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I’m just taking such divine pleasure in watching The Wall Street Journal battle the Trump Regime. It doesn’t make up for my existential agony over CBS cancelling Colbert but it helps. Booing JD at Disney helps, too.

A remarkable message You need to read this.

A remarkable message
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May 26, 2025 President Donald J.

May 26, 2025
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Names. Who are they? Seriously, only the guilty hide their identities. They need to come out of the shadows and OWN their identities.

AOC, talking Medicaid cuts — after Rep. Weber chides her for addressing the camera:

“.. There are 13.7 million Americans on the other side of that screen. .. They deserve. To see. What is happening. Here.”

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Power of the Pen Lettter campaigns of note

This week in the Resistance in Maine.
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This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

Hilarious but also pretty damn spot on and terrifying.

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Read the Naval Academy’s list of removed books The Navy released the titles of 381 books that were removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library on the Annapolis, Md., campus this week because their subject matter was seen as being related ...

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What we know about Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University PhD student detained by federal agents | CNN She is one of several foreign nationals affiliated with prestigious American universities to be arrested for purported activities related to terrorist organizations amid the Trump administration’s imm...

She’s a Fulbright scholar. She wrote an op-ed in a student newspaper. Guys in masks and unmarked SUVs whisked her away. The crisis is HERE. It’s happening NOW.

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The Milwaukee Bar Association's poll shows that Judge Crawford exceeds expectations on judicial temperament, impartiality, and integrity.

In the poll, Judge Crawford handily leads Schimel in every category, while attorneys raise serious flags about Brad Schimel’s judgment.

Bar organizations’ statement in support of the rule of law We the undersigned bar organizations stand together with and in support of the American Bar Association (“ABA”) to defend the Rule of Law and reject efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profe...

Strong stmt today by coalition of 50+ bar orgs-incl the ABA & the NYCityBar (whose board incls BigLaw lawyers)-calling on the profession "including lawyers in private practice from Main Street to Wall Street" to speak out against attacks on firms, judges, etc.
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Screenshot of Times article with headline: "Florida may loosen child labour laws to fill gap left by migrants" The article explains a law has been proposed in Florida to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts in agriculture & constraction to make up for lost migrant labour. Yes really.

You truly could not make it up.

You could not.

I can't find a spot that lets me convey the size of the crowd, but bodies are packed all the way to the stone building. #FreeRumeysaOzturk

Most of yesterday's intelligence hearing focused on Signal.

Something else not to be missed: this exchange between Sen. King (ME-I) Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence. King asked why the 2025 Annual Threat Assessment did not mention climate change, after doing so for 11 years.

The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, students and researchers are left to figure out what's next.

As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, students and researchers are left to figure out what's next.

Opinion | Why I Got the Measles Vaccine at Age 63 (Gift Article) Cases have now popped up in at least 19 states, including Kentucky and Georgia. That’s near enough to home for me to start worrying.

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Opinion | Sorry, Sam Altman, A.I. Is Not Good at Real Writing When we let computers write our stories, we lose something essential.

I Teach Memoir Writing. Don’t Outsource Your Life Story to A.I. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...

WOW! AOC and Bernie Sanders just held the Biggest political event in Denver since Obama 2008.

This is fabulous!

‘Where is Elon Musk?’: Democratic Rep. Larson shouts at committee colleagues for blocking Musk’s testimony | CNN Politics Rep. John Larson (D-CT) criticized Elon Musk and shouted at his Republican colleagues after Musk’s testimony was blocked before a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee on March 12.

FINALLY.

Why isn’t everyone screaming?? This. Of course. This massive massive pot of money we have paid into, intended to support our health, our retirement, and our most vulnerable, is about to be tossed into the Wall Street Roulette Wheel. For the rich to exploit.
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Skis in jeans. Vermonters speak truth about JD.