Ram Ramgopal
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Former Executive Editor, CNN | @RamInNews in the other place. [Once a legacy blue ☑️ @ramcnn]
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Roosevelt Institute
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A president using the IRS and DOJ to protect himself and funnel money to political allies is the kind of corruption democracies are supposed to guard against, not normalize. Our Fellow
@bdgesq.bsky.social
rightly sounds the alarm:
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Jen Bendery
12 days ago
There it is. The Senate parliamentarian rules the $1 billion for Trump's ballroom in the GOP's budget reconciliation bill violates the rules + is subject to 60 votes vs 51. Via budget committee Dems:
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Mark Copelovitch
12 days ago
In earlier times, when things actually mattered, the resignation would already have happened.
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Carl Quintanilla
21 days ago
“.. After the close Thurs, three firms announced huge headcount reductions, including:
#$BILL
(30%)
#$NET
(20%)
#$UPWK
(24%) “.. Block kicked things off earlier this year with a ~40% cut .. and a bunch of other firms ..
#$COIN
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#$META
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#$ORCL
(mid-teens)
#$PINS
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#$SNAP
(~15%) ..”
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The music of my college days, yet so vivid four decades on
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about 1 month ago
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Raider
about 1 month ago
Disabled veterans arrested by Capitol police protesting the war on Iran. "Not another nickel, not another dime, no more for Trump's war crimes/the cost of war is too damn high."
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public health guy
about 1 month ago
do not forget that we the people have the power to chart a different path than this
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Senator Ron Wyden
about 1 month ago
Can confirm
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Jamie Dupree
about 1 month ago
Farmers voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. The Farm Bureau reports today that farmers can't afford to buy the fertilizer needed for this year's crops.
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Shipwreck
about 2 months ago
Going back up:
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Will Stancil
about 2 months ago
Again please note that Iran makes literally no concessions here. It can build a nuke with the 200m a day it’s pulling in from Hormuz and the US has preemptively agreed to not sanction or oppose it
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Carl Quintanilla
about 2 months ago
“.. The United States is unpredictable,” said Roderich Kiesewetter, a lawmaker from Germany’s ruling party, echoing a widespread sentiment in Europe. “It’s not a reliable partner anymore for the Western world.”
@wsj.com
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix
about 2 months ago
"20 yrs ago the world took a year to add 1 gigawatt of solar. Now it takes just half a day. Solar costs have fallen by around 90% over past decade, & as costs fall, installations accelerate. Nowhere is this clearer than in China 🇨🇳. It now accounts for well over half of global solar installations"
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Luke O'Neil
about 2 months ago
Finally we get to find this out
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Micah
about 2 months ago
it’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy
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Jay Willis
about 2 months ago
Sam Alito asking an extended hypothetical question about whether members of an Iranian sleeper cell would get U.S. citizenship is only lending further support to my theory that season 5 of '24' pickled the brains of an entire generation of Republican voters
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
about 2 months ago
Donald Trump didn't make it through the entire Supreme Court oral argument on birthright citizenship, leaving before they were over, per White House pool.
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John Pfaff
about 2 months ago
Everyone needs to just keep repeating this, over and over. The politics of a case is NOT JUST ABOUT THAT CASE. There is a meta-game here too. This case is surely going to be used as cover for gutting the VRA. And too many pundits are going to fall for it.
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Mark Copelovitch
about 2 months ago
Come on, man. The Americans was a TV show, & the kids turned out to be Americans.
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Adam Serwer
about 2 months ago
The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.
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Ken Bazinet
about 2 months ago
Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is arguing against Trump’s order restricting birthright citizenship in the case, welcomed his attendance at the court to “school him” about the Constitution, USA Today reported.
#TrumpStunt
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Trump to attend Supreme Court after calling Gorsuch, Barrett 'fools'
Trump, who broke norms by criticizing Supreme Court justices for past rulings, will attend the argument about birthright citizenship.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/01/trump-supreme-court-friction-fools-barrett-gorsuch/89416414007/
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@GottaLaff
about 2 months ago
#Ukraine
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Matthew Gertz
about 2 months ago
Now France is denying airspace…
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NY Times Pitchbot
about 2 months ago
My gas and groceries are up 40%, my health insurance is up 50%, and the president is covering up an elite pedophilia ring. But at least there won't be trans athletes competing in a 2028 Olympic sport that I won't be watching.
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James Fallows
about 2 months ago
Trump is now nearly 2-to-1 underwater in approval ratings. (62% disapprove; 33% approve.) As a reminder: LBJ was just barely underwater when he decided, in depths of 1968 turmoil, that he could not run again. Different circumstances, but illustrates the unprecedented scale of Trump collapse.
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Leah McElrath
2 months ago
Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)
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Bill Kristol
2 months ago
“The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, as thousands of soldiers and Marines arrive in the Middle East…” This is a bad idea. But it it is to happen, it CERTAINLY shouldn’t happen without congressional authorization. So: Congress?
