Chris Newfield

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

This one hits hard.

So he gets a year of illegal tariffs out of IEEPA based on a novel and spurious theory about the powers that statute grants him. Finally even his pet SCOTUS says no. Now he does the same thing with Section 122, probably also unlawfully, but it'll take another year to grind through the system.

Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin's Wealth Manager, FBI Source Claimed in Newly Released Epstein Files Jeffrey Epstein managed money for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, among other powerful world leaders, one confidential source claimed in FBI testimony

As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story.

And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law.

It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real.

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The only reliable way anybody has found to keep a lit mag solvent is have the CIA fund it.

the pope telling jd vance to fuck off must be a religion unto itself because i’m devout

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.

Wow that sucks

Trump: "I am allowed to cut off any and all trade…I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country, I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country destroying embargo…I can do anything I want to do to them…I'm allowed to destroy the country, but I can't charge a little fee."

No, they should all be freed. Please be serious.

Pritzker’s invoice to White House:

(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Its going to happen

I hope they match Trump's suits -- big baggy cuts, with a tie that goes down to their knees, maybe some lifts in the shoes to match.

Data Centers Are the Enemy We’ve All Been Waiting For The startling rapidity of the bottom-up revolt against Big Tech shows people will indeed get off the sofa for the right fight.

good morning, keep fighting

“local communities and their elected leaders really are finding themselves on the front lines of this fight and are finding that they do, in fact have some power to say no to Big Tech."

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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

You should have to show an ID before you're allowed to attempt an analogy on national TV

Democrats Plan to Counter Trump’s Speech to Congress With Rally

more counterspectacle at all times!

“We cannot normalize this moment when Trump is marching our country toward fascism,” said Mr. Van Hollen. “I refuse to be a prop in the chamber as Donald Trump shreds our Constitution and attacks our democracy.”

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Link to the UC event "Pause the Cuts, Restore Shared Governance," organized by Trevor Griffey & Chelsea Schields. I was one of the speakers, and among other things the talk will satisfy your burning curiosity about this dramatically terrible slide! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-8M...

Line graph that shows a blue line of # protests since Trump's 2nd inauguration surpassed, showing these to have exceeded 42k by the end of Jan 2026. A green line counts # of protests during the same time period in Trump's first term and just exceeds 10k.

Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018

Map showing tens of thousands of protests across the US between Trump's inauguration last year and January 31, 2026.

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

Would rather not choose since we have a plague of wannabe Capt Ahabs

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.

NEW: Rather than turn former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from prison less than four years into a 45-year sentence, the Trump administration paid to transport him 350 miles to a posh NYC hotel.

By @keribla.bsky.social

That's one way to characterize leaving a dictatorship in place with US backing in order to profit from it with no oversight or accountability from Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Liner Note 47. Did The Atlantic’s Anti-Woke Bias Spoil its Analysis of Humanities Funding Death? East Village on October 31, 2022    Looks like it.     There’s some good stuff in Tyler Austin Harper’s  Atlantic  article,  “The Multibil...

“The real issue with the humanities’ national leadership isn’t that they politicize scholarship, but that they don’t fight openly and systematically to fund a great deal more of it.” @cnewf.bsky.social on the recent Atlantic piece on Mellon utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/02/line...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren should be Senate Minority Leader.

This is the kind of fight we need from all elected Democrats.

With state backing, Augusta County says no to ICE facility One locality confirmed there would be no immigration detention facility in a former state prison while legislative efforts to limit ICE enforcement are advancing.

HELL yea

Liner Note 47. Did The Atlantic’s Anti-Woke Bias Spoil its Analysis of Humanities Funding Death? East Village on October 31, 2022    Looks like it.     There’s some good stuff in Tyler Austin Harper’s  Atlantic  article,  “The Multibil...

I have a new post at the Remaking blog on That Atlantic Article. It blames Mellon for the humanities crisis, I say why this is misdirected. It's not the wokeness it's the weakness--weakness in (not) fighting for a funding system for ALL humanities research. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/02/line...

Robot Dogs Are on Going on Patrol at the 2026 World Cup in Mexico The Mexican city of Guadalupe, which will host portions of the 2026 World Cup, recently showed off four new robot dogs that will help provide security during matches at BBVA Stadium.

The Mexican city of Guadalupe, which will host portions of the 2026 World Cup, recently showed off four new robot dogs that will help provide security during matches at BBVA Stadium. www.wired.com/story/robot-...

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.

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