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I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.
May 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.
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Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today
Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license
Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license
April 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today
Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license
Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license
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We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
April 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president
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Harvard rejected the Trump administration's demands to change its policies to keep billions in federal grants.
Its president said the demands are unnecessary and infringe on free speech rights.
Its president said the demands are unnecessary and infringe on free speech rights.
Harvard University rejects Trump administration demands to change policies
The university notified the administration that it will not comply with the list of demands, putting $9B at risk.
www.politico.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Harvard rejected the Trump administration's demands to change its policies to keep billions in federal grants.
Its president said the demands are unnecessary and infringe on free speech rights.
Its president said the demands are unnecessary and infringe on free speech rights.
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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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George HW Bush marveled at a new kind of grocery scanner in 1992 and was pilloried for being out of touch.
Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it."
April 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
George HW Bush marveled at a new kind of grocery scanner in 1992 and was pilloried for being out of touch.
Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
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President Trump says he is "not joking" about the possibility of a third term in the White House, even though it's unconstitutional. "There are methods" for doing so, he says, but "it is far too early to think about it." www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
March 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
President Trump says he is "not joking" about the possibility of a third term in the White House, even though it's unconstitutional. "There are methods" for doing so, he says, but "it is far too early to think about it." www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Has any new drug saved your life or the life of someone you know? If so, you can thank the NIH, which Trump and Musk are illegally destroying, in violation both of the law creating the NIH, and appropriations laws telling NIH what money to spend and how
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
March 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Has any new drug saved your life or the life of someone you know? If so, you can thank the NIH, which Trump and Musk are illegally destroying, in violation both of the law creating the NIH, and appropriations laws telling NIH what money to spend and how
Absolutely zero justification for Musk getting access to this.
March 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Absolutely zero justification for Musk getting access to this.
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Fire season won’t wait while the Trump Administration decides whether it is worthwhile to train the next generation of firefighters.
The cancellation of courses at America’s premier fire training center is another example of this administration putting our communities at risk.
The cancellation of courses at America’s premier fire training center is another example of this administration putting our communities at risk.
FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts
The National Fire Academy, the country's preeminent federal fire training academy, has canceled classes effective immediately amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by President ...
apnews.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Fire season won’t wait while the Trump Administration decides whether it is worthwhile to train the next generation of firefighters.
The cancellation of courses at America’s premier fire training center is another example of this administration putting our communities at risk.
The cancellation of courses at America’s premier fire training center is another example of this administration putting our communities at risk.
To clarify: Trump has done everything he promised he would. The economy is now reacting exactly as economists said it would. And unfortunately it took actual economic pain for Americans to wake up to the fact that Trump doesn’t care about you.
Americans sour on Trump’s handling of economy, poll finds.
Americans sour on Trump’s handling of economy, poll finds
The new survey is a major warning sign for the president as he launches a global trade war.
www.politico.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
To clarify: Trump has done everything he promised he would. The economy is now reacting exactly as economists said it would. And unfortunately it took actual economic pain for Americans to wake up to the fact that Trump doesn’t care about you.
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"I am insulted you're testing my knowledge of economics" says woman claiming tariffs are not taxes.
"Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people" -- Karoline Leavitt turns reality upside down, then gets mad at an AP reporter after he pushes back
March 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"I am insulted you're testing my knowledge of economics" says woman claiming tariffs are not taxes.
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EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAW.
Can somebody please help to explain this to people.
Can somebody please help to explain this to people.
March 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAW.
Can somebody please help to explain this to people.
Can somebody please help to explain this to people.
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It is crazy cognitive dissonance to argue that the goal of tariffs is to bring back domestic manufacturing but then try to kill funding that is actually bringing back domestic manufacturing…
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...
Trump’s Call to Scrap ‘Horrible’ Chip Program Spreads Panic
The president’s attack on the key tenet of the Biden administration’s industrial policy has set off concerns that he may claw back its funding.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It is crazy cognitive dissonance to argue that the goal of tariffs is to bring back domestic manufacturing but then try to kill funding that is actually bringing back domestic manufacturing…
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...
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NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.
The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).
My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).
My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
March 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.
The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).
My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).
My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
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Remarkable: Numerous Fox News figures are now openly panicking about Trump's economy, warning that it's in real trouble. It's a sign that the MAGA project is quite fragile: If voters keep turning on him here, the whole edifice could collapse.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1925...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1925...
