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“Mr. Trump’s playbook for the F.B.I. is plain to see. He is turning it into an enforcement agency for MAGA’s priorities.“
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Opinion | Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe
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July 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Mr. Trump’s playbook for the F.B.I. is plain to see. He is turning it into an enforcement agency for MAGA’s priorities.“
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We need to Declare our Independence from Donald Trump . . .
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump.
It's uncanny.
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July 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
We need to Declare our Independence from Donald Trump . . .
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A dystopian surveillance fear has become reality in Texas. Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A dystopian surveillance fear has become reality in Texas | Arwa Mahdawi
Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion
www.theguardian.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A dystopian surveillance fear has become reality in Texas. Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“lions showed me that a sense of community is prerequisite for coordinated strategy.”
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Opinion | To Take On Trump, Think Like a Lion
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May 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“lions showed me that a sense of community is prerequisite for coordinated strategy.”
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“Confronting systemic collapse can be so disorienting, overwhelming and even humiliating, that many tune it out or find themselves in a state of freeze.” Remember— you are not alone.
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Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
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May 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“Confronting systemic collapse can be so disorienting, overwhelming and even humiliating, that many tune it out or find themselves in a state of freeze.” Remember— you are not alone.
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Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ
May 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ
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ALABAMA: Leonardo Garcia Venegas is an American Citizen. He had a “Real ID”. It didn’t matter — because to Trump’s American Gestapo, brown is brown.
More: www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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May 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
ALABAMA: Leonardo Garcia Venegas is an American Citizen. He had a “Real ID”. It didn’t matter — because to Trump’s American Gestapo, brown is brown.
More: www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
More: www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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Trump's FEMA has denied North Carolina's request for FEMA to honor a Biden-era commitment to pay for 100% of debris removal costs related to Hurricane Helene.
May 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Trump's FEMA has denied North Carolina's request for FEMA to honor a Biden-era commitment to pay for 100% of debris removal costs related to Hurricane Helene.
“I have always considered myself a strong woman, although I understand that the strength I possess is a matter of style and, secretly, of theatrical bravura.” RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...
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Susan Brownmiller, Who Reshaped Views About Rape, Dies at 90
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May 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“I have always considered myself a strong woman, although I understand that the strength I possess is a matter of style and, secretly, of theatrical bravura.” RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...
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“Mr. Green thought marchers should have proper banners that could match the iconography of Mr. Trump’s movement, so he started Flags for Good, which makes signage for progressive causes, including Black Lives Matter.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
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5 Years After George Floyd’s Murder, the Backlash Takes Hold
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May 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“Mr. Green thought marchers should have proper banners that could match the iconography of Mr. Trump’s movement, so he started Flags for Good, which makes signage for progressive causes, including Black Lives Matter.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
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“Officials assigned to the unit usually stay three to eight months, get plenty of photo ops with automatic rifles and return to their jobs in Russia with a hero’s welcome”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
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Selfies From the Front: Inside the ‘V.I.P.’ Brigade for Ambitious Russian Officials
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May 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“Officials assigned to the unit usually stay three to eight months, get plenty of photo ops with automatic rifles and return to their jobs in Russia with a hero’s welcome”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
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“The American public has had to inure itself to the corruption of Donald Trump and his presidency because the president and his Republican Party have given the American public no choice in the matter”
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As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests
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May 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“The American public has had to inure itself to the corruption of Donald Trump and his presidency because the president and his Republican Party have given the American public no choice in the matter”
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“Sebastião was much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time. His lens revealed the world and its contradictions; his life, the power of transformative action.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/a...
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Sebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81
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May 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“Sebastião was much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time. His lens revealed the world and its contradictions; his life, the power of transformative action.”
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earnest appeals to democratic values—no
mockery and humor, preferably salacious—yes
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mockery and humor, preferably salacious—yes
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Opinion | Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat
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May 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
earnest appeals to democratic values—no
mockery and humor, preferably salacious—yes
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
mockery and humor, preferably salacious—yes
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Golan — a former general — said Israel was becoming a pariah state and cautioned that “a sane country doesn’t engage in fighting against civilians, doesn’t kill babies as a hobby and doesn’t set for itself the goals of expelling a population.”
