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Trump is the ultimate Facebook Boomer.
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Trump is the ultimate Facebook Boomer.
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This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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This is the sound of candidates losing the struggle against the crushing weight of partisan gravity.
This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else.
This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else.
This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is the sound of candidates losing the struggle against the crushing weight of partisan gravity.
This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else.
This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else.
This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
I've been watching the Foundation series on AppleTV and I'm not sure if I'll make it thru- I like all the characters, but I hate when they speak to each other. Granted, they're usually in extraordinary situations, but no one talks like a normal human being- the dialogue is all so portentous.
October 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I've been watching the Foundation series on AppleTV and I'm not sure if I'll make it thru- I like all the characters, but I hate when they speak to each other. Granted, they're usually in extraordinary situations, but no one talks like a normal human being- the dialogue is all so portentous.
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Before the civil rights act was signed it was a great question how effective the civil rights movement was going to be, too. Difficult to predict the future but we're much better off that people tried so hard to do the right thing to the best of their ability.
October 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Before the civil rights act was signed it was a great question how effective the civil rights movement was going to be, too. Difficult to predict the future but we're much better off that people tried so hard to do the right thing to the best of their ability.
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Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
October 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
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Here is an enduring challenge in my field, foreign policy. For decades, there was a broad and bipartisan consensus of US foreign policy abroad, within which presidents would vary. Things like "treaties will be honored" and "basing commitments will last as agreed to by our predecessor", predictable.
“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
October 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Here is an enduring challenge in my field, foreign policy. For decades, there was a broad and bipartisan consensus of US foreign policy abroad, within which presidents would vary. Things like "treaties will be honored" and "basing commitments will last as agreed to by our predecessor", predictable.
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this is fucking obscene
Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."
October 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
this is fucking obscene
If Dems win in 2028, Trump will likely pardon everyone in his administration.
Starting now, Dems should run on ending the presidential pardon power. Maybe it makes no difference, maybe it wins elections, but maybe by 2028 Trump is so unpopular that we have the votes for a constitutional amendment.
Starting now, Dems should run on ending the presidential pardon power. Maybe it makes no difference, maybe it wins elections, but maybe by 2028 Trump is so unpopular that we have the votes for a constitutional amendment.
October 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If Dems win in 2028, Trump will likely pardon everyone in his administration.
Starting now, Dems should run on ending the presidential pardon power. Maybe it makes no difference, maybe it wins elections, but maybe by 2028 Trump is so unpopular that we have the votes for a constitutional amendment.
Starting now, Dems should run on ending the presidential pardon power. Maybe it makes no difference, maybe it wins elections, but maybe by 2028 Trump is so unpopular that we have the votes for a constitutional amendment.
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This may be the last time you ever see a current issue of the CDC's weekly MMWR: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,
www.cdc.gov
October 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This may be the last time you ever see a current issue of the CDC's weekly MMWR: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...
I don't know what congressional Dems should demand in a funding bill. The basic issue is that the Trump admin is trying to dictate spending in violation of Congressional appropriations. If Trump, Miller, and Vought can't be trusted to obey the law, what is the point of negotiating a funding bill?
October 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I don't know what congressional Dems should demand in a funding bill. The basic issue is that the Trump admin is trying to dictate spending in violation of Congressional appropriations. If Trump, Miller, and Vought can't be trusted to obey the law, what is the point of negotiating a funding bill?
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Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.
He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.
He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.
October 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.
He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.
He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News
The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...
kffhealthnews.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
The basic problem for Trump's popularity is that he won in 2024 arguing that the US (inflation, crime, immigration) and the world (foreign wars) were in chaos because of Dem weakness and we need a strongman to bang heads, but now he's the one creating chaos and people don't like it.
October 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The basic problem for Trump's popularity is that he won in 2024 arguing that the US (inflation, crime, immigration) and the world (foreign wars) were in chaos because of Dem weakness and we need a strongman to bang heads, but now he's the one creating chaos and people don't like it.
Odd whiplash in my feed from the daily back-and-forth between "the Trump administration is too weak and stupid to consolidate power into an authoritarian regime" and "the Trump administration is rapidly consolidating power into an authoritarian regime".
October 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Odd whiplash in my feed from the daily back-and-forth between "the Trump administration is too weak and stupid to consolidate power into an authoritarian regime" and "the Trump administration is rapidly consolidating power into an authoritarian regime".
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Seattle No Kings Oct 18th. Fighting Dictatorship Together
***Mass Rally and March***
12-4 PM Oct. 18th
Seattle Center
Join our community in standing up against the abuses of power, cruelty, and corruption. #nokingsseattle #nokings #seattle tinyurl.com/seanokingsoct18
***Mass Rally and March***
12-4 PM Oct. 18th
Seattle Center
Join our community in standing up against the abuses of power, cruelty, and corruption. #nokingsseattle #nokings #seattle tinyurl.com/seanokingsoct18
October 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Seattle No Kings Oct 18th. Fighting Dictatorship Together
***Mass Rally and March***
12-4 PM Oct. 18th
Seattle Center
Join our community in standing up against the abuses of power, cruelty, and corruption. #nokingsseattle #nokings #seattle tinyurl.com/seanokingsoct18
***Mass Rally and March***
12-4 PM Oct. 18th
Seattle Center
Join our community in standing up against the abuses of power, cruelty, and corruption. #nokingsseattle #nokings #seattle tinyurl.com/seanokingsoct18
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This needs to become a huge story
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This needs to become a huge story
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“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family
Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'
spectrumlocalnews.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
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For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
September 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
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Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration
September 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration