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2026-02-23 21:42:51 GMT

At the New York Historical Society today.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/122/122/352/473/231/original/4e06c2cb1aa09a4c.jpeg

2026-01-28 14:33:59 GMT

The internet was not supposed to suck. Here's what went wrong.
(Books by @npub1fdr…lvhs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Joanna Walsh.)
https://around.com/how-the-web-was-lost/

2026-01-27 16:47:03 GMT

The New York Times photographer David Guttenfelder is doing great work in Minneapolis. Here is a paramilitary force attacking its own citizenry on American soil.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/world/europe/italy-ice-olympics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlA.K6L5.BUohtIUgaVWB&smid=url-share

2026-01-24 23:12:42 GMT

This is a brave man, with a phone camera in his hand, moments before he is tackled and murdered.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/952/606/358/664/128/original/9c1ef1572e5391c3.jpeg

2026-01-24 22:22:40 GMT

Murder is a state crime. Local prosecutors must indict the murderers of Renee Good and Jeffrey Pretti, even though federal authorities are trying to block and obstruct them.

2026-01-19 22:35:29 GMT

“We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.”
"We have become a country where a person can be summarily executed in public for protesting that paramilitary force.”
"We have become a country whose federal government deploys military and paramilitary forces in the streets of its major cities, terrorizing the residents in the guise of protecting them.” (1/2)

2026-01-15 15:12:08 GMT

Prepare to see the American Gestapo deployed to polling places in November.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-miller-secret-police_n_696812bee4b0774cc19ebbe3

2026-01-07 13:37:55 GMT

The US now presents itself as a lawless and piratical nation, plundering and pillaging the assets of a poorer neighbor. Serious question: Are most Americans okay with that?

2026-01-06 12:56:15 GMT

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“Mr. President, what gives you the right to dictate the terms of elections in another sovereign nation?”
—apparently no American reporter dares ask him.

2026-01-06 12:51:32 GMT

We've reached the point where an American dictator says he alone can decide whether or when another country can hold elections, and the American press thinks that's normal.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/06/world/venezuela-maduro-us-trump?smid=url-share

2026-01-03 23:05:37 GMT

“the most disturbing presidential press conference I have seen in my life.”
James Fallows has seen more than anyone else I know. So pay heed.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into-caracas?r=ad0yf&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay&triedRedirect=true

2026-01-03 11:28:54 GMT

Which is correct?

2025-12-22 22:14:38 GMT

It is fitting that the new gold-plated Epstein class warships are being announced at Mar-a-Lago. What a mighty Navy we shall have.

2025-12-21 10:09:04 GMT

Epstein-Trump photos "disappear."
It's a mystery!
Whatever could have happened?
Or:
Justice Department Flouts Law,
Suppresses Evidence
Of Trump-Epstein Collusion
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/757/006/480/495/400/original/aa16615bdd4dc4bd.png

2025-12-19 18:12:46 GMT

“We’re rolling at full speed into what we what we might call North Korean aesthetics of power with triumphal arches that will soon enough be dusty, half-broken relics, renaming everything after the Maximum Leader. It’s all weird. And it is all of this very particular moment.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-in-winter-drift-fragmentation-and-just-low-energy/sharetoken/816cdf7d-4d08-45ce-9371-06c0e8aca0a4

2025-12-19 17:19:28 GMT

These are workers removing the signage for Adolf Hitler street in 1945. This seems like a good day to remember.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/747/374/204/837/056/original/584ded73bfed69ef.jpeg

2025-12-18 17:40:24 GMT

“Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband. Protect her.”
—Marla Maples to the mother of a 14-year-old girl at one of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago bacchanals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k8.lCbr.iiWKr9OvIMrg&smid=url-share

2025-12-17 17:03:18 GMT

I first visited this magnificent citadel of science in 1984. NCAR has saved countless lives and pays for itself many times over. It's something the United States can be proud of.
And now the deranged zealots who have hijacked our government will destroy it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/climate/national-center-for-atmospheric-research-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8._w4P.koJmi6jHMhtU&smid=url-share

2025-12-15 17:51:14 GMT

The worst person in the world.
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2025-12-14 23:12:30 GMT

This is how every Democrat should be talking. “Politicize a tragedy”? Hell yes. https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115720322179846160

