Cliff Cheney
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This is a clearly impeachable offense he’s reportedly going to finish committing tomorrow. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...
Trump poised to fire US attorney for resisting effort to charge NY AG Letitia James: Sources
President Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney in Eastern Virginia after he was unable to find evidence of mortgage fraud against NY AG Letitia James, sources say.
abcnews.go.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
This is a clearly impeachable offense he’s reportedly going to finish committing tomorrow. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
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Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
April 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
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‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown
‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown
Palestinians trying to access Christianity's holiest sites in the Old City of Jerusalem face restrictions and hostility
As the bells rang out across the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the priests began to sing a deep, low prayer. Heads bowed over candles, and escorted by people bearing aloft large gold crosses, they made their way to a platform at the heart of the ancient square.
The ceremony on Holy Thursday, in which the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem washes the feet of 12 monastic priests to commemorate the Last Supper, is one of many Easter rituals that have taken place in the Old City of Jerusalem for hundreds of years. For Christians, there is no holier place to commemorate Easter than here, the site where they believe Jesus Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown
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Lot of people dunking on this clip, but Murkowski, asked for advice for people who are afraid to speak up, acknowledges that she shares that fear.
But she then says it's "not right" that people are made to be afraid of retaliation for speaking up, and says it won't stop her from doing her job.
But she then says it's "not right" that people are made to be afraid of retaliation for speaking up, and says it won't stop her from doing her job.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."
April 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Lot of people dunking on this clip, but Murkowski, asked for advice for people who are afraid to speak up, acknowledges that she shares that fear.
But she then says it's "not right" that people are made to be afraid of retaliation for speaking up, and says it won't stop her from doing her job.
But she then says it's "not right" that people are made to be afraid of retaliation for speaking up, and says it won't stop her from doing her job.
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El Salvador’s government rebuffed a request Wednesday from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) to free Kilmar Abrego García, whose case has become a flash point in the battle over President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign since the administration mistakenly deported him last month.
El Salvador refuses to allow senator to meet with mistakenly deported man
Maryland senator tries to visit Abrego García in El Salvador
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
El Salvador’s government rebuffed a request Wednesday from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) to free Kilmar Abrego García, whose case has become a flash point in the battle over President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign since the administration mistakenly deported him last month.
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"Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times ... Nominee Ed Martin did not initially disclose his RT and Sputnik appearances from 2016 to 2024 to the Senate." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times
Trump nominee Ed Martin’s 100-plus appearances on Russian state-directed media RT and Sputnik from 2016 to 2024 alarm some former national security officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times ... Nominee Ed Martin did not initially disclose his RT and Sputnik appearances from 2016 to 2024 to the Senate." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower
There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
April 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower
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I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
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Yesterday’s smug briefing between Bukele and Trump was (is) a criminal conspiracy to deprive an individual (many individuals) of their rights, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 242.
Thanks to the Supreme Court, though, it’s an “official act” that is immune from prosecution. Forever.
Thanks to the Supreme Court, though, it’s an “official act” that is immune from prosecution. Forever.
April 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Yesterday’s smug briefing between Bukele and Trump was (is) a criminal conspiracy to deprive an individual (many individuals) of their rights, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 242.
Thanks to the Supreme Court, though, it’s an “official act” that is immune from prosecution. Forever.
Thanks to the Supreme Court, though, it’s an “official act” that is immune from prosecution. Forever.
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There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
April 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
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As far as I'm aware, the first documented spike in data leaving an agency after DOGE infiltration. Extensive forensic evidence.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
April 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As far as I'm aware, the first documented spike in data leaving an agency after DOGE infiltration. Extensive forensic evidence.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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MIT following Harvard's lead here
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
MIT following Harvard's lead here
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The White House wants Harvard to agree to appoint some Trump-approved audit committee to screen the political opinions of the students.
April 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The White House wants Harvard to agree to appoint some Trump-approved audit committee to screen the political opinions of the students.
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FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, I am re-upping this story @swin24.bsky.social and I wrote about the last Trump administration. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's White House Was 'Awash in Speed' -- and Xanax
Under Trump, the White House Medical Unit was “like the Wild West,” and staffers had easy access to powerful stimulants and sedatives, sources say.
www.rollingstone.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, I am re-upping this story @swin24.bsky.social and I wrote about the last Trump administration. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Students at UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, Harvard, Univ. of Michigan, UCLA, Arizona State, Cornell, Univ. of Oregon, Univ. of Texas, North Carolina State, Univ. of Colorado, Univ. of Minnesota, Minnesota State and more have all had visas revoked with NO DUE PROCESS (links below)
April 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Students at UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, Harvard, Univ. of Michigan, UCLA, Arizona State, Cornell, Univ. of Oregon, Univ. of Texas, North Carolina State, Univ. of Colorado, Univ. of Minnesota, Minnesota State and more have all had visas revoked with NO DUE PROCESS (links below)
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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
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I like posting on BlueSky because I think I’m the most right-wing person who uses this service.
April 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I like posting on BlueSky because I think I’m the most right-wing person who uses this service.
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I will say that it is funny that three positions that were the core of my youth: the current neoliberal trade regime is bad, the Iraq War is a monstrous mistake and George W Bush sucks, have now become right-wing canon.
April 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I will say that it is funny that three positions that were the core of my youth: the current neoliberal trade regime is bad, the Iraq War is a monstrous mistake and George W Bush sucks, have now become right-wing canon.
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Breaking News: The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, warned that President Trump’s tariffs risked even higher inflation and slower growth than initially expected.
Powell Warns Trump’s Tariffs Risk Stoking Even Higher Inflation and Slower Growth
Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, says the central bank’s “obligation” is to ensure that a “one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem.”
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Breaking News: The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, warned that President Trump’s tariffs risked even higher inflation and slower growth than initially expected.