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This was a headline from the morning newsletter from the nytimes, September 24, 2025.
“Can the Justice Department Stay Independent Under Trump?”

Nuff said.

Go Back and Fetch It A discussion with Kristina Gaddy about her forthcoming book with Rhiannon Giddens; a collection of transcribed music from Black artists from 1687 to the Civil War

Go Back and Fetch It
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What we’re seeing is felon/GOP frenetically trying to bury the skeleton of Epstein along with the felon/GOP’s Big Ugly Bill & the fact that felon/GOP haven’t lowered Americans’ high cost of living! Also, don’t kid yourself about the tariffs. The costs business are eating are shifting to consumers!!!

YouTube video by Stephanie Lindholm Dazed & Confused - Ginny Stroud - 4th of July

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Truth,

The world must be set free.

Just sayin’!

I need this book! Lol 😅🤣😂

'Born on The Farce of July'

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Great News, Unless You’re Trump Protests against the big evil bill, Key West stands up to the Trump regime, and more

Nearly all of the members of the City Commission in Key West, FL, voted to cancel the agreement between the city’s police and ICE. This would mean that the Key West Police Department will no longer hold detainees for ICE, or share arrest data with them.

More here:

Great News, Unless You’re Trump Protests against the big evil bill, Key West stands up to the Trump regime, and more

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Social Security's insolvency date is now a year earlier. Here's how it could impact your benefits. Social Security is dipping into its trust fund to pay current retirees, with spending outpacing its revenue from payroll taxes.

Instead of CUTTING Social Security benefits, Congress should INCREASE payments by $200 per month and extend the solvency of the Social Security program by 75 YEARS.

How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share.

I’ve got a bill to get it done.

Something I am thinking about right now is that a 3 million dollar program that allows abused women to take their pets with them to domestic violence shelters is about to be cut because “we don’t have the money” but the government is about to spend 1000000000x more than that to bomb people

We were very happy to give this scoop to @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket because it is important to support independent journalists who are doing the hard work at this time. Giving this story to Marisa also guarantees it will be in The Washington Post verbatim exactly 48 hours later.

If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Calling BS on Republicans' Free Speech Hypocrisy Everything's a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works.

I pulled all the key moments from yesterday’s House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on the censorship lie together at this link:

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If you enjoyed my work yesterday- it’s all down to my great team @americansunlight.org. We’d welcome your support 🙏

Trump is the most economically illiterate President of my lifetime. Which is particularly disturbing when you consider that his supporters love him because he’s, in their view, a business genius.

How ICE Tried—and Failed—to Send a Torture Victim to Mexico An asylum seeker from Colombia had a court order preventing her deportation. Immigration agents didn’t seem to care.

“Authorities scrambled haphazardly, accountability and oversight were inconsistent at best, and along the way, they likely violated the law, not to mention the rights of a vulnerable, lawful immigrant who’s been through hell.”

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Donald Trump just issued tariffs against nearly every country in the world.

Two countries are notably absent:

Russia and North Korea.

We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.

Every so often, it just comes back to me in full force. The political and economic order that allowed this man to come to power is obviously no longer tenable. The leaders who let it happen obviously have to be replaced. This is an epoch defining failure and we have to turn the page completely.

The question is not whether the president has lawful authority to deport these people. He doesn’t, but *even if he did,* he has no authority to indefinitely imprison these people in a concentration camp

Innocent (In a Brutal Prison) Abroad The Trump administration’s latest stain on our values: sending a man without a conviction to a country where a judge ruled he couldn’t be sent.

"I’d go further than Abrego Garcia’s lawyer. If this reckless and lawless action by the administration is allowed to stand, it’s not just the immigration laws that are meaningless; it’s the rule of law that is meaningless."

Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social