Lisa Tozzi

'They Need to Suffer': Inside Trump's War on Dissent Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and the rest of the administration are waging a furious crackdown on dissent following Charlie Kirk's assassination.

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump expanded his war on free speech, the left, and ordinary Americans. It’s going to get worse www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

1993 rematch!

Same

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Claudio David Balcane González's petition for asylum was approved. Yet, officers held him for 63 more days at an immigration detention center where he'd spent three months in custody.

"What more can they want with me if I already won my case?" he asked. https://wapo.st/46PXaVU

Fascism; it's expensive 🤑

Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny

“Democratic leaders seem afraid of their most effective messengers — imagine how strong we’d be as a party if we lifted up our most popular communicators”

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Howard Lutnick Enrages Trump Officials With Jeffrey Epstein ‘Blackmail’ Remarks The Trump administration claims Jeffrey Epstein didn’t blackmail anyone. His commerce secretary just called Epstein ‘the greatest blackmailer ever.’

"‘F***ing Dumbass’: Trump Officials Want Howard Lutnick Sidelined After Epstein Comments"

Trump's commerce secretary called Epstein ‘the greatest blackmailer ever' & his colleagues are now super mad at him.

Another scoop from Zeteo's newest reporter @swin24.bsky.social:

I am several years older than him.

Good morning

Why Does Taylor Swift Think She’s Cursed? “The Life of a Showgirl,” the artist’s new album, is full of cringey sexual innuendo, millennial perfectionism, and an obsession with her haters that wears thin.

“The curse on me was broken by your magic wand,” which is of course very funny, but also gestures to a broader problem of perspective: There is no curse on you, Taylor Swift! You are simply . . . alive on Earth.”
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“This case is chilling for us all,” said Free Press’ senior counsel Nora Benavidez. “And that’s the point — the administration will stop at nothing, not even the First Amendment, to bully people into silence.”
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If you are laid off and over 50 it should be the law that you get at least double severance pay

Journalism, the job where when someone powerful lies you describe it as "not strictly true" because describing facts would be bias bsky.app/profile/atru...

Taylor Swift Conquers Her Biggest Stage Ever on 'The Life of a Showgirl' Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' combines new, exciting sonic turns with incisive storytelling.

The great @mayageorgi.bsky.social with the @rollingstone.com Taylor review www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

'Swiftboating' Is Beyond Dirty Politics Jack Ciattarelli's campaign obtained Democrat Mikie Sherrill's unredacted military records amid their heated race for governor in New Jersey.

When Republicans can’t win on ideas, they try to strip honor from service. And they keep returning to this well. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

Just unbelievable stuff coming from independent journalists these days. Jack Posobiec, Roger Stone protege, was one of the biggest spreaders of Russian disinfo in 2016. Then Pizzagate, Macron leaks, election-fraud narratives in 2020. And it took til now to show he was voting fraudulently himself? 1/

The vet sent a Taylor “Life as a Showgirl” themed email this morning

Who could have known this would happen?

“Trump and his team have put Abrego Garcia through a special hell.”

Zeteo’s new Politics Editor @andrewperez.bsky.social writes about the Trump-appointed Judge Philip Taylor who wants to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia a second time.

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David Byrne: 'Am I Ever Going to Get Any of This Figured Out?' David Byrne talks about his great new album, 'Who Is the Sky?,' and why he's not interested in a Talking Heads reunion in our new interview

Saw David Byrne's excellent show at Radio City last night and immediately wanted to reread this terrific Rolling Stone Interview he did with @simonwilliam.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Radio City Music Hall - David Byrne Who Is The Sky Tour

Nobody warned me that David Byrne busts out “Strange Overtones” like three songs into the show! I may have cried a little. A great, much-needed show

Jane Goodall, Trailblazing Primatologist and Environmental Activist, Dead at 91 Jane Goodall, the trailblazing primatologist best known for her work studying the behavior of chimpanzees, has died at the age of 91.

RIP: Goodall was such a force for good.
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Pinknews: In a post on Truth Social earlier this month, the president demanded that Democrats support provisions in an appropriations bill which would ban federal funding for any hospital or medical facility that provided gender-affirming care, including hormone replacement therapy (HRT), to a patient of any age.

At a minimum, anxious Democrats and advocates believe that party leaders will capitulate on trans health care coverage in federal funding negotiations on the margins, allowing language that bans government-backed insurance plans from covering these services.

oh look, it’s literally the thing i wrote about for @rollingstone.com happening in real time. as we speak. like exactly what i reported, like a carbon copy.

as a reminder, here’s what i said people within the party and trans care advocates believe will most likely happen next.

Former D.C. police intel chief found guilty of tipping off Proud Boys leader ahead of Jan. 6 attack Shane Lamond was charged for tipping then-Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio off about the warrant out for his arrest in the leadup to the Capitol attack.

Shane Lamond set to report to federal prison today for an 18-month sentence. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

That fucks over WAAYYYYY more people than congestion pricing, which you would have thought was New Jersey’s biggest crisis since Snooki got decked in a bar

Welcome to Portland, Where Trump's Fever Dream Is America's New Nightmare Donald Trump has said federal troops are necessary to maintain order in Portland, but there is no truth to the president's fever dream about the city.

"Welcome to Portland, Where Trump’s Fever Dream Is America’s New Nightmare." My colleague @timdickinson.bsky.social files a dispatch from his town where life is good until the president says it is not.
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Also, Voight going after the Hudson River tunnels, which are primarily for New Jersey Transit(!), a month before the gubernatorial election in New Jersey is a big gift to Mikie Sherrill

I’m in!

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