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A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise
The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.
www.semafor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
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NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:
North Carolina immigration raids expected to escalate
As the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities
prismreports.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:
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Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Sep 30: USDA issues guidance saying they can use contingency fund
Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse
Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance
Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund
Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds
Nov 1: no funds go out
Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts
Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse
Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance
Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund
Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds
Nov 1: no funds go out
Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts
The president says he will defy court orders and illegally withhold SNAP benefits despite there being money in the SNAP contingency fund that the Trump is required to use.
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Sep 30: USDA issues guidance saying they can use contingency fund
Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse
Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance
Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund
Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds
Nov 1: no funds go out
Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts
Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse
Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance
Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund
Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds
Nov 1: no funds go out
Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts
A great story about a truly malignant figure www.propublica.org/article/paul...
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A great story about a truly malignant figure www.propublica.org/article/paul...
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someone on here said "years of lead paint" and I can't think of a better caption than that
EXCLUSIVE from @washingtonpost.com @ddiamond.bsky.social and Ariana Eunjung Cha www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say
The Trump administration plans to tie Tylenol to autism risk while touting another drug, leucovorin, as a potential autism treatment.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
someone on here said "years of lead paint" and I can't think of a better caption than that
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This is the moment for print. People will want to read the truth and when it’s hard to find online people will want paper.
September 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This is the moment for print. People will want to read the truth and when it’s hard to find online people will want paper.
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Jesus Christ, this has got to be one of the worst public statements by a leader in history
Here's the sitting president of the United States endorsing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
July 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Jesus Christ, this has got to be one of the worst public statements by a leader in history
The latest from the Great Leap Boerward…
July 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The latest from the Great Leap Boerward…
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Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "I'm allowed to do it"
July 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "I'm allowed to do it"
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Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge
FT Exclusive: Weiss has met with David Ellison, the incoming owner of CBS News, over a potential deal to sell her three-year-old media company, according to several people familiar with the matter. https://on.ft.com/4eZ6WbM
July 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge
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this is right www.todayintabs.com/p/billionair...
Billionaires Destroyed American News Media On Purpose
It's not a conspiracy, it's simply what happened.
www.todayintabs.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
this is right www.todayintabs.com/p/billionair...
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I reviewed Chuck Schumer’s new book. It is very bad.
But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.
Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.
Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning – Spectre Journal
spectrejournal.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I reviewed Chuck Schumer’s new book. It is very bad.
But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.
Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.
Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
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The authoritarian assault on higher education continues - UVA and Harvard have to hold the line www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
June 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The authoritarian assault on higher education continues - UVA and Harvard have to hold the line www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
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DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.
This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:
www.supremecourt.gov
June 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.
This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
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Wichita Falls Times, November 27, 1977
June 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Wichita Falls Times, November 27, 1977
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here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning
June 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning
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Of course he was going to bomb Iran.
Is there an antiwar party in the U.S.?
Is there an antiwar party in the U.S.?
War on Terror Nightmare Arrives As Trump Bombs Iran
Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?
www.forever-wars.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Of course he was going to bomb Iran.
Is there an antiwar party in the U.S.?
Is there an antiwar party in the U.S.?
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see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines
Breaking:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.
June 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines
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ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States
abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...
abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...
Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources
Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on the way back to the United States to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S., sources say.
abcnews.go.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States
abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...
abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...
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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.
prospect.org
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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 12:47 PM
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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Pretty much exactly what Tooze predicted two days ago
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
April 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Pretty much exactly what Tooze predicted two days ago
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...