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran
If President Trump approves the plans, such an effort would mark a new phase of the war that could be significantly more dangerous to U.S. troops than the first four weeks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/28/trump-iran-ground-troops-marines/
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Kevin M. Kruse
2 months ago
If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
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Carl Quintanilla
2 months ago
LAGARDE: “.. We are facing a real shock…probably beyond what we can imagine at the moment.”
@economist.com
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Aaron Rupar
2 months ago
It hasn't gotten enough attention that Trump, Homan, and Duffy have all confirmed there's a plan in the works to have armed ICE agents at airports *tomorrow.* Words fail to describe how stupid this is. Let's hope more people aren't disappeared or killed.
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Lisa Goldman
2 months ago
Israeli officials boasted of killing Ali Larijani today, presenting it as a triumph. In fact, they just showed once again that Israel is addicted to pointless, flashy assassinations that do not make Israelis more secure. Analysis by
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newlinesmag.com/running-note...
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Larijani Shows Israel is Addicted to Pointless, Flashy Assassinations
Israel announced today, March 17, that it had assassinated Ali Larijani, who became the de facto interim leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran after Israel assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on...
https://newlinesmag.com/running-notes/larijani-shows-israel-is-addicted-to-pointless-flashy-assassinations/
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Ryan Goodman
2 months ago
2/ Note who Kent blames for Iran war and Iraq war in his resignation letter. Link to the 2025 Southern Poverty Law Center and Western States Center letter:
www.splcenter.org/wp-content/u...
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https://www.splcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/coalition-letter-oppose-joe-kent.pdf
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404 Media
2 months ago
ICYMI over the weekend: A judge ordered those who uploaded videos of the DOGE bros to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.
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The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet
On Friday, a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.
https://www.404media.co/the-removed-doge-deposition-videos-have-already-been-backed-up-across-the-internet/
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Cristina Maza
3 months ago
The Trump administration has zero understanding of what independent journalism is and expects major outlets to behave like state-sponsored propaganda networks.
apnews.com/article/kham...
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Trump administration denounces CNN for airing messages from Iranian leaders
The Trump administration is denouncing CNN for airing a portion of the new Iranian supreme leader's first public statement since he got the job.
https://apnews.com/article/khamenei-trump-cnn-iran-criticism-speech-war-6c5d24c0de5469d01c4c41b2b432a879
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Holly Brewer
3 months ago
Open acknowledgment of the goals of media manipulation. It’s almost like they think if they can tell the story they want, even if it’s not true, that it will become true.
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Mark Copelovitch
3 months ago
It is interesting to me* how this total military, geopolitical, & economic omnishambles is not being covered in the press with remotely the same fierce EPIC DISASTROUS FAILURE urgency that Joe Biden’s not 100% surgically clean withdrawal from 🇦🇫 was covered 🤔 [*It is not remotely interesting to me]
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties
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Comfortably Numb
3 months ago
So the shoegate I understand it is this: 1. Trump equals shoe size to dick size 2. Trump asks Rubio, Hegseth and the rest of the ilk about their shoe size. 3. They all yell, like 10, 11, big, huge. 4. Trump buys those for them, and they shamble around in shoes twice their size.
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Bill Madden
3 months ago
No way! 😂🤣🔥🔥🔥👇
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Patrick De Haan
3 months ago
We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.
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derek guy
3 months ago
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
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Jon B. Wolfsthal
3 months ago
A republic, if you can keep it. Just wait til you hear how easily he can launch a nuclear weapon.
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Nate Silver Tweets
3 months ago
Maybe it's just me — having not been a former Fox & Friends host, I'm not a strategy expert — but seems not super smart to win an election on inflation and then start a war that causes oil prices to spike by 50% within like four days.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
3 months ago
Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol
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Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol
The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/07/capitol-j6-police-plaque-installed/
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erin mccann
3 months ago
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her. Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
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No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/travel/iran-middle-east-stranded-travelers-flight-cancellations.html
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CNN
3 months ago
The US economy lost 92,000 jobs last month, far worse than expected.
https://cnn.it/4rNtNg2
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Robert Reich
3 months ago
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
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The New York Times
3 months ago
U.S. forces likely bombed an Iranian elementary school on Feb. 28 during an operation targeting a nearby military base, a New York Times analysis suggests. It is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility.
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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-school-us-strikes-naval-base.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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George Pearkes
3 months ago
Azerbaijan just closed airspace "in the south of the country" per Bloomberg macro squawk. Losing that link would have a massive impact on Europe-Asia (incl the Indian subcontinent and ANZ) air travel.
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Megan O’Toole
3 months ago
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
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Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school
Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-iranian-girls-killed-double-tap-strikes-minab-school
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