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Using our “global strength” to force an invaded country into concessions with an invader makes us complicit with the invader. It’s like returning an abuse victim to the abuser’s home. Shameful. Wrong. Un-American.
February 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Using our “global strength” to force an invaded country into concessions with an invader makes us complicit with the invader. It’s like returning an abuse victim to the abuser’s home. Shameful. Wrong. Un-American.
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What a double standard.
Chasten Buttigieg Shades Fox News After New Transportation Sec. Takes Sons To Daytona 500
The blatant double standard is clear.
www.comicsands.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
What a double standard.
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What can you do?
Don’t give up hope. Dictators feed off your hopelessness.
Don’t quit. Dictators want you to give up.
Punch back. Dictators are bullies, and bullies are cowards.
Stay tethered to the truth. Dictators need you to believe their lies.
Resist. Stand with others.
Don’t give up hope. Dictators feed off your hopelessness.
Don’t quit. Dictators want you to give up.
Punch back. Dictators are bullies, and bullies are cowards.
Stay tethered to the truth. Dictators need you to believe their lies.
Resist. Stand with others.
February 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
What can you do?
Don’t give up hope. Dictators feed off your hopelessness.
Don’t quit. Dictators want you to give up.
Punch back. Dictators are bullies, and bullies are cowards.
Stay tethered to the truth. Dictators need you to believe their lies.
Resist. Stand with others.
Don’t give up hope. Dictators feed off your hopelessness.
Don’t quit. Dictators want you to give up.
Punch back. Dictators are bullies, and bullies are cowards.
Stay tethered to the truth. Dictators need you to believe their lies.
Resist. Stand with others.
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Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
ProPublica’s Supreme Connections Database Updated With New Alito, Thomas Filings
Our database of the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections now includes Samuel Alito’s deferred 2023 filing and eight previously missing disclosures from Clarence Thomas dating back to the 1990s.
propub.li
February 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
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House Republicans aren’t quite falling into line behind their leadership’s plans to advance Donald Trump’s sweeping legislative agenda, which is set to be presented to the committee Thursday.
Mike Johnson’s Disastrous Budget Bill Is Already in Trouble
Mike Johnson has failed to unite his party behind the bill.
newrepublic.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
House Republicans aren’t quite falling into line behind their leadership’s plans to advance Donald Trump’s sweeping legislative agenda, which is set to be presented to the committee Thursday.
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I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.
February 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.
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A statement from the Kennedy Center
February 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A statement from the Kennedy Center
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From Kate Conger’s book “Character Limit” on how Musk ruined Twitter.
February 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
From Kate Conger’s book “Character Limit” on how Musk ruined Twitter.
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AG JAMES: “.. We knew the Trump administration’s choice to give this access to unauthorized individuals was illegal, and this morning, a federal court agreed.”
February 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
AG JAMES: “.. We knew the Trump administration’s choice to give this access to unauthorized individuals was illegal, and this morning, a federal court agreed.”
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Over the past 17 days, Donald Trump has unleashed a firehose of executive actions designed to overwhelm us, many of which are illegal or unconstitutional. Todd Beeton broke down the most egregious and looked at how Democrats and the courts are taking a stand against them for the Big Picture.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Over the past 17 days, Donald Trump has unleashed a firehose of executive actions designed to overwhelm us, many of which are illegal or unconstitutional. Todd Beeton broke down the most egregious and looked at how Democrats and the courts are taking a stand against them for the Big Picture.
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Watching this case, too. The pause is a good thing. DOGE is trying to strong arm federal workers into giving up their rights. Hitting pause buys time for folks to organize against this.
February 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Watching this case, too. The pause is a good thing. DOGE is trying to strong arm federal workers into giving up their rights. Hitting pause buys time for folks to organize against this.
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THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!
February 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!
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“Whistleblowers are needed now more than any time in my time in public service.”
-Sen Ron Wyden, quoted in this piece. I think we should take this warning extremely seriously. We're in real trouble and insiders need to step up.
newrepublic.com/article/1911...
-Sen Ron Wyden, quoted in this piece. I think we should take this warning extremely seriously. We're in real trouble and insiders need to step up.
newrepublic.com/article/1911...
Trump-Musk Purge Scandal at Treasury Takes Yet Another Unsettling Turn
As the Treasury Department offers some new spin about Elon Musk’s takeover of payment systems and ousting of a top career official, Senator Ron Wyden tells us why this “reeks of a cover-up.”
newrepublic.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“Whistleblowers are needed now more than any time in my time in public service.”
-Sen Ron Wyden, quoted in this piece. I think we should take this warning extremely seriously. We're in real trouble and insiders need to step up.
newrepublic.com/article/1911...
-Sen Ron Wyden, quoted in this piece. I think we should take this warning extremely seriously. We're in real trouble and insiders need to step up.
newrepublic.com/article/1911...
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2/ the court to issue a TRO that *also* forces Secretary Bessent to restore and protect any data they have improperly obtained so far.
February 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
2/ the court to issue a TRO that *also* forces Secretary Bessent to restore and protect any data they have improperly obtained so far.
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As I had hoped, and per my piece earlier this morning, plaintiffs in the DOGE Treasury case brought by Public Citizen have moved for. Temporary Restraining Order. A hearing on it is taking place in just a few minutes!
The lawyers for retirees and unions suing the Treasury Department asked...
The lawyers for retirees and unions suing the Treasury Department asked...
February 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
As I had hoped, and per my piece earlier this morning, plaintiffs in the DOGE Treasury case brought by Public Citizen have moved for. Temporary Restraining Order. A hearing on it is taking place in just a few minutes!
The lawyers for retirees and unions suing the Treasury Department asked...
The lawyers for retirees and unions suing the Treasury Department asked...
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There’s a big lawsuit everyone should know about. It’s the one that could boot Elon Musk and the DOGE dudes out of Treasury and kill their access to our payment systems. Learn about it in my write-up: https://buff.ly/4jMI4pO
February 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
There’s a big lawsuit everyone should know about. It’s the one that could boot Elon Musk and the DOGE dudes out of Treasury and kill their access to our payment systems. Learn about it in my write-up: https://buff.ly/4jMI4pO
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The technical term for what’s happening with our government is “shitshow.”
February 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The technical term for what’s happening with our government is “shitshow.”
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Cutting the NOAA would directly impact you, your kids and their generations to follow potentially put lives at steak of many Americans
Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
I have covered NOAA and it’s work for like 15 years and this is brutal. If you’re there and want to chat or share anything, signal is davelevitan.26
February 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Cutting the NOAA would directly impact you, your kids and their generations to follow potentially put lives at steak of many Americans
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I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans.
And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump.
It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other.
Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.
And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump.
It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other.
Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.
February 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans.
And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump.
It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other.
Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.
And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump.
It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other.
Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.
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Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks:
"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."
"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."
February 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks:
"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."
"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."