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"When Trump is cogent enough to understand what is happening, he commits one grotesque atrocity after the next, and when he is not, a bunch of scheming viziers elbow each other out of the way to commit their own." prospect.org/2025/11/21/r...
The Right-Wing Legal Movement Made Trump a King - The American Prospect
John Roberts created a monster: Donald Trump compressed a solid millennium or two of monarchical misrule into a mere ten months.
prospect.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI
An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
www.wired.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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This is what the so-called "Secretary of War" is tweeting amid reports that his department ordered a second strike to make sure they killed survivors of a boat they attacked that they allege with no proof carries drugs (which doesn't justify bombing them even it were true)
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
November 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This is the most corrupt, lawless administration in the history of the United States and there’s no close second.
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Obscene, the word for this type of gouging is obscene
Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.

It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.

By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social
The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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My chat with the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on Ukraine and the United States. Was meant to be 30 minutes and ended up going for an hour. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/o…
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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NEW: DOJ said tonight that it was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem who made the call to proceed with the deportation of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, despite a judge's order seeking to block the transfer.

w/ @joshgerstein

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Zohran Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist:

NBC: "[D]o you think that President Trump is a fascist?"
Mamdani: "[T]hat's something that I've said in the past. I say it today."
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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2022 vs. 2025. 🤡
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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All this shows is that the US has no idea what it’s doing and it’s being played by Moscow. Complete humiliation.
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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How embarrassing.

Administration sources were all-in on this Russian wishlist until it was revealed that it was an *actual* Russian wishlist and not just the worst possible peace plan for Ukraine.
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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I *think* the attempt to speedrun authoritarianism has failed. The new acute danger is greater political violence (Trump calling for hangings, etc). But the concerted danger is down the line, when MAGA realizes the bill for all this corruption will come due. www.offmessage.net/p/maga-disar...
MAGA Disarray And The Accumulated Debt Of Corruption
They'd bring America down rather than face accountability, but accountability is not optional.
www.offmessage.net
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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#CNBC is running little pieces from small business owners who are getting slammed by the #Tariffs.

I think this is the most damning anti-Tariff programming I've seen. Yet no one is talking about it. It is brilliant and should be made share-able

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Adding to @gregsargent.bsky.social's spot-on post:

SefDef Pete Hegseth laid the groundwork for this back in February by firing the top JAGs for the Army and USAF (the Navy JAG post was already vacant). He wanted pliant JAGs who wouldn't get in the way of illegal orders. apnews.com/article/pent...
Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open
From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Reminder:

SDNY "was running an active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein[’s] ... coconspirators. In January [2025], SDNY prosecutors were ordered to transfer the Epstein case files to DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C. ... the investigation into co-conspirators has inexplicably ceased."
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Since January 2023, the New York Times has cited Rep. Ralph Norman, R-SC, in 78 stories. None mentioned that Norman secretly urged the Trump White House in 2021 to declare martial law – in effect, a military-backed coup. Norman wasn’t charged, but the NYT gave him a “pardon” anyway.
My newsletter.
How the media ‘pardon’ political criminals
News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists
www.stopthepresses.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM