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Please listen.
June 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Dark Ferris Bueller.
April 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Reminder: If a president has immunity for official actions and swears an oath to uphold the Constitution then violating the Constitution can't be construed to be an official action and as a consequence the president does not have immunity to protect him from prosecution for such actions.
April 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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March 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Read this please
"because the foundation of democracy is not voting, essential as it is. It is an informed citizenry. That is why one of the paramount jobs of autocrats is to attack education, free thought, ideas, speech, knowledge and facts themselves.

Hitler did it. Stalin did it. Mao did it.
We are the midst of a war on knowledge, facts and free speech. It is not just aimed at DEI or Trump enemies. It is intended to clear the way to authoritarianism. It is broader and more dangerous than any such effort in our history. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
The Opposite of Woke is...Despotism
There is a purpose beyond prejudice to the MAGA assault on DEI and free speech
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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“This is the most challenging moment I can recall for science,” Michael Mann, a climate researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, told the rally in Washington, where the crowd peaked at 5,000 people, according to the organizers. “Science is under siege." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/c...
More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut
Together with recent firings and resignations, the new cuts could hamper the National Weather Service’s ability to produce lifesaving forecasts, scientists say.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Madness
He is destroying our country
March 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The concept of a plan is ignoring all the fundamental lessons of modern economics? The concept of a plan is economic catastrophe for most of us while billionaires get richer, get huge tax cuts, loot the government for their own benefit?

Not such a great concept of a plan if you ask me.
March 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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The concept of a plan is pushing the elderly into the streets? The concept of a plan is overwhelming our emergency rooms with the crises of people without any safety net? The concept of a plan is alienating all our economic partners around the world?
March 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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So, wait, the plan is for Trump to crash the markets, destroy people's savings, push up prices with tariffs, crush economic growth, and then gut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security? While firing tens of thousands of federal workers? The concept of a plan is a depression?
March 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Resist!! Help get this out. Repost everywhere, FB, Instagram, Tictoc, every platform. Also, post in comment sections. Post 100+ times. This needs to be huge. Print it out and place on cars in parking lots. We need to let them know how we feel. And SHOW UP!!!
March 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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We are sending troops and arms to fight an imaginary war against a non-existent foe at our southern border, systematically undermining our allies and at the same time embracing those bent on our destruction. It is perverse but it is no accident. It is a combination of ignorance, malice & greed.
March 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK.

Extraordinary.
March 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Every single American I talked to yesterday about this came to that same conclusion.
The Trump Vance performance today was one of the great foreign policy fails in US history, the biggest Oval Office clusterfuck the public has ever had the chance to watch in real time. But it was much worse than that. Another piece from me. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-thinks...
Trump Thinks He Humiliated Zelensky. He Really Humiliated the United States
Trump’s Oval Office mob show proves he’s no Don Corleone. He’s Luca Brasi—with nukes.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Well that seems fair and not at all shady.
February 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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By now you probably understand/agree that Trump is compromised by Pro-Kremlin views, and this sourced-and-cited report from Seth covers that. Yet, there are a few surprises and twists in that narrative. Mostly Freudian.

Key point is 2025 Trump is same as 1987 Trump, and he'll never change.
As to Donald Trump’s foreign policy, this is it. This is the shibboleth. If you understand where the Trump Doctrine comes from, you understand exactly what is happening right now and why.

Every American should read this, and so should every European diplomat. From a bestselling Trump biographer:
The Birth of the Trump Doctrine Lies in the 1987 Recruitment of Donald Trump By the KGB During His Trip to Moscow That Year
How Trump responded to his recruitment remains unclear. What is clear, however, is that it shaped his entrance into politics and his foreign policy in a way the world now ignores at its peril.
sethabramson.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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The NOAA layoffs aren't just crude, they're a direct attack on US capacity to do climate science by firing highly productive young researchers. @zachlabe.com has an insanely strong publication history, part of the Fresh eyes CMIP team, WMO task teams etc. /1 www.gfdl.noaa.gov/zachary-labe/
February 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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We need to tax them until they bleed
February 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.

But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.

Do I have this right?
January 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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December 23, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Over 2+ years of working on a biography of Elon Musk, I've learned that his ambitions are significantly grander than anyone realizes. He wants to be the first trillionaire ever. He wants to be the most famous human who ever lived. He wants to rule the world. He wants to live forever.

All literally.
December 10, 2024 at 6:22 AM
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The rules apply to everyone else, not his own family.
December 9, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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X is trash. But it also is a fraud. I had 300K followers over there…but no idea who saw what. Even with a fraction of that here and at Substack I get much more impact, reaction uptake on pods or articles. Much. More.
November 26, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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“In March 2020, for example, Dr. Bhattacharya suggested in a Wall Street Journal opinion essay that the pandemic was not as deadly as it was being made out to be, and that the death toll might top out at 40,000 Americans; in the end, 1.2 million died.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...
Trump Picks Stanford Physician Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to Head N.I.H.
As the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya would oversee the world’s premier medical research agency, with a $48 billion budget and 27 separate institutes and centers.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 AM