2025-12-12 19:16:26 GMT

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for daring to report bad news, so now the BLS is dutifully fudging the numbers to report job GAINS when in fact they are LOSSES.
Who says? The chair of the Fed.
Someone should investigate.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html

2025-12-07 20:58:27 GMT

It's December 2025, the Trump regime is engaged in a vicious and lawless pogrom, destroying the lives of immigrants and children of immigrants, creating a reign of terror and cruelty, and the New York Times assails ...
Biden. For not being tough enough on immigrants.
I won't link to it.
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2025-12-05 22:54:13 GMT

I imagine Judge Currie gnashing her teeth at this framing in the NY Times. She ruled with utter clarity that Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed as US Attorney and “has been unlawfully serving in that role since September 22, 2025.”
She ruled that "all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment” are invalid. There's nothing else to say.
Lindsey Halligan is not now and never was US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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2025-12-05 15:37:52 GMT

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Even worse, it seems to me that Trump has already pardoned him. Surely his lawyers will say so. This spectacle is baffling.

2025-12-04 18:21:51 GMT

Officially, the US has Immigration Courts and immigration judges.
Trump has fired the immigration judges and explicitly turned them into deportation centers staffed by "deportation judges.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/trump-has-never-been-clearer-about-what-an-immigration-judges-real-job-is

2025-12-02 20:32:35 GMT

They can't use the word, but this is a $14 billion tax fraud—theft from Americans who actually DO pay taxes—by our untouchable oligarch Elon Musk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/elon-musk-foundation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k8.ObM-.eA2qGCNrJB2J&smid=url-share

2025-12-02 01:44:58 GMT

Yesterday Pete Hegseth thought he could murder with impunity. Today he suddenly thinks accountability might come. He’s scared. Five (5) “officials” hiding behind anonymity come forward to assure the NY Times that he really didn’t give that order. Honest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/us/hegseth-drug-boat-strike-order-venezuela.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2025-11-30 21:51:18 GMT

This is heartbreaking, cruel, pointless, and criminal. The monsters responsible for seizing and deporting these innocents are doing incalculable harm. They are disregarding the courts and making America worse in every way possible.
A college freshman who has lived in the US most of her life.
Who will speak now for Any Lucia López Belloza?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/college-student-deported-thanksgiving-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8.zEYe.bY2K3jOP9JIy&smid=url-share

2025-11-29 22:46:01 GMT

This phrase is doing a lot of work. If you were a NY Times copy editor, could you suggest any improvements?
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2025-11-22 22:33:45 GMT

Even if you already assume that Trump is Putin’s toady, doing his bidding at every turn, the details of their so-called “peace plan” must shock you. It sells out not only Ukraine but all of Europe. And it is crafted to shift billions of dollars into the pockets of shady oligarchs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trumps-war-peace/685024/?gift=UDCAY75CzHyGUPSsXwkpWhjActye6JKOklBHVEsYxxM

2025-11-19 20:39:30 GMT

Future trivia question: Which US president put hundreds of convicted violent criminals back on the streets because they were his personal supporters?
And what happened then?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/january-6-rioter-arrested-child-sexual-abuse-crimes

2025-11-18 18:19:52 GMT

Mobster on the left had the journalist Jamal Khashoggi murdered and dismembered with a bone saw.
Mobster on the right says that’s just fine: “A lot of people didn't like the gentleman you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen.”
They don't even bother to pretend.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/572/080/091/574/760/original/f2ee746ab7763843.png

2025-11-17 22:22:09 GMT

Everything they do, large and small, makes the world a little worse than it was before.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/buddy-holly-crosswalk-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.108.rTkE.uBL_Rss1dGIn&smid=url-share

2025-11-15 17:07:20 GMT

For 60 years the National Endowment for the Humanities was a shining light. In a few short months the Trump regime destroyed it, shutting down all its good work for arts and education and converting its empty hulk into a corrupt scheme to send taxpayer money to right-wing operatives and activists.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/arts/national-endowment-humanities-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U8.lB00.abHni-pS_VuV&smid=url-share
#NEH

2025-11-12 22:56:45 GMT

Using the White House Situation Room to enforce the #EpsteinFiles coverup is a confession. Trump is the pedophile who needs protecting. Nothing else could justify it.

