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News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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"The collapse of journalism is part of a larger trend in which institutions are being annihilated."
Andrea Pitzer on one of the most consistent features of dictatorships—an assault on journalism.
Andrea Pitzer on one of the most consistent features of dictatorships—an assault on journalism.
Shredding public knowledge
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"The collapse of journalism is part of a larger trend in which institutions are being annihilated."
Andrea Pitzer on one of the most consistent features of dictatorships—an assault on journalism.
Andrea Pitzer on one of the most consistent features of dictatorships—an assault on journalism.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history
Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history
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I keep using the term "non compos mentis" to describe Trump because that's how he's acting. It's beyond his longstanding history of total ignorance, habitual lying, and constant exaggeration. He's genuinely disconnected from reality and often incapable of expressing coherent thoughts.
I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...
September 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I keep using the term "non compos mentis" to describe Trump because that's how he's acting. It's beyond his longstanding history of total ignorance, habitual lying, and constant exaggeration. He's genuinely disconnected from reality and often incapable of expressing coherent thoughts.
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Republicans Kill Attempt to Subpoena FCC Chair After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Republicans Kill Attempt to Subpoena FCC Chair After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension
The House Oversight Committee voted Thursday to table a motion to subpoena...
talkingpointsmemo.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Republicans Kill Attempt to Subpoena FCC Chair After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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This story is not getting nearly enough attention.
A sting on a pedo ring pulled in an Israeli government official and the Trump Administration stepped in to set him free.
A sting on a pedo ring pulled in an Israeli government official and the Trump Administration stepped in to set him free.
The US Attorney who declined to prosecute an Israeli government official arrested last month for underage solicitation has a colorful collection of deep-pocketed donors from past political campaigns, including one who fled a fraud case by going to... Israel.
prospect.org/justice/2025...
prospect.org/justice/2025...
Foot Soldiers of the Trump Mafiacracy
Pam Bondi’s underling in Nevada allowed an Israeli caught in an underage sex sting operation to return home. Her biggest campaign donors also once fled to Israel to avoid arrest.
prospect.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This story is not getting nearly enough attention.
A sting on a pedo ring pulled in an Israeli government official and the Trump Administration stepped in to set him free.
A sting on a pedo ring pulled in an Israeli government official and the Trump Administration stepped in to set him free.
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Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
August 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
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Voting Rights Act turns 60 today. I've studied VRA for 15 years. Most people don't realize just how much it transformed American democracy, ended Jim Crow & enfranchised millions of Americans
Now it’s on life support. If it dies, American democracy dies with it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Now it’s on life support. If it dies, American democracy dies with it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The nation's landmark voting rights law just turned 60. It may not survive Trump.
“The long-term game is to repeal the Voting Rights Act.”
www.motherjones.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Voting Rights Act turns 60 today. I've studied VRA for 15 years. Most people don't realize just how much it transformed American democracy, ended Jim Crow & enfranchised millions of Americans
Now it’s on life support. If it dies, American democracy dies with it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Now it’s on life support. If it dies, American democracy dies with it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The man who just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because their numbers supposedly weren’t accurate just claimed that he lowered drug prices in America by 1500%.
August 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The man who just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because their numbers supposedly weren’t accurate just claimed that he lowered drug prices in America by 1500%.
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Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
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So this broke almost immediately after I posted. We are in a very, very bad place. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
So this broke almost immediately after I posted. We are in a very, very bad place. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
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The Trump administration is arresting more and more immigrants with no criminal records. To maintain the illusion that their focus is criminals, they're ginning up charges including by leveraging testimony from criminals who then get leniency.
Opinion | ‘Criminal immigrant’ means whatever the administration says it means
Trump's deportation goals are being met by targeting non-criminal immigrants.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The Trump administration is arresting more and more immigrants with no criminal records. To maintain the illusion that their focus is criminals, they're ginning up charges including by leveraging testimony from criminals who then get leniency.
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Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh made history on Saturday by hitting his 30th home run of the season.
Full story:
http://dlvr.it/TLV01X
Full story:
http://dlvr.it/TLV01X
June 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh made history on Saturday by hitting his 30th home run of the season.
Full story:
http://dlvr.it/TLV01X
Full story:
http://dlvr.it/TLV01X
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Because I am a glutton for punishment, I watched the Fox coverage of Trump's parade for a while, and I have never truly experienced state propaganda on that level before in my entire life.
June 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Because I am a glutton for punishment, I watched the Fox coverage of Trump's parade for a while, and I have never truly experienced state propaganda on that level before in my entire life.
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He needed air. The price was $539.
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler
In our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...
www.nbcnews.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
He needed air. The price was $539.
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
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The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.
May 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.
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"When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
One answer is, we won’t know, any more than than you know when you’ve crossed the event horizon of a black hole. The other answer is, we’ve probably already crossed it, when it comes to authoritarianism.
Levitsky discusses a way out, if it isn’t already too late.
One answer is, we won’t know, any more than than you know when you’ve crossed the event horizon of a black hole. The other answer is, we’ve probably already crossed it, when it comes to authoritarianism.
Levitsky discusses a way out, if it isn’t already too late.
Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
www.nytimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy."
Vichy Democrats
BREAKING: Democrats reached a deal on a stablecoin bill that will give them a fake amendment on Trump crypto corruption that is designed to fail, so collaborators can say they did the best they could.
"Schumer 101," said one source.
prospect.org/politics/202...
"Schumer 101," said one source.
prospect.org/politics/202...
Democrats Cave, Prepare to Rubber-Stamp Trump Crypto Corruption
Pro-crypto senators are poised to pass a stablecoin bill, while failing to crack down on the Trump organization issuing one to collect payments from foreign governments.
prospect.org
May 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Vichy Democrats