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Ernest Hemingway's three words on how bankruptcy occurs also applies to how democracy is lost: "Gradually, then suddenly."
"Commanders, in a memo that was included in litigation challenging the high-visibility mission in D.C., argued that this could put them in danger... There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military—one of which is the risk of endangering them."
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A Terrible and Avoidable Tragedy in D.C.
Trump was warned that members of the military could be attacked.
www.theatlantic.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"Commanders, in a memo that was included in litigation challenging the high-visibility mission in D.C., argued that this could put them in danger... There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military—one of which is the risk of endangering them."
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"...to say a case like this, where Donald Trump is on an audio recording saying just find me 11,780 votes, is too costly, too burdensome, or would take too long [to prosecute], is a perversion of justice." Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner
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'Perversion of justice': Legal expert slams prosecutor for handing Trump an easy court win
A legal expert slammed prosecutors in Georgia on Wednesday after they moved to dismiss a long-standing case against President Donald Trump because it would take too long to prosecute. Prosecutors in G...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"...to say a case like this, where Donald Trump is on an audio recording saying just find me 11,780 votes, is too costly, too burdensome, or would take too long [to prosecute], is a perversion of justice." Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner
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"...opinions [that] are based on false factual premises... typically carry no weight in court. The OLC memo may be just such an opinion, as it seems to be based on fraudulent claims about the nature of drug trafficking from Venezuela."
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The DOJ’s Cartels Memo Is Legal Quicksand
Factually bankrupt analysis doesn’t make unlawful orders lawful.
www.theatlantic.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"...opinions [that] are based on false factual premises... typically carry no weight in court. The OLC memo may be just such an opinion, as it seems to be based on fraudulent claims about the nature of drug trafficking from Venezuela."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
How can "telling troops to follow the law...constitute any kind of offense?" It can't in a lawful regime.
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‘An Example MUST BE SET’
The pursuit of Mark Kelly in the military-justice system sends a clear message to service members and veterans.
www.theatlantic.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
How can "telling troops to follow the law...constitute any kind of offense?" It can't in a lawful regime.
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"We changed lives. We have transformed the lives of thousands, in the sense that we have made those lives needlessly and unforgivably shorter. Thanks to the shutdown of USAID, hundreds of thousands of people are now dead."
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So, DOGE, What Would You Say You Did Here?
An exit interview
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November 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
"We changed lives. We have transformed the lives of thousands, in the sense that we have made those lives needlessly and unforgivably shorter. Thanks to the shutdown of USAID, hundreds of thousands of people are now dead."
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www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
“I understand that art is now the only language, at least in Russia, through which u can express your thoughts. I’ve chosen it and don’t want to speak any other,” she told St. Petersburg news outlet Bumaga.
Others have taken up that language in Loginova’s absence.
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
Others have taken up that language in Loginova’s absence.
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How a teen street musician became the face of the Kremlin's crackdown
Diana Loginova, the 18-year-old student and street musician, has emerged as an unlikely — and perhaps unwilling — voice of defiance in wartime Russia.
www.nbcnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“I understand that art is now the only language, at least in Russia, through which u can express your thoughts. I’ve chosen it and don’t want to speak any other,” she told St. Petersburg news outlet Bumaga.
Others have taken up that language in Loginova’s absence.
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
Others have taken up that language in Loginova’s absence.
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
"Trump and his kin are all over the Middle East all the time, immersed in high-ticket real-estate projects and not so much ignorant of the conflicts of interest as intent on them. Only chumps let such niceties impede them."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump
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November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"Trump and his kin are all over the Middle East all the time, immersed in high-ticket real-estate projects and not so much ignorant of the conflicts of interest as intent on them. Only chumps let such niceties impede them."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
The corrupt Supreme Court gave the president immunity, placing him above the law. If that isn't seditious, I don't know what is. There used to be a clear line everyone could discern; today it is a serrated edge one approaches at one's own risk.
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The corrupt Supreme Court gave the president immunity, placing him above the law. If that isn't seditious, I don't know what is. There used to be a clear line everyone could discern; today it is a serrated edge one approaches at one's own risk.
"What will it take? Where is the line that Trump must cross for these people to say to themselves, 'OK. That’s enough... and we are going to cover this like it’s the crisis it is.' If calling for six legislators to be hanged doesn’t clear that bar, what will?"
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newrepublic.com/post/203507/...
President Wants Legislators Hanged, and It’s Not Even the Lead Story
Donald Trump says he’d like to see lawmakers tried and executed, and The New York Times and The Washington Post just don’t seem to think it’s that big a deal. Why?
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"What will it take? Where is the line that Trump must cross for these people to say to themselves, 'OK. That’s enough... and we are going to cover this like it’s the crisis it is.' If calling for six legislators to be hanged doesn’t clear that bar, what will?"
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"...not only has Trump forgiven the Saudis but he seems to have concluded, in his own warped, likely senescent mind, that Khashoggi kinda, sorta, when push came to shove, brought his dismemberment upon himself."
