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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this:
Democrats are amplifying pressure on the Trump administration to produce evidence that last week’s military strike in the Caribbean Sea killed 11 drug smugglers, as lawmakers from both parties question the legal basis for the surprise use of force.
Democrats pressure Trump to show proof deadly boat strike was legal
The incident has frustrated lawmakers from both parties who’ve questioned why the administration has not publicly disclosed evidence to back up its claims.
wapo.st
September 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this:
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So let me get this straight. Trump fired close to 25% of the National Park Service's workforce, whose job it is to maintain DC's public landscape. And in their place we are using the National Guard, who have been yanked away from their own jobs and careers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
National Guard troops deployed in D.C. add sanitation, landscaping duties
Service members say they’re glad to help the National Park Service. But some question if trash removal and groundskeeping are an appropriate use of the military.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
So let me get this straight. Trump fired close to 25% of the National Park Service's workforce, whose job it is to maintain DC's public landscape. And in their place we are using the National Guard, who have been yanked away from their own jobs and careers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Being awful to Americans who honorably served the country for nearly two decades, just to be bigots.
BREAKING: The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.
US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service
The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.
bit.ly
August 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Being awful to Americans who honorably served the country for nearly two decades, just to be bigots.
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The CFPB has returned more than $21 billion directly to consumers who got ripped off. Republicans in Congress have seen it work for families across the country – but they’re trying to kill the agency anyway.
August 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The CFPB has returned more than $21 billion directly to consumers who got ripped off. Republicans in Congress have seen it work for families across the country – but they’re trying to kill the agency anyway.
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food delivery was never the problem and has never been the problem.
the problem is tech companies inserting themselves into the delivery economy and taking a significant cut of what would be paid to the driver and the restaurant.
the problem, as always, is tech-fueled labor exploitation.
the problem is tech companies inserting themselves into the delivery economy and taking a significant cut of what would be paid to the driver and the restaurant.
the problem, as always, is tech-fueled labor exploitation.
Burrito taxi is one of the fundamental discourses of social media. Amazing how persistent it is. What does it say about modern society? What it says about the demographics of social media? What does it say about political ideology/incoherence?
July 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
food delivery was never the problem and has never been the problem.
the problem is tech companies inserting themselves into the delivery economy and taking a significant cut of what would be paid to the driver and the restaurant.
the problem, as always, is tech-fueled labor exploitation.
the problem is tech companies inserting themselves into the delivery economy and taking a significant cut of what would be paid to the driver and the restaurant.
the problem, as always, is tech-fueled labor exploitation.
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It's not just ICE agents covering their faces -- even some ICE lawyers are hiding their identities from the public now, with the approval of immigration judges. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.
theintercept.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It's not just ICE agents covering their faces -- even some ICE lawyers are hiding their identities from the public now, with the approval of immigration judges. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
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impossible to take the USA rhetoric of freedom seriously when people are snatched off the streets by masked govt agents for writing an op-ed, elected officials are thrown to ground and handcuffed for asking questions, trump believes the govt is his personal plaything and that laws don't apply to him
Hard to take seriously the red-white-and-blue rhetoric of freedom on a 4th of July where the US president has cut off aid to a democracy fighting for its independence against ferocious attack by a foreign tyrant.
July 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
impossible to take the USA rhetoric of freedom seriously when people are snatched off the streets by masked govt agents for writing an op-ed, elected officials are thrown to ground and handcuffed for asking questions, trump believes the govt is his personal plaything and that laws don't apply to him
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Just to state the stupidly obvious: This is treatment the United States has subjected HUNDREDS of men to without trial or process, the vast majority of whom have no criminal record of any kind. (Not, of course, that it would be acceptable if they did.)
Here’s Abrego Garcia’s amended complaint.
It alleges that Abrego Garcia “was subjected to severe mistreatment upon arrival at CECOT, including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation,
inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture..”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It alleges that Abrego Garcia “was subjected to severe mistreatment upon arrival at CECOT, including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation,
inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture..”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
July 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Just to state the stupidly obvious: This is treatment the United States has subjected HUNDREDS of men to without trial or process, the vast majority of whom have no criminal record of any kind. (Not, of course, that it would be acceptable if they did.)
