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This is the kind of excessive force case DOJ routinely prosecutes. They should open an investigation here, based on the misconduct not the victims status.
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”
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June 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is the kind of excessive force case DOJ routinely prosecutes. They should open an investigation here, based on the misconduct not the victims status.
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Elon Musk may be gone but DOGE isn't done remaking the federal government www.npr.org/2025/06/16/n...
Elon Musk may be gone but DOGE isn't done remaking the federal government
Even though the billionaire is no longer leading the Department of Government Efficiency effort, many key staffers — and DOGE ideas — are now more permanently embedded in the federal government.
www.npr.org
June 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Elon Musk may be gone but DOGE isn't done remaking the federal government www.npr.org/2025/06/16/n...
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While the U.S. is pulling back on its investments in innovation and research, other nations are eager to gain advantages through attracting a highly skilled workforce.
Researchers warn U.S. is on the ‘precipice’ of brain drain as Trump cuts federal grants
The Trump administration’s cuts to federal funding and hiring freezes at colleges and universities come at a crucial time, destabilizing the nation's research infrastructure and prompting many…
buff.ly
June 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
While the U.S. is pulling back on its investments in innovation and research, other nations are eager to gain advantages through attracting a highly skilled workforce.
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"How does it feel to get arrested at 87 years old?
He said "I'm just beginning!"
He said "I'm just beginning!"
June 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"How does it feel to get arrested at 87 years old?
He said "I'm just beginning!"
He said "I'm just beginning!"
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President Donald Trump reported over $600 million in income and $1.6 billion in assets in a public financial disclosure filed late Friday, including cryptocurrency holdings, income from his properties and lucrative licensing deals with foreign developers.
Trump reports over $600 million in income in latest financial disclosure
what the latest financial disclosures show about how much money Trump & other officials made from crypto, Bible, speeches and other items
www.washingtonpost.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
President Donald Trump reported over $600 million in income and $1.6 billion in assets in a public financial disclosure filed late Friday, including cryptocurrency holdings, income from his properties and lucrative licensing deals with foreign developers.
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Rep. Rivas: "What we witnessed today are actions of an authoritarian government. The Trump administration quickly resorted to violent actions to silence Seneator Padilla, erase our democracy, and rewrite our nation's values."
June 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Rep. Rivas: "What we witnessed today are actions of an authoritarian government. The Trump administration quickly resorted to violent actions to silence Seneator Padilla, erase our democracy, and rewrite our nation's values."
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“You see plenty of elected officials getting into it with each other. You do not see the FBI or secret service dragging their colleagues to the floor and cuffing them…It is the ethos of this administration to treat people not as colleagues, but enemies." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
“You see plenty of elected officials getting into it with each other. You do not see the FBI or secret service dragging their colleagues to the floor and cuffing them…It is the ethos of this administration to treat people not as colleagues, but enemies." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
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Democrats’ message should surely be:
What Sen. Ernst really means here is that the donors, lobbyists, and elites Sen. Ernst now hangs around with don’t much care about some less well-off people dying.
What Sen. Ernst really means here is that the donors, lobbyists, and elites Sen. Ernst now hangs around with don’t much care about some less well-off people dying.
June 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Democrats’ message should surely be:
What Sen. Ernst really means here is that the donors, lobbyists, and elites Sen. Ernst now hangs around with don’t much care about some less well-off people dying.
What Sen. Ernst really means here is that the donors, lobbyists, and elites Sen. Ernst now hangs around with don’t much care about some less well-off people dying.
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Now they’re using tear gas & stun grenades on the crowds that witness their cowardly “raids.” They’re shit-scared. This is gonna lead to bystander deaths.
Look at these zilches in their Judge Dredd cosplay. This is the happiest moment of their miserable, forgettable lives.
Look at these zilches in their Judge Dredd cosplay. This is the happiest moment of their miserable, forgettable lives.
Unbelievable!
Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware.
#OnYourSide
Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware.
#OnYourSide
June 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Now they’re using tear gas & stun grenades on the crowds that witness their cowardly “raids.” They’re shit-scared. This is gonna lead to bystander deaths.
Look at these zilches in their Judge Dredd cosplay. This is the happiest moment of their miserable, forgettable lives.
Look at these zilches in their Judge Dredd cosplay. This is the happiest moment of their miserable, forgettable lives.
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News Analysis: President Trump and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations.
As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests
www.nytimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
News Analysis: President Trump and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations.
