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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

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David Bowie in Japan. He's waling up some steps while wearing a long black coat and smoking a cigarette.

David Bowie in Japan. He's standing in front of a train while wearing a long light-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's riding a subway car while wearing a long dark-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's walking away from a train while wearing a long black coat, gray checked scarf, charcoal trousers, and black shoes.

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

This isn't hypothetical.

The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

From Kremlin to MAGA: Russia's Decade-Long Influence in America For decades, Russia has been running a sophisticated operation designed to destabilize the United States and polarize its society.

My latest article explores how Russia’s decades-long information warfare has destabilized American democracy, paving the way for Trump’s return to power.

“They walked the full length of the train and questioned every single passenger about their citizenship status. According to the conductor, who has worked nearly 40 years on that route, this was a first. In all his decades of service, federal agents have never boarded his train like this.”

Last transmission from Earth: “Maggie Haberman reports that the launch code was a ‘mistake’, DOGE intern to blame.”

Trump Touts Seemingly Doctored Photo of Abrego Garcia’s Hand in Attempt To Prove Maryland Man Is Gang Member President Donald Trump posted a photo of himself holding a seemingly digitally altered image of the left hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month.

Trump fabricates a photo of Mr. Garcia with MS-13 tattoo on his hand. This is NOT a real image. Trump and his regime fabricated it. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCISM regimes do. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

Teen Vogue laps the mainstream media, again

Peter Stern was born in Nuremberg in 1936, a German Jew. His father died in the Holocaust; he and his brother somehow survived Bergen-Belsen. Today he's protesting what's happening in America. "I came to say that something as nasty as that can happen again, and it can, without me saying something."

Meet Judy Bardes. She's 93, going on 94, and she was out on the road outside the Quadrangle senior community in Haverford, Pa., protesting Trump's tyranny. This spring's anti-Trump protests are her very first, and she tells me "it's scary to think what I'm fighting against."

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania showed up to protest!

Thank you, protesters in Philly!

yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

Raskin: We even have the right to call the president deranged for crashing our economy, destroying $6 trillion of wealth and turning our 401(k) Into a 201 (K). And the press has the right to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico.

Front page of WSJ. Main headline says "Market Carnage Worsens." Right below it is headline saying "Trump Heads to Golf Club Amid Tariff Turmoil."

I often give MSM headline-writers/editors a hard time on framing of political news.

So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social )

If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

Footage from Putin meeting with Ri Hi-yong, a member of the Workers' Party of Korea's Central Committee Politburo.

The high-ranking North Korean official arrived in Moscow on Monday, leading a delegation from his party, at the invitation of Russia's ruling party.

The Birth of the Trump Doctrine Lies in the 1987 Recruitment of Donald Trump By the KGB During His Trip to Moscow That Year How Trump responded to his recruitment remains unclear. What is clear, however, is that it shaped his entrance into politics and his foreign policy in a way the world now ignores at its peril.

As to Donald Trump’s foreign policy, this is it. This is the shibboleth. If you understand where the Trump Doctrine comes from, you understand exactly what is happening right now and why.

Every American should read this, and so should every European diplomat. From a bestselling Trump biographer:

Between the FAA/Verizon/Starlink contract news and today's NOAA and NWS firings, remember: the privatization is the point (or one of the main ones). This is about enriching the few, not creating efficiency for the many.

Only 30% of #Iowa 13-15 yr-old have completed the HPV vaccine series. Iowa has the highest rate of mouth and throat cancers caused by HPV. HPV can also cause cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, and penile cancers. HPV can be passed in childbirth, causing recurrent respiratory papillomas in children.

Photo of text from a newspaper article that says “Kennedy advances the lies that vaccines cause autism, increase cancer risk, and result in higher death rates. None of this is true, but Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence showing the safety of vaccines. His goal is to cause fear over vaccines and public health ini-tiatives, which he does for profit Kennedy will promote decreased vaccine uptake, as he did when he influenced government officials in Samoa to stop measles vaccinations; in the resulting measles epidemic, 83 people died from measles, mostly chil-dren. The same will happen here.”

Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening.

An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply:

“The same will happen here”.

You say: they shutdown USAID.

You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.

I wrote a few thoughts on South Korean journalists who are taking extraordinary measures to protect themselves from pro-Yoon mobs

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This is unacceptable! Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, reporting that Navajo citizens in Arizona and New Mexico have faced “negative, sometimes traumatizing experiences” with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants after Trump’s recent immigration orders.

Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.

I’ve always stood on the side of Roe and a woman’s right to make her own health care choices.

It’s absurd to mandate criminalization because of those choices.

Any bill that does so, including the Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act, is a NO from me.

Have you heard of the tope shark?

They’re critically endangered, yet still have no legal protections in the US.
Topes are so heavily targeted that fishermen call them “soupfins”.

I found this aggregation of mother topes coming together to give birth on the California coast.

#SaveTheTopeSharks
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1/ Quite extraordinary how S. Korea's president claims sending armed troops to storm parliament was based on a copy-paste error. The martial law decree that launched one of the most serious crises in Korean democracy was apparently just... poorly proofread. www.hani.co.kr/arti/english...