Jennifer

Me on Trump as a fascist, free to read (as if anyone will)

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My discussion with Brian on WNYC:

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3. In a fascist regime, you join the State's activities or you *stay the hell out of the public square.*

Fascist regimes stomp out all *horizontal* social attachments among ppl - clubs, organizations, etc - and replace them with verticalized relationships binding the individual to the STATE.

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My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.

So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.

If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1

Trump administration takes formal step toward freeing Tina Peters President Donald Trump has threatened retaliation if Colorado doesn’t release his political ally from prison.

NEW: Trump administration takes formal step toward freeing Tina Peters www.9news.com/article/news...

Megyn Kelly casts doubt on accusations Jeffrey Epstein was a "pedophile" Megyn Kelly called Jeffrey Epstein's actions "sick" in a Wednesday episode of her show.

SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly says Jeffrey Epstein was not a conventional pedophile because he liked young teen girls, not those under the age of 10.

Kelly said Epstein was "sick," but said there was a "distinction" between teen and pre-teen girls. [Newsweek]

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While our name has changed, who we are has not. You’ll find the same commitment to justice, progress, and the truth.

Same mission. New name.

Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation, texts show Pair devised responses to public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful people

Hundreds of text messages show Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bloomberg headline: DOJ Closed Meat Probe Just Before Trump's Investigation Demand

After getting battered on beef prices and battered by ranchers after he tried to increase imports, Trump demanded an antitrust investigation into the meatpacker middlemen. This happened right after his DOJ *closed an investigation* into meatpackers, lmao

There Are Two U.S. Senates—and Only One Knows How to Get What It Wants While Republicans in the upper house advance agendas and build their base, their Democratic counterparts are mostly bystanders to their own demise.

I wrote about the U.S. Senate

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Retired journalists raise the alarm about state sponsored terror in Chicago "It is without precedent that the biggest names in Chicago journalism have come together to condemn a public action"

@newsjennifer.bsky.social: "You know us. That’s the very first line of a powerful new public letter from a group of retired, well respected Chicago broadcast journalists. Their letter protests the months-long ICE/CBP terror campaign in our city." jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/retired-jo...

Exclusive: ‘She was the best man for the job’: Hegseth’s policies are forcing qualified women out of the military | CNN Politics Active service women and men who spoke to CNN say that goals Hegseth laid out often don’t make sense and will damage the military.

Exclusive: ‘She was the best man for the job’: A Navy officer was set to be the first woman in a Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs. That's until Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth likely yanked her promotion because of the officer’s gender.

Trump asks supreme court to throw out jury’s finding in E Jean Carroll lawsuit Writer and author had testified, and won, at trial that the president had sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s

Donald Trump asked the US supreme court on Monday to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.

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Senate Reaches Deal To Reopen Government After Moderate Democrats Cave Republicans found enough Democrats willing to drop their party's demand to extend soon-to-expire health care subsidies for millions of people.

Senate reaches deal to reopen government after moderate Democrats cave

Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.

"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
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YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg Russian paper points out that "almost everything is prohibited" in Russia

In today’s Russian papers: “Budget revenues still falling, trade with China declining" & ”petrol supply problems in the regions.” Plus an interesting editorial: “In a situation where almost everything is prohibited, a little something at least should be permitted” #ReadingRussia

Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps

NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

“The administration is rapidly gutting a 2022 law intended to ensure that a sliver of the country’s most profitable corporations pay at least some federal income tax.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

With the US Supreme Court last night issuing a temporary stay, pausing the lower court ruling demanding SNAP payments be distributed, a reminder that as recently as Sept 30 these payments from the contingency fund were Trump administration policy. Until something changed.

Trump's opening position on the shutdown negotiations were "I will abrogate any agreement made" and it's now coupled with telling GOP lawmakers explicitly that the Democrats are beating his ass so yes he is very smart

Trump ally Elise Stefanik to announce run for New York governor Friday Elected to the House as a moderate, Stefanik evolved into a fierce Trump defender, and her announcement could set up a faceoff with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D).

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York), a staunch ally of President Donald Trump and a member of House Republican leadership, will announce Friday that she will run for governor in 2026, according to people familiar with the plans.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor would not have been stripped of "Prince" if the Epstein Files were fiction written by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, John Brennen, and various unnamed people in the Biden administration, as guilty Donald stupidly--and desperately--claims.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

"You're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."

The gay man who restyles himself as an arrogant bully because he's spent his entire life trying to prove that he's worthy of the company of straight homophobes is a very familiar type to me. I went to college with this one. There are many like him, although, happily, infinitely more who are not.

Mayor Who Spoke Out Against Mexico’s Cartels Killed in Michoacan A mayor in the Michoacán region of western Mexico who’d called on the government to do more to fight drug cartels was shot dead on Saturday evening.

A mayor in the Michoacán region of western Mexico who’d called on the government to do more to fight drug cartels was shot dead on Saturday evening.

Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

The ICEmen were presumably looking for undocumented immigrants. Retes’s driver’s license, which he says the ICEmen never asked to see, identifies him as “Veteran Army.” His license plate includes “DV”: disabled veteran. While ICE’s warriors were trying and ultimately succeeding in smashing his driver’s-side window (the better to pepper spray him), they apparently did not notice his rear window’s “Iraq Combat Veteran” sticker.

How George Will describes the unlawful arrest of George Retes in the Bezos Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trump keeps gifting federal judges to anti-abortion zealots who claim that embryos are people with equal rights under the 14th Amendment. This argument will eventually end up before SCOTUS. If successful, it wld effectively criminalize abortion nationwide.

Trump approves disaster declarations for red states, as blue states go without “President Trump and his administration have politicized disaster relief,” one governor said, “and our communities are the ones who will pay the price.”

"The president’s statement announcing the relief funding emphasized the number of times he won Missouri’s electoral votes, as if there were some kind of connection between his political support in the state and his eagerness to provide disaster aid..."

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