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It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
July 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Surely none of y’all believe we attacked Iran because they are on the verge of a nuclear weapon. Those of us over 25 have seen this movie before. Don’t fall for it
June 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Surely none of y’all believe we attacked Iran because they are on the verge of a nuclear weapon. Those of us over 25 have seen this movie before. Don’t fall for it
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Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
June 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
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I hope every elected official, business owner, university president, and media executive sees the millions of people out in the streets today and understands: If we fight back, this is the power on our side.
June 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I hope every elected official, business owner, university president, and media executive sees the millions of people out in the streets today and understands: If we fight back, this is the power on our side.
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One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
June 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
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Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse.
Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.
Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.
June 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse.
Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.
Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.
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The most dangerous man in US history?
Trump: Well, we're going to have troops everywhere.
Reporter: What’s the bar for sending in the Marines
Trump: The bar is what I think it is.
Reporter: What’s the bar for sending in the Marines
Trump: The bar is what I think it is.
June 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The most dangerous man in US history?
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By the hour, Donald Trump makes it clearer he is the most dangerous political leader in our history, the greatest threat America faces.
Sending the National Guard into LA, sending masked thugs into US cities, sending tanks to parade through DC next weekend--they are all ominous signs about the kind of country our wannabe dictator is working towards. There's much worse to come. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
It’s Summer in Trump’s America and Fascism Is in Bloom
President Donald Trump seeks to send a message that, unlike past presidents, he does not derive his powers from our laws.
www.thedailybeast.com
June 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
By the hour, Donald Trump makes it clearer he is the most dangerous political leader in our history, the greatest threat America faces.
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Think about what kind of person you have to be to lie about sending someone to a torture prison for life based on nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...
Bondi on Boasberg: "Those inmates, those violent gang members, those violent alien enemies will remain in El Salvador. He cannot get them back, so his jurisdiction is over ... going forward, these terrorists better look out."
April 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Think about what kind of person you have to be to lie about sending someone to a torture prison for life based on nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Reminder: If they can lie that they're violent and disappear them, they can lie that you're violent and disappear you.
Bondi on Boasberg: "Those inmates, those violent gang members, those violent alien enemies will remain in El Salvador. He cannot get them back, so his jurisdiction is over ... going forward, these terrorists better look out."
April 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reminder: If they can lie that they're violent and disappear them, they can lie that you're violent and disappear you.
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“He’s been talking about it…”
Saying the same half-cocked, uninformed, off-the-fly things in 2025 he said in 1985.
And it shows.
Saying the same half-cocked, uninformed, off-the-fly things in 2025 he said in 1985.
And it shows.
Lutnick: "Let Donald Trump run the global economy. He's knows what he's doing. He's been talking about it for 35 years. You gotta trust Donald Trump in the White House ... it's broken. Let him fix it ... Let Donald Trump fix the American economy."
April 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“He’s been talking about it…”
Saying the same half-cocked, uninformed, off-the-fly things in 2025 he said in 1985.
And it shows.
Saying the same half-cocked, uninformed, off-the-fly things in 2025 he said in 1985.
And it shows.
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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
The U.S. has become a secret police state www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The U.S. has become a secret police state www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
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Every night @maddow.msnbc.com has a first segment that runs through protests and town halls held in last 24 hrs and if you are feeling like nobody is feeling like you feel or you don’t know what to do: start by watching these and then find your people in your area. They are everywhere.
a woman is covering her mouth while holding a bow and arrow in a green field .
ALT: a woman is covering her mouth while holding a bow and arrow in a green field .
media.tenor.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Every night @maddow.msnbc.com has a first segment that runs through protests and town halls held in last 24 hrs and if you are feeling like nobody is feeling like you feel or you don’t know what to do: start by watching these and then find your people in your area. They are everywhere.
One of the most striking and consistent threads in Trump’s political career has been his utter contempt for military veterans. What they’re doing to the VA is shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil
A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
One of the most striking and consistent threads in Trump’s political career has been his utter contempt for military veterans. What they’re doing to the VA is shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
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Seriously.
White supremacists hiding the achievements of non-white people is a pretty good indication that they know white people aren’t supreme.
March 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Seriously.
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Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!
March 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!
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"If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before," writes our columnist Michelle Goldberg.
Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before," writes our columnist Michelle Goldberg.
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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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“Breaking the law” is so much more accurate and way quicker to say!
President Trump has opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no clear public explanation for how their actions could be consistent with the rule of law. Here are some examples of the administration’s defiance of statutes. nyti.ms/4aKnKRP
February 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“Breaking the law” is so much more accurate and way quicker to say!
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"Be angry, but don't give up."
From Rachel's interview tonight with Senator Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social
Part 1 (testing how it looks to post a multi-part video here)
From Rachel's interview tonight with Senator Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social
Part 1 (testing how it looks to post a multi-part video here)
February 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
"Be angry, but don't give up."
From Rachel's interview tonight with Senator Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social
Part 1 (testing how it looks to post a multi-part video here)
From Rachel's interview tonight with Senator Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social
Part 1 (testing how it looks to post a multi-part video here)