Millie Cassese ⚖️

Opinion | How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America

"The second Trump administration has fully normalized the ethos of short-termism. Mr. Trump does have an overarching promise about the future. But it is rooted in what he is destroying, not what he is building."
- Ben Rhodes

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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

Sarah Palin invited him over to her house.

The most violent crime in Washington, D.C. was on January 6, 2021 and was CAUSED BY DONALD TRUMP❕

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Fuck "Thank you for your attention to this matter."

@normornstein.bsky.social

The entire Trump administration is a "shanda," Norm Ornstein!

Trump Administration Threatens to Take Over Harvard's Patents (Wall Street Journal)

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"The Trump administration is warning Harvard that it could take over its patents, worth hundreds of millions of dollars..."
- WSJ

Mine! Mine! It's all MINE! shouts the convicted gilded felon❕

Trump Tells Purple Heart Recipients: ‘It Wasn’t That Easy for Me Either’ The president, who avoided the Vietnam War draft, has been given multiple Purple Hearts by his supporters.

Trump couldn’t resist praising himself at a Purple Heart Day ceremony, reminding the crowd that the injuries he suffered during last year’s assassination attempt weren’t “easy” for him either.

Pvt. Thomas Cassese WWII Gen. Patton’s 329th Infantry - Wounded Aug 8, 1944 in Saint-Malo, France.
Here in Wakeman Gen. Hosp. Camp Atterbury, Indiana, largest U.S. Army convalescent hospital.

Deserved his Purple Heart for fighting fascism in France 81 yrs ago. The fight goes on today, in America. 💜

Trump hosted 100 Purple Heart recipients—Veterans wounded in combat defending America—and still made it about himself: “It wasn’t easy for me either.”

From “bone spurs” to mocking POWs, he’s spent his life spitting on service and sacrifice.

The only uniform he’s ever earned is an orange jumpsuit.

Pvt. Thomas Cassese - WWII Gen. George Patton’s 329th Infantry - Wounded Aug 8, 1944, battle at Saint-Malo, France.
Here in Wakeman General Hosp. Camp Atterbury, Indiana, largest U.S. Army convalescent hospital.

My father fought fascism, 81 yrs ago, in France.
The fight goes on today, in America. 💜

Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents.

"Ms. James’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, on Friday called any investigation into Mr. Trump’s fraud case 'the most blatant and desperate example of this administration carrying out the president’s political retribution campaign.'"
- NYT

Trump Against History How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.

See new essays in New Republic. I have gathered and edited eleven essays by historians on teaching and writing history in the time of Trump. We are fighting back! I'll be on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell tonight at 10 to talk about the special issue of TNR.
newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...

No petting allowed.

Not "probably."

We need a 'flash' protest this weekend, across the country. As Gov. Kathy Hochul said, "We are at war." And we're all ready to fight the war in Texas, because that's only the beginning. They're coming for ALL of us.

Tweet from Cassidy: It is unfortunate that the Secretary just canceled a half a billion worth of work, wasting the money which is already invested. He has also conceded to China an important technology needed to combat cancer and infectious disease. President Trump wants to Make America Healthy Again and Make America Great Again. This works against both of President Trump’s goals.

Senator Bill Cassidy’s vote secured the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy jr. He’s now issued a brief statement faintly calling Kennedy’s destruction of vaccine research “unfortunate”

Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz didn't deserve the treatment they got from WNYC at the beginning of the MeToo movement. Two exceptional, intelligent (yes, a bit quirky) radio personalities that were scapegoated. It was truly shameful.
May he rest in peace. 📻

Thank you, Clyde Haberman.
Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz were abruptly fired in 2017 at WNYC at the beginning of the MeToo movement.
To this day, it irks. Neither deserved the end of illustrious careers - - nor did @alfranken.bsky.social.
Lopate described it as a "smear campaign." It was.

They have to learn their lines - - like a table reading. 🎭

Not that we needed reminding, but it's always nice to see it in writing:

"OPINION
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
America Will Suffer From Trump’s Assault on Facts"
- NYT

@bloomberg.com

Shame on Bloomberg for hosting the lies of Joe Lavorgna, counselor to Secretary Bessent, on national news.

The New York Times editorial board's headline applies to every aspect of this administration:

"America Will Suffer From Trump’s Assault on Facts"

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Most important headline of the day - - the week, the month, the decade...

"AMERICA WILL SUFFER FROM TRUMP'S ASSAULT ON FACTS"

We're already suffering...

Hegseth’s Headlong Pursuit of Academic Mediocrity His military-education reforms seem designed to ensure fighting men can’t think and thinking men can’t fight.

"'The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.'"

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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Opinion | America Will Suffer From Trump’s Assault on Facts

In case you missed it.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...