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As has been stated quite a few times, Republicans could shut this down at any time if they wanted to…

Trump’s tariffs give him a new way to dole out reward and punishment The president's latest power grab will devastate America's economy—and its democracy.

If Trump is willing to hurt the economy, he must be getting something he wants even more in return.

That thing is power. With tariffs, Trump can exercise a kind of corruption that the country hasn’t experienced in some 150 years. Read @pemalevy.bsky.social.

‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

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This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

FY!

March 13, 2025 Stocks fell again today.

the delusional, nonsensical little fishes rant by the Cheeto described here is astonishing, this is the leader of the freeworld people. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-13-2...

The many misrepresentations of Mahmoud Khalil I talked with Columbia student activists. Here's what they said about Khalil—and what politicians are getting wrong.

I've yet to see any allegation that Khalil committed a crime. Or that he ever publicly expressed support for Hamas (which would still not be a crime). This piece suggests he didn't even participate in the encampment -- only that he mediated between the protesters and Columbia.

Federal Government Mayhem: Week Seven of the Stupid Coup The language might sound similar but the difference between being rational and assuming Trump and Musk are rational is the difference between recognizing what's going on and pretending what's going on...

Solnits enduring brilliance is a bright light in this time of insanity. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/outrages-and...

Trump’s Mass Deportations Are Decades in the Making Podcast Episode · Reveal · 03/12/2025 · 31m

The shocking arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is the latest evidence of a far more targeted approach to immigration in Trump's second term.

On the latest More to the Story, @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social unpacks the forces—decades in the making—that brought us to this extreme era in immigration policy.

Our Brave President Goes to War with [Checks Notes] Ontario What is the point of any of this?

There's all the political analysis of the threats and negotiations, but "the bigger point, of course, is that this reality-TV psychodrama remains a ludicrous way to run a continental economy."

Today's Morning Shots, a solo from @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/our-brave-...

Wife of Columbia graduate student detained by Ice speaks out about his arrest Mahmoud Khalil was detained by Ice agents on Saturday, part of Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus protesters Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, who is now eight months pregnant, issued a statement on Tuesday night after the Columbia University graduate…

Wife of Columbia graduate student detained by Ice speaks out about his arrest

I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?

Power, Money, Territory: How Trump Shook the World in 50 Days The system America took 80 years to assemble proved surprisingly fragile in the face of Trump’s assault, a revolution in how the country exercises power across the globe.

News Analysis: In a span of only 50 days, President Trump has done more than any of his modern predecessors to hollow out the foundations of an international system that the U.S. painstakingly erected in the 80 years since it emerged victorious from World War II.

March 11, 2025 The stock market continued to fall today.

March 11, 2025:

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

shameful www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

And as if we can instantly measure all results. "The tyranny of the quantifiable," an environmentalist said to me long ago, and so much of what matters most is not quantifiable or efficient or profitable in the narrow sense, and that's kind of what all this is about. So thank you Ms Kabas.

1. Amazingly prolific and important columnist deserving of much more respect.
2. Spiking is one thing — it’s their paper, so they can make stupid decisions all day long — but not explaining the spike to someone like her is chickenshit move of an inept leader.
3. They don’t care.
4. Call me, Jeff.

March 9, 2025 Lately, political writers have called attention to the tendency of billionaire Elon Musk to refer to his political opponents as “NPCs.” This term comes from the gaming world and refers to a nonplayer ...

March 9, 2025
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solid piece with various good ideas including ‘if you don’t want to be called a nazi dont salute like one’, and ‘what does the worlds richest man-child have against feeding the starving people’?

Elon Musk, apartheid, and America's new boycott movement If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.

Read my piece about the boycotts/protests of Tesla, the goals, and the how the history of apartheid informs them, and Musk www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This.

"The American antisemitism now merges with the Russian antisemitism and reinforces it. The idea that Zelens'kyi is not a real president, and that his government is therefore not a real government, has been a very specific Russian antisemitic trope from the beginning."

Let’s Create “Town Hall Night in America” It’s time for Democrats to institutionalize our oldest form of democracy

"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night:

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Democratic Congressmember Al Green of Texas says Congress should impeach Trump. "Impeachment is a remedy for a runaway president who believes that there are no guardrails," he tells Democracy Now!
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Knives Out: The United States Congress Plus: Al Green falls on the sword.

"The donations don’t seem like a valuable use of anyone’s money. Green, 77, runs in a D+53 district. He’s not going anywhere and doesn’t need the financial help. It’s one of the reasons he is able to take these principled stands."