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Unprincipled and weak. The murder of journalists is perhaps the single most direct violation of the right to freedom of speech. (1/2)
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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The American people elected us to deport violent criminals and gang members. Here’s why we’re spending their tax dollars on blocking new citizens’ ability to vote.

by Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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The ADL has made an alliance with MAGA. Once you understand that, it's otherwise inexplicable moves make sense.
It took the ADL like four days to respond to Nick Fuentes breaking into the mainstream last week
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1691
October 31, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1680
October 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Awful: Trump's $230 million shakedown from DOJ can be paid to him confidentially at first, without the public ever finding out about it until later, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me.

Raskin will formally demand full communications between WH and DOJ on this.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse
It’s bad enough that Trump wants—and DOJ will likely fork over—this tribute payment. Now, get this: It can probably be done at first without even being revealed publicly.
newrepublic.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Trump apparently ordering his appointees to get him a check for about a quarter billion of US taxpayer dollars www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died. n.pr/4qjVMDS
NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.
n.pr
October 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...
October 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1675
October 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...
MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.
newrepublic.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1669
October 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1668
October 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1670
October 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Resistance Revival Chorus with Rhiannon Giddens - All You Fascists Bound to Lose - 2020 USA
#TheTwen2ie5 day 3.
Love this take on Woodie Guthrie's classic with beautiful voices and fiddle playing. Jubilant resistance music I needed to hear today. And probably every day.
NK IS ✅
October 3, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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From roles in “Better Call Saul,” “Hacks,” and “Palm Royale,” Carol Burnett is having something of a late-career resurgence. But the 92-year-old comedy legend has already influenced generations of performers. Rachel Syme Profiles the icon.
Carol Burnett Plays On
The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs.
www.newyorker.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...
September 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Trump/MAGA are trying to gaslight us into believing that anti-Jimmy Kimmel America is vast and deep, that MAGA's grip on the culture is unshakable, that mobilization is futile.

But this episode has demonstrated the opposite. Let's not forget it.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2008...
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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For the first time, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge has a returning champion: a California fifth grader who explored a dark chapter in U.S. history during World War II.
NPR's middle school champion: A moving podcast about Japanese incarceration
For the first time, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge has a returning champion: a California fifth grader who explored a dark chapter in U.S. history during World War II.
n.pr
September 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1658
September 24, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1654
September 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1653
September 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM