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All of you know Trump is the US president who surrendered in Afghanistan, right? Made a deal in 2020 cutting out the Afghan govt, let thousands of Taliban fighters out of jail in exchange for nothing.
I know the "everything in 2020 was Biden's fault, not Trump's" rule, I just don't agree with it.
I know the "everything in 2020 was Biden's fault, not Trump's" rule, I just don't agree with it.
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
All of you know Trump is the US president who surrendered in Afghanistan, right? Made a deal in 2020 cutting out the Afghan govt, let thousands of Taliban fighters out of jail in exchange for nothing.
I know the "everything in 2020 was Biden's fault, not Trump's" rule, I just don't agree with it.
I know the "everything in 2020 was Biden's fault, not Trump's" rule, I just don't agree with it.
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"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
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Trump's new response to epic GOP losses? Pushing Rs to end early and mail voting entirely. Rather than course correct, the answer is: Gerrymander GOP states, make voting much harder, rig midterms.
On the pod, Dem operative Jessica Post is so good on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
On the pod, Dem operative Jessica Post is so good on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Unraveling Trump Accidentally Blurts Out Secret Plan to Rig 2026
As Trump’s excuses for GOP losses worsen and he calls for rigging the midterms in response, a Democratic operative explains why his schemes could still be a problem—and how Democrats should respond.
newrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Trump's new response to epic GOP losses? Pushing Rs to end early and mail voting entirely. Rather than course correct, the answer is: Gerrymander GOP states, make voting much harder, rig midterms.
On the pod, Dem operative Jessica Post is so good on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
On the pod, Dem operative Jessica Post is so good on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
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(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
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The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
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"According to reporting by [the AP], the project went ahead despite not being formally approved by the National Capital Planning Commission, the federal agency that oversees such operations, which is currently closed due to a nationwide government shutdown." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
What to know about Trump’s plan to build $250m White House ballroom
It's the first major structural change to the mansion since extensive renovations under President Truman in 1948.
www.aljazeera.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"According to reporting by [the AP], the project went ahead despite not being formally approved by the National Capital Planning Commission, the federal agency that oversees such operations, which is currently closed due to a nationwide government shutdown." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
One of my heroes. I am absolutely gutted, devastated, and heartbroken. 💔😢💔 #janegoodall
October 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
One of my heroes. I am absolutely gutted, devastated, and heartbroken. 💔😢💔 #janegoodall
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“His demands came a day after he ousted the federal prosecutor who failed to charge two adversaries, showing how far Trump has gone in exerting personal control over the Justice Dept and breaching the norm about keeping politics at a distance from law enforcement.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
Trump Demands That Bondi Move ‘Now’ to Prosecute Foes
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“His demands came a day after he ousted the federal prosecutor who failed to charge two adversaries, showing how far Trump has gone in exerting personal control over the Justice Dept and breaching the norm about keeping politics at a distance from law enforcement.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
We have a winner. 😂
September 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
We have a winner. 😂
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This is going to suck for so many different people
"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in."
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
‘It’s like when you see the tsunami coming in’: Agricultural economists are sounding the alarm about produce prices doubling
Consumers “don’t have a clue what’s going on,” said Raymond Robertson, a labor economist.
fortune.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This is going to suck for so many different people
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That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
August 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
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Not a doctor. Not a scientist. A conspiracy theory spouting ghoul.
Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Not a doctor. Not a scientist. A conspiracy theory spouting ghoul.
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We are being told to trust the government without question by the same folks who have been telling us for years that we should never trust the government.
July 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We are being told to trust the government without question by the same folks who have been telling us for years that we should never trust the government.
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He's on a really epic losing streak at home and abroad. What's more, nobody at the G7 (or anywhere) really has any use for him. I don't recall a more impotent, ostracized, poorly thought of president in our modern history. At his parade, at G7, he gives off a very very strong pissed off loser vibe.
June 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
He's on a really epic losing streak at home and abroad. What's more, nobody at the G7 (or anywhere) really has any use for him. I don't recall a more impotent, ostracized, poorly thought of president in our modern history. At his parade, at G7, he gives off a very very strong pissed off loser vibe.
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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
This.
Trump can't have it both ways. Either the economy is not only strong but "hot," and therefore doesn't need the Fed to stimulate it further. Or the economy is weak and struggling, and therefore the Fed needs to intervene and cuts rates.
Which is it?
Which is it?
June 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This.
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Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.
Trump races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people
Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.
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I was curious just how much time in prison people pardoned by Trump would otherwise have had to have served. So I added it up: more than 700 years, including 600 among Jan. 6 rioters.
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Opinion | Trump has let allies and supporters avoid centuries of prison time
Trump’s pardons have cleared the records of over 230 individuals, including violent rioters and extremists.
wapo.st
May 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I was curious just how much time in prison people pardoned by Trump would otherwise have had to have served. So I added it up: more than 700 years, including 600 among Jan. 6 rioters.
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Despicable as always.
May 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Despicable as always.
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No other developed nation in the world would tolerate the monstrosity that is the GOP's Murder-Suicide Pact with America. It's time to face the fact that virtually every other leading democracy on the planet serves their people better than we do here. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-big-b...
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Should Doom the GOP. But It Will Doom Many Americans Too
Trump and the GOP will celebrate its likely passage with a pyrotechnic display of lies, to help them “justify” more tax cuts and other benefits for the rich and powerful.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
No other developed nation in the world would tolerate the monstrosity that is the GOP's Murder-Suicide Pact with America. It's time to face the fact that virtually every other leading democracy on the planet serves their people better than we do here. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-big-b...
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So Marty Makary wrote that he has no conflicts of interest for his @nejm.org piece and yet he is an executive at the telemedicine company Sesame that sells compounded GLP-1s. Ok. www.statnews.com/2024/11/24/m...
Trump’s pick to run FDA is top exec of company that provides compounded weight-loss drugs
Trump’s pick to run FDA is top exec of Sesame, a company that provides compounded weight-loss drugs
www.statnews.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
So Marty Makary wrote that he has no conflicts of interest for his @nejm.org piece and yet he is an executive at the telemedicine company Sesame that sells compounded GLP-1s. Ok. www.statnews.com/2024/11/24/m...
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House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000).
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
Distributional Effects of Selected Provisions of the House Reconciliation Bill (Preliminary)
budgetlab.yale.edu
May 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000).
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
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NPR published a story 5 days ago about three high ranking Trump officials with clear ties to Hitler-admiring antisemites and it barely made a ripple. These are the kind of stories that used to end political careers. Now the subjects of the stories just hold up a middle finger and keep plowing ahead.
I talked to NPR about seeing DHS White House liaison Paul Ingrassia at a Nick Fuentes rally last year.
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
www.npr.org
May 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
NPR published a story 5 days ago about three high ranking Trump officials with clear ties to Hitler-admiring antisemites and it barely made a ripple. These are the kind of stories that used to end political careers. Now the subjects of the stories just hold up a middle finger and keep plowing ahead.
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One dead after large explosion near reproductive health clinic in Palm Springs
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
One dead after large explosion near reproductive health clinic in Palm Springs
Authorities are investigating after a blast severely damaged American Reproductive Centers, a fertility clinic that offers IVF treatments in the Coachella Valley, along with other nearby buildings.
www.latimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
One dead after large explosion near reproductive health clinic in Palm Springs
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...