@ztwl.bsky.social
The Trump administration just created a new department within the US Army where they can install anyone they want as a senior officer, whether they have a military background, or not.
The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. currently work for Palantir, Meta, OpenAI, and Thinking Machines Lab.
The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. currently work for Palantir, Meta, OpenAI, and Thinking Machines Lab.
June 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The Trump administration just created a new department within the US Army where they can install anyone they want as a senior officer, whether they have a military background, or not.
The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. currently work for Palantir, Meta, OpenAI, and Thinking Machines Lab.
The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. currently work for Palantir, Meta, OpenAI, and Thinking Machines Lab.
We must now recognize that the United States’ most powerful foreign-policy tools are managed by people who are ignorant, inexperienced, and separated from the knowledge they need to make sound decisions.
How Generations of Experts Built U.S. Power
And now Trump is throwing it all away.
foreignpolicy.com
April 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We must now recognize that the United States’ most powerful foreign-policy tools are managed by people who are ignorant, inexperienced, and separated from the knowledge they need to make sound decisions.
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social it’s never too late to do the right thing! With great power comes great responsibility 🌟 please keep talking about #14thNOW and nowmarch.org @jessicadenson07.bsky.social is the leader of the 14thNOW coalition w/terrific rallies this past weekend! ✊💙
youtu.be/wci3zMPIGxg?...
youtu.be/wci3zMPIGxg?...
March 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social it’s never too late to do the right thing! With great power comes great responsibility 🌟 please keep talking about #14thNOW and nowmarch.org @jessicadenson07.bsky.social is the leader of the 14thNOW coalition w/terrific rallies this past weekend! ✊💙
youtu.be/wci3zMPIGxg?...
youtu.be/wci3zMPIGxg?...
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Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.
It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.
March 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.
It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.
Still thinking about staying with Amazon? (and, yes, Trump is making money off of this ...)
‘The Apprentice,’ Starring Donald Trump, Begins Streaming on Amazon
The company said it would release several seasons of the reality show showcasing Donald J. Trump before he turned to politics.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Still thinking about staying with Amazon? (and, yes, Trump is making money off of this ...)
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“You sad, shitty human,” said Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson. “You know the damage to America this will do in the world, but can’t resist the lure of power and Trump’s approval.”
Marco Rubio Announces Stunning Extent of USAID Purge
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the six-week review of USAID is complete.
newrepublic.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“You sad, shitty human,” said Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson. “You know the damage to America this will do in the world, but can’t resist the lure of power and Trump’s approval.”
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Good for Ruth
Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis
March 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Good for Ruth
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Republicans are just flat out lying at this point. Biden's tariffs were targeted on certain products to protect specific industries. Trump's new, high tariffs are blanket tariffs and yes, they are already affecting prices at places like Target and Best Buy.
BOLDUAN: Target and Best Buy said last week that prices are going up in direct relation to the tariffs. Is that a good thing for your constituents?
MALLIOTAKIS: I mean, but the tariffs, but, ut, shh ...
MALLIOTAKIS: I mean, but the tariffs, but, ut, shh ...
March 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Republicans are just flat out lying at this point. Biden's tariffs were targeted on certain products to protect specific industries. Trump's new, high tariffs are blanket tariffs and yes, they are already affecting prices at places like Target and Best Buy.
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As I told @TheGuardian, DOJ’s halt of corruption enforcement efforts harms consumers and other members of the public.
Kleptocrats to benefit from Trump DoJ’s anti-corruption pause, experts warn
Former prosecutors criticize Pam Bondi’s decision to halt enforcement of bribery laws as short-sighted and dangerous
buff.ly
March 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
As I told @TheGuardian, DOJ’s halt of corruption enforcement efforts harms consumers and other members of the public.
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And so here it is all laid out. The intention to overturn the Civil
Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
Opinion | The Anti-D.E.I. Crusader Who Wants to Dismantle the Department of Education (Gift Article)
Christopher Rufo’s mission to make universities feel “existential terror.”
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
And so here it is all laid out. The intention to overturn the Civil
Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
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With all the ugliness in America right now, don't forget the other state of the Union...
That America is black and gay and Muslim and indigenous and undocumented and Jewish and lesbian and White and Atheist and Latino and transgender and female and...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-other-...
