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They’re gonna send Stephen Miller out to do a full-on Grinch on SNAP recipients, snatching up cans of Hoo hash and whatnot.
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Come for the deep-dive into Trump's history of slapping gold on everything and his "sell them a fantasy [of luxury]" strategy; stay to read about how that fantasy is fading for low income Americans
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Opinion | Donald Trump is selling fool's gold from the White House
The president is spending his second term transforming the White House to match his gilded aesthetic, even as many of his supporters are struggling.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-white-house-gold-renovations-food-stamps-rcna242144
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Mark Joseph Stern
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This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
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Mannie T'Chawi … (the “T” is silent)
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“Instead of defending African interests on the world stage, the OAU and, later, the AU instead became a back-scratching club of heads of state.”
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"Despite the ongoing shutdown, the tone-deaf paeans to splendor have continued"
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Come for the deep-dive into Trump's history of slapping gold on everything and his "sell them a fantasy [of luxury]" strategy; stay to read about how that fantasy is fading for low income Americans
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Opinion | Donald Trump is selling fool's gold from the White House
The president is spending his second term transforming the White House to match his gilded aesthetic, even as many of his supporters are struggling.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-white-house-gold-renovations-food-stamps-rcna242144
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It’s bad!! On several levels!!
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New from me: I wrote about the dumb new sign at the White House along with all the other tacky gold ornamentation that's gone up over the last few months. It's vintage Trump: micromanaging the most banal of details to sell a fantasy of luxury — but one that's getting harder for Americans to believe
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Opinion | Donald Trump is selling fool's gold from the White House
The president is spending his second term transforming the White House to match his gilded aesthetic, even as many of his supporters are struggling.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-white-house-gold-renovations-food-stamps-rcna242144
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New from me: I wrote about the dumb new sign at the White House along with all the other tacky gold ornamentation that's gone up over the last few months. It's vintage Trump: micromanaging the most banal of details to sell a fantasy of luxury — but one that's getting harder for Americans to believe
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Opinion | Donald Trump is selling fool's gold from the White House
The president is spending his second term transforming the White House to match his gilded aesthetic, even as many of his supporters are struggling.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-white-house-gold-renovations-food-stamps-rcna242144
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
4 days ago
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/zohran-mamdanis-advice-for-election-results-anxiety-go-talk-to-your-neighbors
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jamelle
5 days ago
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
6 days ago
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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Lisa Tozzi
8 days ago
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Don Moynihan
8 days ago
The shutdown is ultimately a legislative negotiation about a budget. Hard to resolve it when the controlling party in one part of Congress refuses to negotiate, will not re-open the House, is not in DC.
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wow. i'm trying to tell if that feels as wild as the criteria for signature strikes or even wilder but either way yeah that's no way to determine who deserves to live or die
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Charles Louis Richter
9 days ago
"Hey kids, we're skipping dinner tonight and instead we're going to have a family meeting about dinners."
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Philip Bump
9 days ago
The Washington Post with a story about how remaking an institution to appeal to the pro-Trump right doesn't help the bottom line.
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me: yeah, i think i'm readjusting to being steeped in the news cycle pretty well after that time off also me: [has fidgeted with his hair enough from in one spot from anxiety/adhd that it's become noticeably shorter]
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Adrienne LaFrance
10 days ago
And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the public—more to the point: separate themselves from any visible protest—and live on military bases. Gift link here:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/trump-officials-military-housing-stephen-miller/684748/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oR6IRKlFiVQjpKpNmoQZhUgw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Arthur Delaney
10 days ago
RFK Sr traveled the country as a senator to expose malnutrition, drum up support for food stamps. RFK Jr travels the country as HHS secretary, sees overweight children at airports, says food stamps "poisoning" today's children New story w/ Senate library material
www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...
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RFK Jr. Tackles His Father’s Legacy On Food Stamps
The Health and Human Services secretary is standing at the opposite end of his late father’s anti-poverty legacy.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-food-stamps-soda-ban-maha_n_6901009ae4b09e9402366e84
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Ariel Edwards-Levy
11 days ago
(extremely I'm-trying-to-delete-it voice) DeBloppelgänger
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Joseph Cox
11 days ago
We first revealed Mobile Fortify in June. It takes the CBP system usually used when people enter or exit the US, and puts it into an app to be used on American streets
www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/
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Joseph Cox
11 days ago
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Drew Harwell
11 days ago
DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link
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Really makes me wonder between the ordinance and whatever (likely minimal) resources are being spent on targeting what the cost per murder is here for the Pentagon
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Have they ever said what exactly they’re using to blow these boats out of the water? Ship fired missiles? Armed drones?
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Noah Shachtman
11 days ago
ADL used to rightfully and regularly boast that it was one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the country.
www.jta.org/2025/10/29/u...
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ADL removes ‘Protect Civil Rights’ from website as it narrows its mission amid right-wing attacks - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The removal took place after FBI Director Kash Patel said he would cut ties with the ADL, though it is unclear if that has happened.
https://www.jta.org/2025/10/29/united-states/dl-removes-protect-civil-rights-from-website-as-it-narrows-its-mission-amid-right-wing-attacks
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Alex Zalben
11 days ago
In a real “let them fight” moment, Cameo has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for creating a function in Sora that fakes personalized celebrity videos called… Cameo.
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Peter Sterne
11 days ago
Indicting Democratic candidates on transparently pretextual charges is the latest sign that things are getting very bad.
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Vanessa Wyeth
11 days ago
I have thought about this tweet by
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Drew Harwell
11 days ago
Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes"
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Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations
Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was years old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.
https://wapo.st/4nuDGwf
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Ana Marie Cox
13 days ago
I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
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Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patron-supported-journalism-cant-be-the-future-of-news
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jamelle
11 days ago
consider this part one of what will be an ongoing series making the case for an imperial congress (gift link)
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Opinion | The Empty Promises of Trump’s Imperial Presidency
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/snap-hunger-republicans-congress.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE8.V3iI.-Au7rrEPtf13&smid=url-share
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icymi: I wrote about what seems to me to be a clear line from the use of “signature” strikes in the drone war last decade to the military’s trigger-happy, lawless campaign against boats in international waters
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Opinion | Why Trump's illegal war on 'drug boats' was inevitable
The military campaign targeting alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean and Pacific follows neatly from the drone war's strikes against unknown targets.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trumps-drug-boat-strikes-venezuela-rcna239354
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Matt Novak
15 days ago
"The agency's announcement came after more than 200 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday called on USDA to draw on its emergency reserves to fund November food benefits. However, according to a memo seen by Reuters, the department indicated that it would not do so."
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Ellen Nakashima
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The entire NSC legal team-some half-dozen-has been emptied out, inc Paul Ney Jr.,a onetime DOD GC who served briefly as NSC legal adviser. Lawyers at NSC, State, DOJ & DOD earlier questioned the legal basis for military cartel strikes, and were able for awhile to forestall action.
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Top Democrats demand details of spy agencies’ role in boat strikes
Democrats are demanding that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard share intelligence on lethal operations against alleged narcotics traffickers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/24/gabbard-intelligence-venezuela-drug-boats/
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James Downie
16 days ago
New AP-NORC poll: – 25% of Hispanic adults have a favorable view of Trump, down from 44% in January – It's Trump's lowest favorability with Hispanic voters since 2019. – "About two-thirds of Hispanic adults under age 45 and Hispanic men now view Trump unfavorably."
apnews.com/article/hisp...
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Trump's favorability has fallen among Hispanics since January, a new AP-NORC poll finds
A new poll shows President Donald Trump’s favorability has fallen among Hispanic adults since the beginning of the year, a potential warning sign from a key constituency that helped secure his victory...
https://apnews.com/article/hispanics-trump-popularity-poll-presidential-approval-favorability-6d33973a92db786df0c6a55a8c6872ca
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MSNBC
17 days ago
OPINION by
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: “Given his past as a real estate developer, his obsession with size and grandeur and his questionable taste in internal decor, Trump’s vision for a White House ballroom comes as little surprise.” READ MORE:
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Opinion | Trump’s East Wing demolition isn’t a normal White House renovation
The sudden destruction of the White House's East Wing to make way for a massive gilded ballroom is a huge departure from previous remodels and renovations.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-destroying-entire-white-house-east-wing-feed-ego-rcna238970
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new from me: the Trump White House is defending its demolition of the East Wing by saying presidents have renovated the building over the last century I reviewed the history and yeah this gross, gilded vanity project is not the same
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Opinion | Trump’s East Wing demolition isn’t a normal White House renovation
The sudden destruction of the White House's East Wing to make way for a massive gilded ballroom is a huge departure from previous remodels and renovations.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-destroying-entire-white-house-east-wing-feed-ego-rcna238970
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Elon Green
18 days ago
Love these viral posts that deprive the news org of traffic. So great.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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Too Big to Fail
19 days ago
Hey, I found this dirty scrap of paper in the gutter; can anybody tell me what it means?
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WIRED
20 days ago
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
is everywhere. But it didn't start that way. There was a time when the mayoral front-runner was polling at 1%, tied literally with "Someone Else." Now he has an 80,000-strong army of volunteers, a killer social strategy, and the internet on his side. The Big Interview:
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Zohran Mamdani, the Internet’s Mayor
Mere months ago, New York’s mayoral front-runner was polling right next to “Someone Else.” He spoke to WIRED about building a social media machine, Big Tech capitulation, and learning from Eric Adams.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-zohran-mamdani/
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Micah
23 days ago
this is basically what happens if an eight year old goes "well what if Babe Ruth kept pitching and threw 100mph while hitting 55 homers a season" and the universe says okay sure kid I gotchu
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23 days ago
Trump says he's "not a king" ahead of mass protests planned for Saturday. Which kind of begs the question, why would a president need to clarify that?
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: "He knows that being called a king is bad, but he is not willing to not act like he wishes to be king."
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new from me: I looked at the wild levels of illegality on display as WH budget chief, Russell Vought, shuffles money around to ensure Trump's top priorities remain funded during the shutdown. it's a play meant to lessen the pain the GOP feels even absent Congress actually appropriating those funds
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Opinion | The White House has a shutdown escape hatch — but it's likely illegal
Trump's budget chief, Russell Vought, is using creative accounting to make sure the president's priorities don't suffer during the shutdown.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/white-house-shutdown-escape-hatch-likely-illegal-rcna237641
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TONIGHT: Nationwide 'No Kings' protests set for Saturday – Trump admits new tariffs on China are unsustainable – Democrats stand their ground on extending healthcare subsidies.
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new from me: I looked at the wild levels of illegality on display as WH budget chief, Russell Vought, shuffles money around to ensure Trump's top priorities remain funded during the shutdown. it's a play meant to lessen the pain the GOP feels even absent Congress actually appropriating those funds
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Opinion | The White House has a shutdown escape hatch — but it's likely illegal
Trump's budget chief, Russell Vought, is using creative accounting to make sure the president's priorities don't suffer during the shutdown.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/white-house-shutdown-escape-hatch-likely-illegal-rcna237641
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P. Andrew Torrez
23 days ago
1/ MSNBC is reporting that the US Atty for Maryland, Kelly Hayes -- who just indicted John Bolton at Trump's behest -- is herself "bracing for being fired" by Trump when she refuses to bring a bullshit, Lindsey Halligan-style indictment of Adam Schiff.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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Larry Glickman
24 days ago
Segregationists spoke of the “long civil rights movement” as the “Second Reconstruction” and for inspiration turned to the Redemptionists, who declared war on the first Reconstruction and after many decades of legal and extralegal efforts Installed Jim Crow regimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
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Parties Brace for a Political Future Without the Voting Rights Act
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/politics/democrats-republicans-voting-rights.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Catherine Rampell
23 days ago
Mike Johnson & other Rs argue that Dems should open the government first and then negotiate over extending the Obamacare premium subsidies later this year. But with open enrollment starting soon, some states say it's *already* too late to add back the enhanced subsidies
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It’s ‘too late’ to extend ACA subsidies without major disruptions, some states and lawmakers say
States are worried Congress missed its opportunity to extend enhanced ACA subsidies and lower premiums before consumers start picking plans in a few weeks.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/its-too-late-to-extend-aca-subsidies-without-major-disruptions-some-states-and-lawmakers-say-00612001?utm_campaign=KHN:+First+Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9eUgNNohek0pjGALKt_E9tHU1mwe5RwQnM-aX4sCv2MW3xNTtd3j1Vu9cVnZmXrRkVwPIRMooqWRMuIP8TJk8hrj9_Z0vQQZupA_CMLKicTc_teo8&_hsmi=385607494&utm_content=385607494&utm_source=hs_email
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