How the Democratic Party Was Hollowed Out Democrats appear incapable of mounting a real opposition to Donald Trump. Their weakness is the result of a decades-long hollowing out of the party, in which organized labor has been displaced by a pa...

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How does this end? The key ways that concentration camps get shut down.

I wrote about the ways different concentration camp systems have ended and how to stop the massive expansion of detention happening in the U.S. right now.

American Convicted of Murder Is Freed by Trump From Venezuela Prison

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A New Golf Course and Old Grudges Await Trump in Scotland Many Scots refuse to make peace with President Trump or his golf resorts, even after he deepened his investment in the land where his mother was born.

Many people in Scotland refuse to make peace with President Trump or his golf resorts, even after he deepened his investment in the land. “There’s no way I’m ever going to sell,” said one man whose property is surrounded by Trump’s new golf course.

NPR editor-in-chief announces resignation after Trump funding cuts The US president has sought to slash public funding for news organizations at home and abroad, seeking to shut down outlets including Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

NPR editor-in-chief announces resignation after Trump funding cuts

Bastille Day in 1945: Versailles, the city of the Sun King, swept up in republican jubilation '1945, A French Summer' (1/6). On Saturday, July 14, 1945, Versailles was celebrating as it had not done in years. But the carefree spirit of some clashed with the return of deportees and the restrictions still in place.

Bastille Day in 1945: Versailles, the city of the Sun King, swept up in republican jubilation

Bonne Fête Nationale !

Subject to extremely limited and clearly defined exceptions, if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen. Period.

"Recoup the costs" The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine

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I've said it before. The entire press corps should treat this administration as they would North Korea's government. They know any press release is BS, so they will have to work actual journalism to report what is going on and not just be an outlet for press-release propaganda.

All The Federal Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders We put them all in one place.

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Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The company

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“Historically, the most terrible things that happened-wars, genocides, and slavery-have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” – Howard Zinn

Musk must be stopped and removed, and if he will not leave voluntarily, he has to be made to go and give up what data he has – in short, he has to be arrested.

On what authority he can be forcibly removed, the FBI would probably have to act outside of their purview and essentially go rogue.

We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Sad.