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Every agent must be investigated, and many need to be imprisoned for their actions.
In any future government, with or without ICE itself, you can't move forward on public trust or any semblance of professionalism if the GOP paramilitary is allowed to have gone this far.
In any future government, with or without ICE itself, you can't move forward on public trust or any semblance of professionalism if the GOP paramilitary is allowed to have gone this far.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Every agent must be investigated, and many need to be imprisoned for their actions.
In any future government, with or without ICE itself, you can't move forward on public trust or any semblance of professionalism if the GOP paramilitary is allowed to have gone this far.
In any future government, with or without ICE itself, you can't move forward on public trust or any semblance of professionalism if the GOP paramilitary is allowed to have gone this far.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney's government announces that Canada is realigning Canada's economy away from the United States.
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government announces that Canada is realigning Canada's economy away from the United States.
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Here is my countdown of the Top 40 protest signs from No Kings 10/18. These are good, but stay tuned because the Top 20 are pretty epic. Here is 31-40. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Top 40 No Kings Signs, #31-40
Countdown of the best protest signs from Oct. 18
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Here is my countdown of the Top 40 protest signs from No Kings 10/18. These are good, but stay tuned because the Top 20 are pretty epic. Here is 31-40. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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As the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Pope Leo XIV’s handling of clergy sexual abuse will be closely scrutinized. Two cases have left him open to starkly diverging judgments — praise for helping victims in one, claims that he let them down in the other.
Is Pope Leo a Man of Action on Sexual Abuse Cases? Or the Opposite?
For some survivors, he was a hero. Others who reported abuse said he failed them.
trib.al
June 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
As the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Pope Leo XIV’s handling of clergy sexual abuse will be closely scrutinized. Two cases have left him open to starkly diverging judgments — praise for helping victims in one, claims that he let them down in the other.
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His "snowflakes" as he called these memos. I used to have an image of the last one. Oh wait, there's an archive! share.google/0JUaMvT2ufoT...
Rumsfeld Snowflakes Come in from the Cold
Washington D.C., January 24, 2018 - On the day before September 11, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld believed the gravest threat to American national security was Pentagon bureaucracy, accor...
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June 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
His "snowflakes" as he called these memos. I used to have an image of the last one. Oh wait, there's an archive! share.google/0JUaMvT2ufoT...
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Remaining group of protesters try to block the van from leaving, after a warning they are also arrested, at least 14 people that I counted now detained.
May 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Remaining group of protesters try to block the van from leaving, after a warning they are also arrested, at least 14 people that I counted now detained.
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Yesterday was Vyshyvanka Day, the day of Ukrainian embroidered shirts.
May 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Yesterday was Vyshyvanka Day, the day of Ukrainian embroidered shirts.
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Wow she went to _Texas_ for dental work?? That’s like going to London for their barbecue
May 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Wow she went to _Texas_ for dental work?? That’s like going to London for their barbecue
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RFK seems to have lied to Congress a lot
May 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
RFK seems to have lied to Congress a lot
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It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books.
It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.
www.chron.com/politics/art...
It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.
www.chron.com/politics/art...
Texas bill could punish bookstores for 'obscene' books
A new bill in the Texas Legislature, authored by Rep. Nate Schatzline, would allow businesses to be held liable if a minor reports damages from "obscene" books.
www.chron.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books.
It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.
www.chron.com/politics/art...
It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.
www.chron.com/politics/art...
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"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."
A top scientist at Harvard who has spent years unraveling the mysteries of tuberculosis woke up Tuesday morning and discovered an order from the federal government telling her to halt her research.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
Leading Harvard scientist ordered to halt research in funding freeze - The Boston Globe
Researchers may have to kill macaques, a kind of primate used in a vaccine study, due to the order.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."
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🧵I get a lot of questions about what will happen to Social Security payments. The way I see it, there are 3 factors that will impact payments, all of which will feed off each other to exponentially increase the likelihood that SSA will miss payments: backlogs, error, and system failure.
April 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🧵I get a lot of questions about what will happen to Social Security payments. The way I see it, there are 3 factors that will impact payments, all of which will feed off each other to exponentially increase the likelihood that SSA will miss payments: backlogs, error, and system failure.
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According to a source, when Musk privately messages associates and confidants about reports from federal staffers about how their lives have been wrecked, the Tesla CEO is known to react with laugh-crying emojis.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
According to a source, when Musk privately messages associates and confidants about reports from federal staffers about how their lives have been wrecked, the Tesla CEO is known to react with laugh-crying emojis.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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To put more emphasis on this: Hundreds of thousands of Americans in at least 1400 cities and towns across the country, including in heavily Republican areas that never protest, protested Trump and Musk and their 401Ks being wiped out yesterday, and it’s NOT a main front page story in the Times.
And the only mention of it on the actual print front page is just an image with a caption telling people they need to turn to page 18 to read about it. Not worthy of a front page story, apparently.
April 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
To put more emphasis on this: Hundreds of thousands of Americans in at least 1400 cities and towns across the country, including in heavily Republican areas that never protest, protested Trump and Musk and their 401Ks being wiped out yesterday, and it’s NOT a main front page story in the Times.
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#ImpeachmentNow!! #RevolutionNow!! 3.5% or Washington DC it’s the only way #March50501 #TeslaTakedown
March 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
#ImpeachmentNow!! #RevolutionNow!! 3.5% or Washington DC it’s the only way #March50501 #TeslaTakedown
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Fascism Scholars are Fleeing the USA btw
3 prominent Yale professors are departing for a Canadian university:
• Jason Stanley, a historian whose books include: “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them” & “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future”
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3 prominent Yale professors are departing for a Canadian university:
• Jason Stanley, a historian whose books include: “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them” & “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future”
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March 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Fascism Scholars are Fleeing the USA btw
3 prominent Yale professors are departing for a Canadian university:
• Jason Stanley, a historian whose books include: “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them” & “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future”
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3 prominent Yale professors are departing for a Canadian university:
• Jason Stanley, a historian whose books include: “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them” & “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future”
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The Trump administration has again suddenly cleared out all the migrants it sent to the US Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, ostensibly with final deportation orders. But this time it flew everybody back to the USA -- without an explanation. w/ @charlie_savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities
A court filing described strip searches and the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Trump administration has again suddenly cleared out all the migrants it sent to the US Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, ostensibly with final deportation orders. But this time it flew everybody back to the USA -- without an explanation. w/ @charlie_savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
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Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director.
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
March 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director.
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
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The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.
February 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.
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Seven former top Manhattan federal prosecutors, including several who served under Republican presidents, issued a statement Friday praising Danielle Sassoon’s decision to resign rather than obey an order to seek dismissal of corruption charges against New York City’s mayor.
Seven Former Manhattan U.S. Attorneys Voice Their Support for Danielle Sassoon
The former prosecutors, both Democrats and Republicans, sharply criticized the Justice Department’s intention to investigate Danielle Sassoon. She resigned rather than drop a case she supported.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Seven former top Manhattan federal prosecutors, including several who served under Republican presidents, issued a statement Friday praising Danielle Sassoon’s decision to resign rather than obey an order to seek dismissal of corruption charges against New York City’s mayor.
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Alexander Dugin, the Russian ultra-nationalist and Neo-fascist, tweets at Tulsi Gabbard after her confirmation and says “you are simply awesome.”
Dugin, a close Putin ally, is often referred to as “Putin’s brain.”
Dugin, a close Putin ally, is often referred to as “Putin’s brain.”
February 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Alexander Dugin, the Russian ultra-nationalist and Neo-fascist, tweets at Tulsi Gabbard after her confirmation and says “you are simply awesome.”
Dugin, a close Putin ally, is often referred to as “Putin’s brain.”
Dugin, a close Putin ally, is often referred to as “Putin’s brain.”