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Yesterday was hopeful. www.brookings.edu/articles/hop...

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

New, from me: EJ Antoni's meteoric rise is an inverse measure of the swift decline of American state capacity under Trump. Unqualified for an entry-level job in the agency he is nominated to lead, he was selected because of his willingness to destroy it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-nomi...

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Ohmygod

It will be interesting to see who Pope Leo endorses in the next elections. www.propublica.org/article/irs-...

It's not trade policy. It's (regressive) tax policy. Watch for the painful rippling effects, compounded by the loss of social safety nets. www.americanprogress.org/article/is-t...

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A “demonstrably unserious nominee." www.govexec.com/management/2...

What Republican Party? www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

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Inflation + institutional instability is not a great recipe for markets. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/t...

Women leading. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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You can thank Donald Trump and Republicans for your higher grocery bills. You can thank Donald Trump and Republicans for your higher medical bills. You can thank Donald Trump and Republicans for your higher utility bills. That’s their "Big Beautiful Bill" in action.

We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.

lol

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

From CATO (!) www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

Mulvaney warns of safety concerns over White House’s new flagpoles 😱 thehill.com thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Maybe it would be more economical to do your job by modeling civility, serving the people, and upholding the Constitution. www.govexec.com/federal-news...

The fact that they have to put Trump in his kiddie fake high school uniform to look anything like patriotism when he dodged the draft is just…. Epic

Hey, where's the TX National Guard? www.texastribune.org/2025/06/09/a...

NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade. They departed Texas 5 days ago. What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel. (🎥 DW)

Worth a watch www.tiktok.com/@generationo...

“Was it all bullshit?” Trump asked aides. I love that even Trump, the king of bullshitters, eventually realized that Musk had been bullshitting him on DOGE. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) said he’ll push senators to strip out the bill’s attack on federal courts.

Yep. www.marketwatch.com/story/wolf-a...

Like I said a few times before, it was NEVER about campus protests or anti-semitism. It was always about seizing control of higher education through govt blackmail and coercion.

This. But for everything

"Trump is unique among the nation’s presidents in having no interest in presiding over a functioning govt, let alone building institutions that will survive his term in office. That's why the analogies pundits have tried to draw between the early periods of other presidencies fall entirely flat."

How long must we endure this erratic behavior? Wake up, Congress. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/23/t...

From the Bloomberg editorial, “Things Are About to Get Complicated for the Fed.” #economy #markets #centralbanks #FederalReserve @opinion.bloomberg.com

It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.

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Donald Trump is the worst President in history but it's the American people who will pay the price for his ineptitude. I look at the many mistakes made by Trump and his administration to show the dangers they pose to Americans. Watch here: youtu.be/zPX_vzdX50Y

#USpol