When the shakedowns just start happening in public.
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Writer, editor, Democrat, humanist, reader
When the shakedowns just start happening in public.
$NVO
#BREAKING: Over the dissents of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, #SCOTUS grants (yet another) stay to President Trumpβthis one allowing him to cease obligating $4 billion in foreign aid funding appropriated by Congress.
Iβll post the link when itβs up.
I think the only surprise here is how quickly this is happening this openly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...
At the same time Marylandβs request was denied, Trump approved disaster relief for Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia.β www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3480756...
24.07.2025 16:13 β π 1656 π 755 π¬ 154 π 73New photos and videos highlight close ties between Epstein and Trump
23.07.2025 16:08 β π 706 π 283 π¬ 40 π 27Zia, an Afghan interpreter who risked his life to help U.S. troops, is being detained by ICE in Massachusetts.
He's been living in the U.S. LEGALLY for fear of retribution if he returns to Afghanistan.
Targeting Zia and other Afghan allies is dangerous and wrong.
The Russian government paper today features Tucker Carlson (and his comments praising Vladimir Putin). While Moskovsky Komsomolets warns: β[Russiaβs] relations with Azerbaijan are heading to the point of no return.β #ReadingRussia
22.07.2025 08:04 β π 354 π 111 π¬ 12 π 10APPLY NOW: We're looking for paid interns to join our San Antonio and Austin teams this fall! π
View the full descriptions and apply at casar.house.gov/jobs today! #TX35 #SATX #ATX
A chief executive publicly cheering for the firing of a critical media personality is a common feature of authoritarian states.
I hate to break it to everyone, especially since itβs been evident for a couple of months, butβ¦
America is an authoritarian state.
One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. Heβs not self-deluded or dumb. He hasnβt drunk Kool-Aid. Heβs decided to do evil for power.
18.07.2025 15:46 β π 11813 π 2605 π¬ 302 π 108Nearly a dozen Senate Republicans are pressing the Trump administration to release billions of dollars in federal education funding from a spending review.
16.07.2025 22:15 β π 386 π 115 π¬ 27 π 761% of Americans oppose the Trump tax law, according to new CNN polling. 58% believe Trump has gone too far in cutting federal government programs.
16.07.2025 17:55 β π 1288 π 276 π¬ 33 π 8National Democrats are exploring ways to block Texas Republicansβ rare mid-decade redistricting push, following pressure from the DOJ on the state to redraw its maps to help Republicans maintain their narrow House majority.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
NEW: Sec. Noem has now admits "last mile" disaster communications weren't up to par in the Texas catastrophe. But while bodies were still being recovered on Tuesday DHS canceled a $3 million grant focused on improving precisely those kinds of "last mile" comms. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dhs-c...
10.07.2025 17:14 β π 7525 π 3791 π¬ 421 π 272π¨π¨ Trump's deportations could destroy millions of jobs for immigrants and US-born workers π¨π¨
New report from me @epi.org
What βrecent discoveriesβ could possibly be worse than what she β and we β already know?
www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/a...
House Judiciary Democrats are demanding AG Pam Bondi release the entirety of Jack Smith's classified documents report on Trump β along with any evidence in the 'Epstein files' mentioning Trump "that the DOJ and FBI have withheld from the public." tinyurl.com/4n3jndxk
10.07.2025 17:00 β π 1654 π 420 π¬ 56 π 20Pretty weird how everyone in America openly understands the sitting president is actively covering up his involvement in a massive pedophilia and human trafficking operation, but we're somehow talking about the "threat" posed by nine-year-old trans girls on soccer teams.
10.07.2025 17:10 β π 1464 π 385 π¬ 16 π 14Also: Joseph Boakai, the President of Liberia, took coursework at Kansas State University on a USAID fellowship, the agency Trump just demolished.
09.07.2025 17:46 β π 231 π 64 π¬ 9 π 0Just noting for all the people who demand that the press ask Trump tough questions... well, this is what happens.
09.07.2025 17:56 β π 1384 π 281 π¬ 152 π 19This is outright Nazi language.
09.07.2025 17:11 β π 1765 π 388 π¬ 53 π 11Hereβs the bottom line for whatβs going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what heβs doing to the algorithm that you canβt so easily see, and what itβs doing to you
08.07.2025 21:10 β π 21296 π 5654 π¬ 32 π 306As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.
And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.
Cashing in on cruelty.
Honest to Pete this is unbelievable
07.07.2025 16:39 β π 512 π 63 π¬ 98 π 7NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.
βWhen U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.β
The worldβs richest man did this to the worldβs poorest children.
Donβt ever forget.
Russia becomes first country to officially recognize Taliban government in Afghanistan
03.07.2025 21:13 β π 3 π 4 π¬ 2 π 3I donβt think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make whatβs happening now look like childβs play. And people are disappearing.
One of the most popular government programs in the history of government programs. The tax preparer service corporate lobby wins again.
03.07.2025 16:10 β π 3053 π 1020 π¬ 168 π 59Rural southwest Nebraska clinic closes, blaming expected Medicaid cuts www.klkntv.com/rural-southw...
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