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Well said, Pete Buttigieg
January 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Well said, Pete Buttigieg
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Camps. He’s describing a concentration camp.
Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
January 30, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Camps. He’s describing a concentration camp.
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January 29, 2025
January 29, 2025
In a conversation with Greg Sargent of the New Republic published today, writer Amanda Marcotte called out an important moment in White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s first press conference ...
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January 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
January 29, 2025
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January 28. 2025
January 28, 2025
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump distanced himself from Project 2025, a plan for a second Trump term prepared by a number of right-wing institutions led by the Heritage Foundation.
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January 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
January 28. 2025
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No. The Medicaid portals were shut down because the OMB demanded they be. They’re only back up because of the outcry. I’d tell you to stop lying but we know that’s a feature of this administration.
January 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
No. The Medicaid portals were shut down because the OMB demanded they be. They’re only back up because of the outcry. I’d tell you to stop lying but we know that’s a feature of this administration.
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When the president, on every issue, says that he will decide what he is allowed to do under the Constitution and nobody else, every appointee and member of his party obeys because they are either corrupt or afraid of him, and SCOTUS has given him immunity, you have an autocracy.
January 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
When the president, on every issue, says that he will decide what he is allowed to do under the Constitution and nobody else, every appointee and member of his party obeys because they are either corrupt or afraid of him, and SCOTUS has given him immunity, you have an autocracy.
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As an attorney, I submitted a FOIA to the DOJ for the names, charges, convictions, & sentences of each of the 1500 insurrectionists Trump pardoned.
Trump wiped clean the DOJ website of their names—which is unacceptable Govt censorship.
Today, the DOJ responded: www.qasimrashid.com/p/i-filed-a-...
Trump wiped clean the DOJ website of their names—which is unacceptable Govt censorship.
Today, the DOJ responded: www.qasimrashid.com/p/i-filed-a-...
I Filed A FOIA Challenging the Trump Regime
Trump is protecting Jan 6 insurrectionists by wiping their names from the DOJ website, so I filed a FOIA to force DOJ to release their names—and they responded
www.qasimrashid.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
As an attorney, I submitted a FOIA to the DOJ for the names, charges, convictions, & sentences of each of the 1500 insurrectionists Trump pardoned.
Trump wiped clean the DOJ website of their names—which is unacceptable Govt censorship.
Today, the DOJ responded: www.qasimrashid.com/p/i-filed-a-...
Trump wiped clean the DOJ website of their names—which is unacceptable Govt censorship.
Today, the DOJ responded: www.qasimrashid.com/p/i-filed-a-...
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BREAKING: Gov. Pritzker’s office confirms the Trump funding freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid. FOUR MILLION Illinoisans rely on Medicaid for their healthcare.
Trump's freeze will kill people. He's doing this to ensure "Money isn't being wasted on DEI initiatives."
Beyond absurd & cruel.
Trump's freeze will kill people. He's doing this to ensure "Money isn't being wasted on DEI initiatives."
Beyond absurd & cruel.
January 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
BREAKING: Gov. Pritzker’s office confirms the Trump funding freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid. FOUR MILLION Illinoisans rely on Medicaid for their healthcare.
Trump's freeze will kill people. He's doing this to ensure "Money isn't being wasted on DEI initiatives."
Beyond absurd & cruel.
Trump's freeze will kill people. He's doing this to ensure "Money isn't being wasted on DEI initiatives."
Beyond absurd & cruel.
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The executive order speaks of transgender identity in sweeping and dismissive terms, and sets the stage for a policy that is more restrictive and punitive than the ban from Trump's first term.
Trump issues order to ban transgender troops from serving openly in the military
The executive order speaks of transgender identity in sweeping and dismissive terms, and sets the stage for a policy that is more restrictive and punitive than the ban from Trump's first term.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The executive order speaks of transgender identity in sweeping and dismissive terms, and sets the stage for a policy that is more restrictive and punitive than the ban from Trump's first term.
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I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
January 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
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I made this comic a few months ago, in collaboration with an expert named Tommy Tucker. I can't believe that it's immediately out of date because it refers to the Gulf of Mexico.
January 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I made this comic a few months ago, in collaboration with an expert named Tommy Tucker. I can't believe that it's immediately out of date because it refers to the Gulf of Mexico.
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An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.
A museum's confession: Why we have looted objects
An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.
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Key memos being issued office-wide by the Office of Personnel Management on back to work / no remote work orders and getting rid of DEI are being authored outside the OPM by people affiliated with Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation.
Here are the receipts. They posted these memos but forgot to
Here are the receipts. They posted these memos but forgot to
January 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Key memos being issued office-wide by the Office of Personnel Management on back to work / no remote work orders and getting rid of DEI are being authored outside the OPM by people affiliated with Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation.
Here are the receipts. They posted these memos but forgot to
Here are the receipts. They posted these memos but forgot to
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Trump is trying to bully our allies Canada, Colombia, Denmark, and Panama, threatening tariffs if they don't do what he says.
Really?
What about imposing tariffs on drug companies that charge us 10 times more than other countries pay for the same drug?
Really?
What about imposing tariffs on drug companies that charge us 10 times more than other countries pay for the same drug?
January 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Trump is trying to bully our allies Canada, Colombia, Denmark, and Panama, threatening tariffs if they don't do what he says.
Really?
What about imposing tariffs on drug companies that charge us 10 times more than other countries pay for the same drug?
Really?
What about imposing tariffs on drug companies that charge us 10 times more than other countries pay for the same drug?
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Breaking news: In termination letters sent to more than a dozen officials, acting Attorney General James McHenry wrote that he did not believe they "could be trusted to faithfully implement the President's agenda."
Justice Department moves to fire at least 12 officials who investigated Trump
In termination letters sent to more than a dozen officials, acting Attorney General James McHenry wrote that he did not believe they "could be trusted to faithfully implement the President's agenda."
www.npr.org
January 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Breaking news: In termination letters sent to more than a dozen officials, acting Attorney General James McHenry wrote that he did not believe they "could be trusted to faithfully implement the President's agenda."
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Mr. President: Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, I have a better idea.
In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour.
Let's steal those ideas.
In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour.
Let's steal those ideas.
January 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Mr. President: Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, I have a better idea.
In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour.
Let's steal those ideas.
In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour.
Let's steal those ideas.
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January 27, 2025
January 27, 2025
Yesterday, President Donald Trump began a trade war with Colombia after that country’s president refused to permit two U.S.
open.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
January 27, 2025
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
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As an attorney, I just submitted a FOIA to the criminal division of the DOJ for the names, charges, convictions, & sentences of each of the 1500 insurrectionists Trump pardoned.
Trump wiped clean the DOJ website of their names—which is unacceptable Govt censorship.
I will post the DOJ's response.
Trump wiped clean the DOJ website of their names—which is unacceptable Govt censorship.
I will post the DOJ's response.
January 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
As an attorney, I just submitted a FOIA to the criminal division of the DOJ for the names, charges, convictions, & sentences of each of the 1500 insurrectionists Trump pardoned.
Trump wiped clean the DOJ website of their names—which is unacceptable Govt censorship.
I will post the DOJ's response.
Trump wiped clean the DOJ website of their names—which is unacceptable Govt censorship.
I will post the DOJ's response.
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At the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in San Antonio, farmers said they don't know what to expect from Trump's mass deportation plan and some wonder how they will farm without migrant labor. via @texaspublicradio.bsky.social
'Everyone's nervous' — U.S. farmers gather in San Antonio ahead of mass deportations
At the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in San Antonio, farmers braced for the impact of President Trump's mass deportation plan.
www.tpr.org
January 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
At the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in San Antonio, farmers said they don't know what to expect from Trump's mass deportation plan and some wonder how they will farm without migrant labor. via @texaspublicradio.bsky.social
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Anyone an expert in coffee futures and prices, that could comment on the impact of a 25 PCT tariff on Columbia on the price of coffee for American consumers ?
January 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Anyone an expert in coffee futures and prices, that could comment on the impact of a 25 PCT tariff on Columbia on the price of coffee for American consumers ?
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I think Denmark just told DJT to GFY.🧐
From: @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social newsletter 01/27
From: @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social newsletter 01/27
January 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I think Denmark just told DJT to GFY.🧐
From: @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social newsletter 01/27
From: @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social newsletter 01/27
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Don't miss this needed edition Week in Wins. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progressive-wins-january-26
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Don't miss this needed edition Week in Wins. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progressive-wins-january-26