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🚨 NYT: As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
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Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2025 at 4:34 AM
🚨 NYT: As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
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Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
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"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States."
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
Concentration Camp Labor
Cannot Become Normal
snyder.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States."
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
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As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI.
www.lawfaremedia.org
July 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
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Prof Skocpol making a crucial point here. The centralized police. And then the lawless quasipolice who guard the camps. Trump’s death bill moves the US towards those two thresholds, well known from Germany in the 1930s.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy
TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...
talkingpointsmemo.com
July 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Prof Skocpol making a crucial point here. The centralized police. And then the lawless quasipolice who guard the camps. Trump’s death bill moves the US towards those two thresholds, well known from Germany in the 1930s.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
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Prof Popova is right. Russia demands the end of Ukrainian sovereignty. That should be stated clearly.
This is a very incomplete rendering of Ru’s demands and it helps Ru propaganda. Ru demands way more than control over Ukraine’s foreign policy. It demands diktat over Ukr’s domestic laws, regime change, and demilitarization, i.e defenceless Ukr. If it were abt NATO, Trump de facto conceded it.
July 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Prof Popova is right. Russia demands the end of Ukrainian sovereignty. That should be stated clearly.
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Save some lives and help people who have had far too many sleepless nights these last 3.5 years.
u24.gov.ua/sky-sentinel...
u24.gov.ua/sky-sentinel...
Sky Sentinel: fundraiser for peaceful nights
We’re raising $1,500,000 for 10 AI-controlled air defense turrets that will protect Ukrainians from russian attacks.
u24.gov.ua
July 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Save some lives and help people who have had far too many sleepless nights these last 3.5 years.
u24.gov.ua/sky-sentinel...
u24.gov.ua/sky-sentinel...
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Chancellor Merz:
Russia is already attacking us today.
The infrastructure, we have attacks, arson attacks, what has also happened in barracks here in recent days.
Almost all trails lead to Russia.
Russia is already attacking us today.
The infrastructure, we have attacks, arson attacks, what has also happened in barracks here in recent days.
Almost all trails lead to Russia.
July 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Chancellor Merz:
Russia is already attacking us today.
The infrastructure, we have attacks, arson attacks, what has also happened in barracks here in recent days.
Almost all trails lead to Russia.
Russia is already attacking us today.
The infrastructure, we have attacks, arson attacks, what has also happened in barracks here in recent days.
Almost all trails lead to Russia.
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I decided to look into the general situation regarding the tour of Putin’s friend, Gergiev.
And I saw that his performances are scheduled in Barcelona in 2026.
Organizers: Josep Maria Prat
Venues: Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori de Barcelona🔽
And I saw that his performances are scheduled in Barcelona in 2026.
Organizers: Josep Maria Prat
Venues: Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori de Barcelona🔽
July 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I decided to look into the general situation regarding the tour of Putin’s friend, Gergiev.
And I saw that his performances are scheduled in Barcelona in 2026.
Organizers: Josep Maria Prat
Venues: Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori de Barcelona🔽
And I saw that his performances are scheduled in Barcelona in 2026.
Organizers: Josep Maria Prat
Venues: Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori de Barcelona🔽
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Call Blackburn & Hagerty and make them know you know
June 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Call Blackburn & Hagerty and make them know you know
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Pam Bondi is a stain on the rule of law her blatant partisanship is unconstitutional and criminal 👿👇🏼
Pam Bondi is a stain on the rule of law her blatant partisanship is unconstitutional and criminal 👿👇🏼
Justice Department abruptly fires 3 prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 criminal cases, AP sources say
The Justice Department has fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, according to two people familiar with the matter.
apnews.com
June 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
apnews.com/article/jan-...
Pam Bondi is a stain on the rule of law her blatant partisanship is unconstitutional and criminal 👿👇🏼
Pam Bondi is a stain on the rule of law her blatant partisanship is unconstitutional and criminal 👿👇🏼
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Stunning how media has turned passage of the Abominable Bill into a will they-or-won't they romcom with a July 4th deadline for Cinderella to kiss the prince, rather than a situation in which multiple members of Congress say they're terrified they or their families will be killed if they cross Trump
June 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Stunning how media has turned passage of the Abominable Bill into a will they-or-won't they romcom with a July 4th deadline for Cinderella to kiss the prince, rather than a situation in which multiple members of Congress say they're terrified they or their families will be killed if they cross Trump
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The Big Beautiful Betrayal adds trillions to the debt, while taking health care from millions, slashing food assistance, and putting rural hospitals at risk.
It's wrong for America and we must reject it.
It's wrong for America and we must reject it.
June 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Big Beautiful Betrayal adds trillions to the debt, while taking health care from millions, slashing food assistance, and putting rural hospitals at risk.
It's wrong for America and we must reject it.
It's wrong for America and we must reject it.
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It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend
After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
June 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
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“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”
“In sadness, I dissent.”
“With deep disillusionment, I dissent.”
What’s next?
“In sadness, I dissent.”
“With deep disillusionment, I dissent.”
What’s next?
June 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”
“In sadness, I dissent.”
“With deep disillusionment, I dissent.”
What’s next?
“In sadness, I dissent.”
“With deep disillusionment, I dissent.”
What’s next?
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Zohran’s first magazine cover since winning
June 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Zohran’s first magazine cover since winning
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A win! Thank you to everyone who spoke out! After facing bipartisan resistance, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal land cannot be included under reconciliation rules.
June 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A win! Thank you to everyone who spoke out! After facing bipartisan resistance, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal land cannot be included under reconciliation rules.
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BREAKING: We are suing Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman over his unlawful unlawful 287(g) agreement with ICE, which gives Nassau police the authority to stop, question, and arrest any resident they believe is in the U.S. illegally.
This agreement is in blatant defiance of state law.
This agreement is in blatant defiance of state law.
ICE Is Working With Long Island Police. A Lawsuit Calls That Illegal.
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
BREAKING: We are suing Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman over his unlawful unlawful 287(g) agreement with ICE, which gives Nassau police the authority to stop, question, and arrest any resident they believe is in the U.S. illegally.
This agreement is in blatant defiance of state law.
This agreement is in blatant defiance of state law.
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(🧵) I’ve never—in 30 years in journalism—published a report like this: one that could genuinely bring hope. I spent the last 15 hours curating and labeling photos from hundreds of No Kings Day protests. It’s the largest archive of its kind and it has *lots* of Easter eggs (memes, an essay and more).
Over 250 Photos From Around the Nation and the World From the Historic “No Kings Day” Protests
Almost no one showed up to Donald Trump’s surprisingly timid, depressing, and generally lackluster birthday party in Washington, but protests against him were bursting at the seams across the globe.
sethabramson.substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
(🧵) I’ve never—in 30 years in journalism—published a report like this: one that could genuinely bring hope. I spent the last 15 hours curating and labeling photos from hundreds of No Kings Day protests. It’s the largest archive of its kind and it has *lots* of Easter eggs (memes, an essay and more).
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What we learned yesterday.
The Times They Are a-Changin'
The Times They Are a-Changin'
June 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
What we learned yesterday.
The Times They Are a-Changin'
The Times They Are a-Changin'
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June 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM