Nicky Schwenzer

When we rebuild our public media up from the ashes it will need to be much bigger, bolder, and better funded -- not so dependent on private capital and corporate sponsorships, but truly public. It will need to be more democratic, more independent, and capable of withstanding two-bit fascist regimes.

Since everyone knows commitments mean nothing to Donald Trump, our trading partners all just say, "sure, we'll give you $20 trillion in invest however you want" and Donald Trump then goes out and boasts about it. It would make for a good comedy if the implications for the economy were not so large

MORE from Virginia Giuffre's family:

"The government and the President should never consider giving Ghislaine Maxwell any leniency."

“Ghislaine Maxwell is a monster who deserves to rot in prison for the … violence and abuse she put not just our sister Virginia through, but many other survivors."

🧵 A lot of deaths around Epstein

Epstein • Died by suicide Aug 2019 at MCC in NY while awaiting trial • Had a broken hyoid bone, missing surveillance footage.

Jean‑Luc Brunel • Epstein’s modeling agent and co-accused. • Found hanged in his Paris prison cell in Feb 2022 while awaiting trial.

I’m looking forward to Stephen Colbert sharpening his knife over this year to show the capitulating Paramount what free speech is all about.

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Trump Is So Angry With Putin He Delayed Sanctions For 50 Days But Its Not All Bad News

Just posted on the Trump announcement. A real mixed bag and hardly the awesome package for Ukraine that had been promised. Trump gives Putin sanctions protection for 50 days and promises Ukraine defensive weapons. It’s saying to Putin, keep doing what you're doing. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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Nothing makes all kinds of very online people here on Bluesky more angry than the very true, utterly banal, & deeply unpopular belief, often articulated by smart mainstream Democrats like Pete Buttigieg & Nancy Pelosi, that durable 🇺🇸 democracy requires a healthy center-right pro-democracy party

How did Republicans vote to block the release of the Epstein files if there were no Epstein files to block …

Immigrants are good for America and it's not a close call.

House Republicans block Democratic maneuver to force release of Epstein files One Republican on the House Rules Committee crossed over to vote with Democrats.

Who are these Dems getting savvy all of a sudden www.axios.com/2025/07/15/t...

"By the time Trump announced his presidential candidacy in mid-2015, Epstein was already a felon. The muckraking website Gawker had already published the contents of Epstein’s address book, including more than a dozen phone numbers for Trump and Mar-a-Lago, where Epstein had once been a regular."

This is a screen capture of a Washington Post article titled ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings. It’s obvious that the DJT administration wants to ensure that CoreCivic and Geo Group keep raking in our taxpayer money. The plan is to keep innocent undocumented immigrants incarcerated without due process as long as possible.

Rachel Maddow saw the following banner on an overpass over the weekend:

Immigrants Now!
Citizens Next!

A memo from DHS’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.

Newsroom Briefing | July 14th, 2025 The latest in national and global news, plus this week’s highlights in Canadian politics.

Newsroom Briefing | July 14, 2025

Who will be impacted by the secondary tariffs on Russia, the US push to sell more weapons, and other actual national and global news.

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Bon Voyage Bongino? When the FBI goes to war with the Attorney General, it’s usually polite and behind the scenes, unless it isn’t.

Trump’s DOJ and FBI are just like all of his departments, made up of corrupt, amateurs cosplaying at their jobs. By the time all is said and done America’s government will be in tatters!

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Russia Rots July 14, 2025

Perhaps Putin wants to blame kleptocrats for the war’s stalemate and economic problems. But a commentator noted: “Entire Russian battalions rely on public donations for basic necessities: medical kits, boots, water filters, and food. At the same time, billionaires make a fortune off this misery.”

14.07.2022.
Vinnytsia.
29 lives cut short by russia.

We will never forget.

Seems like a good time to post this.

Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 💙✊

The fight for Europe’s future Timothy Garton Ash on the shocks that fuelled a populist challenge — and how the liberal centre could yet hold

Where is Europe in this Year 4 of a new historical era? Will liberal or anti-liberal Europe prevail? What will become of the Zeitenwende? We have until 2029 to shape the answers. My weekend essay for the @FT
@ftweekend (£, I'm afraid)

In Ukraine, I saw Trump’s ‘peace deal’ wouldn’t just trade away land – but lives, memories and homes | Timothy Garton Ash Ukrainians I met in Kyiv and Lviv were grimly realistic about the end of the war. We should follow their example, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

Peace? What peace? As Ukrainians suffer another massive Russian drone and missile attack, read my reported column after a week in Kyiv and Lviv. There's no good end to this war any time soon. Ukraine and Europe should gird themselves for a long struggle.
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Three years into the russian occupation of Mariupol, voices in politics, culture & academia are rising to whitewash it, insisting that local people wanted to be murdered, their homes to be destroyed, their children abducted.

Never forget the truth: russia committed genocide in Mariupol.

Watergate 2025 May 22, 2025

Frank Vogl, anti-corruption activist and founder of Transparency International, said in an unvarnished UK podcast called “The Disorder” that the plane deal is the tip of an iceberg: “This is part of a bigger picture I’ve never seen in my lifetime. This dwarfs Watergate.”

Read more here:

The new On-Target video by @StevenBeschloss.bsky.social and me takes a quick look at six news developments that demonstrate the corruption and cruelty of the criminals in the White House.
We can’t accept this as normal.

Trump says “Let ME eat” cake on my new plane as I gut Medicare, Medicaid and Food Stamps The House bill perfectly sums up the GOP

Trump is not the “Let them eat cake” President. He's the “Let ME eat cake on my new luxury jet that will cost US taxpayers more than $1 billion dollars while I slash Medicaid, Medicare and food stamps!” My article on Trump budget that passed this AM: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-says...

Welcome To The White Christian Nationalist Presidency A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

Welcome To The White Christian Nationalist Presidency->Before jumping into the day’s news, I want to elevate another prism through which to examine the Trump II presidency: white Christian nationalism.

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Trump's crypto dinner cost over $1 million per seat, on average In total, the 220 winners of the contest to attend the dinner spent $394 million on Trump’s official cryptocurrency.

And we have no idea who these people are or what they’re going to get in return.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...

Episode 28 - Desperate for a Win, Trump Finds None Catch up on the themes from Week 28's list in a quick listen!

Episode 28 covers the slowest week of broken norms since Trump's inauguration. Trump struggles for a win, and resorts to petty insults, while his incompetent regime fails.

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Mad Money: The Markets are Angry at Donald Trump When he was elected last fall Donald Trump was the darling of the business community.

Mad Money: The markets areangry at Donald Trump substack.com/home/post/p-...

She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.

It will not be easy, but please read this investigation of the detention and death of the Ukrainian reporter Vika Roshchyna.
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