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Trump Will Hate This
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Trump Will Hate This
Want to do something that Trump will hate?
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April 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Very clear analysis here.

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Why Trump opponents can’t find a lawyer
His campaign of vengeance against lawyers and law firms is chilling opposition to his regime, which is exactly what he wants.
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March 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Where the HELL are the Democrats?
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Where the HELL are the Democrats?
Friends,
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March 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Once there were giants….
George Foreman, Boxing Champion and Grilling Magnate, Dies at 76
He claimed a world title in his 20s and again in his 40s, and then made millions selling grills.
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March 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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How to fight the Trump regime’s use of fear and intimidation
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How to fight the Trump regime’s use of fear and intimidation
Three rules for responding to his tyranny
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March 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Trump’s racist white-supremacist agenda is clear:

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Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale
The president and his allies accuse South Africa of discriminating against and killing white people, and warn that it could happen in America if attempts to promote diversity aren’t stopped.
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March 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.....
Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup
The Wreckage They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal governm...
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March 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Opinion | This Never Happened With an American President Before
Trump’s behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky was an unparalleled break with American foreign policy.
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February 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Here's what the idiots in the White House utterly fail to comprehend. They and the US came out of that argument weaker. Zelensky came out stronger, with Europe rallying behind Ukraine more than before. They came out looking like petulant idiots; he came out looking like a leader with integrity.
February 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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In the Irish Times this morning, but in the NEW YORK TIMES? Nowhere to be found in the print edition I received. Not a single line about the protests.
‘Is this 1935 or 2025?’: US protests held against Trump administration
Demonstrations held in front of state capitol buildings across country in opposition to US president and Musk
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February 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Rebecca Solnit on just how much the language matters.

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To Use Their Language Is to Endorse Their Lies
Every crisis is in part a storytelling crisis, and the current one here in the US is also a language crisis. How we use the language and how we listen for lies that are in single words and phrases as ...
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February 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 5
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
February 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM