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Would be tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, doctor, diplomat.
Dozy Don
07.11.2025 21:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Orban is just a shorter version of Trump — and both speak an indecipherable language.
07.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0““But the biggest problem for Sauer was posed by Chief Justice John Roberts. He asked Sauer how…the so-called “major questions doctrine,” might apply to this case. The doctrine requires that on issues of great significance, Congress must make a direct and clear grant of authority to the president.”
06.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“The FBI Agents Association on Tuesday lambasted FBI Director Kash Patel, after the bureau fired, unfired and then re-fired several FBI agents who had worked on cases targeting U.S. President Donald Trump or his allies.”
Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion, with help from scholars who have studied this phenomenon. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.”
Strong testament to endurance of Ukrainians of all ages.
One can only wonder at what in Putin’s childhood contributed to his cold-blooded manner, invasion and damage to millions.
31.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Trump’s DOJ purges are from the Stalin Purge & Show Trial handbook: nominally directed against "Trotskyists" and members of the "Right Opposition".
How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...
30.10.2025 17:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Trump’s Gilded Age Brothel school of interior design” George Will is not amused. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
29.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 1“Reconstruction (of Old Nassau Hall at Princeton) was carried out in characteristic Italian Renaissance style, adding an often-criticized cupola and towers…Many of his architectural flourishes were removed in later renovations.” Wikipedia
Expect the same if the Trump Ballroom is built.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
“Of the many problems with Trump immigration policies, two themes stand out: the brutality toward immigrants who are here illegally and the unfairness toward citizens and legal immigrants.”
NYT Editorial Board
“So it probably didn’t help Ciattarelli’s prospects when Trump announced that he plans to kill a $16 billion infrastructure project that would expand and rehabilitate train tunnels connecting New York and New Jersey”
an understatement
26.10.2025 21:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
America Still Has a Political Center, and It’s the Key to Winning www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
“He (Trump) threatens American democracy, and congressional Republicans have been complicit.”
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Trump, with his thirst for money and power, has in one fell swoop both exposed and embraced the corruption at the heart of digital currencies — a corruption inherited from the libertarian ideals that created them,” Finn Brunton writes.
Britain arms Ukraine with 5,000+ air-defense missiles as Kyiv rolls out OCTOPUS interceptor drones and partners clamp down on Russia’s shadow oil lifelines. Winter won’t break Ukraine—nor its allies’ resolve.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/top-news-today-141998420
Next up: the South Lawn Driving Range and Putting Green.
24.10.2025 21:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING:
Jack Smith is requesting that Congress and the Justice Dept. let him testify in public.
In new letters to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Smith says he wants to testify "in open hearings" because of "the many mischaracterizations" around his investigations.
I just went to the House floor to demand that Speaker Johnson swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the GOP gaveled out without even recognizing us.
We’re not going anywhere. I’m here with Leader Jeffries and Adelita Grijalva. Speaker Johnson must swear her in.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
“It’s become clear to anyone watching that Trump often doesn’t follow through on what he promises, pledges or threatens. And the prediction markets bear that out”
Also, this from Emily Bazelon’s article:
19.10.2025 23:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Before the election, we surveyed the legal establishment about what a second Trump term could mean for the rule of law. A year later, they’re very, very worried.
(Emily Bazelon, New York Times Magazine-unlocked)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...
The boys from Zaporizhia were separated by Russia's war. A year without seeing each other. Then came an unexpected reunion that changed everything. 👇
18.10.2025 20:47 — 👍 282 🔁 68 💬 6 📌 6Does anyone know what Niall Ferguson is smoking?
“no president has delivered so rapidly on so many of his campaign pledges. It’s not just the 217 executive actions in 100 days; it’s the stream of social media “truths””
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
“I have given up the service I loved for the freedom to do the right thing, the freedom to speak my mind and the freedom to speak in defense of our country.”
“The Trump administration is doing so many corrupt, destructive and simply stupid things that the failing attempt to rescue Javier Milei, Argentina’s MAGAesque president, with billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars isn’t even in the top 10.”
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.
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