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The GOP's extremism problem and what it means for national security : Sources & Methods
Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and now the right is divided on whether that’s okay.Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Odette Yousef, a national security correspondent focus...
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Scary times for Republicans. They're having an actual debate about blood-and-soil nationalism vs civic nationalism/ fidelity to the Constitution. Fuentes has defended Hitler, praised Jim Crow, and denied the Holocaust. Why is this a national security threat? Well, look at Jan. 6 (Fuentes was there).
How is this still happening in 2025? 13 infants hospitalized for botulism contaminated ByHeart formula. The 2022 crisis exposed similar oversight and manufacturing failures with Abbott. 3 years later, gaps are still there, and Trump’s FDA cuts only make things worse.
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
How is this still happening in 2025? 13 infants hospitalized for botulism contaminated ByHeart formula. The 2022 crisis exposed similar oversight and manufacturing failures with Abbott. 3 years later, gaps are still there, and Trump’s FDA cuts only make things worse.
Electric bills are up 40% since 2020. AI data centers are eating power, Trump’s tariffs raised costs, and his attacks on green energy stalled projects utilities were counting on. The grid’s getting squeezed from every direction, and we’re footing the bill.
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Electric bills are up 40% since 2020. AI data centers are eating power, Trump’s tariffs raised costs, and his attacks on green energy stalled projects utilities were counting on. The grid’s getting squeezed from every direction, and we’re footing the bill.
Trump’s pardoning the people who tried to make the Big Lie real. This is the normalization of domestic extremism and a reward for those who undermined democracy. @democracydocket.com has great coverage of this.
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Trump’s pardoning the people who tried to make the Big Lie real. This is the normalization of domestic extremism and a reward for those who undermined democracy. @democracydocket.com has great coverage of this.
Even a broken clock’s bound to be right twice a day.
For once, the Supreme Court got it right by doing nothing at all. In rejecting a bid to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges the landmark 2015 ruling that guaranteed marriage equality nationwide the Court sent a quiet but powerful message:
Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn landmark same-sex marriage decision
The Supreme Court rejected a bid by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis to overturn its landmark decision on same-sex marriage.
www.cbsnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Even a broken clock’s bound to be right twice a day.
The science exists, the tools exist, the lessons learned exist. What’s missing is leadership, coordination, and willpower. The next one won’t wait for us to get serious.
"Pandemics are a choice"
Another article talking about COVID in the past tense. The pandemic didn’t end. Transmission continues, long COVID continues, and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. The “tools to stop the next pandemic” are the same tools we should be using now.
Source: archive.li/fLf7a
Another article talking about COVID in the past tense. The pandemic didn’t end. Transmission continues, long COVID continues, and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. The “tools to stop the next pandemic” are the same tools we should be using now.
Source: archive.li/fLf7a
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The science exists, the tools exist, the lessons learned exist. What’s missing is leadership, coordination, and willpower. The next one won’t wait for us to get serious.
Just like the pardons for the January 6th rioters who beat and traumatized police officers, this sends a message: loyalty to Trump over loyalty to the Constitution will be rewarded. Crimes against democracy continue to go unpunished.
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Just like the pardons for the January 6th rioters who beat and traumatized police officers, this sends a message: loyalty to Trump over loyalty to the Constitution will be rewarded. Crimes against democracy continue to go unpunished.
Another pardoned Jan 6 rioter in the headlines for violent crimes. So many extremists who should’ve been serving time were pardoned and set free by Trump. Let us remember: 140+ officers were injured that day, 5 died, either during the attack or from suicide from the severe mental/ emotional trauma.
A Donald Trump supporter who fired off a gun during the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol was arrested last month on kidnapping and sexual assault charges, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois.
Former Jan. 6 defendant arrested on kidnapping and aggravated assault charges
The Utah man was previously charged with firing a gun outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Another pardoned Jan 6 rioter in the headlines for violent crimes. So many extremists who should’ve been serving time were pardoned and set free by Trump. Let us remember: 140+ officers were injured that day, 5 died, either during the attack or from suicide from the severe mental/ emotional trauma.
Trust in gov. has been falling for decades and it’s easy to see why. People are living it. The avg first-time homebuyer is 40 now. Wages are stagnant. Healthcare’s unaffordable. This is alongside trust in media, science, and even each other that also keeps tanking. There’s gotta be a breaking point.
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Trust in gov. has been falling for decades and it’s easy to see why. People are living it. The avg first-time homebuyer is 40 now. Wages are stagnant. Healthcare’s unaffordable. This is alongside trust in media, science, and even each other that also keeps tanking. There’s gotta be a breaking point.
When you gut aid programs, children die. Hundreds of thousands already have. The human cost is staggering.
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
When you gut aid programs, children die. Hundreds of thousands already have. The human cost is staggering.
Millions of families are skipping meals while the billionaire president renovates his bathroom, builds a ballroom, and throws Gatsby parties. Trump’s probably never even grocery-shopped in his life. He talks about “groceries” like it’s a foreign word. We have an out-of-touch sadist in charge.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Millions of families are skipping meals while the billionaire president renovates his bathroom, builds a ballroom, and throws Gatsby parties. Trump’s probably never even grocery-shopped in his life. He talks about “groceries” like it’s a foreign word. We have an out-of-touch sadist in charge.
Resharing this 🧵 because it’s scary as hell. A movement inside the GOP that’s gone from dog whistles to Hitler references. An entire generation is being radicalized by influencers while party leaders look away. If only we had a president with the moral clarity to use the bully pulpit to squash this.
Scary times for Republicans. They're having an actual debate about blood-and-soil nationalism vs civic nationalism/ fidelity to the Constitution. Fuentes has defended Hitler, praised Jim Crow, and denied the Holocaust. Why is this a national security threat? Well, look at Jan. 6 (Fuentes was there).
The GOP's extremism problem and what it means for national security : Sources & Methods
Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and now the right is divided on whether that’s okay.Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Odette Yousef, a national security correspondent focus...
www.npr.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Resharing this 🧵 because it’s scary as hell. A movement inside the GOP that’s gone from dog whistles to Hitler references. An entire generation is being radicalized by influencers while party leaders look away. If only we had a president with the moral clarity to use the bully pulpit to squash this.
Scary times for Republicans. They're having an actual debate about blood-and-soil nationalism vs civic nationalism/ fidelity to the Constitution. Fuentes has defended Hitler, praised Jim Crow, and denied the Holocaust. Why is this a national security threat? Well, look at Jan. 6 (Fuentes was there).
The GOP's extremism problem and what it means for national security : Sources & Methods
Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and now the right is divided on whether that’s okay.Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Odette Yousef, a national security correspondent focus...
www.npr.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Scary times for Republicans. They're having an actual debate about blood-and-soil nationalism vs civic nationalism/ fidelity to the Constitution. Fuentes has defended Hitler, praised Jim Crow, and denied the Holocaust. Why is this a national security threat? Well, look at Jan. 6 (Fuentes was there).
This is fucking insane. Hegseth has fired or sidelined 2 dozen generals and admirals in under a year. No reason, no transparency, nothing. These are combat vets who bled for this country. You don’t gut the chain of command like this unless you’re trying to break it for political reasons.
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Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is fucking insane. Hegseth has fired or sidelined 2 dozen generals and admirals in under a year. No reason, no transparency, nothing. These are combat vets who bled for this country. You don’t gut the chain of command like this unless you’re trying to break it for political reasons.
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Foreign food inspections have fallen to historic lows after Trump’s staffing cuts gutted the FDA’s global oversight teams. Factories making seafood, fruit, and processed food for U.S. stores are going unchecked, even as inspectors have found filth, pests, and falsified safety data in past visits.
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Foreign food inspections have fallen to historic lows after Trump’s staffing cuts gutted the FDA’s global oversight teams. Factories making seafood, fruit, and processed food for U.S. stores are going unchecked, even as inspectors have found filth, pests, and falsified safety data in past visits.
Trump’s nuclear testing social media posts triggered panic abroad and confusion at home. Russia is now preparing its own tests, but U.S. officials clarified there will be no nuclear detonations. The tests are focused on components and simulations at the Nevada National Security Site.
US Will Not Conduct Nuclear Explosions Despite Trump Order
Energy Secretary Christ Wright clarified on that the United States will conduct noncritical system tests rather than actual nuclear explosions, following President Trump's announcement last week order...
ground.news
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Trump’s nuclear testing social media posts triggered panic abroad and confusion at home. Russia is now preparing its own tests, but U.S. officials clarified there will be no nuclear detonations. The tests are focused on components and simulations at the Nevada National Security Site.
We need more everyday Americans in leadership, people who pump their own gas, buy their own groceries, and live in the same world as the rest of us. Not out-of-touch billionaires obsessing over ballrooms and gold toilets. Leadership should come from experience, not entitlement.
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
We need more everyday Americans in leadership, people who pump their own gas, buy their own groceries, and live in the same world as the rest of us. Not out-of-touch billionaires obsessing over ballrooms and gold toilets. Leadership should come from experience, not entitlement.
Wow, so shocking, not! People have warned about this for months. Masks, no badges, unmarked cars, generic "police" vests, plain clothes. Impersonation gets easy. It took kidnappings and assaults for the FBI to warn about it.
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In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes. www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Wow, so shocking, not! People have warned about this for months. Masks, no badges, unmarked cars, generic "police" vests, plain clothes. Impersonation gets easy. It took kidnappings and assaults for the FBI to warn about it.
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We saw this same thing in '24 with fake bomb threats at polling places. Now, with AI, the volume and realism of these threats could explode. Cyber actors (foreign + domestic) use them to sow chaos and suppress turnout. No one should fear voting safely. We need faster ways to separate fake from real.
Breaking from NJ AG Platkin:
"Early this morning, law enforcement responded to threats that were received by email involving certain polling places in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties. Law enforcement … have worked swiftly to secure these polling locations."
"Early this morning, law enforcement responded to threats that were received by email involving certain polling places in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties. Law enforcement … have worked swiftly to secure these polling locations."
November 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We saw this same thing in '24 with fake bomb threats at polling places. Now, with AI, the volume and realism of these threats could explode. Cyber actors (foreign + domestic) use them to sow chaos and suppress turnout. No one should fear voting safely. We need faster ways to separate fake from real.
Our information ecosystem is broken, even legacy outlets platform AI slop. Fox ran a fake AI video as real, then tried to gloss over it. Imagine this during the 2026/28 elections, or the next major disaster. The misinfo after Helene was bad enough. I fear this'll get worse before it gets better.
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Fox News' Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi Duped By AI Video
Fox News is drawing heat from media industry observers for getting duped by an AI-generated video — and then failing to take full accountability for the error.
www.mediaite.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Our information ecosystem is broken, even legacy outlets platform AI slop. Fox ran a fake AI video as real, then tried to gloss over it. Imagine this during the 2026/28 elections, or the next major disaster. The misinfo after Helene was bad enough. I fear this'll get worse before it gets better.
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Apparently it takes a federal judge to convince the government that ppl still need to eat. Guess families will have to eat less this month. USDA says it will use $4.65 billion in emergency funds to cover partial payments, but no new applicants will get help. Nearly 42 million Americans rely on it.
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Apparently it takes a federal judge to convince the government that ppl still need to eat. Guess families will have to eat less this month. USDA says it will use $4.65 billion in emergency funds to cover partial payments, but no new applicants will get help. Nearly 42 million Americans rely on it.
Pet owners are refusing rabies vaccines because of ‘pawtism’ fears. Anti-vax conspiracies have gone so far off the rails they’re endangering dogs. Rabies is 100% fatal once symptoms start. Misinformation is spreading faster than the viruses these days.
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Vaccine Skepticism Comes for Pet Owners, Too
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Pet owners are refusing rabies vaccines because of ‘pawtism’ fears. Anti-vax conspiracies have gone so far off the rails they’re endangering dogs. Rabies is 100% fatal once symptoms start. Misinformation is spreading faster than the viruses these days.
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'The cumulative effect of multiple reinforcing dynamics is placing the nation on a trajectory toward competitive authoritarianism: a system in which elections, courts, and other democratic institutions persist in form but are systematically manipulated to entrench executive control.'
Let’s help get this report out. 27 pages of talking points to your GOP family or parents deliver on Thanksgiving. Send to your reps. Email the pdf call their office request they read it. GOP staffers do answer their home office lines sometimes.
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Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline
The Steady State | October 16, 2025
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
'The cumulative effect of multiple reinforcing dynamics is placing the nation on a trajectory toward competitive authoritarianism: a system in which elections, courts, and other democratic institutions persist in form but are systematically manipulated to entrench executive control.'
🎃 There are plenty of scary things this Halloween: rising extremism, an authoritarian takeover of our federal government, masked federal agents in U.S. cities, and citizens radicalized by algorithms built to divide us. The scariest thing isn’t in a haunted house. It’s in the White House.
It feels like a timely moment to talk about authoritarianism in the United States. Not enough people in homeland security, preparedness, and policy circles are acknowledging what we’re seeing in plain sight, and what it means.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
🎃 There are plenty of scary things this Halloween: rising extremism, an authoritarian takeover of our federal government, masked federal agents in U.S. cities, and citizens radicalized by algorithms built to divide us. The scariest thing isn’t in a haunted house. It’s in the White House.
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NEWS: The Trump admin's decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the shutdown has been blocked. In two cases, both judges found the government action is likely illegal. Although a judge in Mass gave the admin until Monday to reverse course, a judge in Rhode Island issued a TRO from the bench today.
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ET AL.,
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ET AL.,
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Civil Action No. 1:25-cv-13165-IT
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
October 31, 2025
TALWANI, D.J.
Pending before the court is Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order [Doc.
No. 3] seeking to enjoin, on an emergency basis, Defendants' November 1, 2025 suspension of benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ("SNAP"). For the reasons stated
below, Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action and are likely to succeed on their claim that
Defendants' suspension of SNAP benefits is unlawful. Where that suspension of benefits rested
on an erroneous construction of the relevant statutory provisions, the court will allow Defendants
to consider whether they will authorize at least reduced SNAP benefits for November, and report
back to the court no later than Monday, November 3, 2025.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiczapq36myqhzcrdp4jfodg5rkso7nuvlta4e5b5r4l5upce7b3le@jpeg)
![As both parties acknowledge, Congress has not yet appropriated any new funds for SNAP
benefits for Fiscal Year 2026, which began on October 1, 2025. Pls.' Mem. 6 [Doc. No. 4];
Defs.' Opp'n 7 [Doc. No. 18]. But Congress took steps to protect against the deprivation of
SNAP assistance. In the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Pub. L. No. 118-42, § 6, 138
Stat. 25, 93-94, Congress separately appropriated $6 billion to the SNAP program "to remain available through September 30, 2026" and "be placed in reserve for use only in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations." See also Pub. L.
No. 119-4, § 1101(a), 139 Stat. 9, 10 (2025). As Plaintiffs point out, given the mandatory nature
of SNAP benefits under 7 U.S.C. § 2014(a) and the appropriation of these funds to be available
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Case 1:25-cv-13165-IT
Document 26 Filed 10/31/25
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through this current fiscal year, the government is obligated to use this contingent reserve
account to fund SNAP "as may become necessary to carry out program operations." 138 Stat. at
93-94; Pls.' Mem. 11 [Doc. No. 4].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiac7aa6icx44x5xjkilpwj7il5oriyttttnrslzrhkwvw6b32cbnm@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
NEWS: The Trump admin's decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the shutdown has been blocked. In two cases, both judges found the government action is likely illegal. Although a judge in Mass gave the admin until Monday to reverse course, a judge in Rhode Island issued a TRO from the bench today.
Breaking: 'A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funds to pay for food stamps during the federal shutdown. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, aids roughly 42 million people and was set to run out of funds on Saturday without intervention.' (NYT)
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Breaking: 'A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funds to pay for food stamps during the federal shutdown. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, aids roughly 42 million people and was set to run out of funds on Saturday without intervention.' (NYT)