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What was it Reagan said?
"Trust but, whatever you do, don't verify."

Under-discussed: Trump won’t say he won’t run for a third term, so no Republican can start putting together their presidential campaign, they can’t conspicuously visit the early states, probably have to be cautious is lining up staff/consultants, etc.

If conservatives are upset with coverage, one must re-configure the paper so they never for a second feel like they are condescended to. If libs are upset with coverage, they’re stupid and can’t read.

Just remember that Robert A. Caro cut roughly 300,000 words from The Power Broker!

As we saw during the brief woke era, the country is run by middle-aged white men who are absolutely freaked out by the rise of a young, diverse, liberal workforce with high expectations. AOC is going to trigger *all* of that.

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

WA Democrats consider retreat on estate tax, fearing wealth exodus Democrats in the state Legislature are moving to roll back a big increase in the estate tax rate, acknowledging it may be causing some very wealthy people to move.

You can't call every step of creeping fascism a distraction from kitchen-table issues and then punt whenever you have a chance to address the kitchen-table issues.

Publishers Marketplace book deal notice, which reads “Author of PARTISANS and Director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University Nicole Hemmer's IMPUNITY, a history of how the American right has systematically destroyed political accountability over the last 50 years, in a deliberate, decades-long campaign to protect power and privilege, to Brian Distelberg at Basic, by Lisa Adams at The Garamond Agency.”

Breaking my social media hiatus to share some good news! I’ve just signed a deal with Basic Books for my next book, Impunity, which uncovers the right’s decades-long effort to destroy political accountability and protect their friends in power. I’m so excited for this one!

🧵 very interesting

😭😭😭 a community member just handed this off to a patroller in our neighborhood

Tell Your Members of Congress: Halt the ICE Terror Machine On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direc...

Our job right now is to make sure Democrats keep up the fight to get ICE Out For Good and Republicans agree to a DHS funding bill that protects our communities and civil rights.

Just got off the phone with the President of Antifa. They said they have a cell in Florida that set up a fake tailoring shop, where they created this custom garment to humiliate Michael Flynn.

I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Barack Obama almost never jumps into the chaos. The fact that he’s speaking out now — repeatedly and urgently — is a warning. Something is deeply wrong. America needs to listen.

A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.

2026 To date 2025 Full year Total Cases 910 2280 Age  Under 5 years 227 (25%) 582 (26%)  5-19 years 527 (58%) 1014 (44%)  20+ years 136 (15%) 671 (29%)  Age unknown 20 (2%) 13 (1%) Vaccination Status  Unvaccinated or Unknown 94% 93%

To my surprise, CDC is still tracking how many children RFK condemns to measles. Cases are getting younger and, of course, it is spreading faster.

www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Munich, Kaufinger Straße, today.

I reread a lot for this 1250 word assignment --the 2 most important have been important for years. Elite women remain elusive still and this volume --fewer than 85 letters from MW during the presidency--is essential. Erica Dunbar on Ona Judge one of most impt books on Washington in the last decades.

This is reprehensible, reads like it was written by ChatGPT, and I wonder what folks in the Cleveland area think about the Plain Dealer

I think the idea is to get everyone to hate us so that we can complain that we are the victims.

Opinion | Universities are sending Trump a dangerous message Higher education is under attack. Drop the appeasement.

“There is hope if universities choose to act…The independence of higher education is worth defending When chancellors & presidents [whose responsibilities are—>💰] are being watched—by their students, faculty & public
Silence is not neutrality; it is permission”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Universities are sending Trump a dangerous message Higher education is under attack. Drop the appeasement.

A wake-up call to universities and their leaders: resist together; do not appease.
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We are now in year 2 of the war on science.

Sometimes you wonder. Bloomberg this morning saying that you can't both believe that AI is a big deal and that we're in a bubble. But you absolutely can! That's exactly the story of the tech bubble of the 90s, major economic impact but not big profits. Sigh.

His speech was terrifying to me. Even more terrifying is that he got a standing ovation. Did people in the room not see the subtext in his speech? Or do they support it? Either way it's fucking scary.

everyone I spoke to heard the subtext

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

Ask yourself: why would this administration want to delete references to Medgar Evers’ racist assassin being a racist? Why might that be?

I challenge anyone in this administration or Congress to defend this.