Chris Clair

The word "erroneously" is doing some real work in this sentence.
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Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
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It’s revealing how many people who’ve said they own guns at least partly in case they have to fight federal troops on U.S. streets have turned out to be perfectly fine with federal troops on U.S. streets.

“Assumptions about the fortitude of America’s democracy ignore the uncomfortable truth that democracy is an active process, one that requires constant commitment to its preservation. It is not enough to fall back on what past generations fought for.”

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

At a time when the most influential media institutions and leaders in the U.S. need to stand up for free speech, they are doing the opposite — either to line their pockets or avoid Trump’s wrath.

They’re treating the erosion of our fundamental rights as a cost of doing business.

September 17 was Constitution Day. Apparently for 40% of Americans, only Article II and the Second Amendment are still in force. Maybe they think the rest was cut by DOGE.

This is a remarkable sentence to read in the United States in the 21st Century.

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Sad thing recent events have made me accept: a lot of US elites are weak, amoral people, whose guiding star is "what does power want?" mixed with "what's easiest for me in the short-term?" And that unfortunately means we can't appeal to principle or patriotism, we need to structure their incentives.

The White House’s discretionary budget includes a 93% cut to the Appalachian Regional Commission. This will be devastating to a region that is already falling behind the rest of the country.

Live updates: Trump threatens Russia with tariffs if war on Ukraine isn’t resolved President Donald Trump said he would punish Russia with tariffs if there isn’t a deal to end the war in Ukraine within 50 days, escalating his growing feud with Vladimir Putin.

First, the word he's looking for is "sanctions," not "tariffs" but he doesn't know the difference. Second, 50 days? Fifty?! Why wait? What an absolute clown show.
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Someone dear to me who works helping poor and unhoused people was texting with me about the budget bill, which will directly harm those she's trying to help. She said, "It’s difficult being an educated and empathetic person right now. It’s exhausting and depressing." And I feel that in my bones.

AI could cause newsprint to outlive the hyperlink What journalists do after Google Zero.

Today’s journalism brain bubble: I think print editions could outlive hyperlinks.

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I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

Due process is the law, and
THE LAW APPLIES TO EVERYONE.

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Thing that should be outlawed - scripted host/reporter Q and A’s.

We can *hear you reading the script, gang.

Makes me crazy.

This is still part of the Constitution, FYI: "[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust... shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity (Gift Article) When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.

TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7

This is The Last Supper now.

Is this real, or a new season of “Portlandia?”

Published 21 years ago. Reading it then was like seeing a storm toward the end of the 7-day weather forecast. To re-read it now is to realize you’re living inside the blaring tornado siren.

Journalism, imperfect as it can be, matters. #WorldPressFreedomDay

Also Autor: "Letting free trade rip is an easy policy. Putting up giant tariffs is an easy policy. Figuring out some middle path is hard. Deciding what sectors to invest in and protect is hard. Doing the work to build new industries is hard. But this is how great nations lead."

The new Republican party is happy to force you to have children, but once you do it’s equally happy to abandon you, and your children. Especially your children.

State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’ “It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.

Plutocratic authoritarian theocracy.
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This Is Why Dictatorships Fail The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.

"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"

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Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.

President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

Now that the markets have had a couple of days to absorb the tariff news, let’s check in and see if investors are seeing buying opportuni….

At this rate I’m going to end up owing my retirement fund money.