Fox News Suddenly Starts Panicking about Trump’s Economy: “Weakening!”
Yes, they’re still blaming Joe Biden, but the talking heads at Fox are getting awfully nervous that President Trump might be on the verge of sending the economy into a tailspin.
newrepublic.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Remarkable: Numerous Fox News figures are now openly panicking about Trump's economy, warning that it's in real trouble. It's a sign that the MAGA project is quite fragile: If voters keep turning on him here, the whole edifice could collapse.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1925...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1925...
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Opinion | The FAA is in great hands with Elon Musk. SpaceX hasn't had a rocket explode in over two hours.
March 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Opinion | The FAA is in great hands with Elon Musk. SpaceX hasn't had a rocket explode in over two hours.
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So, if I’m reading this correctly, Congress appropriated a bunch of funds for specific purposes. Musk will be throwing that out the window and disregarding the law they enacted. But individual legislators can call a hotline and beg for their pet projects to be spared. That’s how we’re doing it now.
Like huh it’s almost as if this information is inconsistent with the government’s representations in court that Amy Gleason, not Musk, is in charge of DOGE, and that agency heads, not DOGE, are responsible for the cuts
March 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
So, if I’m reading this correctly, Congress appropriated a bunch of funds for specific purposes. Musk will be throwing that out the window and disregarding the law they enacted. But individual legislators can call a hotline and beg for their pet projects to be spared. That’s how we’re doing it now.
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I'm going to keep repeating this until they haul me away but
-- Trump's 2024 win was not an historic landslide but a fairly modest win (Carter won by a bigger margin in 1976)
-- Even if he *had* won a landslide, he repeatedly denounced Project 2025 & pretended he wasn't going to do any of this
-- Trump's 2024 win was not an historic landslide but a fairly modest win (Carter won by a bigger margin in 1976)
-- Even if he *had* won a landslide, he repeatedly denounced Project 2025 & pretended he wasn't going to do any of this
House approps. chair Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) says a topline number is "not the roadblock" in govt. funding negotiations.
"Democrat leadership remains laser-focused on restricting presidential authority. It’s a non-starter and battle they lost to the American people."
Deadline is March 14.
"Democrat leadership remains laser-focused on restricting presidential authority. It’s a non-starter and battle they lost to the American people."
Deadline is March 14.
March 4, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I'm going to keep repeating this until they haul me away but
-- Trump's 2024 win was not an historic landslide but a fairly modest win (Carter won by a bigger margin in 1976)
-- Even if he *had* won a landslide, he repeatedly denounced Project 2025 & pretended he wasn't going to do any of this
-- Trump's 2024 win was not an historic landslide but a fairly modest win (Carter won by a bigger margin in 1976)
-- Even if he *had* won a landslide, he repeatedly denounced Project 2025 & pretended he wasn't going to do any of this
….free speech?
Trump: American students will be ‘permanently expelled’ or arrested for campus protests
Trump: American students will be ‘permanently expelled’ or arrested for campus protests
Trump's social media post comes after a federal task force on antisemitism last week announced it would visit 10 college campuses that had antisemitic incidents.
www.politico.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
….free speech?
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This is ominous. Commerce Secretary suggests new GDP calculations might deliberately exclude government spending to obscure impact of DOGE cuts.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic product.
apnews.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This is ominous. Commerce Secretary suggests new GDP calculations might deliberately exclude government spending to obscure impact of DOGE cuts.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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If you've never been part of a government procurement process, it might be hard to understand just how much of a "go to prison" thing this would have been at any point from 1946-2024.
This sort of comic book corruption is quite literally illegal in every single country in the world that has written laws. I don't even know what else you say about this, it's amazing
February 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If you've never been part of a government procurement process, it might be hard to understand just how much of a "go to prison" thing this would have been at any point from 1946-2024.
I have no words for this other than that it’s objectively insane and corruption at the highest level.
FAA officials ordered staff on Friday to find tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal, sources tell us, and most or all of these directives came verbally, which we are told is highly unusual.
w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
FAA Officials Ordered Staff to Find Funding for Elon Musk's Starlink
After Trump and Musk gutted the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency directed staff to locate tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal.
www.rollingstone.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I have no words for this other than that it’s objectively insane and corruption at the highest level.