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March 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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People think of NY as a blue state. Amazing the key role New Yorkers are playing in America's MAGA shift, from Trump himself to Elise Stefanik at UN, Lee Zeldin at EPA, Howard Lutnick at Commerce, Tom Homan as Border Czar, Emil Bove at DOJ and on and on (seriously, a lot more..)
February 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Dated but just as relevant today, maybe even more so
The Baby Boomers' Unfinished Business
We haven't been paying our way. It's time we cleaned up the ledger.
democracyjournal.org
February 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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This is how it’s done.
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws

Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.

Gov Mills: See you in court
February 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
February 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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The FDIC protects your hard earn money in the bank and helps prevent another financial crash.

Trump and Musk’s move to fire these workers is dangerous.

I led Senate Democrats in pushing back, and now independent investigators are on the case.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: DOGE's FDIC firings put banking system at risk
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she is "pleased" the FDIC will evaluate whether the decision to layoff workers at the agency puts the banking system at risk.
www.cnbc.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Failure of Imagination
A clinical symptom of American Exceptionalism
Donald Trump's chaos strategy: Why Americans continue to fall for his game of distraction
At the root of Trumpism's rapid ascendance, and the pitiful resistance to it, is a profound failure of imagination
www.yahoo.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
February 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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February 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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This is fascism.
February 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Wow.

As one German said, "Americans de-Nazified Germany at the end of WWII and now you are re-Nazifying Germany," in response to JD Vance's meeting with the head of the AFD rather than the sitting German Chancellor.

~David Brooks on @pbsnews.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuox...
Brooks and Capehart on the Trump administration’s challenge to the judiciary branch
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM