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As a related aside: Over the past few months, some of Trump's evangelical boosters have primed supporters to look past unsettling news stories regarding immigration, suggesting their stories are an act of manipulation and referring to the new book "The Sin of Empathy".

8/ This is a watershed moment, as Trump thumbs his nose at a Supreme Court ruling, gaslighting the public by pretending his won 9-0 when he lost 9-0.

If we normalize this, there's no end. He can lock up or remove anyone. We will no longer exist in a democracy.

As he finished lunch in the private dining room outside the Oval Office on April 1, President Trump floated an astounding proposal: What if the government simply canceled every dollar of the nearly $9 billion promised to Harvard University? The administration’s campaign to expunge “woke” ideology from college campuses had already forced Columbia University to strike a deal. Now, the White House was eyeing the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. “What if we never pay them?” Mr. Trump casually asked, according to a person familiar with the conversation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussion. “Wouldn’t that be cool?”

As a reminder here: this is not Trump's money! He is impounding funds illegally based on the most obvious fig leafs to settle grievances. It is an extraordinary abuse of his public office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

The Trump administration wanted to control the most basic aspects of the university, including what is taught and who is hired. The wanted to turn Harvard into a fancy version of Trump University. And when Harvard said no, Trump used publicly funded research as a hostage.

The Week Ahead March 16, 2025

The unitary executive theory is really just a way to cloak the morphing of a democratically elected president into a dictator with the appearance of legality. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

In Massachusetts, at Logan airport, immigration thugs stripped an innocent man naked, tortured him, and pressured him to give up his green card.

That’s so sad! I’m glad I got to see all of the original members on tour a couple of years ago.

LOL. This is America. Lord.

New Republican Plan: The best thing we can do right now is hide from our constituents.

A point that needs to get hammered more is that the caprice and chaos with which this administration implements its bad policies will inflict serious long term harms, in addition to the damage done by the bad policies themselves.

Zelensky is not the one who needs to apologize.

JUDGE: Who was the head of DOGE before Amy Gleason? GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I can’t answer that, I don’t know. JUDGE: I mean, that seems like a knowable fact, doesn’t it? GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I’m sure it is knowable; I just don’t know it. I’m very conscious of being accurate with the court…I just can’t make a representation. JUDGE: Have you asked anyone? GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I have not asked…actually, strike that. I have asked previously, and I was not able to get answer. JUDGE: Are you saying there was an administrator before Ms. Gleason? Or that there was nobody until this new person [Gleason] was put in? GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I’m not saying either, because I don’t know.

NEW: During a 3-hour preliminary injunction hearing in a suit alleging that Elon Musk wields unprecedented power in violation of the Appointments Clause, a federal judge grew frustrated with government counsel's inability to answer questions about DOGE’s chain of command and Musk's role.

A tiny trump figure in a chair next to a towering Zelensky captures the puny spirit of Trump's cowardice and Russian capitulation.

Clay Bennett nails it.

The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway.

And those who warned America about it were right.

The anti-abortion activists physically blocked a woman from getting care until she collapsed on the ground in severe pain.

This entire thing is awful and basically means that Zuck can censor anything he wants. Literally anything. There is not a single thing that he could not censor under these guidelines.

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Most people don't know about this crucial resource. #ASafeChoice is a referral network of experienced physicians providing access to safe, affordable medication abortion services to women NATIONWIDE!

With potential abortion bans on the way, this is ESSENTIAL information to spread.

Read more of the books I buy (I enjoy buying books) in a given year during that same year.

We are so behind.

I wrote this three weeks ago, about some egregious examples of elite acquiescence and the reasons behind the pervasive tendency to accommodate authoritarian power.

Since then, it’s gotten so much worse…

thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/elite-acqu...

The revelation that the owner of the Los Angeles Times now wants to be able to veto or edit any coverage of Donald Trump and is considering instituting some sort of creepy "bias meter" has got to be up there

🔗: www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66 Sister Rosetta Tharpe- "Didn't It Rain?" Live 1964 (Reelin' In The Years Archive)

She was there before Elvis, Little Richard or Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. If you've never heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, you should.

Trump and Vance posing for a smiling photo-op with their guest of honor Daniel Penny in a suite at the Army-Navy game

Behold, the leaders of the “party of law and order.” The most blatantly lawless and comically corrupt major politician in history and the Right’s latest icon of white vigilante violence.

An excellent reminder of what “law and order” politics has always been about, what “order” it seeks to protect.

Elon Musk put $277 million into the election. He’s $200 billion richer this year The tech billionaire was the largest donor in the 2024 election cycle. The value of his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, has soared since Donald Trump’s victory.

The tech billionaire was the largest donor in the 2024 election cycle. The value of his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, has soared since Donald Trump’s victory.

Jealous to see a country defend and embrace its core concepts of democracy

I started watching it but put it aside to finish another series. Glad to hear the positive word of mouth.

I think one of the coolest aspects of social media, that is on full display here, is being able to interact with or even befriend people from not only your own country, but all around the world and across different generations, whom you’d have likely never met otherwise.

I like art house, international films and some Hollywood films, but am so out of the loop on what gets released in theaters (used to be the opposite case). I know of some films but for many gotta look them up.

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