Luke Zaleski
@zaleskiluke.bsky.social
“Internet Personality” “That guy from Twitter”
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Excellent piece...
I have written about why this dirty full-year CR would transfer congressional power to the White House and further empower Trump to dismantle what's left of our federal government, including the Defense Department (which you value so highly). A wrong vote now makes your future votes irrelevant.
Dethroning Congress
America First Has a Playbook
firstbranchforecast.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Excellent piece...
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I also have written about the many things you should insist be included in any spending bill prior to lending your support. It is a list of bipartisan legislation that would protect our constitutional system of separated powers. More than this is necessary, but it would buy us time.
What Congress Should Do
Ten bills Congress should insist be part of any deal to fend off a White House power grab
substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I also have written about the many things you should insist be included in any spending bill prior to lending your support. It is a list of bipartisan legislation that would protect our constitutional system of separated powers. More than this is necessary, but it would buy us time.
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I have written about why this dirty full-year CR would transfer congressional power to the White House and further empower Trump to dismantle what's left of our federal government, including the Defense Department (which you value so highly). A wrong vote now makes your future votes irrelevant.
Dethroning Congress
America First Has a Playbook
firstbranchforecast.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I have written about why this dirty full-year CR would transfer congressional power to the White House and further empower Trump to dismantle what's left of our federal government, including the Defense Department (which you value so highly). A wrong vote now makes your future votes irrelevant.
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“Somebody has to stay to help clean up the mess that they’re most likely going to make,” a public health advisor on infectious diseases at the CDC said. “If you want to get rid of me, you’re basically going to drag me kicking and screaming out of here.”
‘Health Security Is At Risk’: Inside the Purge of HHS
Employees are grappling with buyout offers as public health crises mount. “Somebody has to stay to help clean up the mess that they’re most likely going to make,” one said.
www.motherjones.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
“Somebody has to stay to help clean up the mess that they’re most likely going to make,” a public health advisor on infectious diseases at the CDC said. “If you want to get rid of me, you’re basically going to drag me kicking and screaming out of here.”
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MOSCOW (AP) - A senior Kremlin official says that a U.S.-proposed ceasefire would help Ukraine's military.
March 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
MOSCOW (AP) - A senior Kremlin official says that a U.S.-proposed ceasefire would help Ukraine's military.
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It's worth making people aware that's what's happening is from a very old and very recognizable playbook. This is a screenshot from It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis in 1935—I realize many were talking about this book eight years ago too but it, as they say, hits different now. Almost done!
March 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It's worth making people aware that's what's happening is from a very old and very recognizable playbook. This is a screenshot from It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis in 1935—I realize many were talking about this book eight years ago too but it, as they say, hits different now. Almost done!
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“Frightened for the safety of their families.”
America, 2025.
America, 2025.
March 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Frightened for the safety of their families.”
America, 2025.
America, 2025.
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What's up with rock at the Grammys? For @npr.org, I talked to several voters and Harvey Mason Jr. trying to figure it out: www.npr.org/2025/03/05/n...
Why are the Grammys' rock categories stuck in the past?
At this year's 67th Grammys, wins for The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a year when other genres showcased rising stars prompt questions about who votes for rock at the Grammys — and what needs to...
www.npr.org
March 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What's up with rock at the Grammys? For @npr.org, I talked to several voters and Harvey Mason Jr. trying to figure it out: www.npr.org/2025/03/05/n...
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Democrats Are Acting Too Normal: In her response to Trump’s demented, lie-filled address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Democrats Are Acting Too Normal
In her response to Trump’s address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics.
www.theatlantic.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Democrats Are Acting Too Normal: In her response to Trump’s demented, lie-filled address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Look on the bright side.
March 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Look on the bright side.
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Best line of the night from Fanone: “Jim, I love you… but f*ck you for making me watch that.” From the post-speech edition of “The Jim Acosta Show.” open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
Post speech wrap with Fanone
What else can I say? Enjoy!
open.substack.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Best line of the night from Fanone: “Jim, I love you… but f*ck you for making me watch that.” From the post-speech edition of “The Jim Acosta Show.” open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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“More than a decade before Russia’s armed forces poured over the border into Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin stood before world leaders and delivered a long, icy speech demanding a radical overhaul of the world order.”
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wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.com?publink=13e9...
Putin Played the Long Game. It Seems to Be Paying Off.
More than a decade before Russia’s armed forces poured over the bor
wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“More than a decade before Russia’s armed forces poured over the border into Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin stood before world leaders and delivered a long, icy speech demanding a radical overhaul of the world order.”
wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.com?publink=13e9...
wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.com?publink=13e9...
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In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides.
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
The Last American Road Trip
The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her fami...
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides.
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
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Trump: "Tomorrow, tariffs -- 25 percent on Canada and 25 percent on Mexico. And that'll start."
March 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump: "Tomorrow, tariffs -- 25 percent on Canada and 25 percent on Mexico. And that'll start."
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“.. Witness Trump’s bizarre pattern of threatening small countries and allies instead of adversaries — nations from Canada to Denmark and Panama. Whereas the US used to attract other countries by promising to enhance their safety and freedom, it now repels them.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
March 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“.. Witness Trump’s bizarre pattern of threatening small countries and allies instead of adversaries — nations from Canada to Denmark and Panama. Whereas the US used to attract other countries by promising to enhance their safety and freedom, it now repels them.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Sobering Sunday morning reading. Interview with @davidenrich.bsky.social coming soon!
March 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Sobering Sunday morning reading. Interview with @davidenrich.bsky.social coming soon!
Don’t forget to love art and music
February 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Don’t forget to love art and music
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Winners in the Building at the SAG Awards last night! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Cloud nine. #SAGAwards #OnlyMurdersinTheBuilding
February 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Winners in the Building at the SAG Awards last night! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Cloud nine. #SAGAwards #OnlyMurdersinTheBuilding
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Can anyone think of a foreign enemy who could do more damage to America than Trump? Decimating agencies, military, siding with a terrorist state, threatening to invade US allies, stripping services from vets, ceding US power to Russia and China.
February 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Can anyone think of a foreign enemy who could do more damage to America than Trump? Decimating agencies, military, siding with a terrorist state, threatening to invade US allies, stripping services from vets, ceding US power to Russia and China.
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I'm looking to see if the cuts & chaos at CDC and NIH have affected any clinical trials or research for drugs for the treatment of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or other serious diseases. If you know anything, please contact me at DavidCorn.99 at Signal.
Or if you have any other good stories.
Or if you have any other good stories.
February 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I'm looking to see if the cuts & chaos at CDC and NIH have affected any clinical trials or research for drugs for the treatment of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or other serious diseases. If you know anything, please contact me at DavidCorn.99 at Signal.
Or if you have any other good stories.
Or if you have any other good stories.
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“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com
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About time.
BREAKING: Judge in our Treasury case vs. DOGE just raised profound "concerns about constitutionality of DOGE"!
She follows Judge Chutkan who also raised questions last week
We @sddaction.bsky.social will be in Md. Fed. Ct. Friday in our appointments clause case to prove DOGE is unconstitutional
She follows Judge Chutkan who also raised questions last week
We @sddaction.bsky.social will be in Md. Fed. Ct. Friday in our appointments clause case to prove DOGE is unconstitutional
February 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
About time.