2025-11-12 22:22:01 GMT

And now this: the Attorney General and the FBI Director summon a member of Congress to the White House Situation Room—“a space reserved for handling high-level crises and military operations”—to pressure her to help with their coverup of the century's most notorious pedophile and sex trafficker.
I guess it's a crisis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-vote-boebert.html?smid=url-share
#EpsteinFiles

2025-11-12 14:22:02 GMT

Trump didn't just “know” about #Epstein's sex trafficking. He was a customer.
“[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-emails.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k8.hRpU.Pxw8yLlIvimJ&smid=url-share

2025-11-11 16:56:26 GMT

Eight of the most corrupt US senators, who helped Trump try to overturn the 2020 election and got away with it, who are now taking food out of the mouths of the poorest and hungriest of their constituents, have found a sleazy and unprecedented trick to hand themselves $500,000 each in taxpayer money. https://mas.to/@tpm_rss_bot/115531895091616066

2025-11-11 13:49:15 GMT

How the Web Was Lost (The internet was not meant to suck).
I review some history—thoughtful, philosophical, and enraged—by Tim Berners-Lee, Joanna Walsh, and @npub1fdr…lvhs.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/04/how-the-web-was-lost-internet-this-is-for-everyone/?utm_source=nybooks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share

2025-11-10 22:19:48 GMT

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"There wouldn't be a radio, there wouldn't be a television, there wouldn't be internet, there wouldn't be anything, because magnets are such a part.
Now, nobody knows what magnets are. And not overly sophisticated, but to build a magnet system would take two years.” (2/2)

2025-11-10 22:19:48 GMT

The following is a technical explanation by the president of the United States. The subject: #magnets. Every word is guaranteed verbatim.
“China was going to hit us with rare earth.
Now, everybody says, oh, what is happening?
Magnets.
If China refused to get magnets, 'cause they have a monopoly on magnets, 'cause they were allowed to happen over a 32 year period.
There wouldn't be a car made in the entire world. (1/2)

2025-11-08 13:48:52 GMT

On today's front page: Trump is simultaneously
—fighting relentlessly to avoid paying $5 billion already appropriated by Congress to feed the nation's poor and hungry.
—quietly diverting *hundreds* of billions in the form of “unlegislated tax cuts" to the nation's superrich elite, private equity, and billionaire investors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk8.4ZQN.5VTqsS_Bh6cx&smid=url-share

2025-11-07 23:40:53 GMT

It's easy to hate journalists, it's easy to hate the mainstream media. Here's something that's hard, though: working in Venezuela, village after village, to find out who Trump and Hegseth have murdered in the name of fighting “narco-terrorism.” They were real people, with names, jobs, and families.
Credit to Regina Garcia Cano and the Associated Press.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-drugs-cocaine-trafficking-95b54a3a5efec74f12f82396a79617ea

2025-11-06 16:40:38 GMT

Here is Mark Zuckerberg canceling all of his previously touted philanthropy that benefited people in need and instead spending his tax-deductible “gifts” on vanity projects in AI.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/technology/zuckerberg-chan-initiative-biohub.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE8.14lC.J7ztKByGv7wm&smid=url-share

2025-11-05 04:36:55 GMT

In one state after another, and without exception, voters repudiated Trump and Trumpism today.

2025-11-02 12:20:27 GMT

At this point the NY Times is just parodying itself.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/480/069/880/306/163/original/0bb8f17b65be87d6.png

2025-10-29 11:01:35 GMT

Elon Musk is stealing Wikipedia and creating a grotesque right-wing parody.
https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/160970/turns-out-wikipedia-isnt-that-woke-as-grokipedia-rips-off-most-of-its-pages

2025-10-27 18:20:59 GMT

Words matter. When the NY Times says Trump is "float[ing] the possibility of finding a way to circumvent the 22nd Amendment," they are saying it's just a small matter. No biggie.
In fact, he is threatening to FLOUT, VIOLATE, or DEFY the 22nd Amendment. It's an emergency.
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2025-10-25 17:00:00 GMT

Timothy Mellon, a doofus of long standing, is the quintessential argument for sensible estate taxes. He's never worked an honest day in his life and shouldn't have this kind of money to throw around. Now he’s made a belated contribution of $130 million to the Treasury (not, as he seems to think, to our troops, who are getting paid regardless).
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE8.Vd5N.UA2BYrBjk3ma&smid=url-share

2025-10-23 11:39:46 GMT

It’s unfortunate that “the White House" has become standard synecdoche for the president and his staff. Now we have newspapers saying with a straight face that the White House refuses to comment on its own demolition.
#EpsteinBallroom

