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Semafor
about 1 month ago
A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
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Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise
The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/23/2025/how-trump-is-trying-to-remake-american-culture-starting-with-rush-hour
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Tina Vasquez
about 1 month ago
NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:
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North Carolina immigration raids expected to escalate
As the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities
https://prismreports.org/2025/11/19/north-carolina-immigration-raids-ice/
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Keung Hui
about 1 month ago
Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school.
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Bobby Kogan
about 2 months ago
Sep 30: USDA issues guidance saying they can use contingency fund Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds Nov 1: no funds go out Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts
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A great story about a truly malignant figure
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
https://www.propublica.org/article/paul-newby-north-carolina-supreme-court
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
3 months ago
someone on here said "years of lead paint" and I can't think of a better caption than that
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Carly Goodman
3 months ago
This is the moment for print. People will want to read the truth and when it’s hard to find online people will want paper.
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John Ganz
5 months ago
Jesus Christ, this has got to be one of the worst public statements by a leader in history
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The latest from the Great Leap Boerward…
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Aaron Rupar
5 months ago
Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "I'm allowed to do it"
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Michael Hobbes
5 months ago
Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge
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Carly Goodman
5 months ago
this is right
www.todayintabs.com/p/billionair...
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Billionaires Destroyed American News Media On Purpose
It's not a conspiracy, it's simply what happened.
https://www.todayintabs.com/p/billionaires-destroyed-american-news-media-on-purpose-7d91?_bhlid=73ef84b432d13d13eeb904fb44aa8e5bcf4a86e6&ref=indignity.net
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Dan Berger
6 months ago
I reviewed Chuck Schumer’s new book. It is very bad. But
@journalspectre.bsky.social
is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout. Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
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Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning – Spectre Journal
https://spectrejournal.com/chuck-schumer-in-america-a-warning/
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Brendan Nyhan
6 months ago
The authoritarian assault on higher education continues - UVA and Harvard have to hold the line
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
6 months ago
DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
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Colin Dickey
6 months ago
Wichita Falls Times, November 27, 1977
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Melissa Gira Grant
6 months ago
here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning
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Spencer Ackerman
6 months ago
Of course he was going to bomb Iran. Is there an antiwar party in the U.S.?
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War on Terror Nightmare Arrives As Trump Bombs Iran
Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?
https://www.forever-wars.com/war-on-terror-nightmare-arrives-as-trump-bombs-iran/
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jamelle
7 months ago
see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines
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George Pearkes
7 months ago
ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States
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Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources
Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on the way back to the United States to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S., sources say.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenly-deported-kilmar-abrego-garcia-back-us-face/story?id=121333122
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ryan cooper
7 months ago
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication."
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Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-05-30-go-elon-never-darken-our-doors-again/
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jamelle
8 months ago
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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David Dayen
9 months ago
Pretty much exactly what Tooze predicted two days ago
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
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Colleen T
9 months ago
Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...
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Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS
Shuttering IMLS would be "an act of monumental neglect, violating the very foundation of America and what it stands for as a country," the publishers assert.
https://www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-big-five-publishers-sign-letter-urging-congress-to-restore-imls/
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Atrios
9 months ago
funny how Jeff Bezos pivoted to " We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets" thinking that would be obviously pro-trump
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T. Greg Doucette
9 months ago
BREAKING: Republican-majority panel of the Republican-majority NC Court of Appeals rules 2-1 that the Republican candidate for Supreme Court (their colleague on the Court of Appeals) wins the election even though he got several hundred fewer votes than the Dem
appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=...
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Marisa Kabas
9 months ago
NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1. More here:
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EveryLibrary Condemns the Trump Administration's Termination of IMLS Grants as an Attack on Libraries, Museums, and Archives Everywhere.
State Library Agencies and other grant recipients across the country began receiving official notices from the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services terminating their grants,...
https://www.everylibrary.org/trump_termination_imls_grants?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ZtXpQ8TUUWYJ5W2W_OlMdHWfAPSgx-hQfq2ppCCACYc4ATKd1yiksrNs_aem_w3YzxM9ICDhb7Cd4b1ZKkA
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Sharon
9 months ago
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Kelsey Atherton
11 months ago
GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse ME IN 2025: ah, okay
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kelly jensen
9 months ago
DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question.
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
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The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted
DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.
https://bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
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Jonathan M. Katz
9 months ago
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stylo - join DSA
9 months ago
By the way, here is the latest from Reddit on DOGE attempts to shut down the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Because of public outrage, they will try to do it quietly. Don't let them
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Center for Constitutional Rights
9 months ago
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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Marisa Kabas
9 months ago
SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
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Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-fentanyl-weapon-of-mass-destruction-executive-order-draft-scoop
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Josh Marshall
10 months ago
Before I had to sign off I said I thought that Dems were moving toward folding. When I came back online I was very pleasantly surprised to see Schumer's floor remarks. But since I was in transit I didn't have access to
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talkingpointsmemo.com/news/after-h...
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After Heated Dem Meeting, Schumer Says Dems Will Push For Vote On Short Term CR First
With less than three days to go before government funding runs out,...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/after-heated-dem-meeting-schumer-says-dems-will-push-for-vote-on-short-term-cr-first
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Sahil Kapur
10 months ago
NEW: Chuck Schumer says Senate Democrats won't provide votes to pass GOP funding bill as shutdown draws near Dems say they won’t support a “partisan” House bill they lacked input in writing. Deadline: Friday midnight.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Senate Democrats say they won't provide votes to pass GOP funding bill as shutdown draws near
After meeting with his conference, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "Republicans do not have the votes" to advance the House-approved measure.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-senate-democrats-votes-gop-funding-bill-shutdown-rcna196029
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Brad Johnson
10 months ago
BREAKING:
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is whipping Ds to vote for the Trump-Musk coup continuing resolution.
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More like “the Great Leap Boerward,” am I right folks
10 months ago
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10 months ago
a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.
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happy war on chrusmas
11 months ago
Rest in power to Reverend Nelson Johnson, NCA&T student activist, Communist Workers Party labor organizer and lifelong activist for social justice at the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro. Johnson was arrested for “inciting a riot” after the Klan killed five of his CWP comrades on Nov. 3, 1979.
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Nathan Tankus
11 months ago
CNN with an absolutely gigantic story: "Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system."
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
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Musk associates sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show | CNN Politics
Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using...
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/politics/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-system/index.html
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Adam Smith
11 months ago
The federal government's new top HR attorney has said "Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish" and "Slaves owe us reparations," according to a new report from
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www.pogo.org/investigatio...
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“Raging Misogynist” Now Federal Government H.R.’s Top Lawyer
The Office of Personnel Management’s new general counsel has a history of racist and sexist social media posts.
https://www.pogo.org/investigations/raging-misogynist-now-federal-government-h-r-s-top-lawyer
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The Assembly
11 months ago
No North Carolina law enforcement official has cheered President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda as much as Rockingham County’s cowboy hat-wearing sheriff, Sam Page.
www.theassemblync.com/politics/bri...
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Bringing the Border War Home
Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page helped shape the anti-immigration agenda that will define Donald Trump’s second term.
https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/bringing-the-border-war-home/
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Doug Bock Clark
11 months ago
1/ Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn an election loss by throwing out the ballots of over 5,500 military and overseas voters—despite having previously used the same method of voting himself, ProPublica reveals. A 🧵👇:
www.propublica.org/article/jeff...
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State Supreme Court Candidate Wants Military Absentee Votes Tossed. Years Earlier, That’s How He Voted.
Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn his election loss by asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss 5,500 military and overseas absentee ballots. He used the same method to vote in...
https://www.propublica.org/article/jefferson-griffin-military-absentee-votes-north-carolina-supreme-court
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George Pearkes
12 months ago
Extremely grim judicial coup underway in North Carolina.
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Supreme Court blocks certification of high court race
Democrat Allison Riggs was on track to having her victory certified on Friday. The 5-2 conservative majority state Supreme Court has blocked that from happening.
https://andersonalerts.substack.com/p/supreme-court-blocks-certification
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jamelle
12 months ago
north carolina republicans about to make “democrats cannot legally win elections that might deprive of us of power” a principle of state constitutional law
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Mark Joseph Stern
over 1 year ago
RFK Jr. has thrown a grenade into the North Carolina election. He waited too long to remove his name from the ballot—then persuaded the far-right NC Supreme Court to do it anyway, an egregious violation of law that has canceled early voting indefinitely.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has Sabotaged Early Voting in a Critical Swing State
The North Carolina Supreme Court tossed a grenade into the state’s election on Monday.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/north-carolina-robert-kennedy-early-voting-trump-sabotage.html
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In These Times
over 1 year ago
“For many library workers, the material consequences of unchecked capitalism are the stuff of everyday life.” Emily Drabinski on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism:
inthesetimes.com/article/publ...
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The Library Is a Commons
A socialist former president of the American Library Association on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/public-libraries-are-commons-in-america
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