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or the Reichstag Fire?
Anyone remember Kent State?
June 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
or the Reichstag Fire?
this would be a good day for @jaketapper.bsky.social to report that Donald Trump is old and cognitively impaired
June 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
this would be a good day for @jaketapper.bsky.social to report that Donald Trump is old and cognitively impaired
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"These snowflakes in Missouri and Maryland are more provincial than any elite Manhattanite I’ve ever met. They believe that the world ends at their line of sight....And in their malicious stupidity they have set the country ablaze." www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-w...
Meet the Worst People in America
They voted for Trump and now they are very upset that Trump is destroying one of their friends’ lives.
www.thebulwark.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"These snowflakes in Missouri and Maryland are more provincial than any elite Manhattanite I’ve ever met. They believe that the world ends at their line of sight....And in their malicious stupidity they have set the country ablaze." www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-w...
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Pretty impressive work by the Republican House to pass a budget bill that both takes health insurance away from 10.9 million people AND increases the national debt by 2.4 trillion dollars. Today’s GOP: less health and more debt!
June 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Pretty impressive work by the Republican House to pass a budget bill that both takes health insurance away from 10.9 million people AND increases the national debt by 2.4 trillion dollars. Today’s GOP: less health and more debt!
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1/2 Misogynist Trump just rescinded Biden’s emergency abortion protections under EMTALA. This is a death sentence. More women will die in ERs because hospitals are no longer required to provide life-saving abortions. Trump made it easier to turn patients away.
tinyurl.com/ER-Abortion
tinyurl.com/ER-Abortion
Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions
The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medi...
tinyurl.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1/2 Misogynist Trump just rescinded Biden’s emergency abortion protections under EMTALA. This is a death sentence. More women will die in ERs because hospitals are no longer required to provide life-saving abortions. Trump made it easier to turn patients away.
tinyurl.com/ER-Abortion
tinyurl.com/ER-Abortion
terrific stuff
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/a...
The Greatest Sports Photo Ever Made Turns 60
www.nytimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
terrific stuff
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/a...
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strongly worded letter to follow
The Republicans' 'Big Beautiful Bill' is trying to force through the LARGEST cut to Medicaid in American history.
The LARGEST cut to Medicaid in American history.
That’s not beautiful. That’s ugly. And it will rip health care away from millions.
The LARGEST cut to Medicaid in American history.
That’s not beautiful. That’s ugly. And it will rip health care away from millions.
May 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
strongly worded letter to follow
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Women’s freedom in America? Gallup says only 44% are satisfied—down 17 points since 2016. But hey, as long as the guys are still feeling free (61% and holding), everything must be fine, right? 😒 #WomensRights #FreedomMatters #GallupPoll
May 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Women’s freedom in America? Gallup says only 44% are satisfied—down 17 points since 2016. But hey, as long as the guys are still feeling free (61% and holding), everything must be fine, right? 😒 #WomensRights #FreedomMatters #GallupPoll
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And it's unanimously #SCOTUS-approved! www.politico.com/story/2016/0...
Was quite a moment, a sense we reached some kind of inflection point in U.S. history. You can now personally pay a U.S. president to gain an audience.
May 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
And it's unanimously #SCOTUS-approved! www.politico.com/story/2016/0...
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A provision in the proposed "big beautiful" spending bill would restrict the authority of federal courts to hold government officials in contempt when they violate court orders. Without the contempt power, judicial orders are meaningless and can be ignored.
A Terrible Idea
Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders
www.justsecurity.org
May 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A provision in the proposed "big beautiful" spending bill would restrict the authority of federal courts to hold government officials in contempt when they violate court orders. Without the contempt power, judicial orders are meaningless and can be ignored.
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Musk's nazi bar
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
What Are People Still Doing on X?
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout.
www.theatlantic.com
May 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Musk's nazi bar
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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It's a tragic fact that three Democratic cancer patients over age 70 who ran in November could have stopped this bill if they had lived -- or if they had stepped aside for younger candidates
Passage of Trump’s cruel multi-trillion tax and spending bill depended on intrasession Democratic deaths.
May 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It's a tragic fact that three Democratic cancer patients over age 70 who ran in November could have stopped this bill if they had lived -- or if they had stepped aside for younger candidates
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SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.
FEMA Has Canceled Its Four-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season
Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.
www.wired.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.
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Is this…isolationism?
U.S. Conducts “Largest Airstrike in the History of the World” (Sort Of)
theintercept.com/2025/05/23/l...
theintercept.com/2025/05/23/l...
