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Why were these people confirmed in the first place? There is a cancer on the heart of the presidency, to quote from the Watergate era, and it’s infecting all of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/what-will-...
March 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Why were these people confirmed in the first place? There is a cancer on the heart of the presidency, to quote from the Watergate era, and it’s infecting all of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/what-will-...
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Quoting ME Senator Margaret Chase Smith, "It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-22-2...
March 22, 2025
Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend’s rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Quoting ME Senator Margaret Chase Smith, "It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-22-2...
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1/ For many Americans, deporting violent gang members will sound like a good idea, constitutional niceties be damned. They are the perfect group of people for a government test case. joycevance.substack.com/p/deportatio...
Deportations: It's not where it starts, it's where it ends.
Just ahead of the hearing scheduled for 5 p.m.
joycevance.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
1/ For many Americans, deporting violent gang members will sound like a good idea, constitutional niceties be damned. They are the perfect group of people for a government test case. joycevance.substack.com/p/deportatio...
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If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
March 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
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Actually no. There are no questions about this. A court order is a court order.
"There are actually questions about whether a verbal order carries the same weight as a written order" -- Leavitt on court orders and Trump's compliance (or lack thereof) with them
March 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Actually no. There are no questions about this. A court order is a court order.
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So where, exactly, do Dems draw the line?
A shutdown would give Donald Trump the keys to the city, state, and country.
Musk has said he wants a shutdown, and reporting has shown he is already making plans to use the shutdown to expedite his destruction of key government programs and services.
Musk has said he wants a shutdown, and reporting has shown he is already making plans to use the shutdown to expedite his destruction of key government programs and services.
March 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
So where, exactly, do Dems draw the line?
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I'm not the world's most pinko rabble-rousing guy.
But to me, this budget vote was where Dems *had* to draw the line. (As argued yesterday, below.)
fallows.substack.com/p/the-only-p...
If not now, when?
But to me, this budget vote was where Dems *had* to draw the line. (As argued yesterday, below.)
fallows.substack.com/p/the-only-p...
If not now, when?
‘The Only Practical Check That’s Left Is the Power of the Purse.’
In the baffling haze of dealing with ‘everything, all the time,' a few clear signals of where to take a stand. Let's start with Democrats all voting NO on a blank check for Elon Musk.
fallows.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I'm not the world's most pinko rabble-rousing guy.
But to me, this budget vote was where Dems *had* to draw the line. (As argued yesterday, below.)
fallows.substack.com/p/the-only-p...
If not now, when?
But to me, this budget vote was where Dems *had* to draw the line. (As argued yesterday, below.)
fallows.substack.com/p/the-only-p...
If not now, when?
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Pro tip for Democrats: if Trump is congratulating you, you fucked up.
March 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Pro tip for Democrats: if Trump is congratulating you, you fucked up.
It is time for all Democrats to take a stand. If not now, when?
AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.
March 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It is time for all Democrats to take a stand. If not now, when?
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This is a lie
JD Vance turns reality upside down: "There is as the president has said a recognition that we have to accept, which is that Joe Biden left this economy in a disaster."
March 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is a lie
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Chuck Schumer can ask himself, "What would Mitch McConnell do?"
Answer will become obvious.
Chuck Schumer can ask himself, "What would Mitch McConnell do?"
Answer will become obvious.
March 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Chuck Schumer can ask himself, "What would Mitch McConnell do?"
Answer will become obvious.
Chuck Schumer can ask himself, "What would Mitch McConnell do?"
Answer will become obvious.
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This is all, of course, lies
Elon Musk says "10% of federal expenditures" are due to people having fake Social Security numbers, claiming it is "half a trillion dollars."
March 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This is all, of course, lies
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What Krugman said
The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy.
Nonetheless, holy shit.
What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.
Nonetheless, holy shit.
What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.
March 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What Krugman said
It appears our stock market is undergoing an unscheduled rapid disassembly today.
March 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It appears our stock market is undergoing an unscheduled rapid disassembly today.
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March 7, 2025
March 7, 2025
Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM
March 7, 2025
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Please read this thread
It’s the 60th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” at Selma, and thus the 10th anniversary of President Obama’s speech there, my favorite of all his public oratory, although it reads differently now. 🧵
time.com/3736357/bara...
time.com/3736357/bara...
Read the Full Text of Obama's Speech in Selma
The President spoke on Saturday in Selma, Ala.
time.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Please read this thread
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What could possibly go wrong?
(Lots. Lots could possibly go wrong.)
Honestly I feel like I’m losing my mind
(Lots. Lots could possibly go wrong.)
Honestly I feel like I’m losing my mind
Newt Gingrich says the "McKinley Model" requires high tariffs over a three-year transition period.
Notable: Three years after the 1890 McKinley tariff, the economy had fallen into a severe depression. The GDP shrank by 10% and unemployment hit 18%. Certainly not the economic model I'd be copying. 😳
Notable: Three years after the 1890 McKinley tariff, the economy had fallen into a severe depression. The GDP shrank by 10% and unemployment hit 18%. Certainly not the economic model I'd be copying. 😳
March 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
(Lots. Lots could possibly go wrong.)
Honestly I feel like I’m losing my mind
(Lots. Lots could possibly go wrong.)
Honestly I feel like I’m losing my mind
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The lying ALONE is monumental (and politicians are already known for having issues with the truth...so it takes a lot to move that needle). But this is Orwellian levels of "flooding the zone with shit". Impossible to even begin to fact check.
As it was designed to be.
As it was designed to be.
March 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The lying ALONE is monumental (and politicians are already known for having issues with the truth...so it takes a lot to move that needle). But this is Orwellian levels of "flooding the zone with shit". Impossible to even begin to fact check.
As it was designed to be.
As it was designed to be.
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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
March 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
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Speaking for myself (and probably the whole company, but I don't want to speak for them). I support Ukraine.
I SUPPORT UKRAINE.
I SUPPORT UKRAINE.
March 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Speaking for myself (and probably the whole company, but I don't want to speak for them). I support Ukraine.
I SUPPORT UKRAINE.
I SUPPORT UKRAINE.
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Trudeau: "Now I want to speak directly to one specific American. Donald...it's not in my habit to agree with the WSJ, but Donald, they point out that even though you're a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do. We friends fighting is exactly what our opponents around the world want to see."
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Trudeau: "Now I want to speak directly to one specific American. Donald...it's not in my habit to agree with the WSJ, but Donald, they point out that even though you're a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do. We friends fighting is exactly what our opponents around the world want to see."