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An interesting thread by Norm Eisen.
My thoughts on SCOTUS' universal injunctions decision, a thread: Unfortunately there has been widespread misunderstanding of what the Roberts court did today. (1/x)
June 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
An interesting thread by Norm Eisen.
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Guys, India doesn’t play these games. Try it and you will get burned. Like this ⤵️
Holy shit. India’s Foreign Secretary just shut down Trump’s claim he brokered peace between India and Pakistan. Modi told him: “There was never any discussion… about a trade deal or U.S. mediation… India has neither accepted mediation, nor does it do so—and never will.”
June 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Guys, India doesn’t play these games. Try it and you will get burned. Like this ⤵️
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Former President Barack Obama issued a warning about the future of American democracy, while speaking at an event in Connecticut.
Obama cautioned that the country is “dangerously close” to normalizing behavior “consistent with autocracies.”
Obama cautioned that the country is “dangerously close” to normalizing behavior “consistent with autocracies.”
June 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Former President Barack Obama issued a warning about the future of American democracy, while speaking at an event in Connecticut.
Obama cautioned that the country is “dangerously close” to normalizing behavior “consistent with autocracies.”
Obama cautioned that the country is “dangerously close” to normalizing behavior “consistent with autocracies.”
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🚨Tron was linked to more illicit crypto activity than any other blockchain last year—58%, per a report.
Donald Trump just expanded his partnership with it.
My story for @forbes.com
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Donald Trump just expanded his partnership with it.
My story for @forbes.com
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Trump’s Stablecoin Now Minted On Justin Sun’s Tron Crypto Blockchain
World Liberty Financial stands to profit as his stablecoin expands to Tron—the blockchain flagged by analysts for facilitating 58% of illicit crypto activity last year.
www.forbes.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🚨Tron was linked to more illicit crypto activity than any other blockchain last year—58%, per a report.
Donald Trump just expanded his partnership with it.
My story for @forbes.com
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Donald Trump just expanded his partnership with it.
My story for @forbes.com
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Bill Joyce just broke the Law. MoCs are permitted by Law to inspect these facilities.
June 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Bill Joyce just broke the Law. MoCs are permitted by Law to inspect these facilities.
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Extremely bizarre exchange between Reps. Nadler + Goldman and the ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, where Joyce conceded immigrants held there sometimes spent multiple nights on the floors or on benches on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/18/i... via @THECITYNY
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/18/i... via @THECITYNY
ICE Bars Congressional Reps. From Immigrant Detention Area in Manhattan
Claiming people being held are “in transit,” the local deputy director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement asserts a federal law allowing visits by members of Congress does not apply in Lower Manh...
www.thecity.nyc
June 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Extremely bizarre exchange between Reps. Nadler + Goldman and the ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, where Joyce conceded immigrants held there sometimes spent multiple nights on the floors or on benches on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/18/i... via @THECITYNY
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/18/i... via @THECITYNY
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Gwynne is an excellent follow for up-to-date info out of NY.
In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.
June 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Gwynne is an excellent follow for up-to-date info out of NY.
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This is about controlling women. These white nationalists want us uneducated, unemployed and 100% dependent on them.
Ladies - tie your tubes or stock up on Plan B. Also get mifepristone. You don’t have to be pregnant to get it and I think the shelf life is a couple years.
Ladies - tie your tubes or stock up on Plan B. Also get mifepristone. You don’t have to be pregnant to get it and I think the shelf life is a couple years.
June 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is about controlling women. These white nationalists want us uneducated, unemployed and 100% dependent on them.
Ladies - tie your tubes or stock up on Plan B. Also get mifepristone. You don’t have to be pregnant to get it and I think the shelf life is a couple years.
Ladies - tie your tubes or stock up on Plan B. Also get mifepristone. You don’t have to be pregnant to get it and I think the shelf life is a couple years.
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Jesus Christ, ICE is trying to snatch children from schools.
THIS
ADMINISTRATION
IS
TRYING
TO
STEAL
AND
DISAPPEAR
CHILDREN
THIS
ADMINISTRATION
IS
TRYING
TO
STEAL
AND
DISAPPEAR
CHILDREN
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Jesus Christ, ICE is trying to snatch children from schools.
THIS
ADMINISTRATION
IS
TRYING
TO
STEAL
AND
DISAPPEAR
CHILDREN
THIS
ADMINISTRATION
IS
TRYING
TO
STEAL
AND
DISAPPEAR
CHILDREN
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The plans to cut healthcare for millions of Americans to further enrich billionaires is still despicable even as Trump hopes to distract us with his escalation in LA.
