That time in 1988 Sesame Street ripped on Donald Trump

If there is one thing you hear today, let it be Beth’s story.

The Berman Amendment, part of the Trading with the Enemy Act, restricts the President's power to regulate or ban the import or export of "informational materials". This includes publications, films, records, and other forms of communication, regardless of format or medium.

No can do Dumbass.

An exhibit honoring victims of gun violence is taken down at ATF headquarters The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.

The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.

NY17 Constituent and local social worker Emily Feiner was singled out and forcibly removed during Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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Senate GOP leaders succeed in protecting Trump tariffs It comes the same day the Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy contracted by 0.3% in the first quarter — the first contraction in three years.

BREAKING: Senate kills resolution that would have effectively reversed Trump's 10% tariffs on all imported goods

Called it.

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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

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Veterans facing foreclosures as Trump administration pulls plug on Biden program: report At a time when veterans with VA loans are struggling to keep their homes out of foreclosure, the Veterans Administration (VA) under Donald Trump's stewardship has decided to pull the plug on a program...

Veterans facing foreclosures as Trump administration pulls plug on Biden program: report

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State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’ “It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.

Denounce thy neighbor
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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

“Those of us who have lived in countries terrorized by a secret police force can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

Abandoned in a Foreign War Zone One USAID employee’s experience in Kinshasa as the agency was dismantled.

A harrowing story of a USAID employee who was stranded in the the Democratic Republic of the Congo: “Carol feels a sense of deep betrayal, loss and anger. Our own government has treated her and the entire USAID workforce as if they were criminals.” www.thebulwark.com/p/abandoned-...

Foreign Travelers Are Rethinking Travel to the U.S. A growing number of travelers say they are worried about feeling unwelcome or unsafe in America and are reluctant to support the economy of a country that may be destabilizing other nations.

Trump policies are causing tourists around the globe to either cancel or reconsider travel to the United States as they say they feel unwelcome or unsafe and are reluctant to support the economy of a country destabilizing its allies. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/t...

Republican lawmakers seek to put PBS and NPR in the hot seat A House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and named after Elon Musk's government-efficiency team has set its sights on the public broadcasters.

A U.S. House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has called the chief executives of the nation's two largest public broadcasters to Capitol Hill to testify on Wednesday, with an eye to wiping out the federal funding their institutions receive.

Judge Maintains Block on Trump Administration’s Deportations Under Wartime Law The extraordinary move by the Justice Department was an escalation of its conflict with the judge in the case and, by extension, the federal judiciary.

“The Trump administration is refusing to provide information to Judge Boasberg — a former presiding judge of the nation’s national security surveillance court — even privately and in a secure facility for handling classified information.”

DOJ’s position is absurd.

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Social Security official ended program for Maine newborns because he was ‘ticked’ at Mills Rep. Chellie Pingree said the rationale given by Lee Dudek, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, is 'infuriating and absurd.'

There are multiple events every single week that at any other time in history would be career-ending scandals that you have to learn about in school, but instead they’re just replaced an hour or two later by the next five-alarm fire

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

Yes, we still have a constitutional democracy March 18, 2025

We have overcome near-death experiences before.

We shall overcome this one too. Not by denying we are in a constitutional crisis.

We are.

But we can and will prevail if we face the truth unflinchingly and never abandon the long twilight struggle against evil.
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Jackie Robinson’s page on Pentagon website removed amid DEI purge An article about Robinson’s military service and MLB career now shows the error message: ‘Page Not Found’

Webpage detailing Jackie Robinson’s military service removed by Pentagon in latest DEI purge

'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

DOGE staff entered the U.S. Institute of Peace with D.C. police help The U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank funded by Congress, was the scene of a hostile takeover by the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE has tried to install new leadership at the institute.

The U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank funded by Congress, was the scene of a hostile takeover by the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE has tried to install new leadership at the institute.

Trump's dismantling of Voice of America could lead to dominance of anti-American propaganda, director says The government-funded news agency stopped broadcasting after its employees were put on leave or terminated.

"They're going to be hearing an anti-America narrative. We need to fight that with truth." VOA director @abramowitz.bsky.social explains the consequences of shuttering the longstanding news outlet that reaches millions living under tyranny around the world. www.cbsnews.com/news/voa-cut...

Trump signs order to gut Voice of America, other agencies President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at gutting the parent of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America and six other federal agencies, his administration's latest step to shrink bureaucracy.

"For the first time in 83 years, the storied Voice of America is being silenced": Trump guts the agency that has provided factual reporting to countries around the world where authoritarians have squelched truth and dissent. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Milwaukee mother deported to Laos, a country she has never been to ‘The United States sent me back to die,’ Ma Yang, a mother of five, said

Milwaukee mother deported to Laos

A country she has never been to, where she doesn’t know anyone and doesn’t speak the language

The eventual fate of the GOP

Consumer Sentiment Tanks as Americans Expect More Pain Ahead Uncertainty around the economy, stocks and jobs are taking a toll. One economist labeled the latest reading from the University of Michigan’s index “horrific.”

Consumer confidence nose-dives another 11% since last month, continuing a downward trend since Trump took office. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...