of being drug dealers, without providing any proof.
How close are we to Trump ordering the execution of Americans he considers opponents? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-illegal-executions
How close are we to Trump ordering the execution of Americans he considers opponents? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-illegal-executions