Patrick Osgood

YouTube video by Headline USA Jesse Jackson 'I Am Somebody' on Sesame Street

I love this. I love where it comes from, how it was delivered and to whom it was delivered. I love that I can show it to my kids (they already know it, but I’d like them to know I know it) and they’ll get on me if I don’t honor it. I’d love to live where it’s heard and used youtu.be/zuZV7ES4VE8?...

Bill Barr’s preemptive interference with the Mueller report — a month into his tenure as attorney general — will one day be understood as one of the most influential and significant inflection points for political journalism and media in U.S. history

Noem's use of Coast Guard resources strains her relationship with the military branch, sources say Some early decisions by the homeland security secretary, including to divert Coast Guard resources from a search and rescue mission to the deportation of immigrants, set the tone early.

Remember that mindbending saga about Kristi Noem that WSJ ran a few days ago & dropped every jaw in the house? NBC has a follow-up saying Noem directed a USCG plane to deport people while the plane was searching the Pacific for a servicemember overboard. Never found.
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MAGA candidate in Texas identified as owner of Jeffrey Epstein ranch Don Huffines, a self-described ’MAGA Trump Republican’ running for comptroller, revealed as owner of Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous former Zorro Ranch in New Mexico

New Mexico launches investigation into Epstein ranch, now owned by MAGA candidate father of Trump employee: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

AOC’s Munich Stumble Is a Warning to the Left It’s time for progressives to get more sophisticated about national security and foreign policy.

I've consistently maintained that the bar for meaningful participation in foreign policy discourse should be low, but I'd like to set it at least one notch above "critiquing an answer on Taiwan without knowing about 'strategic ambiguity'," a bar Barkan fails to clear nymag.com/intelligence...

AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.

Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision.

After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.

Don Moynihan (@donmoynihan) DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin resigned today, leaving a legacy of consistent lying, where she characterized victims of ICE abuses as aggressors. This pattern was there even before Minneapolis.

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin resigned today, leaving a legacy of consistent lying, where she characterized victims of ICE abuses as aggressors. This pattern was there even before Minneapolis. substack.com/@donmoynihan...

Former prince Andrew agreed to help strike $8bn cash-for-oil deal between UAE and China Files show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor exchanged messages about secret plan with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Prince Andrew agreed to facilitate Abu Dhabi-based investment banker Terence Allen’s $8bn cash-for-oil deal between UAE and China. Files show Andrew shared messages about the secret plan with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. @reporterrwright.ft.com

Quite a turnaround given that it's less than eighteen months since Mike Tapp and Jonathan Ashworth were flying over to tell the Kamala Harris campaign about "hero voters" with real energy of sit down son, here's how a real natural party of government does it

Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

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As Bernie Sanders Comes to California, Wealth Tax Opponents Intensify Efforts

Read this sentence slowly:

“Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...”

gift link:

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For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.

Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

Dumb, but concedes the fact that consumers in the US pay for tariffs

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

למרות מקרים שתועדו, רק אישום אחד הוגש על ביזה במלחמה – והוא נגמר בהסדר אף על פי שמקרי ביזה בעזה ובלבנון תועדו ופורסמו ברשתות החברתיות, הפרקליטות לא איתרה חשודים ולא נקטה נגדם צעדי ענישה. באישום היחיד שהוגש נגד חייל מילואים, הופחת סעיף העבירה ועונשו יהיה 60 ימי מאסר בשל מ...

Despite *hundreds, if not thousands* of videos of IDF soldiers looting homes and institutions in Gaza and Lebanon, only *one criminal case* was put forward by Israeli military prosecutors on the issue.

And it was closed yesterday with a plea bargain.

Bank probe reveals Adani associates’ secret investments [FREE TO READ] People close to Indian conglomerate accused of market manipulation held billions of dollars’ worth of shares

Internal bank documents show the scale of secret shareholdings in India’s Adani, at the very moment Hindenburg accused it of “brazen market manipulation”

An FT and OCCRP collab.

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Decade or so prior to AI’s emergence saw big US growth in part bc shale gas made energy so cheap. AI now taking that large and broad stimulus away

The Times knows this is what Labour Together is about, because Times staff collaborated closely with Labour Together to do exactly the kind of smeary hate campaigns they’re now bleating about.

FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show Trump was credibly accused of sexual assault in the Epstein files. It's unclear what became of the DOJ's investigation.

This is a bombshell: One of Epstein's victims accused Trump of sexually and violently assaulting her when she was "13 to 15" and the FBI deemed her credible enough to warrant an interview.

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

He’s trying to trademark the name, so he can charge for it

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This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

How effective is the measles vaccine?

Source: www.mikelee.co/posts/2017-0...

It is absolutely a choice.

Got to ensure you frame everything around foaming right-wingers - the only protagonists, though ones curiously exempted from the implications of agency, in the world

Maybe this article should've mentioned the DHS IG was recommended for termination by the IG oversight board and found guilty of “substantial misconduct”. He also survived Trumps IG purge bc he’s under Noem’s thumb and totally ineffective. All relevant to whether a shutdown will “imperil oversight”.

Must the govt be like this about *everything*?

The plot to enslave America: