Christopher Saunders

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

It is estimated that the loss of the F-35 sale to Spain could result in the loss of about 290,000 jobs impacting all 50 states. Way to go Trumpanomics.

Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office The university also is pausing a scholarship program which honors its first Black female graduate, Sadie T.M. Alexander.

“Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office”

still can't quite believe a story about the vice president getting a bespoke lake water level for his family's boat trip comes out the same day Texas residents say there's still dead bodies from the flooding in the lake and nobody's bothered to come get them

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First go at it here! For those looking for stories of democratic resilience, @protectdemocracy.org will be publishing a new series with stories of democracy from abroad — the Democracy Atlas — starting this week with Hungary. Check it out below !!

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Major Diaspora philanthropists call on Netanyahu to end war and aid Gaza, in mass open letter - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The letter began circulating on Tuesday and had garnered more than 1,600 signatures by the afternoon.

Looking forward to Netanyahu condemning this international conspiracy of sinister Jewish financiers

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Peter Hegseth tweet announcing reinstallation of Arlington Confederate Monument

photograph of the Arlington Confederate Monument before removal

Peth Hegseth has announced that the Arlington Confederate Monument - or, as I call it, the Monument to the Myth of the Loyal Slave - will be reinstalled after its 2023 removal. Here's why that's a huge insult to Black Americans, past and present.

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Young people more prone to believe in conspiracies, research shows | CBC News People under the age of 35 are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories than other age groups, according to recent research out of the University of Ottawa.

Young people more prone to believe in conspiracies www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"...people younger than 35 are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories than other age groups"

@philofwrite.bsky.social: "That fear & perpetual sense of disaster can lead people to believe in conspiracy theories"

there are over 8 million people in this city and the fact that bananas shit doesn’t happen more often is a testament not to cops or politicians but to the fact that people aren’t as violent or scary as some would like us to think

A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump

This story leaves unexplained just why it is that Loomer has the crazily outsized pull with Trump that she does. She's been around for years. But there's not much pre-2024 that wld point to her having THIS much pull. Does not add up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

CNBC Lora Kolodny article: Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says Key Points A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash. The company must pay a portion of $329 million in damages to victims and a survivor, including compensatory and punitive damages. Tesla had argued that the driver’s behavior was to blame for the fatal crash, while plaintiffs claimed Tesla’s Autopilot technology was flawed and deceptively marketed.

Elon tweet: "Teslas can drive themselves!"

Two days ago: Tesla has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptively marketing Autopilot in a way that falsely made people think it could drive the car by itself.

Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"

CPB says it is shutting down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by Congress — marking the end of a nearly six-decade era in which it fueled…

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting—which distributes federal funds to provide essential information to communities across the country—is shutting down after Trump and Republicans eliminated funding for public media like NPR and PBS.

What a disgrace.

Watchdog agency launches probe into former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith | CNN Politics The Office of Special Counsel has launched an investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith, who led criminal probes into President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents and alleged ...

Jack Smith isn’t a federal employee anymore, so the Hatch Act doesn’t apply to him. It’s a workplace rule, not a criminal law—and OSC has zero jurisdiction.

This is performative retribution meant to intimidate law enforcement and undermine the rule of law.

It’s authoritarianism by horseshit.

GOLDMAN: Friday’s jobs number “brings payroll growth closer in line with big data indicators of job gains and the broader growth dataset, both of which have slowed significantly in recent months. ..

“.. the economic data confirm our view that the US economy is growing at a below-potential pace.”

Stunning report reveals multi-million dollar scheme to sell access to Trump Explosive new financial disclosures reveal how wealthy elites are literally buying face time with Donald Trump, according to a New York Times report Saturday.A figures, shared in filings by MAGA Inc.,...

A Trump SuperPAC exposes a pay-to-play scheme operating at the highest levels of American government. The donor list reads like a who's who of crypto moguls, influence peddlers, and favor-seekers—all willing to write massive checks for a seat at Trump's table.
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You're going to hear a lot from the MAGA crowd about how the BLS "manipulated" jobs numbers. It's a lie, and it's important to understand why.

The President is pointing to data revisions as "proof." But revisions are a normal, healthy part of producing accurate statistics.

Cornell Close to White House Settlement of Up to $100 Million The White House is eyeing a settlement of as much as $100 million in negotiations with Cornell University about an agreement that would reinstate hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen federal rese...

First they came for Columbia. The dominos of extortion continue to line up… #HigherEd

We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.

I am quoted here so let me be totally clear on my take: Jonathan Greenblatt has made a calculated choice to aid the consolidation of authoritarian power by the MAGA movement in exchange for the suppression of criticism of Israel. And the consequences for American Jews will be devastating.

Yesterday: the economists were wrong, tariffs are clearly working

Today: Ok, we need to fire the economists because the jobs data doesn't look good

The storm coming today in NYC is forecast to be intense.

As much as 5 inches of rain could fall between 2 and 5 pm., at a rate of as much as *3 in/hour.*

This would be a storm of historic proportions for NYC. Significant risk of flooding in subway, streets etc. 1/2

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Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

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