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Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
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Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
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im sorry but i just don't think all of public affairs and government at the federal level should just be Genuine Asshole, Who Is Shockingly Stupid and Incompetent, Tells Obvious Childlike Lie in Angry Voice
December 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
im sorry but i just don't think all of public affairs and government at the federal level should just be Genuine Asshole, Who Is Shockingly Stupid and Incompetent, Tells Obvious Childlike Lie in Angry Voice
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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NEW: Trump commuted the sentence of billion dollar Ponzi schemer David Gentile days into his sentence.
Gentile's business history is long intermingled with former oligarch Michael Cherney, wanted by Interpol for alleged ties to Russian organized crime.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/trump-comm...
Gentile's business history is long intermingled with former oligarch Michael Cherney, wanted by Interpol for alleged ties to Russian organized crime.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/trump-comm...
Trump commuted the prison sentence for a financial fraudster with ties to Russian tycoon allegedly linked to organized crime
David Gentile has long been in business with the family of Michael Cherney, accused of hiding the exiled Russian's assets in US companies
jacquelinesweet.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
NEW: Trump commuted the sentence of billion dollar Ponzi schemer David Gentile days into his sentence.
Gentile's business history is long intermingled with former oligarch Michael Cherney, wanted by Interpol for alleged ties to Russian organized crime.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/trump-comm...
Gentile's business history is long intermingled with former oligarch Michael Cherney, wanted by Interpol for alleged ties to Russian organized crime.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/trump-comm...
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Legitimacy is not a substance. Legitimation is a process. Things become illegitimate because you treat them as such.
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Legitimacy is not a substance. Legitimation is a process. Things become illegitimate because you treat them as such.
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Here's @mjsdc.bsky.social's explainer on how much more damage SCOTUS is about to do to our democracy: slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court Is About to Hand Trump Insidious New Powers
Why are the Republican-appointed justices so eager to give the president dictatorial control over the government?
slate.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Here's @mjsdc.bsky.social's explainer on how much more damage SCOTUS is about to do to our democracy: slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Next week the Supreme Court will hear another engineered case with fake plaintiffs, which presents another opportunity for the GOP justices to blow a hole through what remains of our campaign finance laws—this time, by turning political parties into a conduit for bribes. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court Is Poised to Revive a Key Feature of Nixon-Era Corruption
The justices will hear arguments on Tuesday in NRSC v. FEC, a case cooked up by the GOP itself.
slate.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Next week the Supreme Court will hear another engineered case with fake plaintiffs, which presents another opportunity for the GOP justices to blow a hole through what remains of our campaign finance laws—this time, by turning political parties into a conduit for bribes. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
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It's unbelievable how corrupt the Supreme Court is. It's insane that we are letting them get away with it. They are taking away all of our rights.
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It's unbelievable how corrupt the Supreme Court is. It's insane that we are letting them get away with it. They are taking away all of our rights.
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Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates."
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
No, Progressives Don’t Want “Purity.” They Just Want Some Courage.
When left-leaning Democrats complain about corporate influence, it’s not a “purity test.” It’s a demand for a better politics.
newrepublic.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates."
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
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"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
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it's all I get, now, a dozen or more Medicare scam calls a day. Democrats could have made this a priority & stolen millions of annoyed voters because it's an actual, tangible thing they can relate to as an improvement in their lives but it's not a "kitchen table issue"
I wrote this for the @nytimes.com: Scammers are calling seniors more than 50 times a day. Some who get scammed wind up with weird charges on their Medicare and mysterious packages on their porches
Medicare Scammers Are Calling Seniors 50 Times a Day, Trying to Trap Them
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
it's all I get, now, a dozen or more Medicare scam calls a day. Democrats could have made this a priority & stolen millions of annoyed voters because it's an actual, tangible thing they can relate to as an improvement in their lives but it's not a "kitchen table issue"
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worth noting the literal impossibility of civil liability for the prosecutors for all this willfully malicious conduct
“[T]he Justice Department is determined to try again.”
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
worth noting the literal impossibility of civil liability for the prosecutors for all this willfully malicious conduct
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Research finds that dealers consistently try to push buyers away from EVs, often using deception and misinformation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dismissive and deceptive car dealerships create barriers to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale - Nature Energy
Car dealership experiences may influence EV purchase decisions of the majority of consumers who do not have pre-existing knowledge of EVs. This study shows that car dealerships present barriers to EV ...
www.nature.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Research finds that dealers consistently try to push buyers away from EVs, often using deception and misinformation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid
The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Your representatives don’t think you need to know what your government is doing in your name.
“Until Congress grows a spine or has one surgically implanted by a sufficiently pissed off American public, the supremacy of the national security state will continue to dominate”
“Until Congress grows a spine or has one surgically implanted by a sufficiently pissed off American public, the supremacy of the national security state will continue to dominate”
Senator Mark Kelly has seen the Trump admin's classified justification for the boat strikes and said they should be released to the public. Kelly can release the info himself due legislative immunity; but when asked if he would, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Why Hegseth's Alleged War Crime Will Never Be Revealed
Lethal strike on alleged drug boat in Caribbean is shrouded in an above-top secret world
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Your representatives don’t think you need to know what your government is doing in your name.
“Until Congress grows a spine or has one surgically implanted by a sufficiently pissed off American public, the supremacy of the national security state will continue to dominate”
“Until Congress grows a spine or has one surgically implanted by a sufficiently pissed off American public, the supremacy of the national security state will continue to dominate”
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I wrote about Hakeem Jeffries, Henry Cuellar and how America's political opposition risks blowing the case against elite corruption. www.theredoubt.net/how-to-blow-...
How to blow the case against elite corruption
Defending bribes and ties to wealthy criminals is why you get cynicism about politics.
www.theredoubt.net
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I wrote about Hakeem Jeffries, Henry Cuellar and how America's political opposition risks blowing the case against elite corruption. www.theredoubt.net/how-to-blow-...
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*CORRECT: TRUMP PARDONS TEXAS CONGRESSMAN HENRY CUELLAR, IMELDA
December 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
*CORRECT: TRUMP PARDONS TEXAS CONGRESSMAN HENRY CUELLAR, IMELDA
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Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry
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Yeah I hate it. There should be more ways to make a living in that business. There must be room in the culture for the "time to make the donuts" guy to own his own home.
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Yeah I hate it. There should be more ways to make a living in that business. There must be room in the culture for the "time to make the donuts" guy to own his own home.