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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...

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Wonderful thread here about how to proceed and which retailers to deal with while living under the scourge of unnecessary tariffs. Many suggestions as to how to help ensure our communities retain their humanity and ethics.

From Orban to Trump, Part II Finishing my conversation with Kim Lane Scheppele

this is so, so important. Please, everyone listen or read the transcript!

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Rubio and Trump Officials Clash With Elon Musk in an Explosive Meeting (Gift Article) Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.

In his dementia, F47 thinks he’s orchestrating The Apprentice 2.1

From Orban to Trump, Part II Finishing my conversation with Kim Lane Scheppele

From Orban to Trump, Part II
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Trump’s Weakening Support in the Supreme Court George Conway explains it all.

Trump’s Weakening Support in the Supreme Court
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Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves (Gift Article) People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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Do not let Trump gaslight you into believing he has a mandate or is all powerful.

Most Americans don't support his agenda.

There will be backlash — and we must make sure it is swift.

Opinion | Trump Promised Retribution. Turns Out He Had a Very Big Target in Mind. (Gift Article) It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...

Tell Congress: Resist Trump and MAGA's Project 2025 every step of the way We will resist Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans every day, starting now. We know what we’re up against. Trump and MAGA Republicans have already shown us their playbook. And Project 2025—their “180-d...

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Calling BS: Live-chat and Prebuttal to Trump's Address · MoveOn IF YOU AREN'T REDIRECTED TO THE LIVE VIDEO BEGINNING AT 8:15 P.M. ET, GO TO HTTP://YOUTUBE.COM/@MOVEONVIDEO A better Tuesday and country are possible! As Trump hawks an hour of lies and dangerous dir...

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Calling BS: Live-chat and Prebuttal to Trump's Address · MoveOn A better Tuesday and country are possible! As Trump hawks an hour of lies and dangerous directives to Congress, MoveOn is providing an antidote: a livestream event with Senators Chris Murphy and Brian...

From Senator Chris Murphy D-CT:

I’ll be taking part in a counter-programming effort with a few colleagues and activists. We’ll watch the speech and respond in real time - cutting through the lies and BS you expect from Trump. You can join our livestream at 8:15 PM ET at MoveOn.org/TrumpBS.

Trump Hates Canada for its Decency The president lacks basic decency, and loathes people who do

Trump Hates Canada for its Decency
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Why President Trump Targeting a Major Law Firm Matters for All Americans Zeroing in on Covington & Burling law firm is an attempt at using what Alexander Hamilton might refer to as "Formidable Instruments of Tyranny"

Why President Trump Targeting a Major Law Firm Matters for All Americans
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

Behind the Collision: Trump Jettisons Ukraine on His Way to a Larger Goal

I have no words for how much I H8 the guy on the right.

Friday Night Massacre in the Military Friday night, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (who is black) and the Navy's top admiral (who is female) were fired, along with the most senior Judge Advocates General (JAGS) for the Army, Navy, ...

Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Chris Murphy Emerges as a Clear Voice for Democrats Countering Trump The third-term senator from Connecticut is eschewing caution and throwing out the traditional political playbook as he seeks a broader audience for his critiques of the president and his agenda.

Chris Murphy Emerges as a Clear Voice for Democrats Countering Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

RELAPSE (sort of) In my last post, I wrote about the respite I found at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, a community of Benedictine nuns in Bethlehem, CT.

From poet sharon Chared. It's so apt.

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Trump’s Poll Numbers Are in the Toilet Sarah and JVL discuss Trump's recent poll numbers, which show Trump's approval rating is falling fast, and how the economy might be Trump's weakness now that he is in charge.

Trump’s Poll Numbers Are in the Toilet
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D.L. Mayfield on Substack Those last two paragraphs are cathartic as hell, I’m not gonna lie

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Trump Messaging Bills Explode in House Trump's Sycophants Lining Up to Introduce Ego-Stroking Legislation for Their God-King

Trump Messaging Bills Explode in House
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Former DOJ Lawyer Jason C. Lynch Joins Government Contracts Boutique Nichols Liu - Nichols Liu [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” backgrou...

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Reminds me of my truly awful Moot Court argument at UVA during which J. Harvie Wilkinson tore me to pieces. Not only did I not end up practicing, I became one of those no-good, liberal social work types.

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

Impeach Him Trump's psychopathology and the suicide of a superpower

“The decisions Trump’s making are in the real world rapidly unspooling a noble system of governance that took centuries to build and a world order that, for all its faults, has been more prosperous and humane than any that preceded it.”

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It really is pathetic that the President of the United States and the richest man in the world are doing a joint interview together on how they’re running the country.