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"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
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I care. I think you do, too. The swamp is now a damn tar pit.
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I care. I think you do, too. The swamp is now a damn tar pit.
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Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.
The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.
Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.
If this isn't corruption, what is?
The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.
Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.
If this isn't corruption, what is?
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.
The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.
Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.
If this isn't corruption, what is?
The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.
Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.
If this isn't corruption, what is?
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PERRY COUNTY, TN — a man arrested and faces felony “threatening mass violence in a school” for posting an image of Trump with his own words in a facebook group after Charlie Kirk’s murder.
His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
www.instagram.com/p/DPoq7b9Fez...
His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
www.instagram.com/p/DPoq7b9Fez...
October 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
PERRY COUNTY, TN — a man arrested and faces felony “threatening mass violence in a school” for posting an image of Trump with his own words in a facebook group after Charlie Kirk’s murder.
His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
www.instagram.com/p/DPoq7b9Fez...
His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
www.instagram.com/p/DPoq7b9Fez...
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I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Minnesota shooting suspect had a list of dozens of potential Democratic targets, prosecutors say
All of the politicians named in his writing were Democrats, including more than 45 state and federal officials in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said.
www.pbs.org
September 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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“Nobody’s talking about Rockbridge, and that’s exactly how they want it.”
Ashley on the Private Club for Billionaires where Vance, Thiel, etc. map out the right-wing takeover 🇺🇸
Ashley on the Private Club for Billionaires where Vance, Thiel, etc. map out the right-wing takeover 🇺🇸
August 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“Nobody’s talking about Rockbridge, and that’s exactly how they want it.”
Ashley on the Private Club for Billionaires where Vance, Thiel, etc. map out the right-wing takeover 🇺🇸
Ashley on the Private Club for Billionaires where Vance, Thiel, etc. map out the right-wing takeover 🇺🇸
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“This is the point I’m trying to convey: All of Trump’s power depends on his continued reinforcement of the disinformation that Russia used to get him elected the first time. Without Russia’s continued indulgence, the foundational myths to Trump’s power would crumble.”
August 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“This is the point I’m trying to convey: All of Trump’s power depends on his continued reinforcement of the disinformation that Russia used to get him elected the first time. Without Russia’s continued indulgence, the foundational myths to Trump’s power would crumble.”
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In case you missed it, Trump’s new jobs stats guy is a Nazi “history buff” who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Thou Shalt Not Hire a Jan. 6 Nazi Fan to Cook the Books
Only the worst people.
www.thegodpodcast.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In case you missed it, Trump’s new jobs stats guy is a Nazi “history buff” who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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Both the overflowing public scholarly goodness in my longest #ScholarSunday thread yet & this especially fraught moment in our collective history require me to share this week's thread once more. Please help get all this great work & all these awesome folks out there, & thanks! 🗃️
It’s appropriate that, on this especially fraught holiday weekend, my 232nd #ScholarSunday thread is my longest yet, full of so much public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy! 🗃️
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
#ScholarSunday Thread 232
Published on July 6, 2025
americanstudier.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Both the overflowing public scholarly goodness in my longest #ScholarSunday thread yet & this especially fraught moment in our collective history require me to share this week's thread once more. Please help get all this great work & all these awesome folks out there, & thanks! 🗃️
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When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
July 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
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Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/bill-mo...
Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming
I cannot say for sure when Bill Moyers first developed such a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/bill-mo...
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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
June 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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"In these situations, one expects to hear that the shooter was in the midst of a psychotic episode." Instead, he was a seemingly functional, deeply religious family man. That is terrifying.
The Growing Threat of Homegrown Religious Extremism
The alleged Minnesota assassin was known as a ‘deeply religious’ Christian man. That should be an alarm bell for all of us.
www.thebulwark.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"In these situations, one expects to hear that the shooter was in the midst of a psychotic episode." Instead, he was a seemingly functional, deeply religious family man. That is terrifying.
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(D) Sen. Tim Kaine's resolution on war powers is an important reminder of the constitutional role Congress plays in the declaration of war.
This shouldn't be up for discussion, per the Constitution only Congress has the power to declare war.
No war!
This shouldn't be up for discussion, per the Constitution only Congress has the power to declare war.
No war!
June 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
(D) Sen. Tim Kaine's resolution on war powers is an important reminder of the constitutional role Congress plays in the declaration of war.
This shouldn't be up for discussion, per the Constitution only Congress has the power to declare war.
No war!
This shouldn't be up for discussion, per the Constitution only Congress has the power to declare war.
No war!
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I corrected the propaganda.
May 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I corrected the propaganda.
Yeah, Tim Walz!!!
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Yeah, Tim Walz!!!
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The L.A. Times names THICK one of the best non-fiction books of the last 30 years.
I will be honest with you, even I cannot always believe that this is my life.
Thank you. Very much.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I will be honest with you, even I cannot always believe that this is my life.
Thank you. Very much.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
The 30 best nonfiction books of the last 30 years
To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.
www.latimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The L.A. Times names THICK one of the best non-fiction books of the last 30 years.
I will be honest with you, even I cannot always believe that this is my life.
Thank you. Very much.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I will be honest with you, even I cannot always believe that this is my life.
Thank you. Very much.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I support U.S. farmers. Trump's tariffs are devastating to US agriculture.
WATCH: “The Chinese told the 3 largest 🇺🇸 soybean distributors in China they can no longer do business there.”
Tennessee’s #1 cash crop. Another Trump trade war farmer bailout won’t be far behind.
Tennessee’s #1 cash crop. Another Trump trade war farmer bailout won’t be far behind.
April 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I support U.S. farmers. Trump's tariffs are devastating to US agriculture.
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JUST IN: Three days after a judge awarded $6.6 million to whistleblowers fired for reporting him to the FBI for allegedly using his office to protect a prominent real estate developer in exchange for helping him cheat on his state senator wife, Ken Paxton announces he is running for US Senate.
April 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
JUST IN: Three days after a judge awarded $6.6 million to whistleblowers fired for reporting him to the FBI for allegedly using his office to protect a prominent real estate developer in exchange for helping him cheat on his state senator wife, Ken Paxton announces he is running for US Senate.
Rep. Raskin sums it up!
Rep Jamie Raskin gives a clear, factual statement that counters the attempts to criminalize judges for doing their job and ruling against the many unconstitutional EOs we've seen.
Another serious defense of our democracy.
On April 5, join to add your support: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
#HandsOff
Another serious defense of our democracy.
On April 5, join to add your support: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
#HandsOff
Ranking Member Jamie Raskin delivers opening remarks
YouTube video by House Committee on the Judiciary
youtube.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Rep. Raskin sums it up!
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Welcome to the public domain, THE CANARY MURDER CASE (1929), a mystery that shifted from silent to sound during production. Early roles for William Powell & Jean Arthur. 🎞️🔍
Learn more. ➡️https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
Learn more. ➡️https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
April 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Welcome to the public domain, THE CANARY MURDER CASE (1929), a mystery that shifted from silent to sound during production. Early roles for William Powell & Jean Arthur. 🎞️🔍
Learn more. ➡️https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
Learn more. ➡️https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
A perfect meme to celebrate Susan Crawford's landslide victory in Wisconsin today
April 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
A perfect meme to celebrate Susan Crawford's landslide victory in Wisconsin today