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Welcome to the world of the “administrative subpoena .. a powerful legal tool that, unlike the ones people are most familiar with, federal agencies can issue without an order from a judge or grand jury.”
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February 3, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Welcome to the world of the “administrative subpoena .. a powerful legal tool that, unlike the ones people are most familiar with, federal agencies can issue without an order from a judge or grand jury.”
@washingtonpost.com
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Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot
February 3, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot
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This is, unfortunately, a very big deal. trib.al/DGqCsIR
February 3, 2026 at 11:11 PM
This is, unfortunately, a very big deal. trib.al/DGqCsIR
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Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
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Trump takes significant steps to support the ayatollahs in Iran. They are remarkably similar in outlook, after all.
January 14, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Trump takes significant steps to support the ayatollahs in Iran. They are remarkably similar in outlook, after all.
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Chris Piecuch shows how the rate of sea-level rise along the US coast has doubled since 1900, from 2 cm to 4 cm per decade. It has risen by 40 cm by now. Here he briefly explains this (and how the DOE claimed the opposite) at the AGU25 meeting last week. youtu.be/fI0Kn-5tJkc?...
Chris Piecuch: Sea Level Rise - AGU 2025
YouTube video by greenmanbucket
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December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Chris Piecuch shows how the rate of sea-level rise along the US coast has doubled since 1900, from 2 cm to 4 cm per decade. It has risen by 40 cm by now. Here he briefly explains this (and how the DOE claimed the opposite) at the AGU25 meeting last week. youtu.be/fI0Kn-5tJkc?...
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The Trump administration is using threats to expose corruption involving senior Ukrainian officials as leverage in efforts to pressure Zelenskyy to accept Moscow's terms for a peace accord. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are basically acting as agents for the Kremlin in this whole process.
Secret meetings between FBI and Ukraine negotiator spark concern
FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, have met with Ukraine’s top delegate amid a U.S. pressure campaign on Kyiv to trade land for peace.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The Trump administration is using threats to expose corruption involving senior Ukrainian officials as leverage in efforts to pressure Zelenskyy to accept Moscow's terms for a peace accord. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are basically acting as agents for the Kremlin in this whole process.
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Under Trump, US aid to Ukraine is over. However, there's plenty of aid to Russia.
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Under Trump, US aid to Ukraine is over. However, there's plenty of aid to Russia.
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and Russia has solid reasons for invading Ukraine (not a word of protest or condemnation of this invasion). A clear signal to Europe that Trump intends to abandon NATO and America's entire system of historical alliances in favor of a love match with the Kremlin.
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
and Russia has solid reasons for invading Ukraine (not a word of protest or condemnation of this invasion). A clear signal to Europe that Trump intends to abandon NATO and America's entire system of historical alliances in favor of a love match with the Kremlin.
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I stand with Mark Kelly. I support the immediate removal from office of Pete Hegseth.
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I stand with Mark Kelly. I support the immediate removal from office of Pete Hegseth.
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So Trump doesn’t know who he’s pardoning? Sounds like this ought to be a major congressional investigation.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
So Trump doesn’t know who he’s pardoning? Sounds like this ought to be a major congressional investigation.
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The last time a month was below the 1850-1900 average is now 589 months ago! October 1976 was -0.14°C
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The last time a month was below the 1850-1900 average is now 589 months ago! October 1976 was -0.14°C
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Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday. n.pr/47bWFH8
Jack DeJohnette, dynamic and instantly recognizable jazz drummer, dies at 83
Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday. n.pr/47bWFH8
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“If you consider how seriously the establishment of both political parties takes issues like terrorism, I think a four-month prison sentence is comically inadequate.”
Trump Is Rewriting History to Justify His Sketchy Pardon of a Crypto King
Trump claimed that the Binance founder was “persecuted” by Biden’s Justice Department as part of what the White House called a “war on cryptocurrency.”
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October 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“If you consider how seriously the establishment of both political parties takes issues like terrorism, I think a four-month prison sentence is comically inadequate.”
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US spy agencies obtained intelligence in 2022 that the United Arab Emirates gave Huawei technology that they believe China used to extend the range of air-to-air missiles, giving its fighter jets an advantage over American warplanes.
www.ft.com/content/a188...
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China upgraded missiles using UAE technology, Biden spies said
Intelligence sparked intense debate in Washington about its relationship with Gulf state
www.ft.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
US spy agencies obtained intelligence in 2022 that the United Arab Emirates gave Huawei technology that they believe China used to extend the range of air-to-air missiles, giving its fighter jets an advantage over American warplanes.
www.ft.com/content/a188...
www.ft.com/content/a188...
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Instead of feasting on apocalyptic scenes of chaos and civil disorder, MAGA was left to nibble on the political tapas plates of minor incidents, like that of a protester in Denver stealing a Trump supporter’s glasses.
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...
MAGA Media Keeps Thirsting for Left-Wing Violence
. . . even if that means they have to invent it.
www.thebulwark.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Instead of feasting on apocalyptic scenes of chaos and civil disorder, MAGA was left to nibble on the political tapas plates of minor incidents, like that of a protester in Denver stealing a Trump supporter’s glasses.
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...
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Eduard Glezin, a Russian dissident who fled to the US in 2014 after he was arrested for protesting against Vladimir Putin faces being deported to Moscow and near certain death. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
I fled Putin’s brutal regime, now Trump is deporting me back to Russia
Russian dissident fears ‘deadly threat’ upon his return after US rejects his asylum application
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Eduard Glezin, a Russian dissident who fled to the US in 2014 after he was arrested for protesting against Vladimir Putin faces being deported to Moscow and near certain death. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
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Details from the Trump and Vought at Mar-a-Lago narrative account
October 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Details from the Trump and Vought at Mar-a-Lago narrative account
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Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
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October 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
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Remarkable how British and European papers have no difficulty whatsoever professionally covering the No Kings rallies and drawing conclusions from them. US papers, led by NYT, are scared to death of even touching the subject. And that shows that the "successful intimidation of media" stage is met.
Massive crowds gather across US for ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump
Republicans decry demonstrations as ‘anti-American’ as people voice opposition to administration’s hardline policies
www.ft.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Remarkable how British and European papers have no difficulty whatsoever professionally covering the No Kings rallies and drawing conclusions from them. US papers, led by NYT, are scared to death of even touching the subject. And that shows that the "successful intimidation of media" stage is met.
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The United States now has an immigration enforcement apparatus that, if it were its own national military, would be the thirteenth-most-heavily funded military in the world. And the president of the U.S. wants to turn that heavily funded, extramilitary against you. trib.al/iQPunfE
The Case for the Forever Shutdown
Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The United States now has an immigration enforcement apparatus that, if it were its own national military, would be the thirteenth-most-heavily funded military in the world. And the president of the U.S. wants to turn that heavily funded, extramilitary against you. trib.al/iQPunfE
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🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...