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Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.”
… but what is plenary authority?
… but what is plenary authority?
October 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.”
… but what is plenary authority?
… but what is plenary authority?
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Checking in at the protests
June 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Checking in at the protests
President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador.
www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...
'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad
Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador.
www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...
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Sincerely I mean this, Nero never did anything this stupid
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
April 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Sincerely I mean this, Nero never did anything this stupid
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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
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Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it.
“We liked it over here,” one said.
“We liked it over here,” one said.
March 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it.
“We liked it over here,” one said.
“We liked it over here,” one said.
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These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
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When faced with either letting the government shut down, or letting Trump and Musk wreck it, the choice for Democrats is clear and simple. Shut it down to save it. Let the people know that no president gets to be a dictator, and that poor electoral choices have poor outcomes.
March 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
When faced with either letting the government shut down, or letting Trump and Musk wreck it, the choice for Democrats is clear and simple. Shut it down to save it. Let the people know that no president gets to be a dictator, and that poor electoral choices have poor outcomes.
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In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
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I'm honestly running out of words I can use on the air to describe what's happening in and to this economy
March 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I'm honestly running out of words I can use on the air to describe what's happening in and to this economy
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My latest post is now out.
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
christinapagel.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My latest post is now out.
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
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Instead, I propose a wholesale reimagining of the legal, technological and procedural foundations of the fiscal administrative state–a “New Digital Fiscal Regime"-grounded in a ‘centralized legislature, decentralized executive’ approach.
March 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Instead, I propose a wholesale reimagining of the legal, technological and procedural foundations of the fiscal administrative state–a “New Digital Fiscal Regime"-grounded in a ‘centralized legislature, decentralized executive’ approach.
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Some context for the un-emBloomberged masses of Bluesky: today's GDPNow estimate is literally the worst number excepting COVID that has happened since the indicator existed
March 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Some context for the un-emBloomberged masses of Bluesky: today's GDPNow estimate is literally the worst number excepting COVID that has happened since the indicator existed
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If you're still on Substack but want to make the move elsewhere, I highly recommend Ghost. Email concierge@ghost.org and they'll take care of virtually everything.
If you're worried about hanging onto subscribers, they kept everything in place from the old place. I've added 100+ new ones today.
If you're worried about hanging onto subscribers, they kept everything in place from the old place. I've added 100+ new ones today.
March 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you're still on Substack but want to make the move elsewhere, I highly recommend Ghost. Email concierge@ghost.org and they'll take care of virtually everything.
If you're worried about hanging onto subscribers, they kept everything in place from the old place. I've added 100+ new ones today.
If you're worried about hanging onto subscribers, they kept everything in place from the old place. I've added 100+ new ones today.
DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence
While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant.
www.propublica.org
February 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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You're nuts if you're questioning the wisdom and leadership of the Democratic Party right now. They're not the problem. The problem is the voters. What we need to do is replace 300 million voters
February 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
You're nuts if you're questioning the wisdom and leadership of the Democratic Party right now. They're not the problem. The problem is the voters. What we need to do is replace 300 million voters
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Like many born into slavery, abolitionist Frederick Douglass never knew his birthday.
His mother called him “little valentine” and so he chose to celebrate on Valentine’s Day.
Happy birthday, Frederick Douglass 💜
His mother called him “little valentine” and so he chose to celebrate on Valentine’s Day.
Happy birthday, Frederick Douglass 💜
February 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Like many born into slavery, abolitionist Frederick Douglass never knew his birthday.
His mother called him “little valentine” and so he chose to celebrate on Valentine’s Day.
Happy birthday, Frederick Douglass 💜
His mother called him “little valentine” and so he chose to celebrate on Valentine’s Day.
Happy birthday, Frederick Douglass 💜
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Just a reminder that Wired reported (with less detail) what I reported here just under 37 hours after I did. Both Wired and my reporting was confirmed by court documents submitted on Tuesday. I was the first source on this.
www.wired.com/story/treasu...
www.wired.com/story/treasu...
February 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Just a reminder that Wired reported (with less detail) what I reported here just under 37 hours after I did. Both Wired and my reporting was confirmed by court documents submitted on Tuesday. I was the first source on this.
www.wired.com/story/treasu...
www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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“Trump has liberated a lot of people from the last vestiges of the Sermon on the Mount. A lot of people turn out to have been sick and tired of pretending to be good.” Wallace Shawn, 2020
I think about this quote at least once a week.
I think about this quote at least once a week.
Wallace Shawn: Developments Since My Birth
I wonder if anyone but me remembers that during the years after the end of World War II, there were a lot of US Army jeeps on the streets of New York. I
www.nybooks.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“Trump has liberated a lot of people from the last vestiges of the Sermon on the Mount. A lot of people turn out to have been sick and tired of pretending to be good.” Wallace Shawn, 2020
I think about this quote at least once a week.
I think about this quote at least once a week.
@nathantankus.bsky.social Central Accounting Reporting System up next?
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Expected to Examine Another Treasury System Next Week
The new target, sources said, is a sensitive database that tracks the flow of money across the government.
www.propublica.org
February 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
@nathantankus.bsky.social Central Accounting Reporting System up next?
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
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My last five pieces (written over the course of three days) specifically named Marko Elez & used unique anonymous sources within the BFS that no one else had to detail Elez's activities and dispute the lies the administration was putting out about his behavior.
www.crisesnotes.com/treasury-sec...
www.crisesnotes.com/treasury-sec...
Afternoon of Day Seven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Treasury Secretary Bessent’s Lawlessness & Sorry Readers- Read and Write Code Still Seems in Play
UPDATE 4:21 PM: MARKO ELEZ HAS RESIGNED. WALL STREET JOURNAL CLAIMS IT WAS OVER "RACIST POSTS". OBVIOUSLY NOT TRUE- WIRED, TURNING POINTS MEMO AND I GOT HIM. NEED TO REST, MORE TOMORROW
Notes on th...
www.crisesnotes.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My last five pieces (written over the course of three days) specifically named Marko Elez & used unique anonymous sources within the BFS that no one else had to detail Elez's activities and dispute the lies the administration was putting out about his behavior.
www.crisesnotes.com/treasury-sec...
www.crisesnotes.com/treasury-sec...
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Scoop: People involved in WH discussions about TikTok say Oracle and Microsoft having talks about taking control of TikTok’s global operation, with ByteDance retaining minority stake www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g...
EXCLUSIVE: White House in talks to have Oracle and U.S. investors take over TikTok
The aim is to place oversight control in the hands of American software company Oracle and other investors. Under federal law, TikTok must split apart from China, or face a nationwide ban.
www.npr.org
January 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Scoop: People involved in WH discussions about TikTok say Oracle and Microsoft having talks about taking control of TikTok’s global operation, with ByteDance retaining minority stake www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g...
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We are, full stop, denying that the neoclassical price mechanism exists (and I'd go further and deny that the "classical price mechanism" exists either). That means we don't think prices are ever indices of "scarcity" and indeed that "relative scarcity" is a fictitious notion.
January 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are, full stop, denying that the neoclassical price mechanism exists (and I'd go further and deny that the "classical price mechanism" exists either). That means we don't think prices are ever indices of "scarcity" and indeed that "relative scarcity" is a fictitious notion.