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.
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I think it's important we call out Nazi tactics wherever they are and whomever they are targeting. Right now, they're being used against immigrants and trans people. If we don't nip it now, it'll be someone else next.
April 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I think it's important we call out Nazi tactics wherever they are and whomever they are targeting. Right now, they're being used against immigrants and trans people. If we don't nip it now, it'll be someone else next.
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I hate to be that guy, but this is the five-alarm fire, and every elected Democrat and frankly, every Washington reporter should be ringing the bell. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. Nobody with a voice should give this administration a moment’s peace about it.
NEW: A second filing today from the DOJ tells Judge Xinis that in their view, since Mr. Abrego is in Bukele's custody, she can't order them to do anything further to bring him back since that's not what "facilitate" means.
They also say the deal with Bukele is classified and/or a state secret.
They also say the deal with Bukele is classified and/or a state secret.
April 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I hate to be that guy, but this is the five-alarm fire, and every elected Democrat and frankly, every Washington reporter should be ringing the bell. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. Nobody with a voice should give this administration a moment’s peace about it.
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We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid. “The administration could create its own gulags with no more judicial review than existed when Stalin did the same thing in the Soviet Union.” [nytimes.com]
Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid. “The administration could create its own gulags with no more judicial review than existed when Stalin did the same thing in the Soviet Union.” [nytimes.com]
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“a researcher who was not involved in the study called the results “remarkable” because they highlight a path to a frustratingly elusive goal in medicine — harnessing a person’s own immune defenses to target common solid tumor cancers.”
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are disrupting a breakthrough cancer treatment so they can fund tax cuts for billionaires.
Tell your friends.
Tell your friends.
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
“a researcher who was not involved in the study called the results “remarkable” because they highlight a path to a frustratingly elusive goal in medicine — harnessing a person’s own immune defenses to target common solid tumor cancers.”
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"There’s still plenty of time left for 1933 to be our year. Politics will come and go, but I’m sure when I look back on this period, what I’ll remember most will be the work that I completed on schedule."
I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now?
Guten tag. I’m just wondering if anybody else can relate to this feeling I’ve been having that I just can’t shake. It’s only Tuesday, but what a we...
www.mcsweeneys.net
April 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"There’s still plenty of time left for 1933 to be our year. Politics will come and go, but I’m sure when I look back on this period, what I’ll remember most will be the work that I completed on schedule."
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As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.
THIS IS HUGE! A cancer vaccine developed by Yale University and DFCI shows MAJOR promise. Results of an early-phase trial reveal ALL patients with ADVANCED stage kidney cancer had successful anti-cancer immune responses AND have remained CANCER-FREE approximately THREE years after treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️
February 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.
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Or -- hear me out, this is a pretty wild idea -- instead of cutting anything, they could just raise taxes on corporations and billionaires a little bit and then we'd have plenty of money for everything.
The math of GOP planning points to Medicaid as the big target of spending cuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
What Can House Republicans Cut Instead of Medicaid? Not Much.
The math of the G.O.P.’s goals makes the move almost unavoidable.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Or -- hear me out, this is a pretty wild idea -- instead of cutting anything, they could just raise taxes on corporations and billionaires a little bit and then we'd have plenty of money for everything.
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The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.
February 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.
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What are the odds a media organization is barred from covering Trump for saying Russia invaded Ukraine? Serious question. Why the AP holding the line is so essential.
February 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
What are the odds a media organization is barred from covering Trump for saying Russia invaded Ukraine? Serious question. Why the AP holding the line is so essential.
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Watching Turbotax put on a super bowl ad the same week the GOP oligarchs kill Direct File is a bit much.
February 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Watching Turbotax put on a super bowl ad the same week the GOP oligarchs kill Direct File is a bit much.
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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
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2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
February 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.