U.S. Conducts “Largest Airstrike in the History of the World” (Sort Of)
The U.S. launched 16 jets from the USS Harry S. Truman to drop 125,000 pounds of bombs on a cave complex in Somalia, killing 14.
theintercept.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Is this…isolationism?
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The Feds coming to your house is not an excuse to stop hustling. Always Be Closing.
🚨 The FBI agent who visited me just subscribed to my newsletter 🚨
May 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The Feds coming to your house is not an excuse to stop hustling. Always Be Closing.
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Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE
The U.S. has reportedly explored, sought, or struck deals w/ ~20 countries, including those @StateDept has cited for human rights abuses.
My latest w/ @jonahmv.bsky.social for @theintercept.com
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The U.S. has reportedly explored, sought, or struck deals w/ ~20 countries, including those @StateDept has cited for human rights abuses.
My latest w/ @jonahmv.bsky.social for @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/05/15/t...
Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE
The U.S. is in talks with 19 nations, including Libya, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Moldova, to accept deportees from other countries.
theintercept.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE
The U.S. has reportedly explored, sought, or struck deals w/ ~20 countries, including those @StateDept has cited for human rights abuses.
My latest w/ @jonahmv.bsky.social for @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/05/15/t...
The U.S. has reportedly explored, sought, or struck deals w/ ~20 countries, including those @StateDept has cited for human rights abuses.
My latest w/ @jonahmv.bsky.social for @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/05/15/t...
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Journalists' sources and newsgathering are none of the FBI's business.
They don't seriously think @kenklippenstein.bsky.social was some kind of conspirator who has any useful information. They just want to intimidate him and other journalists from printing what they don't want printed.
They don't seriously think @kenklippenstein.bsky.social was some kind of conspirator who has any useful information. They just want to intimidate him and other journalists from printing what they don't want printed.
This is the second time in one year the FBI has visited me over a document I lawfully published.
If you want to know why media constantly refuses to publish things, here's why.
If you want to know why media constantly refuses to publish things, here's why.
The FBI just visited me for publishing the Elias Rodriguez manifesto.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-visits...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-visits...
May 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Journalists' sources and newsgathering are none of the FBI's business.
They don't seriously think @kenklippenstein.bsky.social was some kind of conspirator who has any useful information. They just want to intimidate him and other journalists from printing what they don't want printed.
They don't seriously think @kenklippenstein.bsky.social was some kind of conspirator who has any useful information. They just want to intimidate him and other journalists from printing what they don't want printed.
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The Freedom of the Press Foundation says it has notified Paramount that it intends to file a shareholder lawsuit if the company settles President Trump’s CBS News complaint:
freedom.press/issues/we-pl...
freedom.press/issues/we-pl...
We plan to sue if Paramount settles with Trump over CBS lawsuit
Freedom of the Press Foundation notifies Paramount executives of liability and demands preservation of records
freedom.press
May 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The Freedom of the Press Foundation says it has notified Paramount that it intends to file a shareholder lawsuit if the company settles President Trump’s CBS News complaint:
freedom.press/issues/we-pl...
freedom.press/issues/we-pl...
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This is yet another corporation whose shareholders overwhelmingly reject anti-DEI proposals.
Interesting what happens when people who hold the shares make DEI decisions vs leaving it solely to the front office
Interesting what happens when people who hold the shares make DEI decisions vs leaving it solely to the front office
💥 NEWS: McDonald's shareholders voted Tues. to reject an anti-DEI proposal, 99-1 percent. McDonald's Board said the proposal "unduly interferes" with the company's "flexibility and judgment." MCD: "Our success in the future builds on our history of embracing diversity as a competitive advantage."
May 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is yet another corporation whose shareholders overwhelmingly reject anti-DEI proposals.
Interesting what happens when people who hold the shares make DEI decisions vs leaving it solely to the front office
Interesting what happens when people who hold the shares make DEI decisions vs leaving it solely to the front office
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Four top partners at Paul Weiss announced late Friday that they were leaving the law firm, a major blow to the firm in the wake of its decision to cut a deal with President Trump to head off an executive order that would have restricted its business.
Karen Dunn and Other Top Lawyers Depart Paul Weiss to Start Firm
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Four top partners at Paul Weiss announced late Friday that they were leaving the law firm, a major blow to the firm in the wake of its decision to cut a deal with President Trump to head off an executive order that would have restricted its business.
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“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.”
A Permanent Stain on Our History
The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive.
www.thebulwark.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.”