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Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion (Gift Article) The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.

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Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

“A small floating crown” and it’s the “M” in time

Without comment.

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Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Honey, wake up! There's a new "in any other time, this would be a scandal for weeks" story breaking.

I only wish I still subscribed to @washingtonpost.com so I could quit again over this travesty.

Literal billionaire behavior

Was just debating about what has me feeling down.
I think it’s this.

Israeli Strike Kills 4 Al Jazeera Journalists, Network Says

Israeli Strike Kills 4 Al Jazeera Journalists, Network Says www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...

Senate Confirms Conspiracy Theorist To Lead National Counterterrorism Center

Hey no big deal and all but... Senate Republicans just confirmed Joe Kent, a conspiracy theorist with alarming ties to white nationalists and far-right groups, to lead the National Counterterrorism Center. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.

Pete Hegseth continues his purge of women from U.S. military leadership, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.

Opinion | The Christian Backlash Taking Hold

The Christian Backlash Taking Hold www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

I know that people love to scream at anyone who dares to try to give people a heads up about how advanced "AI"-type stuff is (which is essential for being able to spot it to avoid getting fooled by it), but I think it's important, actually, to be aware that this is where the tech is currently at.

Reality following another exact storyline from The Handmaid’s Tale.
In both cases the “vessel” is a Black woman.

“I’m talking you you because I work for you.”
She is so good at this.

Tesla Cybertruck inventory goes through the roof Tesla Cybertruck is experiencing a significant increase in unsold inventory in the US and facing huge challenges in meeting initial sales expectations.

Cybertrucks are piling up -- apparently no one wants to buy them -- but they can't stop making them, b/c shutting the factory down is too expensive. Great work all around.

Bowen Yang, Hasan Minhaj and More Asian American Comics Share Their Favorite Bits Bowen Yang, Hari Kondabolu, Atsuko Okatsuka and Hasan Minhaj break down the stand-up bits that rewired their comedic DNA.

Asian-American comedians on the joke that changed them.
Power of representation.
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Oh.

Some of the questions Pete Hegsetg was asked by a U.S. Senator in his confirmation hearing:

- How many push ups can you do?
- How many genders are there?
- What kind of batteries do you put in your night vision goggles?

To determine his qualifications to run the U.S. Department of Defense.

I wish news outlets dedicated one inch of their glossy magazine stories about trans women in sports to the discrimination and violence we face every day

Instead of empathizing with our persecutors

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.

This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

The government is punishing institutions and individuals for simply disagreeing with the president. This is what people were afraid Nixon *might* do given the break in at the Watergate Hotel.

Infuriating - and I wish The Times’ failure to responsibly cover both large scale protests and boycotts didn’t matter so much.

This is correct. You will find no explanation for Trump's actions in economics or political science. You need to go deep into woke academic critical theory, and there it suddenly makes sense why white male nepobabies hate communal prosperity because it undermines their dream of personal superiority.

Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow

“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.”

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Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

I’ve seen estimates as high as 5+ million for total #handsoff portests today, and just doing a very rough count of the biggest ones, it certain seems like in the millions.

Opinion | If Powerful Places Like Harvard Don’t Stand Up to Trump, Who Can? (Gift Article) As with most confrontations, the merits in this clash are not one-sided. But the Trump administration is acting in bad faith.

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