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President Trump is openly telling a celebrity and political enemy — Rosie O’Donnell — that he is “serious” about taking away her American citizenship and exiling her from the U.S. because he dislikes the views she expresses when exercising her free speech rights
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Trump Thinks He Can Take Away Citizenship From Anyone He Doesn't Like
Trump says he wants to take away Rosie O’Donnell’s American citizenship after threatening Zohran Mamdani.
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July 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
President Trump is openly telling a celebrity and political enemy — Rosie O’Donnell — that he is “serious” about taking away her American citizenship and exiling her from the U.S. because he dislikes the views she expresses when exercising her free speech rights
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Trump’s 1st impeachment was for the high crime of wielding a power belonging to Congress to pressure a foreign democracy to do his personal bidding. Here he goes again! Acting like a mob boss. . .
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Brazil's Lula calls Trump's tariff threat 'unacceptable blackmail'
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday slammed Donald Trump's threat to impose 50 percent tariffs on Latin America's largest economy as "unacceptable blackmail."
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July 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Trump’s 1st impeachment was for the high crime of wielding a power belonging to Congress to pressure a foreign democracy to do his personal bidding. Here he goes again! Acting like a mob boss. . .
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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On Late Night with Stephen Colbert on July 19, Senator Adam Schiff said: “Donald, piss off…. But Donald, before you piss off, would you release the Epstein files?”
July 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
On Late Night with Stephen Colbert on July 19, Senator Adam Schiff said: “Donald, piss off…. But Donald, before you piss off, would you release the Epstein files?”
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Actually it’s already way beyond “fun and games.” Trump’s masked thugs are now arresting defenseless people at work or on the streets without charges or trial and making them disappear just because he can get away with it. Thanks, Chief Justice Roberts
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It’s All Fun and Games Until Trump Has Obama Arrested
Then it’s authoritarianism.
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July 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Actually it’s already way beyond “fun and games.” Trump’s masked thugs are now arresting defenseless people at work or on the streets without charges or trial and making them disappear just because he can get away with it. Thanks, Chief Justice Roberts
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“Here, too, powerful people are responding to authoritarian advances just as their Hungarian counterparts have — not with defiance, but with capitulation, convinced that they can maintain their independence and stay above the fray.” They’re wrong.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
“Here, too, powerful people are responding to authoritarian advances just as their Hungarian counterparts have — not with defiance, but with capitulation, convinced that they can maintain their independence and stay above the fray.” They’re wrong.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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“The only ‘protection’ afforded by the perverse incentives in the Supreme Court’s immunity decision is for bad-faith actors in the Oval Office — something we are seeing play out in real time.”
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Opinion | The immunity ruling was ostensibly to protect former presidents. So much for that.
Far from deterring such prosecutions, the court’s “rule for the ages” has made them easier.
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July 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“The only ‘protection’ afforded by the perverse incentives in the Supreme Court’s immunity decision is for bad-faith actors in the Oval Office — something we are seeing play out in real time.”
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Now Trump will treat being homeless as an offense to justify imprisoning people without trial in the growing set of concentration camps that he avoids calling what they are. All in the name of safe public spaces and less crime. Unconstitutional, but hard to stop.
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Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
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July 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Now Trump will treat being homeless as an offense to justify imprisoning people without trial in the growing set of concentration camps that he avoids calling what they are. All in the name of safe public spaces and less crime. Unconstitutional, but hard to stop.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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The absurd charge that President Obama committed treason is Trump’s fiendishly clever way of changing the subject from Epstein. Making smart lawyers like Toobin point to the immunity Trump’s Court wrongly gave past presidents unfairly implies Obama needs that shield!
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
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Opinion | The Line Trump Crossed by Accusing Obama of Treason
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July 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The absurd charge that President Obama committed treason is Trump’s fiendishly clever way of changing the subject from Epstein. Making smart lawyers like Toobin point to the immunity Trump’s Court wrongly gave past presidents unfairly implies Obama needs that shield!
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
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It’s a disgrace that Massachusetts pays criminal defense attorneys $65 per hour when New Hampshire pays twice that much. Our state cannot claim to be serious about equal justice unless it rectify this injustice.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/o...
I was a bar advocate for 27 years. Here’s why I had to quit. - The Boston Globe
I can say with certainty: Justice isn’t just blind — it’s also broken.
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July 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It’s a disgrace that Massachusetts pays criminal defense attorneys $65 per hour when New Hampshire pays twice that much. Our state cannot claim to be serious about equal justice unless it rectify this injustice.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/o...
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With civil society itself under attack, our country’s foundations — our ability to hold the government accountable, to be free to dissent and debate, to support vulnerable communities — are also threatened. Even if you’re not the target this time, you could be next.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Opinion | You May Not Be Trump’s Target This Time. But You Could Be Next.
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July 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
With civil society itself under attack, our country’s foundations — our ability to hold the government accountable, to be free to dissent and debate, to support vulnerable communities — are also threatened. Even if you’re not the target this time, you could be next.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
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“Two of the best-known Israeli human rights groups said Monday that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.” I agree. Sadly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...
In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide
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July 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“Two of the best-known Israeli human rights groups said Monday that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.” I agree. Sadly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...
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Corrupt AG Pam Bondi accusing the rigorously fair Chief Judge Boasberg of compromising judicial integrity is peak Chutzpoid, my new term for chutzpah on steroids. You’ve gotta read Naomi Klein’s brilliant book, Doppelgänger, to understand the move’s inner logic
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Justice Department files misconduct complaint against judge in key deportations case
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found cause to initiate contempt proceedings to determine whether the Trump administration violated court orders.
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July 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Corrupt AG Pam Bondi accusing the rigorously fair Chief Judge Boasberg of compromising judicial integrity is peak Chutzpoid, my new term for chutzpah on steroids. You’ve gotta read Naomi Klein’s brilliant book, Doppelgänger, to understand the move’s inner logic
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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When Trump uses $1 billion of our hard-earned money to buy himself a gold-plated gift, he reminds us all of how he has shredded the Constitution’s two Emoluments Clauses, which he violated from the first day of his first term.
July 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
When Trump uses $1 billion of our hard-earned money to buy himself a gold-plated gift, he reminds us all of how he has shredded the Constitution’s two Emoluments Clauses, which he violated from the first day of his first term.
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I just heard Netanyahu say “There is no starvation in Gaza.” He is straight up lying. He has lost all credibility when he claims that his government’s official policy is just to destroy Hamas, not to wipe out the Palestinians as an ethnic group. Total bullshit. This is GENOCIDE pure and simple.
July 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I just heard Netanyahu say “There is no starvation in Gaza.” He is straight up lying. He has lost all credibility when he claims that his government’s official policy is just to destroy Hamas, not to wipe out the Palestinians as an ethnic group. Total bullshit. This is GENOCIDE pure and simple.
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If the Senate confirms the wildly unqualified Emil Bove, it will be responsible for the even Trumpier and more lawless Supreme Court for which the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is potentially but a Bovean stepping stone. He is an antijudge extraordinaire
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o...
Opinion | Revenge, Thy Name Is Emil Bove
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July 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
If the Senate confirms the wildly unqualified Emil Bove, it will be responsible for the even Trumpier and more lawless Supreme Court for which the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is potentially but a Bovean stepping stone. He is an antijudge extraordinaire
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o...
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We're not mind readers but...
July 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We're not mind readers but...
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“Armed “security forces have often been the public face of the violence and moral collapse that can pervade societies when strongmen come to power, . . . speeding up autocratic consolidation by . . . a leader who wants to use [the military] against his own citizens.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/o...
Opinion | Trump Wants You to Get Used to This
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June 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
“Armed “security forces have often been the public face of the violence and moral collapse that can pervade societies when strongmen come to power, . . . speeding up autocratic consolidation by . . . a leader who wants to use [the military] against his own citizens.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/o...
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If Trump retires “peacefully to enjoy his cryptocurrency wealth, his presidency will still go down in history as the embodiment of injustice, malfeasance, cruelty and transgression.” He certainly should be impeached and convicted, though he almost certainly won’t be.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
Opinion | Could the Third Time Be the Charm on Impeachment and Removal?
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June 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If Trump retires “peacefully to enjoy his cryptocurrency wealth, his presidency will still go down in history as the embodiment of injustice, malfeasance, cruelty and transgression.” He certainly should be impeached and convicted, though he almost certainly won’t be.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
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“The Tennessee law and now the Supreme Court decision that upheld it are part of a vast backlash.”
The Supreme Court’s Blindness to Transgender Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
The Supreme Court’s Blindness to Transgender Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
Opinion | The Supreme Court’s Blindness to Transgender Reality
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June 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
“The Tennessee law and now the Supreme Court decision that upheld it are part of a vast backlash.”
The Supreme Court’s Blindness to Transgender Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
The Supreme Court’s Blindness to Transgender Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
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On Emil Bove’s nomination to the 3d Circuit, “It’s time for conservatives, even those who support the president, to rebel.”Otherwise, a federal judiciary stacked with utterly unprincipled loyalists will dismember the rule of law and bring our republic to its knees: www.thebulwark.com/p/danger-of-...
The Danger of Trump’s Clash with the Conservative Legal Movement
Their alliance transformed the judiciary—at a high cost. Now, as the partnership cracks up, a conservative critic of Trump warns of what’s in store.
www.thebulwark.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
On Emil Bove’s nomination to the 3d Circuit, “It’s time for conservatives, even those who support the president, to rebel.”Otherwise, a federal judiciary stacked with utterly unprincipled loyalists will dismember the rule of law and bring our republic to its knees: www.thebulwark.com/p/danger-of-...
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“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social
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Trump’s investigations often lead nowhere but their targets pay “a price anyway. That’s the point. The process is the penalty, and the penalty is the process.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
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Opinion | For Trump, Investigations Are the Real Punishment
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June 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Trump’s investigations often lead nowhere but their targets pay “a price anyway. That’s the point. The process is the penalty, and the penalty is the process.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
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We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.
June 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.
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There are only 2 countries on the planet that allow Pharma to advertise prescription drugs.
Essentially, the rest of the world says that if a drug needs to be prescribed, then a trained doctor should be involved in that decision.
Essentially, the rest of the world says that if a drug needs to be prescribed, then a trained doctor should be involved in that decision.
June 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are only 2 countries on the planet that allow Pharma to advertise prescription drugs.
Essentially, the rest of the world says that if a drug needs to be prescribed, then a trained doctor should be involved in that decision.
Essentially, the rest of the world says that if a drug needs to be prescribed, then a trained doctor should be involved in that decision.
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