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pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

After cuts to food stamps, Trump administration ends government's annual report on hunger in America The Trump administration is ending the federal government’s annual report on hunger in America, saying it had become “overly politicized″ and ”rife with inaccuracies.″ The decision comes two and a hal...

How soon before reports on poverty and unemployment are also phased out? apnews.com/article/trum...

In Texas, Parents Fighting Vaccinations Say Their Movement Is Winning

“In the Fort Worth area… people post on Facebook asking for babysitters who had not had the Covid vaccine. Other new mothers commonly seek breast milk donations from women who were not vaccinated.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

Cancel culture. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

“Roughly 20% of FBI agents — 2,840 out of around 13,800 — have been diverted to work on immigration enforcement, according to data obtained by the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute. That represents a significantly larger shift in FBI priorities than what happened after the 9/11 terrorism attacks”

Robert Redford And Ellen Barkin Join Doug Liman At Sundance Event Shining Spotlight On Bush Torture Record | American Civil Liberties Union Live Closing Day Performance Features Leading Writers, Actors And Former Interrogators...

RIP Robert Redford. Working with him on "Reckoning with Torture" was one of the most amazing things I got to do at the ACLU. I'm still hoping that Doug Liman will make this film one day. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

The political juggernaut that Democrats cower in fear of

A Bad Deal: By Adopting the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism, Universities are Sacrificing Academic Freedom

Ken Stern, the lead author of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, explains why schools like Columbia that have adopted it are fueling a form of McCarthyism from which “we’ll all suffer.” An essential read. knightcolumbia.org/content/a-ba...

Very troubling stuff that I’m not seeing in the corporate media.

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

Enemies of the State How the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the U.S.

“They beat me with metal chains. They kicked me… They said, ‘You’re going to die in there.‘“ From Jonathan Blitzer’s harrowing and essential new article on the Venezuelan targets of Trump’s mass-deportation program. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Robert Jay Lifton, One of Most Important Writers Ever on Nuclear Threat, Has Died He was my friend, mentor and co-author on two books and dozens of articles.

Robert Jay Lifton, One of Most Important Writers Ever on Nuclear Threat, Has Died
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You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.

A dangerous quack lies shamelessly about an unprecedented assault on science and public health, this is how it is blandified.

Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights

This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

Trump 2.0 is a disaster for workers Don't be gaslit when he says "Happy Labor Day!"

“Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor.” www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labo...

How to portray an authoritarian assault on public health, independent expertise and the truth as a reasonable undertaking that “some critics” find troubling.

FEMA Employees Warn That Trump Is Gutting Disaster Response

“Our shared commitment to our country, our oaths of office, & our mission of helping people before, during & after disasters compel us to warn Congress & the American people of the cascading effects of decisions made by the current administration” FEMA employees wrote
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

They just decided to torment this man in one way after another for no apparent reason — pure Kafka.

The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.

Read @epress.bsky.social "all of this is being done under the pretext of protecting Jews, who alone are entitled to protections that other groups apparently don’t merit. It is hard to imagine a more effective way to breed anti-Jewish animus." @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Budding Rivalry of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner The two young champions, who met as teen-agers, are expected to face off at this year’s U.S. Open. A new book by Giri Nathan tracks their parallel ascent.

Hua Hsu considers the budding rivalry between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, the two brightest lights in men’s tennis.

The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.

By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.

Puffin Foundation Fellow @epress.bsky.social for @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.

Careful, thoughtful @epress.bsky.social on vs “new antisemitism” and the politics of a definition. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Thank you, Jameel.

The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.

Two very good pieces about what it means that universities are using the IHRA definition of antisemitism to delineate the outer boundaries of political speech on campus. Here's one by @epress.bsky.social in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.

Wrote about Columbia’s embrace of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which is likely to chill campus speech, violate academic freedom and make Jewish students less safe. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Venezuelan Migrants, a Black Church, and an Experiment in Solidarity A pastor in Chicago helps build a coalition that aids recent arrivals by asking them what they need.

"What began as a modest effort by a few members of a small congregation to reach out to migrants would evolve into a deep experiment in solidarity — one that would challenge the community to confront its stereotypes of immigrants and change the makeup and the mission of the church for good."

Rubio recasts long-held beliefs with cuts to U.S. human rights reports The State Department’s annual human rights reports arrive a half-year late with significant cuts and little fanfare from America’s top diplomat.

May infamy follow him for the rest of his days. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Ah yes, the party of limited government.