2025-10-22 21:33:58 GMT

“How do you top ordering your appointees to cut you a check for $230 million taxpayer dollars. I’ve already seen the first advance troops of normalization trying to tame it, with the New York Times saying it raises potential “conflicts of interest.
“I don’t know how to capture this. What thing can be more unimaginable and beyond belief than the president just saying, Cut me a check for a quarter billion dollars?”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-moves-into-full-twilight-zone-anthony-phase

2025-10-17 08:26:07 GMT

Trump receives further instructions from his master Putin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ydIHDgJOcg

2025-10-16 16:36:39 GMT

This is important, no matter how much you thought you already knew. Our lawless secret police (there's a German word for it: Gestapo) is seizing, jailing, tasing, and beating American citizens.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

2025-10-12 00:49:43 GMT

If only the bailout were really going to Argentinians. They’re just passing it through to a bunch of American hedge fund bros. Billions of taxpayer dollars to bail out a few billionaire speculators. https://masto.ai/@KenExline/115357747570490614

2025-10-11 14:18:09 GMT

In the eternal struggle of humanity against disease, has there ever before been a government determined to side with disease? https://scicomm.xyz/@mattjhodgkinson/115354832230844423

2025-10-07 19:48:30 GMT

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As best as we can tell, stockpiles of food and contraceptives — stockpiles already paid for by the US taxpayer! — were destroyed rather than handed off to groups that could make use of them. Allies and countries that counted on the US for assistance were left to twist in the wind, and adversaries like China were able to rush into the openings left behind.”
That was the first step of many. Trump has broken the system and traditions of American governance, perhaps beyond repair. (3/4)

2025-10-07 19:48:30 GMT

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"Decades of institutional knowledge, delicate international relationships, a proud source of US soft power, and a vital part of humanitarian relief the world over disappeared in just days. US foreign service personnel and thousands of contractors were uprooted, fired, cashiered, and forced to move; US intelligence programs and covert operations were upended. (2/4)

2025-10-07 19:48:30 GMT

Here is an important piece by Garrett Graff. Is there any "deal” for Democrats to make now with Trump? No, there is not.
Remember how Elon Musk gleefully smashed USAID in a single weekend? (1/4)

2025-10-06 22:30:20 GMT

Dear New York Times,
Henceforth, forbid the tired formulation "both sides." Likewise the cliché "war of words."
These should be red flags. They encourage laziness.
Report what they say. And report what's true.
Here, for instance, your reporters can establish that there are no protesters in Portland engaging in insurrection.
They also see federal forces attacking protesters without provocation.
Don't be lazy. Tell your readers what you know.
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2025-10-03 19:12:04 GMT

The fatal blow to constitutional government came when the Roberts Supreme Court told Donald Trump that, as president, he could break any law with impunity: election fraud, bribery, and even murder. He heard them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/politics/hegseth-military-boat-venezuela.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qk8.teRH.UOs74v5PSzLh&smid=url-share

2025-10-03 14:03:03 GMT

“At about 1:00 on Tuesday morning, federal agents from Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) raided an apartment building on Chicago’s South Shore Drive. Using helicopters and large vehicles, as well as flash-bang grenades, and dressed in military fatigues, agents broke down the doors of the residents of the five-story building and pulled them from their homes in zip ties, some of them naked. (1/2)

2025-10-03 14:03:03 GMT

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"Agents left the people tied up outside for hours before letting all but 37 of them go. The apartments residents returned to were trashed.”
US citizens seized from their homes. No warrants. No due process.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-2-2025?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email (2/2)

2025-09-29 15:16:09 GMT

You know who did lie to Congress? Six sitting justices of the US Supreme Court. https://mas.to/@tpm_rss_bot/115288179816320325

2025-09-29 13:41:07 GMT

Here's some information about the Michigan church mass murderer that so far hasn't made it into the NY Times "What We Know" story.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/287/868/511/152/003/original/a46c5c3d30fd5722.jpeg

2025-09-27 15:05:51 GMT

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The only question is whether it would be enough to drown out the other story: that the president is suppressing evidence that he conspired with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to rape and traffic teenage girls.

