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Must-read from AEI's brilliant Yuval Levin: Trump is personalizing presidential power but not changing laws, regulations, or even spending. Classic patrimonialism...it's all about him. status-quo-or-revolution.tiiny.co

A US citizen & human rights defender identified as Rachel S. was abducted & beaten by ICE Trump regime forces in LA, then transported to the hospital and then a detention center, local rights defenders demand an investigation.

She is heard screaming: "Let me go! I am an American! I was born here!"

This is absolute garbage, NYT

PragerU's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad History The outfit that's making historical content for Trump's White House and America's youth has a history of doing history that has a fairly loose relationship with the truth

@sethcotlar.bsky.social, a real historian, takes on Prager U's "history" of the country. As I've heard it said on the internet, read it all. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/pragerus-t...

An advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers

Tomorrow is the big day. Our goal: to show the power of the 3.5% rule right here in the U.S. Over 100,000 coalition members and their families will be attending events across the country to help as needed.

Thank you @jamestalarico.bsky.social

Republicans want to do away with intellectual and critical thinking. They want to ban literary classics by hiding beyond their own personal feelings of being “offended”.

😳WATCH & SHARE — NURSE: “These Republican Medicaid/Medicare cuts will cause chaos, kill the disabled & elderly, hurt rural 🇺🇸, and impact everyone… it’s unpopular — That’s why they did it at 1AM. CALL YOUR SENATORS.”

www.instagram.com/reel/DJ_0Sj0...

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

Time to call Lee Majors

Having interacted with people of this ilk, I suspect the edgy ideas they only wanted to discuss in private were along the lines of "average people are monkeys who cannot be trusted with decisions about their own welfare in this world."

A list of importmanteaus (important + portmanteaus)…

Floor + wardrobe = floordrobe
Car + garbage = carbage
Meme + memories = meme-ories
Typo + hypochondriac = typochondriac
Drunk + uncle= drunkle
Pun + unintentional = punintentional
Shit + situation = shituation
Zombie + beavers = zombeavers

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.

The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.

1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

Oof, this needs a thread. Moin argues that (contra bluskey critics) we shouldn't hold back on criticizing the state of science because no matter what we say it'll be weaponized.

1) No one is actually arguing this
2) It *most certainly* matters.

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

“Let my people goth.” - Emoses

🚨Every word of this from AOC.

"If people are pissed about insider trading here at the House, look at what's happening at the White House.”

(🎥 NY1)

And this:
Biden's efforts to boost U.S. manufacturing through the CHIPS and Science Act spurred a factory-building boom.

Factory construction hit its highest point in half a century, according to an August 2024 report by Moody’s Anaytics.

For whatever reason ICE doesn't have a Bluesky account. So I thought I'd drop this in here. Note the Free Speech crowd has now put the good folks at ICE in charge of stopping, detaining and deporting "Ideas".

If you opened a factory yesterday, you can close it now.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

Fear has a way of being contagious.

But courage is also contagious.

Chart showing global stocks plunging because of Trump tariffs

Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.

Trump is a man without honor of any kind; you could make yourself a good person by behaving exactly the opposite in every situation.

(and thanks to the very honorable people of Lithuania)

The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words

"America’s astonishing act of self-harm"
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