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After Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row last year, the Trump administration is retaliating by sending them to the supermax. Prisoners are locked in cells smaller than a parking space 22-24 hours a day.
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
After Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row last year, the Trump administration is retaliating by sending them to the supermax. Prisoners are locked in cells smaller than a parking space 22-24 hours a day.
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
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Things online are often not as they appear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Things online are often not as they appear.
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❗️🇪🇺🇺🇦 The full text of the EU plan to end the war in Ukraine is published by The Telegraph
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
❗️🇪🇺🇺🇦 The full text of the EU plan to end the war in Ukraine is published by The Telegraph
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The chairman of the Senate Armed Services is not a fan of the Trump admin’s Ukraine peace plan.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services is not a fan of the Trump admin’s Ukraine peace plan.
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I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
A man missing for weeks and the immigration system that lost him
Vicente Ventura Aguilar got picked up last month, but his family doesn’t know if he’s dead or alive. ICE says he’s not in their system, so they say they can’t help.
www.ms.now
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
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Russia killed second-grader Ameliia Hzhesko and her mother, Oksana Dokhtor, by a strike on #Ternopil on the night of 19 November.
The mother and daughter died embracing each other, according to the school Ameliia attended.
Deepest condolences…
The mother and daughter died embracing each other, according to the school Ameliia attended.
Deepest condolences…
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Russia killed second-grader Ameliia Hzhesko and her mother, Oksana Dokhtor, by a strike on #Ternopil on the night of 19 November.
The mother and daughter died embracing each other, according to the school Ameliia attended.
Deepest condolences…
The mother and daughter died embracing each other, according to the school Ameliia attended.
Deepest condolences…
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"If Trump’s first term was marked by a level of graft and self-dealing that would have embarrassed a Tammany stalwart, then his second term seems to be an explicit effort to outpace his previous record and set a new high-water mark for political corruption in the United States."
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"If Trump’s first term was marked by a level of graft and self-dealing that would have embarrassed a Tammany stalwart, then his second term seems to be an explicit effort to outpace his previous record and set a new high-water mark for political corruption in the United States."
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Early iterations of the Schedule F made the case that language in statute allowed the removal of civil service protections to senior officials.
Revised version leans into unitary executive theory: the civil service statute is unconstitutional. They are betting SCOTUS will go along.
Revised version leans into unitary executive theory: the civil service statute is unconstitutional. They are betting SCOTUS will go along.
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Early iterations of the Schedule F made the case that language in statute allowed the removal of civil service protections to senior officials.
Revised version leans into unitary executive theory: the civil service statute is unconstitutional. They are betting SCOTUS will go along.
Revised version leans into unitary executive theory: the civil service statute is unconstitutional. They are betting SCOTUS will go along.
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Newton Pratt's take on the Brown v Board decision, May 1954.
November 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Newton Pratt's take on the Brown v Board decision, May 1954.
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WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Chris Coons: "He's not listening to concerns about lowering costs. Instead he's worried about decorating his new Marie Antoinette ballroom or engaging in trying to figure out how to get his name on more statues and stadiums, or he's sitting across the table in the Oval Office with authoritarians."
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Chris Coons: "He's not listening to concerns about lowering costs. Instead he's worried about decorating his new Marie Antoinette ballroom or engaging in trying to figure out how to get his name on more statues and stadiums, or he's sitting across the table in the Oval Office with authoritarians."
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A thought
Vaccines have saved my life and given me a healthier life.
Just shy of 70 years old.
⬇️
Vaccines have saved my life and given me a healthier life.
Just shy of 70 years old.
⬇️
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 AM
A thought
Vaccines have saved my life and given me a healthier life.
Just shy of 70 years old.
⬇️
Vaccines have saved my life and given me a healthier life.
Just shy of 70 years old.
⬇️
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The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
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Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
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RENMAC: “.. Ship counts from Asia to the US are down sharply against last year. We add up container ship tonnage across several countries, down roughly 20 percent against last year. Not sure what it means, probably not the best sign heading into the holiday season.”
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
RENMAC: “.. Ship counts from Asia to the US are down sharply against last year. We add up container ship tonnage across several countries, down roughly 20 percent against last year. Not sure what it means, probably not the best sign heading into the holiday season.”
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actual communism
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
actual communism
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WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."
U.S. Robert Gettleman is now giving his thoughts. He says, "I think the evidence has been pretty strong that this facility is no longer just a temporary holding facility. …
"It has really become a prison."
"It has really become a prison."
DOJ's Jana Brady steps up next but says she'll largely "rest on our brief that we filed."
She wants any TRO to not "interfere with the executive branch."
She wants any TRO to not "interfere with the executive branch."
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."
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Nevada Dems respond to Trump's call for nuclear testing:
"[To] even contemplate detonating nuclear weapons on American soil is a betrayal of science, safety, and the American people" thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
"[To] even contemplate detonating nuclear weapons on American soil is a betrayal of science, safety, and the American people" thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
Nevada Democrats demand clarity on Trump’s nuclear testing threats - The Nevada Independent
Nevada Democrats demand clarity on Trump’s nuclear testing threats. Read more from The Nevada Independent.
thenevadaindependent.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Nevada Dems respond to Trump's call for nuclear testing:
"[To] even contemplate detonating nuclear weapons on American soil is a betrayal of science, safety, and the American people" thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
"[To] even contemplate detonating nuclear weapons on American soil is a betrayal of science, safety, and the American people" thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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“Speaker Johnson, many Americans are wondering why you’re unable to see or hear any developments in the news. Some are speculating that you were kicked in the head by a horse; others theorize that you’ve been huffing spray paint. Which is it?”
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“Speaker Johnson, many Americans are wondering why you’re unable to see or hear any developments in the news. Some are speculating that you were kicked in the head by a horse; others theorize that you’ve been huffing spray paint. Which is it?”