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A Trump-appointed judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked Trump from sending troops from any state to Portland, calling Trump's justification "simply untethered to the facts" – @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

On Mike Wallace's NYC history 'Gotham at War' @oxunipress.bsky.social – a moral quandary "doesn’t mean that you lack judgment and outrage, but you try to understand where people were coming from...even as you are critical of it." Brenda Wineapple – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3

"Trump has targeted free speech, like really no president since the McCarthy era. And it is absolutely critical that courts stand up for free speech rights." And @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social argues that to an extent, they're doing it – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

IBM, GE, & GM all did business with Hitler in the 1930s. "It’s chilling actually, because there was a kind of willful ignorance that allowed these corporations to ignore what more and more people knew was happening." Brenda Wineapple -–on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Lower courts have blocked about 130 of Trump’s actions with temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, & SCOTUS has agreed to hear arguments on only a handful of them. @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

In the 1930s New York "there were huge numbers of people who knew what was going on in Germany...who really were determined to try to stop it." Brenda Wineapple on popular boycotts - and industrial cahoots – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Trump "has invoked and exercised emergency authorities in the absence of any emergency" – @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

20 minutes without Trump: writer and critic Brenda Wineapple on Pulitzer Prize winner Mike Wallace's wonderful new history of NYC from the Depression through WWII, ‘Gotham at War’ @oxunipress.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Trumpites in the US House have "come up with the brilliant idea of essentially giving the president a blank check to kill whoever he claims is a narco-terrorist" – but @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social points out, "We’ve been down this road before" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

The story of New York City in World War II: Mike Wallace's "Gotham at War" starts with the day Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany — January 30th, 1933: Brenda Wineapple comments – on @thenation podcast – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T @OxUniPress

How "the lower federal courts are doing the job they’re paid to do, which is to uphold the rule of law" – @DavidCole_Gtown explains on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

One of the things that’s admirable about the book is that the narrative itself is extremely fair-minded, but it never lacks a moral center. Brenda Wineapple on "Gotham at War" – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T @OxUniPress

Trump in Court: From National Guard deployment bans to defending freedom of speech for noncitizens, to yet another court rejecting the end of birthright citizenship – Trump is losing – @DavidCole_Gtown comments – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4q1ow3T

Trump said pregnant women should not take Tylenol because, he said, "it can be associated with a very increased risk of autism." Is that conclusion supported by scientific research?​ @gregggonsalves.bsky.social​ comments (spoiler alert: no) – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

"Claims being made by HHS Secretary RFK Jr are ludicrous, right? The point is that people believe them. People are taken in by them and it is no laughing matter." @gregggonsalves.bsky.social​ on herd immunity, Tylenol, autism, and more – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

Trump put a former Miss Colorado in charge of prosecuting James Comey – but Harold Meyerson @prospect.org points out that the judge in the case could be likely to dismiss the charges – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

Medicaid cuts will likely increase infant mortality, but "the Trump administration just got rid of the entire division at CDC that follows maternal and infant mortality so that we can’t even tell what’s going on" – @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
– on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

House Republicans are refusing to convene, to delay swearing in Adelita Grijalva, who'd tip the vote on a resolution on the Epstein files – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

On the most unpopular US President in history: "Trump retains the support on all of those of the MAGA base, but not of the Democrats, not of independents, and not of any Republicans who are not part of the MAGA base" – Harold Meyerson – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

‘Do you think Donald Trump’s actions on each of the following have gone too far, not far enough, or have been about right?' Most Americans say 'too far' – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

Trump remains unpopular. Nothing he does improves his overall approval ratings. Nothing he does wins majority support. He’s still the most unpopular president in history: Harold Meyerson comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

“This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.” – Jimmy Kimmel on his return to late night TV – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

Trump is "slashing NIH grants because of their association with keywords like 'women' or 'race' or 'equity' or 'LGBTQ' – so we’re seeing a lot of good research losing its funding even as we speak" – Gregg Gonsalves on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

"A shutdown is injurious to a lot of the American people – just as the Republican cuts to Medicaid and throwing people off the Affordable Care Act is injurious to millions of American people" – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/46AXede

Today at 4pm Pacific on 'Living in the USA': The Shutdown and the Dems: Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on @kpfk.bsky.social Radio 90.7 FM and online kpfk.org

On Trump's attacks on Tylenol for pregnant people and "the constellation of things that are happening at the federal and state level that are making it difficult for mothers and children nowadays" – @gregggonsalves.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

"Article I of the constitution gives Congress, not the President, the power to authorize and appropriate funds... But of course, the Republicans are more loyal to Trump than they are to the constitution" – Harold Meyerson – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

Trump vs. Tylenol: @gregggonsalves.bsky.social on the "small" and "contradictory" studies Trump cites to say that Tylenol causes autism – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

Hegseth's Military Lecture: The rules of engagement prohibit the army from engaging in torture, from attacking civilians, and from killing prisoners. These are the things that Hegseth considers ‘stupid' – Harold Meyerson comments on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4mNAXxE

this can only be good.