Quote in the article: reluctantly voted for Trump seeing him as the lesser of two evils.
What did these people think they saw in Harris that made them think Trump was the better choice? This is something I don’t think I will ever understand.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
What did these people think they saw in Harris that made them think Trump was the better choice? This is something I don’t think I will ever understand.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
A Kansas family farm, barely getting by, grapples with Trump’s cuts
Like many of his rural neighbors in northeast Kansas, Jacob Thomas is trying to compensate for deep losses in federal funding. There’s worry and anger.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Quote in the article: reluctantly voted for Trump seeing him as the lesser of two evils.
What did these people think they saw in Harris that made them think Trump was the better choice? This is something I don’t think I will ever understand.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
What did these people think they saw in Harris that made them think Trump was the better choice? This is something I don’t think I will ever understand.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
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Resharing this for all the criminal defense lawyers who will be making selective/vindictive prosecution arguments in the coming months
May 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Resharing this for all the criminal defense lawyers who will be making selective/vindictive prosecution arguments in the coming months
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In my worst nightmares the teenagers at DOGE take over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, yup, here we are.
The White House just dropped an executive order significantly shaking up operations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the government’s nuclear safety regulator widely regarded as the “gold standard” for global nuclear power safety operations.
I used to cover NRC closely. Here are some notes🧵
I used to cover NRC closely. Here are some notes🧵
May 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
In my worst nightmares the teenagers at DOGE take over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, yup, here we are.
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The mugging of the only Black foreign leader to visit the Oval Office so far this year was the tell: Donald Trump does have a few human rights lectures in him, after all, but only on behalf of those with the right color skin.
my new column:
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
my new column:
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Donald Trump Stages an Oval Office Mugging
Race-baiting South Africa’s visiting leader was a perfect summation of Trump’s racially charged second term.
www.newyorker.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The mugging of the only Black foreign leader to visit the Oval Office so far this year was the tell: Donald Trump does have a few human rights lectures in him, after all, but only on behalf of those with the right color skin.
my new column:
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
my new column:
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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NEW -- Donald Trump is selling access to himself tonight to those who spent a total of $192 million to buy his souvenir crypto coin, which has an intrinsic value of exactly zero.
No, you are not allowed to know the names of the attendees.
Yes, it's as corrupt as it sounds.
No, you are not allowed to know the names of the attendees.
Yes, it's as corrupt as it sounds.
May 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
NEW -- Donald Trump is selling access to himself tonight to those who spent a total of $192 million to buy his souvenir crypto coin, which has an intrinsic value of exactly zero.
No, you are not allowed to know the names of the attendees.
Yes, it's as corrupt as it sounds.
No, you are not allowed to know the names of the attendees.
Yes, it's as corrupt as it sounds.
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US President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented on Wednesday as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.
Trump’s image of dead ‘white farmers’ came from Congo, not South Africa | CNN
The footage shows a mass burial in Goma, Congo, and was filmed by Reuters video journalist Djaffar Al Katanty, who said seeing Trump holding the article with the screengrab of his video was a shock.
cnn.it
May 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
US President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented on Wednesday as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.
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“Deeply creepy” indeed: 1932, say hello to 2025.
May 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“Deeply creepy” indeed: 1932, say hello to 2025.
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Why do both Americans and political scientists see American democracy on the decline? Because we elected a man with no appreciation for our history or ideals who ran on a platform of remaking the country.
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Opinion | America’s least American president
Donald Trump isn’t making America great again. He’s making it into something else entirely.
wapo.st
May 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Why do both Americans and political scientists see American democracy on the decline? Because we elected a man with no appreciation for our history or ideals who ran on a platform of remaking the country.
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Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed
Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed
At the heart of all Trump administration policies is ‘soft eugenics’ thinking – the idea that if you take away life-saving services, then only the strong will survive
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed
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‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database
‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database
US health secretary claims data will be used for research but has not addressed privacy concerns and potential misuse
Autism researchers and advocates are pushing back against the creation of an autism database – meant to track the health of autistic people in a major research study – and pointing to the ways such databases could be misused.
While the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) denies it’s a registry, the agency did confirm a sweeping database of autistic people will power a $50m study on autism. Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said last week that he plans to announce results from the study within months. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database
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The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.
May 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.
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They really do want to take women back to the 1950's or worse, Turn the US into Gilead from The Handmaid's tale.
May 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
They really do want to take women back to the 1950's or worse, Turn the US into Gilead from The Handmaid's tale.