Paul Rosenzweig

The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil | Will Bunch For America’s deeply corrupt billionaires, time heals all wounds — even from a murderous Saudi prince’s bone saw.

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Tilting the Playing Field Trump and his allies seem to want to transform American politics into a system for producing Republican victory.

Tilting the Playing Field: Trump and his allies seem to want to transform American politics into a system for producing Republican victory.
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Tilting the Playing Field

Trump and his allies seem to want to transform American politics into a system for producing Republican victory.

This is a sadly accurate analysis of an institution I used to be a part of and which I no longer recognize.

The Intellectual and Moral Decline of the American Right The conservative backlash against Nick Fuentes has yet to challenge the president who had him over for dinner.

Yup
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My latest in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

She Says Trump Raped Her When She Was a Child The Andy Borowitz Show

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The Map of Places
by Laura Riding
The map of places passes.
The reality of paper tears.
Land and water where they are
Are only where they were
When words read “here” and “here”
Before ships happened there. /1

Cyber Operations on Domestic Networks Redux What happens if Trump deploys cyber forces in the U.S.?

Jason Healey and @rosenzweigp.bsky.social explore how the Trump administration's use of the military on American soil increases the possibility that cyber tools will also be used against Trump's adversaries and how Big Tech may respond.
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Cyber Operations on Domestic Networks Redux What happens if Trump deploys cyber forces in the U.S.?

Cyber Operations on Domestic Networks Redux www.lawfaremedia.org/article/cybe...

Never send an insurance lawyer to do a prosecutor's job: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

Odd. Less than an two hours old. I'll check

Beijing insiders’ plan to play Donald Trump They see America’s president as a golden opportunity for China

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Beijing insiders’ plan to play Donald Trump
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5. Use of DOJ to prosecute enemies
6. Abusive tariff power to coerce foreign nations
7. Unilateral recessions and closures of agencies
8. Denying entry to the US for political speech
9. Shitposting (literally) on America
10. Efforts to prevent fair voting -- redistricting/monitoring/etc. /fin

Why I am disgusted with Congress and the SCOTUS. Top 10 things Trump is doing that they could stop if they wanted to:

1. Extrajudicial military murders
2. Bribe taking corruption of gifts to Trump and family
3. Abuse of the pardon power
4. Race-based targeting of Latinos for immigration /1

Mentions i believe

What a horses ass he is ...

Search the Epstein files for mentions: journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...

Anyone surprised?

Maybe Trump Just Played "The Settlers of Catan" With Epstein's Sex Trafficking Victim We can't know what they did

Ask anyone to name the most attractive part of a post-pubescent young person, and the answer will immediately come back: 'Their mind.'”
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"All of us have found ourselves in a conversation with a teenager and thought 'Wow, I wish this could happen all the time!' Young people are wise and thoughtful, and cerebrally inclined adults often seek out their perspective. /2

"There are many innocent reasons why a late-middle-aged man might hang out alone at a sex criminal’s fuck palace with a presumably attractive young woman. Young women — especially teenagers — are famously engrossing conversationalists. /1

Former prosecutor here: I agree :-)

What Was the American Revolution For? Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.

'I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man' -- Tom Paine via the great Jill Lepore

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Utter Brilliance ...

Alexander Calder, National Gallery of Art:

So then the effort to have Boebert unsign is now moot?

@mls1776.bsky.social question. There are 218 signatures now on the Epstein discharge petition. What happens when one of the signers, Mieke Sherrill, resigns?

Trump's new Truth Social AI won't be one he likes: