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Keith Curry Lance
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Here's hoping he does more than throw paper towels at them this time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
‘Massive Blackout’ Leaves All of Puerto Rico Without Power
It was not immediately clear why every generating plant on the island went offline Wednesday. Puerto Rico has a history of problems with its electricity supply.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
kclance.bsky.social
The courts have got to figure out how to respond more quickly to FOTUS's daily assaults on the law and simple human decency.
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Tightening the screws
A cartoon by Nick Anderson
open.substack.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
kclance.bsky.social
This really is getting ridiculous .... except that it's going to kill or sicken millions of people here and abroad.
contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-unr...
Trump’s unrelenting war on science is reckless and dangerous
It will cost lives and puts all of us at risk.
contrarian.substack.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
kclance.bsky.social
In a second!
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Poll: Majority of Americans Favor Swapping Trump for Abrego Garcia
Poll respondents agreed that a maximum security prison in El Salvador is an appropriate place to house a felon convicted on 34 counts.
open.substack.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
kclance.bsky.social
This could get interesting. PBS and NPR and very popular with a lot of folks, specifically folks who may have voted for FOTUS and who also donate major support to public media. It shouldn't take many GOP votes in either house to join the Dems to save them. Sure hope so.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
The White House is starting the process to eliminate funding for public media
The White House is proposing that virtually all federal funding for public media—that's NPR and PBS—be eliminated, starting a process that will reach Congress later in April.
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
kclance.bsky.social
Scariest possibility of all: the FOTUS administration won't answer these perfectly reasonable questions about who they are deporting and to where not because they decline to answer out of arrogance, but because they don't know the answers out of careless ignorance!
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.
Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions. Non...
www.propublica.org
April 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
kclance.bsky.social
As more often than not, I agree with Friedman.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...
Opinion | I Have Never Been More Afraid for My Country’s Future
Trump’s worldview is stuck in the 1970s, and his whole administration is a cruel farce.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
kclance.bsky.social
Too late. We already know that the rule of law, equality before the law, and the First Amendment no longer exist . When you vote for convicted criminals and tolerate unqualified appointees, you can't expect anything else.
www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
New US Justice Dept policy cracks down on social media posts
President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. Justice Department employees not to post anything on social media related to their government work, after a wave of new political appointees took to cheerleading Trump and castigating his opponents online.
www.reuters.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
kclance.bsky.social
We in the U.S. used to look down on other countries whose leaders were criminal autocrats. Nowadays, some of them occasionally bring them to justiceThat we cannot can be blamed almost entirely on our "Supremacist" Court's made-up "presidential immunity."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Peru's ex-President Ollanta Humala guilty of money laundering
A court ruled that Humala, who governed Peru from 2011 to 2016, took illegal campaign contributions.
www.bbc.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
kclance.bsky.social
Do most people like taxes? No. But do most like the things taxes pay for? Of course! And now FOTUS is gutting the IRS and thereby setting us up to be _trillions_ behind over the next decade. It's the GOP not Dems who love debt! www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...
The Plight of the Taxman
As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers.
www.newyorker.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
kclance.bsky.social
FOTUS's' minions go on the Sunday talk shows and lie their heads off, trying to take credit for things done by the Biden-Harris administration. Fortunately, The Contrarian is correcting the record. Wish the corporate media faces would do it in real time.
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Trump team's newest misinformation blitz goes unchecked by big media
On the Sunday political talk shows, officials take credit for a Biden win and threaten alliances that build jobs.
contrarian.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
kclance.bsky.social
The present administration admittedly deported a man by mistake, they refuse to return him to his family, and now the unanimous Supreme Court decision that they must return him is being ignored. If this isn't a constitutional and human rights crisis, what is?
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Trump Live Updates: U.S. and El Salvador Say They Won’t Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
kclance.bsky.social
What I hope we'll watch this evening or tomorrow evening. Here's an excellent review from a highly respected source, Pedro Senhorinha Silva.
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Seeing the Possible in the Impossible
A Review of the Viola Davis Action Film G20
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April 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
kclance.bsky.social
Latest exemptions from tariffs: smartphones and computers! Perhaps two of the most expensive items made elsewhere other than cars. This isn't good policy. It's about enriching FOTUS and his multi-billionaire co-conspirators and, beyond that, pure political theater.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump exempts smartphones and computers from new tariffs
The move comes after concerns that tech prices could skyrocket, as many gadgets are made in China.
www.bbc.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
kclance.bsky.social
Today's GOP keeps telling us, over and over, that they don't give a damn about the right to vote. If the GOP loses, they shift gears. Instead of voters choosing their politicians, GOP politicians feel entitled to choose their voters. They make a mockery of voting.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
Thousands of Voters Must Verify Information in Contested Election, N.C. Supreme Court Rules
The number of ballots in question exceeds the slim margin by which the Democrat incumbent, Justice Allison Riggs, won.
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
kclance.bsky.social
The voice of autocracy: "Notice and comment is unnecessary because I am ordering the repeal." Hope he'll be taken to court over this .... too. He's determined to be sued by as many people and organizations as possible while he can run up legal bills on the public tab.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/c...
Trump’s New Way to Kill Regulations: Because I Say So
The president is trying new shortcuts to eliminate energy and environmental rules, but legal experts say the efforts could face high hurdles.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
kclance.bsky.social
Three cheers for the AP! And shame on all the gutless others.
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Undaunted: The Associated Press
Stand up to bullies, and you just might win
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April 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
kclance.bsky.social
The right to vote is in very big trouble in N.C., thanks to GOP-dominated legislature and Supreme Court that plainly don't care what voters want. Pay attention, everyone. If you vote GOP, it may be the last time anyone gets to vote!
contrarian.substack.com/p/is-north-c...
Is North Carolina the canary in the coal mine for American democracy?
One man can save democracy for future generations.
contrarian.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
kclance.bsky.social
What could be lower than cutting the program that serves 9/11 first-responders? Bipartisan outrage saved the boss's job, but the staff is still being sacked.
www.ems1.com/9-11/trump-a...
Trump administration reinstates head of 9/11 health program
The Health and Human Services Department has decided not to terminate Dr. John Howard amid plans to lay off two-thirds of NIOSH staff, preserving leadership of the World Trade Center Health Program
www.ems1.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
kclance.bsky.social
Yes, Mr. Brooks, you should have seen this coming. And BTW, trying to draw a line from Abraham Lincoln to FDR to Reagan is just plain BONKERS! Reagan & his henchmen set in motion the forces that have led us to FOTUS. Which of these things is not like the other?! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won...
www.theatlantic.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
kclance.bsky.social
What FOTUS is doing is called impoundment—refusing to spend federal funds as directed by Congress. Here are some of the most consequential impoundment actions to date. What is happening now—and what the supreme court must stop—is dictatorship.
democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/fact-sh...
Background on Unlawful Impoundment in President Trump’s Executive Orders
Impoundment—unilateral action taken by the executive branch to delay or cancel appropriations enacted into law—has always been unlawful.
democrats-appropriations.house.gov
April 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
kclance.bsky.social
If you need a new iPhone, you better move fast! Feeling "great" yet? China gets hit by a tariff. You'll pay the bill for it. And multi-billionaires will get a tax cut they don't deserve. In case that wasn't clear, the rest of us are paying for those tax cuts.
www.reuters.com/technology/w...
A $2,300 Apple iPhone? Trump tariffs could make that happen.
Your favorite iPhone could soon become much pricier, thanks to tariffs.
www.reuters.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
kclance.bsky.social
So much for the self-declared "fertilization president." (Honestly, does he ever have any idea what he's talking about?) CDC's IVF research team has been cut. If this surprises you, snap out of it! www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
As the CDC’s IVF team is gutted, Trump is haunted by ‘fertilization president’ claims
When it comes to IVF, the president is saying one thing while doing the opposite.
www.msnbc.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
kclance.bsky.social
In March, more than 275k Americans lost their jobs. More than 216k can be blamed on FOTUS and Musk’s illegal dismantling of the federal government. This had nothing to do with waste, fraud, or abuse. They cut agencies investigating them-an appalling conflict of interest. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/l...
Layoff announcements surge to the most since the pandemic as Musk's DOGE slices federal labor force
The surge in March was exceeded only by when the country shut down in 2020 for the Covid pandemic,
www.cnbc.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
kclance.bsky.social
This flies in the face of the First Amendment. And, question: how does one celebrate MLK without discussing Black History in the U.S.?!?!
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
Trump Administration Threatens to Withhold Funds From Public Schools
State education officials will be required to verify that they have eliminated all programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion that the administration deems unlawful, according to a new memo...
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM