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Associate professor of political science at Virginia Tech. IR, foreign policy, nuclear politics. Views are my own & reposts ≠ endorsements.

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The Trump administration’s mass deportation push has upended life in New England. Immigrants detained at work. Families dragged from cars by ICE. Teenagers arrested.

Our newsletter “Immigration Unmasked” examines how this is playing out in your community. globe.com/immigrationunmasked

14.11.2025 15:05 — 👍 60    🔁 31    💬 3    📌 1
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🚨 NEW: More Republicans are quietly telling Rep Thomas Massie they plan to vote to release the files, and he predicts this could snowball.

“Trump will protect you… if you vote to cover up for pedophiles… but… this vote is going to be on your record longer than Trump is going to be president.”

13.11.2025 22:31 — 👍 4119    🔁 1204    💬 136    📌 57
Brown notes that the Ghislaine Maxwell's case was still active when Biden was president, and he wouldn't have wanted to mess that up with a premature release of documents.

Brown notes that the Ghislaine Maxwell's case was still active when Biden was president, and he wouldn't have wanted to mess that up with a premature release of documents.

Journalist Julie Brown, an expert on the Epstein scandal, answers a question you may have about why Biden didn't release the Epstein files.

14.11.2025 13:50 — 👍 343    🔁 165    💬 14    📌 6
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Bitcoin falls below $95,000 as four-day rout picks up steam The world's oldest cryptocurrency fell below $95,000 on Friday, deepening its plunge into the red.

Bitcoin falls below $95,000 as four-day rout picks up steam

14.11.2025 13:52 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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The AI bubble is showing signs of bursting. Here is a list of pre-market movers from CNN. See a commonality? www.cnn.com/markets/prem...

14.11.2025 13:31 — 👍 42    🔁 12    💬 7    📌 2
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Alabama’s political pipeline has turned into a locker room.

Tommy Tuberville’s running for governor, his buddy for lieutenant governor. Both Republicans, one doesn’t even live in the state and the other’s never voted in his life. Yet they expect Alabama to hand them the ball. 🥴

13.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 641    🔁 330    💬 67    📌 31
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NEW: The Nevada Supreme Court has revived the criminal case against the Trump 2020 fake electors, ruling that AG Ford was correct to bring the case in Clark County. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

14.11.2025 02:38 — 👍 4184    🔁 914    💬 47    📌 48
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When Helicopter Parents Touch Down—At College Hovering moms and dads are following their kids all the way to campus.

Helicopter parents are now following their kids to college. (Yikes!) www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

14.11.2025 13:32 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Shockingly craven even by 2025 standards

14.11.2025 12:40 — 👍 329    🔁 93    💬 24    📌 4
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This is getting spicy. 🌶️

@bloomberg.com $APLD

14.11.2025 13:36 — 👍 326    🔁 83    💬 18    📌 13
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Global stock selloff deepens amid AI worries and US rate cut doubts. Follow Reuters live coverage: reut.rs/4i3h6tF

14.11.2025 13:37 — 👍 28    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

The grift is just relentless.

14.11.2025 13:37 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Then maybe businesses shouldn't have backed an individual who made clear that he planned to make policy on personal whims.

14.11.2025 13:39 — 👍 83    🔁 12    💬 5    📌 1
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3 young New Jersey men surrender in connection with alleged stuffed animal heist at 'Big' amusement park Authorities accuse them of trashing Playland, the park that had a pivotal role in the 1988 Tom Hanks comedy.

Three young New Jersey men surrendered to police in connection with an alleged vandalism spree and theft of 200 stuffed animals from the amusement park best known for its role in the 1988 Tom Hanks movie "Big," authorities say.

14.11.2025 13:40 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

I was told there was a crisis of free speech on campus that must be reversed

14.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 513    🔁 150    💬 8    📌 4
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YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

14.11.2025 12:54 — 👍 1116    🔁 347    💬 49    📌 59
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So Trump has been mortgage price fixing to hurt consumers. Cherry on the cake this week!!

14.11.2025 00:19 — 👍 1272    🔁 473    💬 35    📌 11
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Trump tariffs are helping drive U.S. beef prices to new highs President Trump's tariffs are adding to higher beef prices, along with drought and parasites in a stressed U.S. beef supply chain.

Trump tariffs are helping drive U.S. beef prices to new highs

13.11.2025 22:05 — 👍 34    🔁 19    💬 6    📌 4

One caution I'd offer as everyone goes through these emails is that *Jeffrey Epstein* (of all people) saying something in an email does not automatically make it true!

13.11.2025 22:02 — 👍 2743    🔁 211    💬 242    📌 62

Lots of wildly incriminating stuff in here but also seeing a lot of people taking whatever he says as gospel, when he was, among other things, a world-class bullshit artist.

13.11.2025 22:03 — 👍 1108    🔁 60    💬 77    📌 7
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Our nation is in an economic crisis from Trump’s own decisions, but he’s focused on parties and home renovations.

13.11.2025 22:05 — 👍 270    🔁 62    💬 30    📌 5
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Firing and forcing out our public lands stewards has real world consequences that none of us want.

13.11.2025 22:06 — 👍 33    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 3
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WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report. It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.

NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."

13.11.2025 21:52 — 👍 3232    🔁 963    💬 38    📌 42
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Opinion | One of the Founders’ Worst Fears Has Been Realized

One of the Founders’ Worst Fears Has Been Realized

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...

13.11.2025 20:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation WASHINGTON—Responding to recent revelations suggesting the prominent economist was a close associate of the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a devastated nation reportedly joined together to...

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

13.11.2025 20:30 — 👍 3245    🔁 440    💬 26    📌 37

Kind of wonder how much the manosphere, AI, and Trump conflated various trades in markets over the past year. Did people believe in the $META AI vision or was it Zuck’s gold chain and ties to Trump?

13.11.2025 20:31 — 👍 59    🔁 4    💬 11    📌 0

This, perhaps unprecedented, video would never have happened without 12 years of appointments of many moderate, pastoral bishops by Popes Francis and Leo. The tide is starting to turn in the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

13.11.2025 15:28 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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President Trump’s Approval Rating: Latest Polls Track the latest approval rating and polls on Americans’ approval of President Trump.

The NYT Trump approval rating is based on an average, as it should be. But if you scroll down and look at the most recent polls, it seems that Trump's already-bad numbers are finally taking a nosedive. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

13.11.2025 15:10 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Disgraceful. Should never, ever have happened in this country.👇

13.11.2025 15:05 — 👍 356    🔁 103    💬 8    📌 3

Oh, it's gonna happen.

13.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 3286    🔁 538    💬 218    📌 76

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