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L.A. classical station KUSC slashes staff after federal funding cuts to public radio
L.A. classical station KUSC slashes staff after federal funding cuts to public radio
The USC-owned station, known as Classical California, lost $1.1 million that was previously allocated by the Corp. for Public Broadcasting.
www.latimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
L.A. classical station KUSC slashes staff after federal funding cuts to public radio
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NYT: "President Trump’s tariff threats have turned into a play for cold, hard cash as he tries to leverage U.S. economic power to cajole other nations to make multibillion-dollar investments in order to maintain access to America’s market."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
NYT: "President Trump’s tariff threats have turned into a play for cold, hard cash as he tries to leverage U.S. economic power to cajole other nations to make multibillion-dollar investments in order to maintain access to America’s market."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
Trump’s Demand to Trading Partners: Pledge Money or Get Higher Tariffs
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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NYT: "President Trump’s tariff threats have turned into a play for cold, hard cash as he tries to leverage U.S. economic power to cajole other nations to make multibillion-dollar investments in order to maintain access to America’s market."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
NYT: "President Trump’s tariff threats have turned into a play for cold, hard cash as he tries to leverage U.S. economic power to cajole other nations to make multibillion-dollar investments in order to maintain access to America’s market."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
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Not “liberal states,” New York Times. Pro-democracy states.
July 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Not “liberal states,” New York Times. Pro-democracy states.
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NEW — Video shared with me by a bystander shows Customs and Border Patrol violently arresting people yesterday outside a Home Depot in Van Nuys, CA. One man screams in agony as he’s handcuffed, while another is on the ground with two agents on top of him. The agents refuse to identify themselves.
July 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
NEW — Video shared with me by a bystander shows Customs and Border Patrol violently arresting people yesterday outside a Home Depot in Van Nuys, CA. One man screams in agony as he’s handcuffed, while another is on the ground with two agents on top of him. The agents refuse to identify themselves.
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she needs to go. That is all.
Kirsten Gillibrand on WNYC won’t endorse Mamdani. Said she doesn’t endorse NYC mayoral races (she endorsed Adams in 2021), and is waiting to see who runs on what line. What a fucking disgrace.
June 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
she needs to go. That is all.
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Some thoughts on the 80th Anniversary of Victory over Fascism www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/05/08/s...
Some thoughts on the 80th Anniversary of Victory over Fascism - Yanis Varoufakis
Eighty years ago today, the monstrous machinery of the Third Reich was finally ground to dust. The swastika was torn from the Reichstag, the death camps liberated, and Europe—bloodied, traumatised, bu...
www.yanisvaroufakis.eu
May 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Some thoughts on the 80th Anniversary of Victory over Fascism www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/05/08/s...
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Any Democratic politicians show up at the protests today?
April 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Any Democratic politicians show up at the protests today?
Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/b...
Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America
People in China are expressing alarm at what looks like a familiar authoritarian turn in the United States, their longtime role model for democracy.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/b...
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Alex Raskolnikov and Benn Steil write that "U.S. law subsidizes foreign investment in the United States by imposing much lower tax rates on foreign investors than American ones," and argue that because these subsidized inflows distort...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Alex Raskolnikov and Benn Steil write that "U.S. law subsidizes foreign investment in the United States by imposing much lower tax rates on foreign investors than American ones," and argue that because these subsidized inflows distort...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
A Better Tool to Counter China’s Unfair Trade Practices
End the tax advantage for Chinese investors in U.S. markets.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Alex Raskolnikov and Benn Steil write that "U.S. law subsidizes foreign investment in the United States by imposing much lower tax rates on foreign investors than American ones," and argue that because these subsidized inflows distort...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Alex Raskolnikov and Benn Steil write that "U.S. law subsidizes foreign investment in the United States by imposing much lower tax rates on foreign investors than American ones," and argue that because these subsidized inflows distort...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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US personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan sent an urgent email this month to its more than 1,000 lawyers: Artificial intelligence can invent fake case law, and using made-up information in a court filing could get you fired reut.rs/4b4KCLU 1/5
February 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
US personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan sent an urgent email this month to its more than 1,000 lawyers: Artificial intelligence can invent fake case law, and using made-up information in a court filing could get you fired reut.rs/4b4KCLU 1/5
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This is fucking incredible.
![REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional- REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people ... to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: I don't have an answer for you. REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it... People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the military We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country... calling them liars. (Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of benign a lawyer for the government" She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mmtjkssv6jeneahkgfdxuy7p/bafkreicmr3wybkn6acxmmdf4vuqnzxho2nk7kp3v7tx7vkclg2cjmwvixm@jpeg)
February 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is fucking incredible.
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Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle.
One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”
One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle.
One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”
One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”
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1/ A thread about why the gutting of journalism, and local news in particular, is a main reason why we are here. And what you can do—constructively—to help.
Let's start with the homepage of @dallasnews.com. Mostly sports. Almost nothing about what's happening in DC—THAT AFFECTS TEXANS
Let's start with the homepage of @dallasnews.com. Mostly sports. Almost nothing about what's happening in DC—THAT AFFECTS TEXANS
February 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
1/ A thread about why the gutting of journalism, and local news in particular, is a main reason why we are here. And what you can do—constructively—to help.
Let's start with the homepage of @dallasnews.com. Mostly sports. Almost nothing about what's happening in DC—THAT AFFECTS TEXANS
Let's start with the homepage of @dallasnews.com. Mostly sports. Almost nothing about what's happening in DC—THAT AFFECTS TEXANS
Stop Worshiping the American Tech Giants www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...
Opinion | DeepSeek Serves as a Warning About Big Tech
The arrival of DeepSeek shows us the competitive weaknesses of America’s tech giants.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Stop Worshiping the American Tech Giants www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...
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Subscribe to WIRED. Seriously. Right now. Give them your money.
February 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Subscribe to WIRED. Seriously. Right now. Give them your money.
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Been angry at the Dems my whole adult life but never angrier than I am right now
February 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Been angry at the Dems my whole adult life but never angrier than I am right now
www.usnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Listen to the Bond Market, Because It’s Flashing a Warning www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/o...
Opinion | Listen to the Bond Market, Because It’s Flashing a Warning
Fears of inflation and more debt are already making borrowing more expensive.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Listen to the Bond Market, Because It’s Flashing a Warning www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/o...
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Commentary: Nobody could have imagined that the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel could have rebounded so badly on America’s enemies. But the Mideast remains very dangerous.
Assad’s fall shows Russia, Iran and Hamas made a bad bet
That’s not to say the Middle East is entering a bright new era of peace. The collapse of Assad’s regime could cause a revival of the Islamic State.
buff.ly
December 10, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Commentary: Nobody could have imagined that the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel could have rebounded so badly on America’s enemies. But the Mideast remains very dangerous.