Greg Dworkin

Nods as New Yorker

huge W

Trump Mimics Stalin, Uses Total BS to Kill BLS You play with the truth. Oh you're killing me with your Pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro, Ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ganda - Muse, "Propaganda"

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YouTube video by Sandfall Interactive Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Lumière [Official Music Video]

clair obscur
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COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

Tuberville calls for banning people from China, Iran, and North Korea from studying in the US

Important.

At the end of this rambling nonsense, Trump insists that Democrats are lying that prices are up but “prices are way down!”

Seems like the kind of gaffe an opposition party might want to highlight in ads, along with actual price information

NEW FROM @reuters.com: Top U.S. law firms have sharply scaled back their efforts to challenge the federal government in court, especially on behalf of pro bono clients, in the face of threats from President Trump.

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Anti-subordination for me. Anti-classification for thee. This is no way to protect civil rights in the United States of America. This is anathema to academic freedom.

The Ivy League schools are folding like a cheap house of cards. Shame on their leadership.

Brown's capitulation to the state is as great a threat to academic freedom in America as Columbia's cowardice. Anonymous student course evaluations have been potentially weaponized to punish speech that might anger students in the classroom. A serious chilling effect. www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Optics vs Reality In a Trumpian world, optics matter more than reality – but Europe still needs to deal with the reality as well, Minna Ålander writes in the Europe Dispatch.

This week in the Europe Dispatch with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social I look at the question of what matters more, optics or reality.

The EU-US trade deal was a great example of very bad optics of a partial nothingburger. In any case, the EU accepted a new economic reality where old rules don’t apply.

I know people think that Dems are doing nothing but once again it just isn't true. Part II.

(Good that @gregsargent.bsky.social is on this; you would think from some accounts around here that Dems are trying hard to downplay the scandal).

How does the Epstein scandal end? The Trump administration is desperate to kill the story. Here are 5 ways they could try.

How does the Epstein scandal end? I went over some likely scenarios. Mostly it’s just amazing to consider what an absurd Gordian knot the Trump administration has created for themselves. Featuring some thoughts from the very smart @rothschildmd.bsky.social. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

170. DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg DOJ's complaint that Chief Judge Boasberg engaged in "misconduct" would be laughably stupid if it didn't reflect such a transparently obvious and dangerous attempt to delegitimize the federal courts.

Me on the factually misleading and analytically ridiculous misconduct complaint DOJ has filed against Chief Judge Boasberg—and the dangerousness of DOJ so openly trying to undermine public confidence in the only institution that has been even partially effective at checking the Trump administration:

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My statement on the California governor's race and the fight ahead.

Roy Cooper Raids the GOP Senate Map; it Echoes Across the U.S. "Better stand tall when they're callin' you out. Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down. It's my life, it's now or never - Bon Jovi, "It's My Life"

www.blueamp.co/p/roy-cooper... "So an open NC Senate seat as Trump crashes like he’s Mel Gibson driving w/ a blood alcohol level of Cognac, yelling “Jews start all the wars.."

Trump’s polling isn’t in the toilet. He's in the 500 yds of s*t smelling foulness Andy Dufresne crawled thru in Shawshank"

Am I tripping or did this happen on Eric Adams' watch

Zohran's campaign is overtly pro-immigrant and even pro-cosmopolitan.

One overlooked thing in the vids is the eating while walking on sidewalks, the sharing of ethnic foods. There's a profound vision of the city at work here. 5/

(h/t @lioneltrolling.bsky.social)

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Holding Trump accountable by declaring he's winning the trade war with deals that only exist in his head.

‘1984’ is upon us

If you think cutting $1 trillion from medicaid won’t cost people insurance and make things more expensive you don’t understand how things work

YouTube video by Aaron Parnas Trump Holds DISASTER PRESSER in UK as He BLINKS on RUSSIA

NEWS: Donald Trump had a disastrous press conference in the United Kingdom, going so far as saying he never had the "privilege" of going to Epstein's island.

Spread the word: youtu.be/F6wHk2O9dcc

Not “overblown.” False.

Rolling Stone's Asawin "Swin" Suebsaeng discusses Trump's MAGA supporters and the Epstein files Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis

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This is an insidious lie: Trump’s top campaign promise to voters was lowering prices of consumer goods on day one. Instead, his actions have drastically increased costs.

He failed to deliver his single biggest promise.

John Fugelsang: How RWers Weaponize Religion & Hilarious Trump/Epstein Line YouTube video by CLIFF'S EDGE

www.youtube.com/live/ksg_m8p... Great show with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social & David Shuster! Check it out, and get John's great new book, "Separation of Church and Hate"(!!)

(Epstein Lindsey Graham)

Trump also claimed that illegal migration was an "invasion" which was "killing Europe". He said: "Last month, we (the United States) had nobody entering our country. Nobody. Shut it down. And we took out a lot of bad people that got there with (former US president Joe) Biden. "Biden was a total stiff, and what he allowed to happen.... but you're allowing it to happen to your countries, and you've got to stop this horrible invasion that's happening to Europe; many countries in Europe. "Some people, some leaders, have not let it happen, and they're not getting the proper credit they should. "I could name them to you right now, but I'm not going to embarrass the other ones. "But stop: this immigration is killing Europe."

I don't know if Trump's comments on arriving in Scotland are being reported in the USA, but if not, here are some of them for you, from the BBC website.

thank you!
bit of a mouthful either way

This is so perfect. Trump
manufacturing a piece of theatre, complete with a grinning Sen. Tim Scott as his body man. Powell remains cool and makes immediate mincemeat of Trump’s attempt to inflate the amount of construction overruns for the Fed bldg renovation.

Whose numbers would YOU trust more?