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Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.
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Three CFPB probes into companies backed by billionaire Marc Andreessen have been halted as bureau investigations have ground to a halt, including inquiries into the popular cash advance app EarnIn and Point Digital Finance, a provider of so-called alternative mortgages.
Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startup...
www.propublica.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Three CFPB probes into companies backed by billionaire Marc Andreessen have been halted as bureau investigations have ground to a halt, including inquiries into the popular cash advance app EarnIn and Point Digital Finance, a provider of so-called alternative mortgages.
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Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.
Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."
October 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.
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Because I cannot stand even one more pandering LinkedIn message mistaking @freepress.bsky.social for THE Free Press and/or me for CBS sellout Bari Weiss, please read this piece by @timkarr.bsky.social explaining what our Free Press stands for - and against. www.freepress.net/blog/this-fr...
What's in a Name: This Free Press Isn't 'The' Free Press
While Bari Weiss borrowed our name, our two organizations could not be more different. Here’s why.
www.freepress.net
October 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Because I cannot stand even one more pandering LinkedIn message mistaking @freepress.bsky.social for THE Free Press and/or me for CBS sellout Bari Weiss, please read this piece by @timkarr.bsky.social explaining what our Free Press stands for - and against. www.freepress.net/blog/this-fr...
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This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.
October 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.
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I hope John Fetterman watched the Pam Bondi hearing today and felt good about his vote to confirm her.
October 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I hope John Fetterman watched the Pam Bondi hearing today and felt good about his vote to confirm her.
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"Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science" | My #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I spoke with @wbrangham.bsky.social of the @pbs.org #Newshour:
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science
From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells with...
www.pbs.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science" | My #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I spoke with @wbrangham.bsky.social of the @pbs.org #Newshour:
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Tune in as we introduce the No Political Enemies Act.
We aren't going to lie down as Trump tries to destroy free speech in this country.
We aren't going to lie down as Trump tries to destroy free speech in this country.
LIVE: Murphy, Schumer, Crow Announce The No Political Enemies Act
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
www.youtube.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Tune in as we introduce the No Political Enemies Act.
We aren't going to lie down as Trump tries to destroy free speech in this country.
We aren't going to lie down as Trump tries to destroy free speech in this country.
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@willbunch.bsky.social "The scheme is to control much of the media and intimidate the rest — just like a strongman I think I’m still allowed to compare Trump to, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán — has so successfully done. And it’s working beyond our wildest nightmares."
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Kimmel yanked: Sen. Fetterman, can we call it ‘fascism’ yet? | Will Bunch
The Trump regime shredded the First Amendment in forcing Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air. Our “leaders” still don’t get it.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
@willbunch.bsky.social "The scheme is to control much of the media and intimidate the rest — just like a strongman I think I’m still allowed to compare Trump to, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán — has so successfully done. And it’s working beyond our wildest nightmares."
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This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.
September 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.
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Here's an excerpt -- read the whole column and tell me what you think
September 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Here's an excerpt -- read the whole column and tell me what you think
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The press freedom crisis in America isn't only billionaires bowing down at big outlets like CBS, the Post. In L.A., elsewhere, indie journalists at protests are getting beat up or arrested by cops, a chilling sign of an authoritarian U.S. police state
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-...
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-...
In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death | Will Bunch
On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.
www.inquirer.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The press freedom crisis in America isn't only billionaires bowing down at big outlets like CBS, the Post. In L.A., elsewhere, indie journalists at protests are getting beat up or arrested by cops, a chilling sign of an authoritarian U.S. police state
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-...
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-...
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An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
cpj.org
August 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
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The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
open.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
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Turning old plastic into new plastic is really, really hard.
Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic.
(Published Aug. 2024)
Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic.
(Published Aug. 2024)
When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.
Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually…
www.propublica.org
August 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Turning old plastic into new plastic is really, really hard.
Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic.
(Published Aug. 2024)
Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic.
(Published Aug. 2024)
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This Peter Baker joint does catalog Trump's lies and censorship, but headline and text tie themselves in journo-cliched linguistic knots to avoid that direct judgment. He's not "underscoring a tendency." He's not an "echo" of an "authoritarian playbook." He is a dictator.
August 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This Peter Baker joint does catalog Trump's lies and censorship, but headline and text tie themselves in journo-cliched linguistic knots to avoid that direct judgment. He's not "underscoring a tendency." He's not an "echo" of an "authoritarian playbook." He is a dictator.
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I got back-to-back emails about "illegals" because I had the audacity to write about murdered NYC cop Didarul Islam and his Bangladeshi community
I wish all of these people would get arrested for driving 3 mph over the limit, handcuffed, and shackled on a flight to a Salvadoran concentration camp
I wish all of these people would get arrested for driving 3 mph over the limit, handcuffed, and shackled on a flight to a Salvadoran concentration camp
August 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I got back-to-back emails about "illegals" because I had the audacity to write about murdered NYC cop Didarul Islam and his Bangladeshi community
I wish all of these people would get arrested for driving 3 mph over the limit, handcuffed, and shackled on a flight to a Salvadoran concentration camp
I wish all of these people would get arrested for driving 3 mph over the limit, handcuffed, and shackled on a flight to a Salvadoran concentration camp
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Here in Arizona - where we have the chance to flip multiple House seats next year - to rally against the Republican health care cuts and their billionaire tax breaks! On stage RIGHT NOW with @jasmineforus.bsky.social and @yassaminansari.bsky.social Live stream here: youtube.com/live/qEmuKM_...
Won't Back Down Tour: Phoenix AZ
YouTube video by Chris Murphy
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August 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Here in Arizona - where we have the chance to flip multiple House seats next year - to rally against the Republican health care cuts and their billionaire tax breaks! On stage RIGHT NOW with @jasmineforus.bsky.social and @yassaminansari.bsky.social Live stream here: youtube.com/live/qEmuKM_...
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
(Published April)
(Published April)
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
www.propublica.org
August 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
(Published April)
(Published April)
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I'm mostly trying to tune out the outside world. (I gave birth a week ago.) But between Trump firing BLS commissioner & suddenly finding an opening on the Fed board, today seems like a dark turning point for the US economy.
I fear we've just met 2 horsemen of the turning-into-Venezuela-pocalypse
I fear we've just met 2 horsemen of the turning-into-Venezuela-pocalypse
August 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I'm mostly trying to tune out the outside world. (I gave birth a week ago.) But between Trump firing BLS commissioner & suddenly finding an opening on the Fed board, today seems like a dark turning point for the US economy.
I fear we've just met 2 horsemen of the turning-into-Venezuela-pocalypse
I fear we've just met 2 horsemen of the turning-into-Venezuela-pocalypse
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YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHO WROTE THIS AXIOS STORY ABOUT JOE BIDEN. NOPE, NEVER. 🙃
Re-election incentives: Biden's top political aide Mike Donilon was paid $4 million for his work on Biden's 2024 re-election campaign and would have made an additional $4 million if Biden had won.
www.axios.com/2025/07/31/d...
www.axios.com/2025/07/31/d...
Scoop: Top Biden aide was promised $8 million for 2024 win
Donilon's testimony shows he had a financial incentive for Biden to run for re-election.
www.axios.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHO WROTE THIS AXIOS STORY ABOUT JOE BIDEN. NOPE, NEVER. 🙃
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“The origins of private schools receiving public funds were with the segregation academies,” one historian said.
(Published Nov. 2024)
(Published Nov. 2024)
Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s
ProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program.
www.propublica.org
July 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“The origins of private schools receiving public funds were with the segregation academies,” one historian said.
(Published Nov. 2024)
(Published Nov. 2024)
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"The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit display."
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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit display."
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this reminds me of the period in american politics when pundits would demand that any black politician of note — really, any black person in politics with a national audience — “condemn farrakhan”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro chides Zohran Mamdani for not condemning other people’s antisemitism:
“He left open far too much space for extremists to either use his words or for him to not condemn the words of extremists that said some blatantly antisemitic things.”
“He left open far too much space for extremists to either use his words or for him to not condemn the words of extremists that said some blatantly antisemitic things.”
Shapiro rebukes Mamdani for failing to condemn ‘blatantly antisemitic’ extremists
The Pennsylvania governor told JI: ‘When supporters of yours say things that are blatantly antisemitic, you can't leave room for that to just sit there’
jewishinsider.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
this reminds me of the period in american politics when pundits would demand that any black politician of note — really, any black person in politics with a national audience — “condemn farrakhan”