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Justice Elena Kagan is calling out the Supreme Court’s right wing majority for its blatant disregard for facts. slate.trib.al/pdCeAiO
The Roberts Majority Has Given Up Pretending To Care About Facts
It’s Christmas all year round in Samuel Alito’s election jurisprudence
slate.trib.al
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Justice Elena Kagan is calling out the Supreme Court’s right wing majority for its blatant disregard for facts. slate.trib.al/pdCeAiO
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OPINION: "As a Black woman living in Trump’s America, I can’t help but wonder if Pantone’s choice of Cloud Dancer was much more of a nefarious harbinger than they perhaps realized." — Inquirer columnist Elizabeth Wellington
White is the 2026 Pantone Color of the Year. They say the choice isn’t political.
www.inquirer.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
OPINION: "As a Black woman living in Trump’s America, I can’t help but wonder if Pantone’s choice of Cloud Dancer was much more of a nefarious harbinger than they perhaps realized." — Inquirer columnist Elizabeth Wellington
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Really welcome the clarity of this headline from the @thebulwark.com:
“RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves”
No dancing around the key fact- it’s all about anti-vaxx. Other headline writers should take note.
“RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves”
No dancing around the key fact- it’s all about anti-vaxx. Other headline writers should take note.
NEW: The CDC's outside advisory committee on vaccines is having its next meeting this week—so get ready for the dangerous next anti-vax moves from RFK Jr.'s handpicked team.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
www.thebulwark.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Really welcome the clarity of this headline from the @thebulwark.com:
“RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves”
No dancing around the key fact- it’s all about anti-vaxx. Other headline writers should take note.
“RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves”
No dancing around the key fact- it’s all about anti-vaxx. Other headline writers should take note.
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As the descendant of people who were forcibly brought here in the early 18th century by Dutch and British slavers, please Representative, tell me more about "what American is all about."
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
As the descendant of people who were forcibly brought here in the early 18th century by Dutch and British slavers, please Representative, tell me more about "what American is all about."
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Anyway China is absolutely kicking our ass. It has made a clear-eyed strategic decision to pursue a clean economy & is investing accordingly. We're flailing around like drunken dipshits, suppressing our domestic renewables, shoveling subsidies at coal, & killing random Venezuelan fishermen.
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Anyway China is absolutely kicking our ass. It has made a clear-eyed strategic decision to pursue a clean economy & is investing accordingly. We're flailing around like drunken dipshits, suppressing our domestic renewables, shoveling subsidies at coal, & killing random Venezuelan fishermen.
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Meanwhile, Trump said he would pardon the ex-president of Honduras, who was convicted of drug trafficking.
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Meanwhile, Trump said he would pardon the ex-president of Honduras, who was convicted of drug trafficking.
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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When Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern send material asking for donations, do they include links to a Trump SuperPAC so donors don't have to bother with a middle man?
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
When Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern send material asking for donations, do they include links to a Trump SuperPAC so donors don't have to bother with a middle man?
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This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
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In new video and written analysis tried to make some sense of this momentous week. The bottom line - Trump is a very weakened figure, and Democrats need to ambitious and aggressive in challenging him now 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/epstein-el...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/epstein-el...
Epstein, Election Blowout, Failed Government - Trump And His Presidency Are In Deep Trouble
People are pissed, and we need to keep fighting
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In new video and written analysis tried to make some sense of this momentous week. The bottom line - Trump is a very weakened figure, and Democrats need to ambitious and aggressive in challenging him now 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/epstein-el...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/epstein-el...
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Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
So Democrats get:
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
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if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
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"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
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The mayor of Evanston, Illinois, says he is opening two investigations after federal agents were filmed pinning down and repeatedly striking a person in the head as they arrested him. https://cnn.it/3WxkK51
Evanston mayor says he’s opening investigations after federal agents are filmed punching person | CNN
The mayor of Evanston, Illinois, says he is opening two investigations after federal agents were filmed pinning down and repeatedly striking a person in the head as they arrested him Friday.
cnn.it
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The mayor of Evanston, Illinois, says he is opening two investigations after federal agents were filmed pinning down and repeatedly striking a person in the head as they arrested him. https://cnn.it/3WxkK51
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It probably doesn’t matter but I would be flooding the zone with images of the White House destruction right now.
October 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It probably doesn’t matter but I would be flooding the zone with images of the White House destruction right now.
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Agree with @gregsargent.bsky.social here.
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Agree with @gregsargent.bsky.social here.
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Tom Homan reportedly accepted $50,000 stuffed into a takeout bag from undercover F.B.I. agents. We must continue to ask where the money went, Ruth Marcus writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zn2Q1B
October 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Tom Homan reportedly accepted $50,000 stuffed into a takeout bag from undercover F.B.I. agents. We must continue to ask where the money went, Ruth Marcus writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zn2Q1B
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This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
October 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
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You know what to do fam.
Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
You know what to do fam.
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BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
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In a new video, Pope Leo tells U.S. bishops they must be even more united and forceful in fighting Donald Trump’s abuse of migrants.
Pope Leo Presses U.S. Bishops to Fight Harder Against Trump Deportation Raids
While some bishops have spoken up, the pope says the entire Church must act “with one voice” against cruelty at the border.
open.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In a new video, Pope Leo tells U.S. bishops they must be even more united and forceful in fighting Donald Trump’s abuse of migrants.
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Some cases take on outsized importance, with issues that transcend the decision the parties ask the courts to make. This is one of those cases. The stakes are high: the integrity of the Justice Department and the ability of a president to corrupt the rule of law. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution
This morning at 10 a.m., former FBI Director Jim Comey was arraigned in federal court.
open.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Some cases take on outsized importance, with issues that transcend the decision the parties ask the courts to make. This is one of those cases. The stakes are high: the integrity of the Justice Department and the ability of a president to corrupt the rule of law. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...