David Kaye

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The goal is to destroy the US and turn it into a feudal oligarchy sound crazy but it's true

Witkoff wearing a MAGA hat on his visit to a US-taxpayer funded travesty of an aid program.

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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

the most free speech-hostile administration in history. and for a purpose - total and indefinite power and corruption.

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*from.

enterprising college journalists should tackle this, since they’ll have local insights. how is the absence of international students affecting their classmates’ experiences and their local business’ foot traffic?

this is also a direct economic hit against university towns nationally. it’s a cascade of harm, feom the economic to the normative.

all true. but it's still a limited read of what's going on. baker fails to use two words - propaganda & disinformation - that connect to trump's lying at scale, & fails to grapple with how trump's pervasive prevarication shd be handled by independent media.

haunting and awful. and american leaders looked and look away.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

There was a LOOOOONG delay in issuing the supplemental briefing order, burying it on a Friday in August rather than at the end of the Supreme Court term when everyone was paying attention.

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knowledge is power. it’s obvious why trump doesn’t want people to have it, from govt stats to media to higher ed.

Israel’s Squandered Victory Gains against Iran won’t translate into regional peace.

My latest in @foreignaffairs.com

it's still terrible.

but *not* DoJ! HHS and DoE.

below, a concrete echo from penn's agreement

awful, horrible, avoidable capitulation

abuse of power down the line

Even more broadly, it's unprecedented for a university to agree to create internal policies like this around an executive order vs. law. What will it take for universities to realize that they are being extorted and will be asked for more concessions now they have given legitimacy to requests?

fwiw, penn agreed to the same thing.

read the agreement here

b.The University will define "male" and "female," for the purpose of all practices, policies, and procedures adopted and implemented by the University for any athletic opportunity, event, competition, category, program, or activity designated for women, consistent with the definitions adopted in Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Jan. 20, 2025), and Executive Order 14201, Keeping Men out of Women's Sports (Feb. 5, 2025).

this is brown, adopting a definition of gender rooted purely in discrimination and politics, not science, certainly not morality. whatever else they think they got from this agreement, this is horrible.

the owners’ self-destruction - and they are not alone - is one of the most depressing things in media this century

Another massive attack on Kyiv last night, a total of 309 drones and 8 missiles used, most of them against the capital.

In my shelter, a mom brought her 8-month-old daughter who slept through the explosions while she worked.

for those in europe waking up to this, i assure you this is abnormal and an abuse of power. with 3.5 years left of this…

war is peace level --> "The United States will use all appropriate and effective diplomatic, political, and legal instruments to protect the speech of Americans from foreign malign actors like Moraes who would seek to undermine it."

while protection from domestic malign actors - forget about it.

Sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes for Serious Human Rights Abuse - United States Department of State Today, the United States is sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes for serious human rights abuse, including arbitrary detention involving flagrant denials of fair trial guara...

this is just an insane abuse of foreign affairs powers.

Many painful exchanges in this new interview but this Amit Segal answer really stands out:

"There isn’t a single Israeli minister that wants to see babies die. You know how I know it? Because Israel has a nuclear weapon. If Israel really wanted to have a genocide, it would’ve done it already."