NO KINGS High Point · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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June 8, 2025 Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington, D.C., yesterday in preparation for the military parade planned for June 14.

June 8, 2025
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SCOTUS to Trump: Due Process! Alito and Thomas dissent

SCOTUS to Trump: Due Process!
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May 14, 2025 On May 8, political scientists Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt published an op-ed in the New York Times reminding readers that most modern authoritarian leaders are elected.

May 14, 2025
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The Democracy Index This week’s Democracy Index column at The Contrarian starts like this, “This week we saw the consequences of autocratic overreach.

The Democracy Index
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

April 30, 2025 This morning the Bureau of Economic Analysis released a report showing an abrupt reversal in the U.S.

April 30, 2025
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Will Pam Bondi Go to Prison? TBR Sunday Read

Will Pam Bondi Go to Prison?
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April 22, 2025 Today is Earth Day, celebrated for the first time in 1970.

April 22, 2025
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The Supreme Court Got It Badly Wrong Today, the Trump administration made it clear: they will have to be forced to comply with the law.

We're in the sh*t now. Deep.

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Chaos The American oligarchy is petrified by Trump’s economic chaos but careful not to criticize him directly

Chaos
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April 13, 2025 This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...

Trump has said he would “love” to do exactly that, and would even be “honored” to, and Bukele has been offering to hold U.S. citizens.

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Sunday thought Fighting the regime’s cruelty

Sunday thought
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April 12, 2025 It was just 20 days ago—on March 24—that editor in chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg reported that the most senior members of the Trump administration discussed a military strike on the Houthis i...

April 12, 2025
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Traitor of the Week: Is This the Worst Traitor Yet? Welcome to the eighth installment of Traitor of the Week—TBR’s most popular series ever!

Traitor of the Week: Is This the Worst Traitor Yet?
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Five Questions with Olivia Troye Former Pence advisor explains Trump's EO's targeting his own people

Five Questions with Olivia Troye
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Clarence Thomas Fears Volatile Stock Market Could Force Billionaire Hosts to Sell Their Yachts “There’s a human cost here that the public needs to know about.”

Clarence Thomas Fears Volatile Stock Market Could Force Billionaire Hosts to Sell Their Yachts
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March 28, 2025 “Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today.

March 28, 2025
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Six small morsels of hope Friends,

Six small morsels of hope
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Nation Shocked That Former Fox Host Might Be Liar The bombshell threatens to tarnish the image of the nation’s most trusted news organization.

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The biggest upward transfer of wealth in history Trump’s tariffs will especially hurt lower-income Americans, while his tax cuts will especially benefit the wealthy.

The biggest upward transfer of wealth in history
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March 7, 2025 Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white.

March 7, 2025
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For Trump, being an autocrat is simply his final strategy for not going to prison.

Both Zelensky and America were ambushed today.

Five Questions with Alexander Vindman Former National Security Counsel Director of European Affairs

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The Week Ahead February 23, 2025

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February 21, 2025 In an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) yesterday, billionaire Elon Musk seemed to be having difficulty speaking.

February 21, 2025
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A Big Fire Hose Just to give you some idea of how vast the diameter of the firehose that Trump is spewing stuff through is right now, I decided to go back through social media to give you a sense of all of the legal ...

A Big Fire Hose
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