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Well, at least we can retire that faded and false line, "antisemitism has no place in New York City."

Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to bar government scientists from publishing in major medical journals, saying on a podcast that three top journals were “corrupt” and influenced by pharmaceutical companies.

Tax the rich. Class War. #EatTheRich

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/w...

This should be bigger news: ICYMI - Project 2025’s puppet master Russell Vought just replaced Elon as head of DOGE. People still in denial & believe Trump knew nothing about Project 2025, need to explain why he just handed the keys to the whole damn thing to its architect. He is the plan. Wake up.

this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!

Never lose sight of how weird and corrupt it is for the president to have his unelected, unconfirmed oligarch friend—his biggest campaign donor—conduct US foreign policy. No other US president did that, and there’s no reason to think he’s representing the American people rather than himself.

Un-American for thine, graduation for mine.

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

I knew it! The White House is considering SUSPENDING HABEAS CORPUS. And here I thought I was being paranoid.

seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

Trump Allies Sue John Roberts To Give White House Control Of Court System talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

Honestly this is just incredible content.

SCOOP: A young man with no government experience who hasn’t even finished his undergrad degree is working for Elon Musk’s DOGE at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and has been tasked with using AI to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations.

It’s day 100. He did this in just three months. And beyond any shadow of a doubt, *he* did this. No one else.

Last October, ProPublica and @documented.net published secret recordings of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected," he said.

Here it comes.

Trump will no doubt react by ignoring it, just as he ignores US troop deaths during his presidencies, and praising himself for re-establishing peace after the US was at war throughout Biden's presidency. (Delusional? Yes. Liar? Also yes).

The FBI director flew this government plane (or one just like it), possibly from Las Vegas, where he still lives, to see a hockey game in Long Island. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

Elon Musk's "Defend the Spend" system has shut down all payments at NIH, shutting down critical healthcare research. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“Canceled sailings.” “Blank sailings.” The freight market is telling you everything you need to know about the coming wave of scarcity. @cnbc.com @loriannlarocco.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/t...

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

A Trump ally has told CNN’s parent company that they could avoid future lawsuits from the Trump administration if they make a documentary about Melania Trump or a TV show about Donald Trump Jr., which would involve paying the Trump family large amounts of money.

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

Tinpot dictator participates in Oval Office press conference. Also pictured: the president of El Salvador

aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas. “There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”

Cruel and nihilstic.

On this day back in 1990, twins, Matthew and Gunnar Nelson of the band Nelson, released their #1 hit, Love and Affection.

90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

“Yes, it’s a great time to buy Tesla stock…as it’s component manufacturers double their prices due to 104% tariffs and its international consumer markets increase sales taxes anywhere from 10 to 50%” - someone who knows nothing about how anything works

Waaay to familiar!

“.. Tokyo hasn’t imposed tariffs on car imports since 1978 .. The source of their grievance is, in reality, something far simpler: The cars aren’t good enough.” 🇯🇵 @gearoidreidy.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

Trump: "I said to [the former hostages], was there any sign of love? Did Hamas show any signs of, like, help or liking you? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? Like what happened in Germany."