2025-09-27 14:57:27 GMT

Imagine if some lunatic hacked into the official account of the President of the United States and used it to broadcast false and dangerous medical advice. That would be a big story.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/276/844/005/173/604/original/cbcaeaeec40469fc.png

2025-09-26 20:40:37 GMT

Our daily reminder that a secretive lawless masked police force is spreading terror across the U.S., seizing people with no process or accountability.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/des-moines-schools-ice-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.o08.7mtp.BjKl9PxEDJ9i&smid=url-share
#Gestapo

2025-09-22 15:37:34 GMT

So many scandals, so little time. This alone would have ended any presidential administration before now:
1. Official is caught on video taking a $50,000 cash bribe in a bag.
2. His prosecution is secretly shut down by Trump’s own former personal lawyer.
3. Instead of going to jail, the corrupt official is rewarded by Trump with a top national security position.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/tom-homan-fbi-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n08.OOpo.1Bh0Ll8_MHzG&smid=url-share

2025-09-20 21:51:16 GMT

While no one pays attention, Putin has launched a low-grade war of micro-aggressions and attrition against Europe: drones, fighter-jet incursions, cyberattacks. He knows Trump has given him a green light, weakening NATO and (literally) rolling out the red carpet.

2025-09-18 15:26:50 GMT

It's a strange fact of American life that the most eloquent, hard-hitting, and effective critics of the Trump regime have been the comedians hosting late-night talk shows.

2025-09-17 03:19:38 GMT

There was no “ideology,” leftist or otherwise. What if he was just a kid in love, who saw a man spreading hatred that endangered the person he loved. And he broke.

2025-09-15 14:29:23 GMT

This is what we've come to. Inciting hatred of Blacks, Jews, and gays is, according to the New York Times, merely “brash right-wing spin.”
Did they think about this at all? Is it a considered policy choice?
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2025-09-13 01:14:39 GMT

It is an undeniable fact that Charlie Kirk “spewed hate and racism on his show.” That was his brand. Apparently a Secret Service employee has been suspended for saying so.
That is very different from celebrating his murder. Is this distinction too subtle for the NY Times?
We need to be able to condemn his murder without celebrating his life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/politics/charlie-kirk-shooting-firings-celebration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lk8.UAVT.j3Bl-Nfgieff&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-09-11 19:00:58 GMT

Racism, antisemitism, and misogyny — explicit and virulent — were fundamental to Charlie Kirk’s program. He should not have been murdered and he should not be honored.

2025-09-10 22:04:46 GMT

There is no conceivable reason to lower flags to half staff in honor of Charlie Kirk, a rabble rouser and “media personality" who never served his country in any capacity.

2025-09-07 14:21:36 GMT

American journalism today.
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2025-09-07 13:47:46 GMT

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But at the NY Times, everything has two side. “Tensions escalated." As if Illinois leaders share the blame.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/163/323/815/469/247/original/6a7cde8573069e38.png

2025-09-07 13:43:35 GMT

Surely the lead story in every newspaper right now should be the President declaring war on a major American city—the White House posting violent imagery of the Chicago skyline in flames.
Here's a historian with news judgment.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/september-6-2025?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

2025-09-05 01:18:45 GMT

After this week there’s no uncertainty: The U.S. has fallen under fascist rule.
“Everything else from here on out is just a matter of degree and wondering how bad it will get and how far it will go? Do we end up ‘merely’ like Hungary or do we go all the way toward an American Reich?”
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-tips-into-fascism-f51000e08e03254d

2025-09-03 16:12:32 GMT

Epstein Victims Begged Republicans to Stop Protecting the Child Sex Traffickers and Their Clients as Pete Hegseth Said, “Look! Over Here! We Blew Up a Boat!”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/03/us/trump-news?referringSource=widget&widgetType=top-stories&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-09-02 14:09:09 GMT

The National Security Act Amendments of 1949 named the Department of Defense and the Secretary of Defense. Congress can change that; the President cannot.