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
In Defending Mohammed bin Salman, Trump Sinks to a New Low
Trump was incandescent with anger that journalists would have the temerity to question his wealthy “guest” with the bottomless wallet.
www.thenation.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"...not only has Trump forgiven the Saudis but he seems to have concluded, in his own warped, likely senescent mind, that Khashoggi kinda, sorta, when push came to shove, brought his dismemberment upon himself."
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
"The stories we were told call into question both the constitutionality and the morality of how the Trump administration is directing immigration policy. That immorality, once unleashed, may... be aimed at others in this country, regardless of immigration status."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | ‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally
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November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"The stories we were told call into question both the constitutionality and the morality of how the Trump administration is directing immigration policy. That immorality, once unleashed, may... be aimed at others in this country, regardless of immigration status."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
The White House views any adversarial question from the media (pre-culled aboard Air Force One) as "inappropriate".
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Newsom Mocks Leavitt After She Defends Trump’s ‘Piggy’ Insult
The California governor strikes again.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The White House views any adversarial question from the media (pre-culled aboard Air Force One) as "inappropriate".
www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom...
www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom...
“‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim,” the site now states, despite the fact that multiple large studies have found no such association."
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The CDC’s Website Is Anti-Vaccine Now
The agency’s revamped vaccine-safety page enshrines Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s fringe beliefs as government guidance.
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim,” the site now states, despite the fact that multiple large studies have found no such association."
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
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That any branch of the US military (even if the Coast Guard technically falls under DHS domestically) should be just fine with swastikas is beyond mind blowing. It should wake the dead. Question is can it wake the living?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
That any branch of the US military (even if the Coast Guard technically falls under DHS domestically) should be just fine with swastikas is beyond mind blowing. It should wake the dead. Question is can it wake the living?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
“Trump says he wants lower interest rates, but is withholding the very data the Federal Reserve needs to make that decision next month. And it’ll be working families who will pay the price.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren
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Update from Tony Romm
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November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Trump says he wants lower interest rates, but is withholding the very data the Federal Reserve needs to make that decision next month. And it’ll be working families who will pay the price.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren
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"...[anti-vaxxer] HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ... said the virus should be allowed to burn through flocks so that farmers can identify birds with natural immunity, an approach public health experts have called “dangerous and unethical.”
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
"...[anti-vaxxer] HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ... said the virus should be allowed to burn through flocks so that farmers can identify birds with natural immunity, an approach public health experts have called “dangerous and unethical.”
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
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If you think Lindsey Halligan is an epic dumbass remember that before she had this job her job was to make the Smithsonian more racist, by taking out accurate descriptions of slavery.
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If you think Lindsey Halligan is an epic dumbass remember that before she had this job her job was to make the Smithsonian more racist, by taking out accurate descriptions of slavery.
Trump is getting ready to greet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House. Expect plenty of cringe fanfare and obeisance. Has he asked to see the bone saw yet? He could have it gilt- (and guilt-) plated for display in the Oval Orifice.
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Trump is getting ready to greet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House. Expect plenty of cringe fanfare and obeisance. Has he asked to see the bone saw yet? He could have it gilt- (and guilt-) plated for display in the Oval Orifice.
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Who Was President in 2020 is the defining question of our time
"This all began with the Rigged Census" claims the guy who was president during the 2020 census
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Who Was President in 2020 is the defining question of our time
Trump's call for his shill-stocked FBI and Injustice Dept. to launch a new investigation into who's in the Epstein files (among Dems, personal enemies and political rivals) may be cover for refusing to release the very same files he has been stonewalling. Would you be surprised if they disappeared?
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Trump's call for his shill-stocked FBI and Injustice Dept. to launch a new investigation into who's in the Epstein files (among Dems, personal enemies and political rivals) may be cover for refusing to release the very same files he has been stonewalling. Would you be surprised if they disappeared?
Don't worry, she will forgive him as she conveniently forgets what he incited on January 6 and will eagerly rejoin the bandwagon of this menace to society. Cue the crocodile tears.
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Don't worry, she will forgive him as she conveniently forgets what he incited on January 6 and will eagerly rejoin the bandwagon of this menace to society. Cue the crocodile tears.
This is not penny ante corruption but grand scale abuse of power in service of monumental self-dealing the US has long since given up trying to rein in by enforcing the law or legal consequences. Trump's presidency is merely instrumental to him stuffing his pockets.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
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Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is not penny ante corruption but grand scale abuse of power in service of monumental self-dealing the US has long since given up trying to rein in by enforcing the law or legal consequences. Trump's presidency is merely instrumental to him stuffing his pockets.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
I wish people would stop referring to the DoJ. There is no US Department of Justice anymore; there is only Trump's Injustice Department stacked with his personal lawyers and amoral minions like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino. It is a farce orders of magnitude beyond the palest legitimacy.
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I wish people would stop referring to the DoJ. There is no US Department of Justice anymore; there is only Trump's Injustice Department stacked with his personal lawyers and amoral minions like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino. It is a farce orders of magnitude beyond the palest legitimacy.
"So, if the shutdown was actually about concealing the Epstein Files, it raises the question: In what other ways have they been driving the president’s actions?"
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/it-w...
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It Was the Epstein Shutdown All Along
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"So, if the shutdown was actually about concealing the Epstein Files, it raises the question: In what other ways have they been driving the president’s actions?"
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/it-w...
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