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nytimes.comTrump Signs Order Exempting Russia From Sanctions Legislation (Gift Article)The sanctions were part of legislation that was named after Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died in July.

I guess he’s not hiding it anymore. Trump Signs Order Exempting Russia From Sanctions Legislation www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

newyorker.comThe Lost Descendants of Thomas JeffersonScientists have new proof that Thomas Jefferson had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country.

Looking forward to this book, but found the historical evidence sufficient. This piece looks at a newly identified descendant who (to me) resembles both TJ and his daughter Martha. Sorry it's behind a paywall. The New Yorker doesn't have a gift option. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

nytimes.comTrump Says His D.C. Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ Housing Drones and SnipersThe president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.

20 Sept

That’s the ticket! Trump Says His Contested Arch Would House Drones and Snipers www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

nytimes.comE.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power PlantsGeneration of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

14 Sept

Because AI will kill us first? E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...

12 Aug

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Mike Luckovich@mluckovich.bsky.social

newrepublic.comAmazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire CountryAmazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.

9 Aug

AI + Fossil Fuel. Let's destroy the planet even faster, shall we? Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country newrepublic.com/post/214111/... via @newrepublic.com

7 Aug

What could possibly explain this?

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Split screen. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

nytimes.comHow the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump’s Washington (Gift Article)A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark. This is the untold back story of the fallout.

7 Aug

What the pool now reflects is a fatal combo of incompetence, venality, and dishonesty. “'It’s like asking the museum guard to restore a painting in the Met,' said Charles Birnbaum, the president of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, a nonprofit that has sued unsuccessfully to stop the work."

apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records sayThe Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...

16 July

Looks like ICE doesn't even do minimal vetting before hiring and arming agents. apnews.com/article/ice-... Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say

open.substack.comOna Judge Didn't Run Away From a HouseShe ran away from George Washington. The new exhibit on Independence Mall would rather you not think about that.

16 July

Ona Judge Didn't Run Away From a House open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis.net

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Constitution Is On Life SupportFour justices are prepared to stuff the Fourteenth Amendment’s promises in the garbage because Mister Trump demands it.

The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.

Jackson's concurrence marshals facts to rebuke Thomas's dissent, showing that knowing history beats imagining it. Read the majority opinion too. It traces the English common law, the practice in the early Republic, and the Congressional understanding during the debate for the 14th Amendment.

A nod to professional historians from Justice Jackson!

1/ Birthright citizenship affirmed. Whew. But not 9-0, which is horrifying. I've read the opinion and now on Jackson's concurrence and noticing historians cited. Roberts cites works prior to 1965. Jackson, cites recent work -- Isabel Wilkerson's Caste, and David Blight's Frederick Douglass book.

2/You'd think that justices who can look forward to decades in the job might feel just a tiny bit compelled to keep abreast of historical interpretations. Or at least hire clerks who do.

29 May

Hallelujah!

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

(NYT) - A federal judge in Washington ruled on Friday that President Trump’s name was illegally added to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, writing that the law establishing the center made “crystal clear” that only Congress could change it. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

nytimes.comTrump Administration Live Updates: Judge Freezes Efforts to Create $1.8 Billion Fund

29 May

When this is all over, every federal judge who stood up to him should get the Medal of Freedom and a ticker tape parade. Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Freezes Efforts to Create $1.8 Billion Fund www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

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I support Somali-Americans

@adamrothman.bsky.social

18 Apr 2025

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

washingtonpost.comJames Comey indicted for second time by Justice DepartmentThe case against the former FBI director centers on a photo he posted last year showing seashells arranged to write out “86 47,” which some saw as a call for violence against President Donald Trump.

28 Apr

I guess Todd is big mad that Maurene Comey's wrongful termination suit is going forward.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: A federal grand jury indicted former FBI director James Comey in the Justice Department’s latest attempt to criminally charge President Trump’s longtime foe, according to people familiar with the legal proceedings.

28 Apr

And they wonder why "No Kings?"

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

> @bloomberg.com

publicnotice.coTrump DOJ will avenge the KKK by taking out SPLCThe racism is not subtle.

23 Apr

When Trump was elected in 2016, donors poured money into the SPLC. Now, the Trump II DOJ has just crafted a massive free fundraising campaign for SPLC. Ironic?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."

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Leila Brillson

@leilza.bsky.social

20 Apr

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

publicwitness.wordandway.orgHegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship ServiceFor the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

15 Apr

This is nuts.

Brian Kaylor@briankaylor.bsky.social

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

14 Apr

DOGE did exactly what it was intended to do ... kneecap the federal government.

James Medlock@jdcmedlock.bsky.social

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

whitehouse.govFounding FathersJohn Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison Alexander Hamilton Benjamin Franklin John Jay George Washington America's First President Surveyor turned

13 Apr

Wikipedia is now a better source than the White House.

I support Somali-Americans@adamrothman.bsky.social

The White House website's bios of the "Founding Fathers" are a perfect example of the complete, willful erasure of slavery from their propagandistic version of American history. Read this for yourself if you don't believe me. www.whitehouse.gov/founding-fat...

mcsweeneys.netDoes Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz“In announcing the U.S. military strike on Iran, President Donald Trump went significantly beyond his previous justification of destroying the coun...

3 Mar

Uh oh. Answered yes to all of them. Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/doe...

22 Feb

Here's a diagram of ICE's plan for housing detainees in warehouses. They plan to create space to hold 92,000 people. Remind you of anything?

22 Feb

Like this:

cnb.cxSupreme Court tariff case winner Learning Resources 'on the right side of history,' CEO saysLearning Resources CEO Rick Woldenberg said the Supreme Court ruling against President Trump's tariffs could inject "a lot of money" into the U.S. economy.

21 Feb

I cannot adequately express how delighted I am that a small, family-owned educational toy company brought this case. You don't have to be a giant to take on Goliath. But you do need nerves of steel.

CNBC@cnbc.com

Supreme Court tariff case winner Learning Resources 'on the right side of history,' CEO says

19 Feb

Make this make sense. After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it

open.substack.comA Presidents' Day lesson from Philadelphia“Each person who visits the President’s House and does not learn of the realities of founding-era slavery receives a false account of this country’s history,“ Judge Cynthia Rufe wrote.

17 Feb

The President doesn't have the power to erase the history he doesn't like. A Presidents' Day lesson from Philadelphia open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

phillytrib.comPage A1View the The Philadelphia Tribune for Sunday, February 8, 2026

9 Feb

Yes to the Philly Trib Page A1 www.phillytrib.com/eedition/phi...

open.substack.comThis Machine Kills FascistsArt, especially music, has power

31 Jan

Dont underestimate the power of music to focus and unite us open.substack.com/pub/maureenb...

28 Jan

youtu.beBruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

28 Jan

The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives ...

Bruce Springsteen@brucespringsteen.net

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

25 Jan

25 Jan

What I see is respect and love.

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21 Jan

Has this man ever met an actual American?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Bessent: "Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes."

20 Jan

"There are no written documents ..."

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20 Jan

history.state.govHistorical Documents - Office of the Historianhistory.state.gov 3.0 shell

propublica.orgWe Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off BreathingCivilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

15 Jan

"We reviewed footage with a panel of eight former police officers and law enforcement experts. They were appalled." www.propublica.org/article/vide...