2025-08-29 15:35:17 GMT

Remember when millions of people were dying from Covid-19, and life came to a halt, and everyone was locked into their houses, and every day was terrifying? Because there was no vaccine! Of course you do.
Republicans have empowered a madman to bring that back.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/rfk-jr-s-fda-denies-covid-vax-to-millions-of-americans

2025-08-26 16:07:01 GMT

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“This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city in a blue state to try and intimidate his political rivals. This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey Stephen Miller searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections. There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention. (4/6)

2025-08-26 16:07:01 GMT

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There is no insurrection.”
or this:
"Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents, and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a dangerous power grab.”
or this: (5/6)

2025-08-26 16:07:01 GMT

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“Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump looked at the assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say, ‘Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?’ Instead, I say, ‘Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here. Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties and are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy.’”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-25-2025?r=g7z5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email (6/6)

2025-08-26 16:07:01 GMT

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“Over the weekend, we learned from the media that Donald Trump has been planning for quite a while now to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago. This is exactly the type of overreach that our country's founders warned against. And it’s the reason that they established a federal system with a separation of powers built on checks and balances. What President Trump is doing is unprecedented and unwarranted. It is illegal, it is unconstitutional. It is un-American.” (2/6)

2025-08-26 16:07:01 GMT

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or this: (3/6)

2025-08-26 16:07:01 GMT

Governor J. B. Pritzker of Illinois gave an eloquent and important speech yesterday. Everyone should hear it. I only know because of a newsletter from the historian Heather Cox Richardson.
The New York Times quoted only a few sentences. They didn’t quote this: (1/6)

2025-08-25 16:49:08 GMT

This is actually terrifying. The dictator establishing his Palace Guard.
[from today’s Executive Order, h/t @npub1uqz…sxyt]
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/090/426/940/223/510/original/f80daaaed3225360.png

2025-08-23 11:04:49 GMT

We can expect these same masked thugs to swarm polling places on Election Day. This is one reason Trump wants to eliminate mail voting. https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/115077373058583367

2025-08-22 11:00:31 GMT

What is the cost of the #ICE pogroms? How much is spent to incarcerate and deport each person? Imagine if we spent money to help people rather than to inflict suffering. https://journa.host/@theintercept/115068862725279817

2025-08-17 10:11:33 GMT

Did you know that a white anti-vax terrorist killed an Atlanta police officer Friday and fired more than 500 rounds into the CDC headquarters that RFK Jr has called a “cesspool of corruption”?
Yes, the cabinet secretary responsible for these health workers has eviscerated their funding and made them targets.
🧵by @npub1g0x…2jju https://carhenge.club/@skiles/115041668370886047

2025-08-13 08:35:46 GMT

Your taxpayer dollars at work: New Zealand woman living and working LEGALLY in Washington state, snatched up with her 6-year-old son, transported to Texas, and imprisoned there.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/new-zealand-woman-six-year-old-son-ice-detention-us-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url

2025-08-10 17:01:15 GMT

You start a work of fiction by an author of a particular gender, and at some point you realize that the narrator is a person of a different gender. How do you feel about that?

2025-08-10 11:23:31 GMT

You know how sometimes you read that a celebrity has died and it’s a surprise because you actually thought they had died long ago?
https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

2025-08-07 21:01:56 GMT

Americans have been slammed with an 18 percent tax on everything from overseas. Food, clothing, toys—everything. American consumers must shoulder that burden.
https://apnews.com/live/trump-tariff-news-updates-8-7-2025

2025-08-02 17:07:20 GMT

If these numbers are hard to process, think of it this way.
Your lemonade stand has pulled in $8 dollars in cash. To get the $8 dollars, though, you spent $443 making the lemonade.
That’s right. You spent $443 to collect $8. Total loss: $435.
Is this a promising business? No. It’s no business at all.
But you tell passersby, “Look at my thriving lemonade stand!” And they decide your business is actually worth $47,000. https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/114959489116169895

2025-08-01 13:19:25 GMT

All these universities and museums tripping over themselves to appease our tinpot Stalin. Have they no self-respect?
https://wapo.st/3HhfyxU

2025-07-30 11:59:11 GMT

I don’t think “Epstein stole my 16-year-old sex worker" is a winning defense for Trump.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-epstein-stole-young-women-from-mar-a-lago-spa-including-virginia-giuffre?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

2025-07-27 14:02:48 GMT

Under this chatty headline lies a story of a historic grift taking place in real time.
Trump has corrupted our military procurement project to divert funds away from the modernization of our aging nuclear missiles. Instead they are being spent on his personal vanity project, the Boeing 747-8 he received from Qatar in exchange for official favors.
He plans to keep it when he leaves office. A billion-dollar gift from America’s taxpayers to Donald Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/air-force-one-trump-cost.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Zk8.Fueg.CoqucXsTVWP-&smid=url-share