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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Says It Will Make Only Partial SNAP Payments This Month

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 16h

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Says It Will Make Only Partial SNAP Payments This Month www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Sixty Minutes in the Twilight Zone

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 17h

Sixty Minutes in the Twilight Zone
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Donald Trump’s CBS meltdown reveals a president who doesn’t understand tariffs, nukes, health care, or democracy, but does know he’s “better looking” than Zohran Mamdani.

Big Win for Voting Rights as Judge Blocks Trump EO

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 17h

Big Win for Voting Rights as Judge Blocks Trump EO talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

‘The President Does Not Feature At All’ In a ruling Friday, U.S....

Trump Administration Live Updates: Energy Secretary Says Nuclear Tests Won’t Involve Explosions

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Administration Live Updates: Energy Secretary Says Nuclear Tests Won’t Involve Explosions www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Zohran Mamdani’s historic run will also help free Jews, and U.S. politics, from Zionism

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran Mamdani’s historic run will also help free Jews, and U.S. politics, from Zionism mondoweiss.net/2025/10/zohr...

Zohran Mamdani’s historic campaign for New York mayor marks a significant moment for Jewish identity as more Jews distance themselves from Zionism. This will be a fierce generational fight with wide-r...

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Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday Mezze: It Never Ends: Reading Gaza, Reading Palestine - Resisting Erasure in Camden, Maine
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Sunday Mezze: It Never Ends: Reading Gaza, Reading Palestine - Resisting Erasure in Camden, Maine

Mezze - المزة - a wide selection of small dishes served as appetizers, including such delicacies as hummus, cheese, eggplant, brains, stuffed grape leaves, calamari, and much more

The Exorcism and the Possession

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Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 3d

The Exorcism and the Possession
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King Charles purges a prince, Trump devours a republic, and America spends Halloween haunting itself.

The Debate Dividing the Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 3d

The Debate Dividing the Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

U.N. Says Strikes on Boats Trump Claims Are Smuggling Drugs Are Illegal

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 3d

U.N. Says Strikes on Boats Trump Claims Are Smuggling Drugs Are Illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...

Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate …

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 3d

Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate … talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

As you’ve probably already heard, Donald Trump went on Truth Social late...

Trump-Appointed Judge Praises Suspended DOJ Prosecutors

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 3d

Trump-Appointed Judge Praises Suspended DOJ Prosecutors talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Down The Memory Hole During the sentencing of a pardoned Jan. 6...

Prince Andrew to Be Stripped of His Royal Title

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 4d

Prince Andrew to Be Stripped of His Royal Title www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...

Prosecutions Have Never Been This Vindictive—or Meritless

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 4d

Prosecutions Have Never Been This Vindictive—or Meritless
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Trump threatens the rule of law like it's his job

The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fascism.

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 4d

The Death House
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The Death House

Thursday Mezze: Listening to Hind Rajab - From Gaza to Camden, Maine + Sara Roy: What ‘Day After’ for Gaza? + Issa Amro Virtual Event

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 4d

Thursday Mezze: Listening to Hind Rajab - From Gaza to Camden, Maine + Sara Roy: What ‘Day After’ for Gaza? + Issa Amro Virtual Event
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Mezze - المزة - a wide selection of small dishes served as appetizers, including such delicacies as hummus, cheese, eggplant, brains, stuffed grape leaves, calamari, and much more

The MAGA Disinfo Machine Takes New Aim at Jack Smith

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 4d

The MAGA Disinfo Machine Takes New Aim at Jack Smith talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

The Retribution: Arctic Frost Edition Republicans on the Hill and right-wing media,...

Is Trump’s Epic Middle East Peace Deal Falling Apart?

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 5d

Is Trump’s Epic Middle East Peace Deal Falling Apart? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-tr...

I still have some relative confidence that the Gaza ceasefire deal will...

Opinion | Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her.

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 6d

Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 6d

There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there...

I’ve made versions of this argument here in the Editors’ Blog and...

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Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 6d

The Lingering Delusion | Fintan O’Toole

Kamala Harris’s memoir 107 Days succeeds at least in distilling the evasions and weaknesses of the modern Democratic Party.

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Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 6d

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What ‘Day After’ for Gaza? | Sara Roy

On Friday, October 10, when Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire in Gaza, I heard from a Palestinian friend in the Strip. Gaza had been celebrating

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Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 6d

A nation not of laws, not of men, but of yabbos
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A nation not of laws, not of men, but of yabbos

The question has arisen among sane people again and again over the last ten years: Who are these people?

40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 6d

The Hunger Games Begin
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The Hunger Games Begin

The would-be strongman stares out at a democracy that’s done applauding.

Loren Jenkins @lbjenkins5.bsky.social · 6d

The Empty Piazza
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The Empty Piazza