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Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, Linguistics, and Cognitive Science, Graduate Center, City University of New York. Website: https://www.davidrosenthal.org

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‘Clouded in mystery’: how Ice became a rogue agency that does Trump’s bidding Shrouded in secrecy, the US agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga’s agenda

Shrouded in secrecy, the US law enforcement agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga’s agenda

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08.07.2025 13:28 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump’s ominous ICE security state The nation of immigrants’ shift to mass deportation is among the most shocking turns in US history

Trump’s ominous ICE security state

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08.07.2025 13:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE increasingly targets undocumented migrants with no criminal record ICE officers are ramping up arrests. But the share of detained migrants with a criminal conviction has been declining.

The Trump administration is increasingly targeting unauthorized immigrants with no criminal record as it ramps up arrests

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

03.07.2025 17:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE agents now snatching migrants with open court cases; NYC officials, lawyers say it’s ‘utterly unlawful’ In a sudden escalation in President Trump’s mass deportation efforts, ICE agents are snatching and detaining migrants with pending immigration court cases at lower Manhattan courthouses, a move whi…

In a sudden escalation in President Trump’s mass deportation efforts, ICE agents are snatching and detaining migrants with pending immigration court cases at lower Manhattan courthouses, a move which city officials and attorneys blasted as “utterly unlawful.”

www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/02/i...

03.07.2025 16:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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ICE Lets Slip It’s Making Up Assault Claims While Trashing Tracker App Not even ICE can remember its bogus data.

ICE Lets Slip It’s Making Up Assault Claims While Trashing Tracker App

Donald Trump’s administration is claiming that the number of assaults against immigration enforcement officers has skyrocketed, but when pressed, even they can’t keep their phony numbers straight.
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03.07.2025 11:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Trump’s Renewed Threat to Deport Citizens Is So Terrifying: Expert An expert warned that Donald Trump bringing back the threat is a clear sign of his rapid descent into authoritarianism.

It does seem like Germany leading up to 1933:

Why Trump’s Renewed Threat to Deport Citizens Is So Terrifying: Expert
An expert warned that Donald Trump bringing back the threat is a clear sign of his rapid descent into authoritarianism.

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03.07.2025 11:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tell Congress: Investigate Stephen Miller Our lawmakers must stand up for justice, for immigrant families, and for the rule of law. We demand a full House Oversight Committee investigation into Miller’s abuse of power.

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02.07.2025 21:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cute: The Senate postponed implementing Medicaid stuff till January 2027--so it don't be felt till after the midterms. They know what they're doing.

01.07.2025 16:24 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.

Some government scientists in the United States will no longer have easy access to papers in more than 3,000 journals published by Springer Nature, Nature’s publisher.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

01.07.2025 15:45 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 4
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The Unbelievable Reason Trump Is Threatening to Cut Aid to Israel Donald Trump is trying increasingly unhinged methods to come to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aid.

International Corruption:

Donald Trump is threatening to withhold U.S. funding for Israel—unless the nation lets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk away from his corruption charges.

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01.07.2025 12:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Justice Department Announces Chilling Plan to Revoke Citizenship Trump’s DOJ issued a directive making it a priority to strip some Americans of their citizenship.

No surprise:

Trump’s DOJ issued a directive making it a priority to strip some Americans of their citizenship.

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30.06.2025 21:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.

The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.

newrepublic.com/article/1970...

29.06.2025 13:48 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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The Coming Health Care Apocalypse One chart on the Big Ugly Bill

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27.06.2025 14:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Friday 🙌 My "doomscrolling" query prompted so many replies (thank you!) that I need another day to sort through them all. In the meantime, scroll down for the latest on "F1," President Trump, Anna Wintour, Tucker Carlson, and much more...

President Trump has ratcheted up his rhetorical battle over recent US airstrikes in Iran by having an attorney send legal letters to CNN and The New York Times demanding retractions of accurate reports.

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27.06.2025 11:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Whistleblower says top DOJ official suggested ignoring court orders on deportations The whistleblower alleged that Emil Bove, formerly Trump's personal lawyer, stressed that deportation flights carried out under the Alien Enemies Act had to take off no matter what.

The whistleblower alleged that Emil Bove, formerly Trump's personal lawyer, stressed that deportation flights carried out under the Alien Enemies Act had to take off no matter what.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

24.06.2025 21:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Worst Part of Trump’s Big Bill Is Getting Almost No Attention The Republican budget bill is stuffed with terrible policies, but Democrats have been largely silent on perhaps its most destructive component.

Taking into account previously allocated funding, we’re looking at some $200 billion in spending on immigration enforcement, far above what’s allocated to any other federal law enforcement function and more than has ever been spent on immigration enforcement.

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22.06.2025 14:34 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Lashes Out at Fox News Over Devastating New Poll Donald Trump railed against his favorite news network for showing his low approval rating.

A Fox News poll shows that a majority of voters disapprove of Trump’s job performance by an eight-point margin. The poll, regarded as one of the best in the industry, found that a majority of voters are still feeling pessimistic about the state of the economy.

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19.06.2025 21:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Doesn’t Like Stephen Miller Any More Than the Rest of Us Donald Trump’s nickname for Stephen Miller reveals exactly what he thinks of his deputy chief of staff.

You’ve heard Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe, and Laughing Kamala, but now get ready for … Weird Stephen.

“And even Trump calls him ‘Weird Stephen.’ Because he is weird, by the way. I mean, you can’t spend a moment with him and not say, ‘Oh, something’s off here.’”

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18.06.2025 22:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status

Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

17.06.2025 11:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Sent Them To Hell. Now He's Erasing Them Altogether. Dozens of U.S. CECOT detainees’ immigration cases have been dismissed – denying Trump’s victims their day in court.

At least 24 people sent to CECOT have had their immigration cases dismissed in their absence. ... many cases have pending requests that have not received rulings from immigration judges, who are DOJ employees rather than members of an independent court system.

www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...

16.06.2025 12:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Morning: Minnesota suspect arrested + a Supreme Court surprise

Two years ago, reporting about how the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion, I discovered something surprising about Justice Amy Coney Barrett. In a secret internal vote about whether to hear the case, she had voted no.

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16.06.2025 11:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
OSF

My article, "Objective foundations for the study of mental qualities," forthcoming in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, is now up in a penultimate version as a preprint on PsyArXiv at

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15.06.2025 19:57 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness The media has it wrong. Trump is not coming across as fearsome and strong. Instead, his watch-me-play-fascist-on-TV routine is self-evident overkill.

Trump’s Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness
Trump is not coming across as fearsome and strong. Instead, his watch-me-play-fascist-on-TV routine is self-evident overkill.

newrepublic.com/article/1966...

15.06.2025 14:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Minnesota lawmaker killed in ‘politically motivated assassination,’ governor says A prominent Minnesota Democrat and her spouse were killed, while another state lawmaker and his wife were wounded in targeted shootings, police said.

What Trump has wrought:

Minnesota lawmaker killed in ‘politically motivated assassination,’

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

14.06.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk

Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows

Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk

www.science.org/content/arti...

14.06.2025 11:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Republicans Plan to Ditch Trump’s Birthday Military Parade Only seven Republicans have confirmed they plan to attend Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C.

Only seven Republicans have confirmed they plan to attend Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C.

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13.06.2025 11:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing Device translates thought to speech in real time.

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

12.06.2025 18:33 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Issues Horrifying Threat to Parade Protesters The president said that anyone who protests his birthday parade on Saturday will be met with “very heavy force,” even if they’re being peaceful.

“We’re celebrating big on Saturday … if there’s any protest that wants to come out they will be met with very big force.” ... This is the president saying that he will crush anyone who dares to use their First Amendment right to speak out against a display of power.

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10.06.2025 21:57 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Americans Hate Trump’s Plan to Unleash Troops on Los Angeles A new poll finds double-digit disapproval of Trump’s decision to send in the Marines.

A new poll finds double-digit disapproval of Trump’s decision to send in the Marines.

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10.06.2025 21:53 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Good morning — here's the latest on Bob Costas, Kristi Noem, Maggie Haberman, Miranda Devine, "GMA," The Nation, "Call Her Alex," Paramount, The Atlantic Festival, and much more...

Trump's decision to send in the troops is elevating a protest movement that was already mobilizing against him. Search for "No Kings" on Google News and you'll see page after page about anti-Trump, anti-autocracy protests already planned for this Saturday.

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10.06.2025 13:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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