Adam Steiner

I suspect many American institutions--law firms, universities, the news media, the Republican Party--were more susceptible to authoritarian takeover than was expected because they were already so dependent on the largess of billionaires.

If you depend on oligarchy, you can't fight for democracy.

For my money, the Senate Democratic caucus seems to be one of the most serious foreseeable hurdles to any project of constitutional restoration. Not because of a pivotal member or two getting cold feet, but rather a pervasive sclerotic disbelief at what time it is.

BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files.

As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed.

Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.

The Democratic Party’s capitulation to the Crypto lobby is one of the most nakedly corrupt things I’ve seen in my life.

Crypto is a blatant scam with zero value that is designed to end popular control of our currency. Dems just co-signed the next global financial crisis. It’s unforgivable.

Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.

Today:

- Ron Wyden releases bombshell investigation in the NYT that Trump admin is hiding hundreds of millions of dollars in Epstein’s bank transactions

- WSJ releases bombshell Epstein file story that includes Trump writing near confession

- Nancy Pelosi says the Epstein story is a distraction

Please don't just assume I don't need a video of a red panda eating sweetcorn on the very day I hear there are no Epstein files.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

the interesting thing about the Diddy verdict is that House Republicans are about to vote to take away healthcare from tens of millions of Americas

Exactly. Few know Collins’ MO better.

Just *close* MCI Framingham.

MAGA is building concentration camps—and bragging about it.

Word of the Day: OBLITERATED

Which is:

What America's airstrike did to Iran's nuclear stockpile

OR

What POTUS did to America's status in the world

What a deeply heartfelt and yet screwed up situation.

A senator celebrating the murder of political opponents should be expelled. Not debated. Not excused. Expelled.

This is a United States Senator mocking the assassination of a Minnesota legislator and her husband. He pretends to be a good Mormon. He’s a sick fuck.

When NO KINGS reigns over your parade.

#SAD 🤣

#NoKingsDay

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

The Persistence of #TacoTrump

As Trump puts pressure on higher ed, Boston students look to historically Black colleges Some students are looking to historically Black colleges for refuge amid the president's ongoing battle with higher education and attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion.

As Trump puts pressure on higher ed, Boston students look to historically Black colleges
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I’ll never understand why serious journalists feel it’s their job to write fan-fic about the United States president.

There is nothing true about Trump’s propensity for deal-making. He’s an inveterate scammer who wants to be a dictator. That’s the entire game here.

Kraft has no plan to reduce traffic congestion in #mapoli’s Boston, no plan to improve access to jobs or opportunities or resources. His plan is to deprive people of their mode choice. Does he even talk about transportation policy with his chauffeur? He might learn something.

First mayoral forum on the books

Someone threw in the question "What ward do you live in?"

Mayor Wu: Ward 18

Domingos DaRosa: 18

Josh Kraft: I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know

Alex Alex also didn't know

Wu leaned over to Kraft and held up 3 fingers, signifying Ward 3

Kennedy is lying, Sen Hassan is right. Dangerous quack David Geier never got $5m. His father was awarded $2.5m initially in a suit against the Maryland Board of Physicians but that was overturned on appeal.

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Taking bribes from crypto billionaires? Totally kosher.

Inviting AIPAC affiliated, Trump supporting billionaires to dictate primary outcomes? No problem.

Survivor of a mass shooting wants to help support a new generation of leaders? GET THIS GUY OUT OF HERE!

#Framingham at its best - photos by Art Ilman, Metrowest Daily News

Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts PhD candidate whose sudden arrest by federal immigration agents made national headlines, walked out of a Louisiana detention facility after a judge ordered her release.

“Thank you for all the support and love,” she told supporters outside. trib.al/UkF8nkC

I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages