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“The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators”. — Peter Baker
August 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
“The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators”. — Peter Baker
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Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
"For the president, this is something that hits home, because he is a visual person and the visuals of him driving to his golf course and seeing those homeless encampments" -- Politico's Dasha Burns puts on a masterclass in Trump sanewashing on Fox News
August 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
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I was a personal trainer for almost a decade. Honest to God, the number one thing I would tell my weight loss clients was to eliminate soda and fast food from their diets. Here, the "MAHA" Secretary of HHS is cheering on soda... at a fast food restaurant. Snake oil salesman.
July 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I was a personal trainer for almost a decade. Honest to God, the number one thing I would tell my weight loss clients was to eliminate soda and fast food from their diets. Here, the "MAHA" Secretary of HHS is cheering on soda... at a fast food restaurant. Snake oil salesman.
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If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.
July 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.
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Senate Republicans are calling to cut Medicaid and CHIP by over $1 trillion, growing to an 18% cut by 2034.
This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
June 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Senate Republicans are calling to cut Medicaid and CHIP by over $1 trillion, growing to an 18% cut by 2034.
This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
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Nvidia insiders sold over $1 billion in stock amid market surge, FT reports reut.rs/3I33DUF
Nvidia insiders sold over $1 billion in stock amid market surge, FT reports
Nvidia insiders sold over $1 billion worth of company stock in the past year, with a notable uptick in recent trading activity as executives capitalize on surging investor interest in artificial intelligence, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
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June 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Nvidia insiders sold over $1 billion in stock amid market surge, FT reports reut.rs/3I33DUF
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You know who else isn’t living safely with their family?
Tom Homan says he has received so much hate for his positions on immigration that he is unable to live safely with his family.
Trump’s Border Czar Living Separately From Wife Due to Death Threats
The top immigration official told a podcast host that it is too dangerous for him to live at home.
trib.al
June 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
You know who else isn’t living safely with their family?
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Lauren Boebert says ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic has reached out to her while he has been in prison, he is a “fantastic unifier,” and Trump should consider pardoning him.
June 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Lauren Boebert says ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic has reached out to her while he has been in prison, he is a “fantastic unifier,” and Trump should consider pardoning him.
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I wish I'd thought of this line by @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social, vis-a-vis efforts to curb Iran's nuclear aspirations.
Think of treaties as like vaccines -- more effective than quack cures but deeply unpopular among the stupidest people on earth.
JCPOA > MOP
June 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I wish I'd thought of this line by @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social, vis-a-vis efforts to curb Iran's nuclear aspirations.
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I wrote about a new state law that forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. Think about that. How are educators supposed to teach history? www.thebulwark.com/p/teaching-t...
Teaching the Holocaust Just Got Harder in Mississippi
A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?
www.thebulwark.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I wrote about a new state law that forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. Think about that. How are educators supposed to teach history? www.thebulwark.com/p/teaching-t...
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‘K I have an idea: Trump needs to be convinced that the only thing standing between him and the Nobel Peace Prize is STEPHEN MILLER. (Whether or not he is actually in contention for the NPP is irrelevant to this operation.)
It’s a crazy plan, but it Just. Might. Work.
It’s a crazy plan, but it Just. Might. Work.
Objectively one of the most insane things he has ever posted
June 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
‘K I have an idea: Trump needs to be convinced that the only thing standing between him and the Nobel Peace Prize is STEPHEN MILLER. (Whether or not he is actually in contention for the NPP is irrelevant to this operation.)
It’s a crazy plan, but it Just. Might. Work.
It’s a crazy plan, but it Just. Might. Work.
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Trump makes a homophobic attack on Anderson Cooper, calling him "Allison Cooper"
June 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Trump makes a homophobic attack on Anderson Cooper, calling him "Allison Cooper"
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Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
So video of this 2012 interview is popping up on other sites. Feels super relevant at the moment. Wait for the moment Rubio gets pinned to the wall about his grandfather’s deportation order…
(h/t @reuben_reyñoso)
(h/t @reuben_reyñoso)
June 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
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BREAKING: Iran's U.N. ambassador says U.S. "decided to destroy diplomacy" and Iranian military will decide "timing, nature and scale" of its response.
Alarm grows after the US inserts itself into Israel's war against Iran with strikes on nuclear sites
The world is grappling with the enormous implications after the United States inserted itself into Israel’s war against Iran.
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June 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
BREAKING: Iran's U.N. ambassador says U.S. "decided to destroy diplomacy" and Iranian military will decide "timing, nature and scale" of its response.
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🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
June 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
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I scrolled the length of the NYT app just now and unless I missed it there wasn’t a single story or opinion piece on the No Kings protests. But there was this—
June 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I scrolled the length of the NYT app just now and unless I missed it there wasn’t a single story or opinion piece on the No Kings protests. But there was this—
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News:
"This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”
"This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”
June 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News:
"This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”
"This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”
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China’s exports rose 4.8% in May from a year earlier, lower than expected as shipments to the United States fell nearly 10%, according to customs figures released Monday.
China's exports up 4.8% in May as shipments to the US fall nearly 10%
China has reported its exports rose 4.8% in May from a year earlier, lower than expected as shipments to the United States fell nearly 10%.
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June 9, 2025 at 3:46 AM
China’s exports rose 4.8% in May from a year earlier, lower than expected as shipments to the United States fell nearly 10%, according to customs figures released Monday.
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Goldman: Both of the issues Marjorie Taylor Greene raised—were widely publicized and thoroughly debated in committee and on the House floor.
If you’re publicly admitting that you didn’t know what you were voting on and now regret it—you’re not competent or qualified to serve in Congress.
If you’re publicly admitting that you didn’t know what you were voting on and now regret it—you’re not competent or qualified to serve in Congress.
June 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Goldman: Both of the issues Marjorie Taylor Greene raised—were widely publicized and thoroughly debated in committee and on the House floor.
If you’re publicly admitting that you didn’t know what you were voting on and now regret it—you’re not competent or qualified to serve in Congress.
If you’re publicly admitting that you didn’t know what you were voting on and now regret it—you’re not competent or qualified to serve in Congress.
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Stephen Miller is fulfilling his high school wet dream of terrorizing all the Brown people in Los Angeles. My daughter's friends who went to SaMo High with him said he used to seethe while the morning announcements were repeated in Spanish. Hell, they did that when I went there. (Mesozoic age.)
June 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Stephen Miller is fulfilling his high school wet dream of terrorizing all the Brown people in Los Angeles. My daughter's friends who went to SaMo High with him said he used to seethe while the morning announcements were repeated in Spanish. Hell, they did that when I went there. (Mesozoic age.)
Thanks, can’t wait to read it!
June 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Thanks, can’t wait to read it!