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WTF?!!! That’s it. That’s about all I have right now. Haven’t had the chance to dive into others’ comments, but WTF was the first thing out of my mouth this morning. This is so unbelievable. Just look at this...

WTF?
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Sunday thought: the big Reveal Friends,

Sunday thought: the Big Reveal
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Federal judges call SCOTUS's shadow docket "inappropriate," "opaque," and a "judicial crisis" The current Supreme Court is making unprecedented use of the ‘shadow docket’. Reaction has been mixed. Liberals say the Court is a rubber stamp enabling Trump’s imperial presidency. MAGAs argue that S...

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Judge Pits Alexander Hamilton v. Trump. Spoiler: Hamilton Wins "If we were even to suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs.” -Al...

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Trump's plan to invoke the Insurrection Act You need to be aware of his four-point plan

Trump's plan to invoke the Insurrection Act
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Understanding the Coming Premium Apocalypse Why health insurance is about to become unaffordable

Understanding the Coming Premium Apocalypse
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Why this is not a normal government shutdown Friends,

Why this is not a normal government shutdown
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Trump’s political hack nominee for the Bureau of Labor Statistics is already monkeying with the data. The Senate mustn’t confirm him

Trump’s political hack nominee for the Bureau of Labor Statistics is already monkeying with the data.
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Golly, I’ve Never Seen a Pedophile on the Roof of the White House Before Well, my prayers to the God of Cankles have gone as yet unanswered, so I suppose we may as well chronicle the week’s fuckery. Might try escalating to ritual sacrifice, if I can think of something a ca...

Another week, another review

The Trumping of America | The Coffee Klatch for August 2, 2025 With Heather Lofthouse and yours truly, Robert Reich

The Trumping of America | The Coffee Klatch for August 2, 2025
Watch; stay informed

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Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Cartoon: Not a fairytale A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | Americans move away from the Republican ...

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Cartoon: The Four Freedoms 2025 A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Federal employees can now be harassed about religion by their ...

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NO KINGS Albany · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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Do photons wear out? An astrophysicist explains light’s ability to travel vast cosmic distances without losing energy The speed of light is the fastest anything can travel. What happens to a photon from a galaxy 25 million light years away on its journey toward Earth?

Do photons wear out? An astrophysicist explains light’s ability to travel vast cosmic distances without losing energy
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Trump vs. the Supremes The largest stress test yet of the U.S. Constitution

Trump vs. the Supremes
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Can We All Please Agree Loudly that Sending ANYONE to a Death Camp ANYWHERE for Any Reason is Wrong? Stop Letting These Actual Nazis Muddy the Waters Dear Leader has once again demonstrated his absolute MASTERY getting the media, the courts, and pretty much everyone to look at the shiny ball over the...

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This week’s Joseph Welch and Neville Chamberlain Award Winners Courage and cowardice in the face of American tyranny

This week’s Joseph Welch and Neville Chamberlain Award Winners
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Have you seen the Covid.gov website? www.whitehouse.gov/… This shit is getting crazy. I mean off the hook crazy. We might not make it to the new year.

This conspiracy crap and propaganda being thrust upon us is just ... unbelievable. Well, unbelievable for thinking intelligent people. That leave the Cult-45/47 folks stuck in the fringes of Idiocracy.
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What we must do now (And what I said at Berkeley)

What we must do now
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The two tipping points for when we officially become a dictatorship could occur this week Friends,

The two tipping points for when we officially become a dictatorship could occur this week
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A Financial Crisis Primer, Part I How things can go catastrophically wrong

A Financial Crisis Primer, Part I
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The Independent: Fund managers worried Trump "might be insane." (Let's talk about sanewashing.) Nothing more to add, really; I just saw that headline via Tiedrich and found it notable that someone’s willing to put the obvious into a headline. Of course it’s been plain as day for years that Donal...

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Trump Is Stupid, Erratic and Weak The disaster of Trumponomics continues

Trump Is Stupid, Erratic and Weak
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