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Israeli politician critiques the Gaza war's toll on Palestinians and sparks an outcry
An Israeli center-left opposition party leader and former general sparked an outcry this week when he made rare criticism of the toll of the war on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
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May 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Golan — a former general — said Israel was becoming a pariah state and cautioned that “a sane country doesn’t engage in fighting against civilians, doesn’t kill babies as a hobby and doesn’t set for itself the goals of expelling a population.”
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“The vast glass windows and doors of the building are overlaid with a pattern of close, opaque dots. Applied last summer to help birds perceive the glass—early results are nothing short of remarkable—deaths were down by about 95 percent” !!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...
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An Illinois Building Was a Bird Killer. A Simple Change Made a World of Difference.
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May 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“The vast glass windows and doors of the building are overlaid with a pattern of close, opaque dots. Applied last summer to help birds perceive the glass—early results are nothing short of remarkable—deaths were down by about 95 percent” !!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...
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“Russian spies helped shoot down a passenger plane en route from Amsterdam in 2014. They interfered in elections in the United States, France and elsewhere. They poisoned perceived enemies and plotted coups.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...
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The Spy Factory
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May 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“Russian spies helped shoot down a passenger plane en route from Amsterdam in 2014. They interfered in elections in the United States, France and elsewhere. They poisoned perceived enemies and plotted coups.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...
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“The blind violence and the humanitarian blockade by the Israeli government have made Gaza into a deathtrap.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...
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Israel’s Allies Denounce Its New Gaza Offensive
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May 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“The blind violence and the humanitarian blockade by the Israeli government have made Gaza into a deathtrap.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...
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“History will judge them. Blocking aid. Expanding the war. Dismissing the concerns of your friends and partners. This is indefensible. And it must stop.”
apnews.com/article/uk-s... U.K. suspends free trade talks with Israel and announces sanctions over West Bank settlers
apnews.com/article/uk-s... U.K. suspends free trade talks with Israel and announces sanctions over West Bank settlers
U.K. suspends free trade talks with Israel and announces sanctions over West Bank settlers
The British government says it is suspending free trade negotiations with Israel and leveling new sanctions targeting West Bank settlers as it criticizes Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
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May 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“History will judge them. Blocking aid. Expanding the war. Dismissing the concerns of your friends and partners. This is indefensible. And it must stop.”
apnews.com/article/uk-s... U.K. suspends free trade talks with Israel and announces sanctions over West Bank settlers
apnews.com/article/uk-s... U.K. suspends free trade talks with Israel and announces sanctions over West Bank settlers
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Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.
May 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.
“The only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine,” he began….He added that he hoped to speak for “all people who feel the moral injury of this atrocity.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/n...
He Denounced the Gaza War at Graduation. N.Y.U. Withheld His Diploma.
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May 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“The only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine,” he began….He added that he hoped to speak for “all people who feel the moral injury of this atrocity.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/n...
“Mr. Trump has traditionally done well with lower-information voters, so it is perhaps not surprising that they are more inclined to support his presidency.”-No kidding
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One Thing Helping Trump’s Approval Rating: Some People Are Not Paying Attention
Voters were more likely to approve of President Trump’s job performance if they had not been following some of the major news stories of his first 100 days in office, a recent New York Times/Siena Col...
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May 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“Mr. Trump has traditionally done well with lower-information voters, so it is perhaps not surprising that they are more inclined to support his presidency.”-No kidding
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Project Esther outlined an ambitious plan to fight antisemitism by branding a broad range of critics of Israel as “effectively a terrorist support network,” so that they could be deported, defunded, sued, fired, expelled, ostracized
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
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May 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Project Esther outlined an ambitious plan to fight antisemitism by branding a broad range of critics of Israel as “effectively a terrorist support network,” so that they could be deported, defunded, sued, fired, expelled, ostracized
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
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