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I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source.

You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"?

My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

Unprecedented corruption

"Steve Witkoff advocated to give the Emirates access to the chips at the same time that his and Mr. Trump’s family business was landing the crypto investment"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

EVERCORE: “.. Switching from quarterly to semi-annual reporting would not require Congress and could be done through a vote of the SEC, where Republicans currently hold a 3-1 majority. .. It would typically take 6-12 months to go through the procedural steps .. to implement this sort of change.

“.. Virtually all major grocery categories are now more expensive than they were a year ago, some substantially so.”

@axios.com #ICYMI
www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...

“.. one in four people looking for work has been unemployed for at least six months. A year ago it was closer to one in five.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

I can't think of a better example of an elite *choosing* to look away from the depravity of his garbage-bag leader.

On November 8, 2022, Defendant Woods was arrested at the Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Illinois, on charges of Reckless Homicide (felony), Aggravated Driving Under the Influence Causing Death (felony), Driving Under the Influence (misdemeanor), and Aggravated Fleeing and Eluding (felony). See Exhibit 2. He has been in custody on the state charges since November 8, 2022, in Sangamon County, Illinois, subject to a $2,000,000 bond. On November 16, 2022, the Sangamon County grand jury indicted Defendant Woods for First Degree Murder (felony), Aggravated Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol (felony), and Aggravated Fleeing and Eluding a Peace Officer (felony). The government has obtained the police reports underlying Defendant Woods’ arrest for these state charges. See Exhibit 2. These reports state that on November 8, 2022, Defendant Woods was stopped in his vehicle by law enforcement. During the stop, the officer detected the odor of an alcoholic beverage on Defendant Woods’ breath and Defendant Woods then fled the officer in his vehicle. Defendant Woods traveled the wrong way on the interstate before striking three vehicles, causing the death of the driver of one vehicle and great bodily harm to two others in a third vehicle. Defendant Woods was transported to the hospital and hospital staff advised that Woods had a .177 blood alcohol concentration, almost double the legal limit in Illinois. While at the hospital, the police officer overheard Defendant Woods state to a family member that he intended to crash his vehicle into a semi-trailer

A picture of Shane Woods, a very large man dressed in all black, deliberately tripping and pushing down a smaller female cop on January 6.

Useful case as Trump tries to politicize death of Ukrainian woman in North Carolina.

AFTER Jan6er Shane Woods remained out on bond AFTER he pled guilty to assaulting both a cop and a journalist on Jan6. Then he got super drunk, drove the wrong way on the freeway, and killed someone.

Trump is weak and will do nothing.

German Defense Minister Pistorius:

There is definitely no reason to assume that [Russian drones violating Polish airspace] was a matter of course correction errors or anything of that sort. These drones were quite obviously deliberately directed on this course.

Trump’s executive orders aren’t laws, but if everyone in Texas, from the whiny student to the dean to the TAMU President to the governor, acts like they are, then what’s the difference? He’s bootstrapping new (and unconstitutional) laws.

Gerrymandering is a form of voter suppression.

Voters in gerrymandered states find out quickly that their vote doesn’t count toward their representation, so they become apathetic.

Don’t let this be you! Join us, RESIST!

I've thought about this a ton over the years. It's become clear that the *primary rhetorical strategy* of reactionaries is to manipulate liberals by appealing to liberal values (free speech, good faith) that they do not share. It works, again & again & again & again.

BOLDUAN: The White House says it would support a professional handwriting expert review that birthday book page that allegedly was made by Trump. The WH continues to say it was not.

SWALWELL: I have two eyes. You have two eyes. Anyone who looks at that letter knows whose signature that was.

Michigan judge tosses case against 15 accused fake electors for President Donald Trump in 2020 A Michigan judge has dismissed the criminal cases against 15 people accused of acting falsely as electors for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

apnews.com/article/mich...

Why isn’t this dominating the headlines? These people should be in prison‼️

Let’s be clear on this - he’s still going to be working for the White House while serving on the FOMC. And GOP senators are okay with it

Crime is happening in cities with Republican leaders too, but this makes explicit that this is NOT about crime-control.

Border official who oversaw Los Angeles immigration raids arrives in Chicago as Trump widens crackdown Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino, who led controversial immigration enforcement raids in southern California this summer, has arrived in Chicago.

The U.S. Border Patrol official who led controversial immigration enforcement raids in southern California this summer has arrived in Chicago, a new target of the Trump administration's escalating crackdown on illegal immigration.

Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It

Rear Adm. James E. McPherson, former top judge advocate general for the Navy who later served in first Trump administration:

“I would be interested if they could come up for any legal basis for what they did. ... if they turned back, then that threat has gone away.”

1/2

Meanwhile we supposedly didn’t know ahead of time that Israel was launching missiles into Qatar and Trump went out to dinner for a couple hours while Russia was launching drones into Poland that we also didn’t seem to know about.

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

LAWSUIT INCOMING: FBI leaders fired by Director Kash Patel — including Brian Driscoll and Steve Jensen — have filed some kind of action against the Patel and the bureau. Details TK

Here we go?

“In filing cloture and tying it to the must-pass annual defense policy package as an amendment, Schumer has guaranteed a full Senate vote.”

How will @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty vote?

LOL like there’s any shot they don’t join Trump’s coverup. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/p...

Fox host Brian Kilmeade calls for the execution of mentally ill people who commit crimes: "Involuntary lethal injection. Or something. Just kill them."
And you watch: He won't be suspended by Fox. The right wing supports euthanasia as long as they get to decide who gets it.

As they claim to be the censored underdogs Trump’s billionaire allies are taking over the flow of information

A federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration from replacing the US’ top copyright official as the fight over executive branch firings and President Donald Trump’s use of executive power continues. https://cnn.it/46gQ4th

News just broke that the Venezuelan boat that Trump struck was not, in fact, headed to the U.S. with drugs.

But this story is disturbing for other reasons, and you need to know why. It's another sign of Trump's growing lawlessness. And it's bad counter-narcotics strategy.