Stephen Ewen

Trump’s Revenge Campaign Has a Weakness Prosecuting his enemies is turning out to be more difficult than he’d hoped—at least for now.

so far, grand and petit juries are the institutions with the best track record in standing up to authoritarianism

Just in case you were wondering "Why Uzbekiztan??"

When you desperately want to starve Americans:

Adding to the GOP's shit week Trump's tariffs are getting pummeled at SCOTUS today and there is a significant chance they are found illegal and unconstitutional in the coming days.

If that happens throws entire GOP agenda into absolute chaos, and Trump will be globally/domestically humiliated.

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Watch: Gillian Anderson, Lena Headey face off in 'The Abandons'

When I run errands these days, I make sure I have my keys, my phone and my whistle. I wear the whistle in case I spot Homeland Security thugs terrorizing people and need to alert my neighbors. Lots of people are wearing them.
That’s how Trump has changed life in my hometown, Evanston, IL.

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The Democratic Tea Party Is Here The party’s base is energized and mad as hell. And their rage isn’t just aimed at Donald Trump.

"Mamdani is not a warning shot; he is a sign of things to come. Dem voters everywhere want transformative change. They’re furious at party’s leaders and suspicious of candidates backed by an establishment that gets everything wrong," writes @alexshephard.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2027...

This week, WaPo published a “profile” re: Chris Buskirk—who co-founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network w/ JD Vance. Curiously, the profile omitted Buskirk’s ties to “Christian Nationalism” via American Reformer (where he is a director), which supports William Wolfe’s organization. This guy ⬇️ 1/

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

This is how all of the media should be treating Trump - not the Scottish press. Bravo!

Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.

Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

There, my friends, is an urban-suburban-rural, multiracial coalition.

How phone calls, sessions at gun ranges and secret meetings in parks led the FBI to charge suspects in alleged terrorist plot | CNN A series of encrypted phone calls – secretly recorded by a confidential FBI source – tipped federal agents that a group was allegedly planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Michigan on behalf of ...

A series of encrypted phone calls – secretly recorded by a confidential FBI source – tipped off federal agents that a group was allegedly planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Michigan on behalf of ISIS, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday.

I had professors at 34 too.

College and grad school - so many younger are just not ready for it.

The Democrats’ Patriotic Vanguard A small group of lawmakers with military or intelligence backgrounds prefigured Harris’s overtly patriotic campaign.

Abby Spanberger will now be governor of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill governor of NJ. I wrote about both of them, and their friend group, last year
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An absolutely electric victory speech by Mamdani tonight: "We have bowed at the alter of caution and paid a mighty price". Here's hoping the rest of the Democratic party is listening.

My one annual comment is this: cutting the public service is not "getting rid of waste" but making it harder for the government to deliver services to the people.

Government takes a ton of work and requires a heap of people to do it. We can't AI our way out of this. Tis just the latest excuse.

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FUGOP.
Cleaning house!!!

🚨 Trump’s handpicked prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, got caught trying to rig indictments.

A federal judge just ordered the unedited grand jury tapes.

The deadline’s tomorrow. And they’re scrambling.

Oh, these are fucking delicious.

A White House Ballroom Fit for a Bribe GOP lawmakers don’t mind that the full list of donors and amounts given is under wraps.

"Prior to this point, Republicans have loved launching investigations and issuing subpoenas about this exact type of scenario: a president being utterly absent from consequential pardon decisions." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-whit...

Trump brought printoff proof to 60 Minutes interview

Trump and his show-and-tell.

This is the moronic thug who debated his penis size on national TV.

Dems winning in Virginia will directly lead to thousands regaining the right to vote.

Spanberger can reverse GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin's reinstatement of a Jim Crow-era lifetime voting ban for felonies.

Dem lawmakers can also put a constitutional amendment on next year's ballot to permanently end it

Should be worth about $16 million, right?

Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation.

Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.”

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The only solution to this is for communities to respond with force. No American is obligated to accept this lawlessness from the federal government. Mayors and governors should say so.

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

FWIW, social democracies like Norway, Sweden etc have big businesses. They have billionaires.

They also have universal healthcare, quality free education & child care, and programs to curb poverty and food insecurity.

How?

Their billionaires pay taxes and don’t control the government.