That America is black and gay and Muslim and indigenous and undocumented and Jewish and lesbian and White and Atheist and Latino and transgender and female and...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-other-...
Don't Forget The Other State of the Union
Sometimes what we see can make us forget what we know.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
With all the ugliness in America right now, don't forget the other state of the Union...
That America is black and gay and Muslim and indigenous and undocumented and Jewish and lesbian and White and Atheist and Latino and transgender and female and...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-other-...
That America is black and gay and Muslim and indigenous and undocumented and Jewish and lesbian and White and Atheist and Latino and transgender and female and...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-other-...
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ICE has arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in the Columbia University protest movement, despite his being a green card holder.
ICE Arrests Palestinian Activist at Columbia—Despite Green Card
The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is a chilling assault on the First Amendment.
newrepublic.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
ICE has arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in the Columbia University protest movement, despite his being a green card holder.
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The U.S. will be a superpower emeritus when Trump and Musk are done looting it. Three what-ifs that led to Citizens United and an America in existential crisis. Plus @tiffanymuller.bsky.social on how to fix it, if we can. My latest @thebulwark.bsky.social. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-road-f...
The Road from ‘Citizens United’ to Trump, Musk, and Corruption
A ‘naïve’ Supreme Court delivered lawless greed and cruelty. We’ll have to save ourselves, if we can.
www.thebulwark.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The U.S. will be a superpower emeritus when Trump and Musk are done looting it. Three what-ifs that led to Citizens United and an America in existential crisis. Plus @tiffanymuller.bsky.social on how to fix it, if we can. My latest @thebulwark.bsky.social. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-road-f...
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Every single Democratic Senator voted for Marco Rubio as Sec of State!
March 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Every single Democratic Senator voted for Marco Rubio as Sec of State!
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There’s nothing efficient about shutting down U.S. National Parks when they collectively bring in over $55B a year yet cost over $3.5B a year to upkeep. This is the kind of stupid bullshit what you do when you deliberately want to crash the economy.
March 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
There’s nothing efficient about shutting down U.S. National Parks when they collectively bring in over $55B a year yet cost over $3.5B a year to upkeep. This is the kind of stupid bullshit what you do when you deliberately want to crash the economy.
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I couldn't be happier that the Canadians are taking a stand for their freedom, their sovereignty and their way of life. But it is sad and shameful that we in the US have, for absolutely no reason, created a situation in which there is so much enmity toward us from our neighbors.
Canada’s next prime minister, Mark Carney, used his leadership victory speech to warn Canadians that the U.S. “president” wants to “destroy our way of life.”
“America is not Canada. And Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form,” Carney said in his victory…
“America is not Canada. And Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form,” Carney said in his victory…
March 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I couldn't be happier that the Canadians are taking a stand for their freedom, their sovereignty and their way of life. But it is sad and shameful that we in the US have, for absolutely no reason, created a situation in which there is so much enmity toward us from our neighbors.
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If you live in Louisiana and you care about this man being disappeared for protesting, you should be lining up your people in Jena today.
Mahmoud Khalil is being held in an ICE facility in Jena, Louisiana, according to ICE’s Detainee Locator webpage.
Thank you to @petrulis.bsky.social for flagging this.
locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search
Thank you to @petrulis.bsky.social for flagging this.
locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search
March 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
If you live in Louisiana and you care about this man being disappeared for protesting, you should be lining up your people in Jena today.
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'If You Don't Care About The Ukrainian People, You're Not Pro-Life'
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-you-don...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-you-don...
March 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
'If You Don't Care About The Ukrainian People, You're Not Pro-Life'
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-you-don...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-you-don...
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This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...
March 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...
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Rubio's gutting of USAID is illegal and unconstitutional. There is no form of democracy anywhere of any kind that would allow the executive branch to unilaterally cancel budgets and programs passed by the legislative branch and signed into law. It's utter lawlessness.
March 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Rubio's gutting of USAID is illegal and unconstitutional. There is no form of democracy anywhere of any kind that would allow the executive branch to unilaterally cancel budgets and programs passed by the legislative branch and signed into law. It's utter lawlessness.