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Mamdani has explained clearly and persuasively why he doesn't favor means-tested programs and why he's living in a rent-stabilized apartment nyeditorialboard.substack.com/p/zohran-mam...

hell is empty and all the devils are here

It sure sounds like someone burned down the home of one of Roy Moore’s accusers as retribution after he lost the election.

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.

As Wessel states, now bulldozing the Census. It's critical to note that not counting people "in our Country illegally" violates the constitution. It doesn't speak of citizens or legal status, simply "the whole number of free persons".

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

We're living through the most corrupt administration in history, and it wouldn't have been possible without the disastrous 2010 Citizens United decision—which helped put Trump back in office.

Brown’s Trump surrender shatters a dream | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, about those "Trump accomplishments"

Brown's liberal, open curriculum taught me higher ed wasn't just career prep but reading the great books and learning to be a good citizen

My alma mater's heartbreaking capitulation to the Trump regime makes me wonder if my dream was a mirage

A personal new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Opinion | This isn’t the same Democratic Party as Trump’s first term Polls show a base of voters who’ve grown more liberal and less trusting of leaders in both parties.

An underrated part of the divide between Dem leadership and the Dem base: over the last 8 years, Democratic voters have slowly become more and more liberal, but the leaders haven’t followed suit in Trump v2.

Our final piece for the Washington Post: wapo.st/4mu6AMR

Opposition leaders say ‘democracy in El Salvador has died’ after scrapping of presidential term limits Legislation allows rightwing president Nayib Bukele to seek unlimited terms, sparking fears of dictatorship

El Salvador personalizing and autocratizing even more www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.

I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.

My latest in @thenation.com

Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.

The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced

Opinion | Juan Crow Is Back With a Vengeance

"The policies of this administration reinstate an era in which the rights conferred to all people in the United States by the Constitution are subject to a sliding scale of extralegal violability depending on one’s race, ethnicity or assumed immigration status."

Call this fascism Juan Crow.

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

How Anti-Affirmative Action Crusaders Are Escalating Their War on Inclusive Democracy This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

Across the country, schools and universities are now getting sued not for using race—but for trying not to. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-ant...

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.

This is horrifying beyond words.

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When you have a lot of work to do, it’s important to start the day by mainlining terrifying news. This will make the work seem like a precious respite

Florida attorney general investigating restaurant that hosted LGBTQ Pride event Florida’s Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier said Tuesday that his office has subpoenaed Linda Moore, the vice mayor of Vero Beach, Fla., in a state investigation into a drag performance th…

The Florida AG is investigating a drag show in Vero Beach and sent a subpoena for surveillance footage. The AG is citing enforcement of a drag ban that is currently enjoined in court.

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Opinion | 11 tips for becoming a columnist Here’s my advice for handling the awesome responsibility of this job.

Some professional news: After more than a decade of columnizing at The Washington Post, I'm taking the buyout.
This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them:
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Feds Criminalize Aiding Protests Against ICE The Trump administration is targeting nonviolent acts like identifying masked agents and aiding LA’s anti-ICE protests.

NEW: The federal government wants to make aiding anti-ICE protesters a crime theintercept.com/2025/07/23/f...

President Trump, in terms of raw accomplishments, crushed his first six months in historic ways. Massive tax cuts. Record-low border crossings. Surging tariff revenue. Stunning air strikes in Iran. Modest inflation. Yet poll after poll suggests most Americans aren't impressed. In fact, they seem tired of all the winning, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a "Behind the Curtain" column. Why it matters: Trump appears to be losing by winning. The more he does [link.axios.com] (including issues beyond his legislative wins), the more the general public, especially independents, shrug — or recoil.

Quite the intro to today's Axios

The Trump administration just awarded Virginia-based Acquisition Logistics a $1.26 billion contract to operate a 5,000-bed tent camp on Fort Bliss in El Paso. The company previously got just $29 million in DOD logistics contracts over 5 years; now it'll run the largest detention camp in the US.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

The Politics of Humiliation The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.

“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

Misinformation lends itself to social contagion – here’s how to recognize and combat it Mass psychogenic illness has happened throughout history, but social media makes it more likely to spread.

Research shows that both misinformation and disinformation spread faster and farther than truth online. This means that before people can muster the resources to debunk the false information that has seeped into their social networks, it's too late.
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So a quarter of adult Americans fear that they or someone close to them will be disappeared by our own govt.

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida

My only hope is that one day Trump and his officials will face a tribunal on crimes against humanity.

4 panel comic PANEL 1: MATTIE lying down on her couch, looking at her phone. MATTIE: Man, why do I feel so bad lately. PANEL 2: A shot of MATTIE's phone. NEWS ARTICLE: METEOR DUE TO DEMOLISH EARTH TODAY MATTIE: Oh I see. MATTIE: It's because I'm looking at my PHONE too much! PANEL 3: MATTIE, marching outside, throwing her phone over her shoulder. MATTIE: That's it! I'm gonna go OUTSIDE! PANEL 4: MATTIE looks up, shielding her eyes from something. Red light is all around her. MATTIE: I wonder what that is.

why do i feel so bad lately | patreon.com/lubchansky

Hispanic journalist in Atlanta detained by ICE speaks out Mario Guevara tells the AJC about his month behind bars, and his once positive feelings toward Donald Trump.

“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”

Mamdani Wins Backing of Major Health Care Union That Had Endorsed Cuomo

The members of @1199seiu.org are heroes—saving lives, delivering babies, caring for all us in our time of need. I will stand with them as Mayor.

So grateful to earn this endorsement from the largest healthcare union in the country.

And, uh, some personal news: This is also my last column for The Post. I was offered and accepted a buyout.
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