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Walz: It's like trump is stuck in the 80s. His music, his clothing, his thinking. I think the biggest myth perpetuated on this country that Donald Trump understands anything about business. He's bankrupted every single one he's been into, and now he's bankrupting this country
April 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Walz: It's like trump is stuck in the 80s. His music, his clothing, his thinking. I think the biggest myth perpetuated on this country that Donald Trump understands anything about business. He's bankrupted every single one he's been into, and now he's bankrupting this country
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Raskin: Would it be problem for it to be standard practice to conduct sensitive foreign policy on a signal chat group? It just came out that Waltz’s team set up 20 signal group chats for crises across the world… I’m sure this will raise the question on whether he should continue in that position
April 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Raskin: Would it be problem for it to be standard practice to conduct sensitive foreign policy on a signal chat group? It just came out that Waltz’s team set up 20 signal group chats for crises across the world… I’m sure this will raise the question on whether he should continue in that position
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The US stock market has lost over $2 trillion in the last 20 minutes.
Nice, nice. Nice.
Nice, nice. Nice.
April 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The US stock market has lost over $2 trillion in the last 20 minutes.
Nice, nice. Nice.
Nice, nice. Nice.
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Surprise, surprise. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/c...
E.P.A. Hunt for Shady Deals and ‘Gold Bars’ Comes Up Empty
The agency head said a $20 billion Biden climate program was marred by fraud and abuse. Documents filed for a court hearing this week don’t support that.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Surprise, surprise. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/c...
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Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.
March 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.
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I keep watching this clip with something approaching yearning and I’m realizing it’s because we don’t hear this level of strategic realism—that the old world is gone and the old rules don’t apply—from anyone in leadership in the Democratic Party.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I keep watching this clip with something approaching yearning and I’m realizing it’s because we don’t hear this level of strategic realism—that the old world is gone and the old rules don’t apply—from anyone in leadership in the Democratic Party.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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If you had any doubt that the Republican Party is a party of racists and white supremacists.
March 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
If you had any doubt that the Republican Party is a party of racists and white supremacists.
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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
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Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.
March 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.
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It is amazing that this phrase has so quickly become practically a cliché, as so many examples abound!
Before this month is over, Prof. @timothysnyder.bsky.social may need to rewrite this chapter to something more like, "Do Not Ignominiously Grovel in Advance"
December 15, 2024 at 3:57 PM
It is amazing that this phrase has so quickly become practically a cliché, as so many examples abound!
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Authoritarian regimes don't give you cookies for appeasing them. They give you more kicks to the head: you've signaled to them you will take it without fighting back. Being conciliatory to an abuser doesn't halt or forestall the abuse.
December 11, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Authoritarian regimes don't give you cookies for appeasing them. They give you more kicks to the head: you've signaled to them you will take it without fighting back. Being conciliatory to an abuser doesn't halt or forestall the abuse.
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When there were reports that Musk would spend $45 million each month for the last three months of the election Musk claimed it was fake news and he would actually be spending a much smaller amount
December 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM
When there were reports that Musk would spend $45 million each month for the last three months of the election Musk claimed it was fake news and he would actually be spending a much smaller amount
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As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market?
It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today.
That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.
It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today.
That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.
December 7, 2024 at 12:00 AM
As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market?
It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today.
That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.
It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today.
That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.
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If we’re going to take on Trump, Republican extremists, and move our country forward, the Democratic Party needs to be stronger. I'm running for Chair of the Democratic National Committee to unite the party, fight everywhere, and win. Join me. 🧵
Unite. Fight. Win.
YouTube video by Ben Wikler
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:14 PM
If we’re going to take on Trump, Republican extremists, and move our country forward, the Democratic Party needs to be stronger. I'm running for Chair of the Democratic National Committee to unite the party, fight everywhere, and win. Join me. 🧵
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I know shit is REAL bleak. But, ironically, it's actually when it's darkest that we must figure out how to be more attractive than the hate, fear, rage our opposition is offering.
December 4, 2024 at 8:02 PM
I know shit is REAL bleak. But, ironically, it's actually when it's darkest that we must figure out how to be more attractive than the hate, fear, rage our opposition is offering.
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You can get sent to jail for stealing toilet paper but if you hire a dozen children to work overnight shifts at your slaughter house your company pays a fine
Children Worked Dangerous Shifts at Iowa Slaughterhouse, Inquiry Finds
Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:43 AM
You can get sent to jail for stealing toilet paper but if you hire a dozen children to work overnight shifts at your slaughter house your company pays a fine
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Friends, this week marks a monumental step forward in my path towards pushing for a greater ecology of accountability in the age of AI. Thrilled to officially announce the AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) @theaial.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin is launching today, Thursday Nov 28, 2024 aial.ie
AI Accountability Lab
Stewarding a greater ecology of accountability in the age of AI
aial.ie
November 28, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Friends, this week marks a monumental step forward in my path towards pushing for a greater ecology of accountability in the age of AI. Thrilled to officially announce the AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) @theaial.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin is launching today, Thursday Nov 28, 2024 aial.ie
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In 2018 Dems elected the largest class to Congress since Watergate, ~60 seats.
A lot of it was, yes, Trump backlash. But the winners also had another thing in common, despite a wide range of differences: most rejected corporate PAC money.
It’s a hugely compelling factor to voters & underdiscussed
A lot of it was, yes, Trump backlash. But the winners also had another thing in common, despite a wide range of differences: most rejected corporate PAC money.
It’s a hugely compelling factor to voters & underdiscussed
I think the Dems need to field gruff corruption busters at all levels whose primary campaign response to culture war issues is “All Americans should enjoy the freedom and bounty of this great country. That won’t be possible so long as venal men impoverish you and loot the country of your wealth”
November 27, 2024 at 1:22 PM
In 2018 Dems elected the largest class to Congress since Watergate, ~60 seats.
A lot of it was, yes, Trump backlash. But the winners also had another thing in common, despite a wide range of differences: most rejected corporate PAC money.
It’s a hugely compelling factor to voters & underdiscussed
A lot of it was, yes, Trump backlash. But the winners also had another thing in common, despite a wide range of differences: most rejected corporate PAC money.
It’s a hugely compelling factor to voters & underdiscussed
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Maybe the problem wasn't that she was a preachy female or that someone said Latinx four years ago. Maybe the problem was running a pro-institution, pro-status quo campaign where almost everyone agrees the system isn't working.
Analysis of this election should, at the least, be based on what happened. Free link! Please share.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Electoral Problem for Democrats: It's the Neoliberalism, Stupid
In the 2024 contest between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, voters rejected the status quo — as our polls and focus groups warned would happen.
www.rollingstone.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Maybe the problem wasn't that she was a preachy female or that someone said Latinx four years ago. Maybe the problem was running a pro-institution, pro-status quo campaign where almost everyone agrees the system isn't working.