June 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The plans to cut healthcare for millions of Americans to further enrich billionaires is still despicable even as Trump hopes to distract us with his escalation in LA.
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🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
June 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
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"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump canceled: "a grant to Emory University and Georgia State University, where researchers had developed three potential drugs that showed promise against many RNA-based viruses, including coronaviruses, Ebola, avian influenza and measles.."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Trump canceled: "a grant to Emory University and Georgia State University, where researchers had developed three potential drugs that showed promise against many RNA-based viruses, including coronaviruses, Ebola, avian influenza and measles.."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Rules committee just dropped an amended version of the Big Bad Budget Bill with a provision to pressure health exchange plans to drop abortion services except in the case of rape or the life of the mother (which are very narrow exceptions) even if federal funds are not used to cover the services.
May 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Rules committee just dropped an amended version of the Big Bad Budget Bill with a provision to pressure health exchange plans to drop abortion services except in the case of rape or the life of the mother (which are very narrow exceptions) even if federal funds are not used to cover the services.
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In the dead of night, Republican leadership changed their budget bill yet again to squeeze abortion restrictions into the fine print.
No matter the hour, we are holding them accountable and shining a light on their egregious attacks on women for all to see.
No matter the hour, we are holding them accountable and shining a light on their egregious attacks on women for all to see.
May 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
In the dead of night, Republican leadership changed their budget bill yet again to squeeze abortion restrictions into the fine print.
No matter the hour, we are holding them accountable and shining a light on their egregious attacks on women for all to see.
No matter the hour, we are holding them accountable and shining a light on their egregious attacks on women for all to see.
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What kind of dumb people willfully undermine one of the brightest jewels of higher education, a magnet for talent and a driver of significant scientific and medical research?
May 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
What kind of dumb people willfully undermine one of the brightest jewels of higher education, a magnet for talent and a driver of significant scientific and medical research?
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House Democrats spent all night on the House Floor fighting against the GOP Tax Scam that takes away health care and school meals from Americans to give billionaires and big corporations a tax break.
@sarajacobs.house.gov breaks down what this bill means in today’s Democratic Daily Download.
@sarajacobs.house.gov breaks down what this bill means in today’s Democratic Daily Download.
May 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
House Democrats spent all night on the House Floor fighting against the GOP Tax Scam that takes away health care and school meals from Americans to give billionaires and big corporations a tax break.
@sarajacobs.house.gov breaks down what this bill means in today’s Democratic Daily Download.
@sarajacobs.house.gov breaks down what this bill means in today’s Democratic Daily Download.
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That a Chinese company who only has 7 employees & zero income was able to round up $300 million to invest in Trump from a secret Cayman island bank account is clearly above board. Nothing to see here, folks. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue nymag.com/intelligence...
A Chinese Company With Zero Revenue Just Gave a Bunch of Money to Trump
Trump’s meme coin continues to be a great way to give him money — especially for tiny Chinese companies with shady finances.
nymag.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
That a Chinese company who only has 7 employees & zero income was able to round up $300 million to invest in Trump from a secret Cayman island bank account is clearly above board. Nothing to see here, folks. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
May 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
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So many layers of corruption.
May 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
So many layers of corruption.
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Excellent NYT graphic.
In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China:
-- doubled;
-- went up ≈ 2.5X from there;
-- roughly doubled again;
-- went up ≈ 40% from there;
-- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February.
www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China:
-- doubled;
-- went up ≈ 2.5X from there;
-- roughly doubled again;
-- went up ≈ 40% from there;
-- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February.
www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
May 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Excellent NYT graphic.
In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China:
-- doubled;
-- went up ≈ 2.5X from there;
-- roughly doubled again;
-- went up ≈ 40% from there;
-- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February.
www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China:
-- doubled;
-- went up ≈ 2.5X from there;
-- roughly doubled again;
-- went up ≈ 40% from there;
-- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February.
www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
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Everything that was largely avoided like the plague for decades, because it was immoral and unethical…but barely legal…maybe…is now exploited to the fullest.
It was just a matter of who would dare go ahead and do it.
It was just a matter of who would dare go ahead and do it.
May 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Everything that was largely avoided like the plague for decades, because it was immoral and unethical…but barely legal…maybe…is now exploited to the fullest.
It was just a matter of who would dare go ahead and do it.
It was just a matter of who would dare go ahead and do it.
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