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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
April 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
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‘Full-blown meltdown’ at Pentagon after Pete Hegseth’s second Signal chat revealed
‘Full-blown meltdown’ at Pentagon after Pete Hegseth’s second Signal chat revealed
Existence of group chat including Hegseth, his wife and others prompt calls for defense secretary to step down
* US politics live – latest updates
A former top Pentagon spokesperson has slammed secretary of defense Pete Hegseth’s leadership of the department of defense, as pressure mounts on the US’s top military official following reports of a second Signal chatroom used to discuss sensitive military operations.
John Ullyot, who resigned last week after initially serving as Pentagon spokesperson, said in a opinion essay published by Politico on Sunday that the Pentagon has been overwhelmed by staff drama and turnover in the initial months of the second Trump administration. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
‘Full-blown meltdown’ at Pentagon after Pete Hegseth’s second Signal chat revealed
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Every time the Justice Department tries to claim the military isn’t actually banning transgender people, Pete Hegseth tweets that it is.
This is likely to come up at oral arguments at the DC Circuit Court of appeals — conveniently scheduled for tomorrow.
This is likely to come up at oral arguments at the DC Circuit Court of appeals — conveniently scheduled for tomorrow.
April 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Every time the Justice Department tries to claim the military isn’t actually banning transgender people, Pete Hegseth tweets that it is.
This is likely to come up at oral arguments at the DC Circuit Court of appeals — conveniently scheduled for tomorrow.
This is likely to come up at oral arguments at the DC Circuit Court of appeals — conveniently scheduled for tomorrow.
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Fox News propagandists have relentlessly promoted Trump’s tariffs while claiming to support American workers. So we bought some of Fox’s official merch and, well, you can guess where it’s made, via @status.news www.status.news/p/fox-news-s...
A Fox in Overseas Clothing
Fox News is all-in on Trump’s America-first trade war—just don’t look at where their “USA Strong” merchandise is actually made.
www.status.news
April 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Fox News propagandists have relentlessly promoted Trump’s tariffs while claiming to support American workers. So we bought some of Fox’s official merch and, well, you can guess where it’s made, via @status.news www.status.news/p/fox-news-s...
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New: "The Handmaid's Tale" showrunners gave a wide-ranging interview to @status.news in which they spoke bluntly about how the dystopian series is now "eerily relevant to the real world" in 2025.
"It is chilling."
Read the Q&A: www.status.news/p/handmaids-...
"It is chilling."
Read the Q&A: www.status.news/p/handmaids-...
The Handmaid's Truth
As democracy frays, the showrunners of “The Handmaid’s Tale” spoke to Status about the eerie ways their fiction has started to resemble reality.
www.status.news
April 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
New: "The Handmaid's Tale" showrunners gave a wide-ranging interview to @status.news in which they spoke bluntly about how the dystopian series is now "eerily relevant to the real world" in 2025.
"It is chilling."
Read the Q&A: www.status.news/p/handmaids-...
"It is chilling."
Read the Q&A: www.status.news/p/handmaids-...
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Scoop: Philip Rucker has only been at CNN for a few months, but his role at the network is already expanding. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/3GlnD3O
April 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Scoop: Philip Rucker has only been at CNN for a few months, but his role at the network is already expanding. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/3GlnD3O
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Just 24 hours before Trump yet again smeared CBS News and demanded FCC punishment, the man trying to buy it, David Ellison, was ringside at UFC…
With Trump.
And Elon.
And RFK Jr.
And Kash Patel.
And Ted Cruz.
Details in Status: www.status.news/p/david-elli...
With Trump.
And Elon.
And RFK Jr.
And Kash Patel.
And Ted Cruz.
Details in Status: www.status.news/p/david-elli...
Skydancing With Trump
Donald Trump escalated his attacks on CBS News in a Sunday night tirade. But it’s what prospective new owner David Ellison was doing 24 hours beforehand that’s also left the newsroom on edge.
www.status.news
April 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Just 24 hours before Trump yet again smeared CBS News and demanded FCC punishment, the man trying to buy it, David Ellison, was ringside at UFC…
With Trump.
And Elon.
And RFK Jr.
And Kash Patel.
And Ted Cruz.
Details in Status: www.status.news/p/david-elli...
With Trump.
And Elon.
And RFK Jr.
And Kash Patel.
And Ted Cruz.
Details in Status: www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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I'm sorry, what now?!
Mike Johnson Just Tried To Blame Medicaid Cuts On Video Games—And It Didn't Go Over Well
He said what now?
www.comicsands.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'm sorry, what now?!
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I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
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The heroes are the organizers and all the people showing up. I feel honored we can use this platform to highlight their efforts.
Cohen: Take MeidasTouch Network. They’re beating Joe Rogan, they’re beating Fox, they’re beating the lame stream news. So when there’s a march, all you have to do is contact the Meiselas brothers — next thing you know, you’ve got ten million people showing up. That’s an army.
April 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The heroes are the organizers and all the people showing up. I feel honored we can use this platform to highlight their efforts.
Stephen Miller making up shit again to advance his Nazi agenda
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
What to Know About the Deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El Salvador (Gift Article)
President Trump’s aides abruptly said the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, had been lawfully sent to a prison in El Salvador, contradicting what officials themselves have said in court filings.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Stephen Miller making up shit again to advance his Nazi agenda
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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So this is f**cking bone chilling.
Especially after they announced they weren’t going to comply with the SCOTUS order to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Especially after they announced they weren’t going to comply with the SCOTUS order to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
April 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
So this is f**cking bone chilling.
Especially after they announced they weren’t going to comply with the SCOTUS order to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Especially after they announced they weren’t going to comply with the SCOTUS order to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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The constitutional crisis is here.
The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador.
youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...
The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador.
youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...
This Is a Constitutional Crisis
YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff
youtu.be
April 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The constitutional crisis is here.
The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador.
youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...
The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador.
youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...
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"After all these years in and around politics, I’d like to think I have a pretty strong stomach, but yesterday was sickening... This was not newsreel footage of two dictators meeting somewhere far away and long ago. This was yesterday. Here in the Oval Office."
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...
Two Dictators Walk Into a Bar...
On yesterday’s sickening Oval Office summit.
www.thebulwark.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"After all these years in and around politics, I’d like to think I have a pretty strong stomach, but yesterday was sickening... This was not newsreel footage of two dictators meeting somewhere far away and long ago. This was yesterday. Here in the Oval Office."
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...
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BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.
April 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.
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The lies Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller just told about Abrego Garcia on national TV...
...I have no words for them. I am sick of calling things obscene or deranged. These are obviously evil people charting an obviously evil course for our country.
The idea of Hell was devised for people like this.
...I have no words for them. I am sick of calling things obscene or deranged. These are obviously evil people charting an obviously evil course for our country.
The idea of Hell was devised for people like this.
April 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The lies Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller just told about Abrego Garcia on national TV...
...I have no words for them. I am sick of calling things obscene or deranged. These are obviously evil people charting an obviously evil course for our country.
The idea of Hell was devised for people like this.
...I have no words for them. I am sick of calling things obscene or deranged. These are obviously evil people charting an obviously evil course for our country.
The idea of Hell was devised for people like this.
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Obama and Yale faculty back Harvard as Trump cuts $2bn, alleging antisemitism
Obama and Yale faculty back Harvard as Trump cuts $2bn, alleging antisemitism
Harvard faces a funding freeze as elite universities warn of growing threats to free inquiry and civil rights
* US politics live – latest updates
Barack Obama, Yale and other academic institutions have come out in support of Harvard after the Trump administration elected to cut $2bn of its federal grants after the Ivy League school in Massachusetts rejected what it said was an attempt at “government regulation” of the university.
“Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect,” said a statement from Obama, the US president from 2009 to 2017. “Let’s hope other institutions follow suit.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Obama and Yale faculty back Harvard as Trump cuts $2bn, alleging antisemitism
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Sharing in opposition from many Texas reproductive rights advocates right now, abortion care expert and complex family planning specialist @dr-moayedi.bsky.social explains why she's against SB 31/HB 44 @thenation.com:
"I can confidently say that this bill will not help me save additional lives."
"I can confidently say that this bill will not help me save additional lives."
Texas’s “Life of the Mother Act” Is an Abortion Ban in Sheep's Clothing
As an abortion provider living in Texas, I can confidently say that this bill will not help me save additional lives.
www.thenation.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Sharing in opposition from many Texas reproductive rights advocates right now, abortion care expert and complex family planning specialist @dr-moayedi.bsky.social explains why she's against SB 31/HB 44 @thenation.com:
"I can confidently say that this bill will not help me save additional lives."
"I can confidently say that this bill will not help me save additional lives."
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.