A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Must-read debut @crampell.bsky.social newsletter for @thebulwark.com explains the hidden costs of Trump’s tariffs… …and asks whether he’ll be smart enough to let the Supreme Court kill them www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-su...

Via Ron Suskind: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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See this amazing exhibit if you are in DC! The National Museum of Women in the Arts is open during the shutdown. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7734...

NEW --> Trump’s Health-Care Fairy Tale. glennkessler.substack.com/p/trumps-hea...

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NEW -->On Trump’s Bullshit: Arithmetic as Propaganda glennkessler.substack.com/p/on-trumps-...

Trump tonight on 60 Minutes, touting the impact of his tariffs: "We're bringing back the auto industry into our country."

Trumpian math: “Every one of those boats kills 25,000 Americans,” he tells 60 Minutes. Nine boats in the Caribbean so far since mid-September. That adds up to 225,000 dead Americans. CDC: 76,000 people died of drug overdoses in the most recent 12-month period. 🤔

Please explain why Trump imposed 50-percent tariffs on Brazil, where the US had a trade surplus, because he wanted to interfere with Brazilian public policy (ie, the trial of Bolsonaro)

Terrific, important reporting by Michael Kranish. Worth reading the whole series (gift link) wapo.st/4hETKKl

Bellingcat has geolocated footage of a mass killing outside the recently captured Sudanese city of El Fasher. In the video, which has circulated widely online, RSF commander Abu Lulu can be seen firing his weapon at what appears to be ten unarmed men sitting on the ground. Image: @vantortech

Useful guide to how Trump has undermined democracy in the United States. Clip and save. Read and weep. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Glenn Kessler just made my day.

So many own goals. Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Just finished it @juliaioffe.bsky.social! What an extraordinary, brilliant feat of writing and reporting. Reframing history through the eyes of women taught me so much - and I have shelves of books on the Boshevik revolution that shamefully left women out of the story. A necessary corrective. Bravo!

This was a great conversation about the war on bullshit and the things that scare/encourage us. With @glennkessler.bsky.social, Sarah Gilbert of @wamcradio.bsky.social and the legendary Karen DeWitt.

NEW --> How the media can combat misinformation and rebuild public trust in an era of polarization. glennkessler.substack.com/p/video-of-n...

Our 2025 Nellie Bly Award event honoring journalist @glennkessler.bsky.social is now on YouTube! Watch this inspiring program on truth & accountability: youtu.be/_InsI8zW2_o #NellieBlyAward

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NEW --> On Trump’s Bullshit: He Knew He Lost glennkessler.substack.com/p/on-trumps-...

Also reminds me of the poster for “Birth of a Nation”

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NEW --> Video Clipping for Me, Not for Thee open.substack.com/pub/glennkes...

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NEW --> The White House Website Has Been Taken Over by Trolls open.substack.com/pub/glennkes...

The whataboutism on Gaza really rankles, especially for those of us who have spent our careers reporting on the crises Israel's defenders cynically invoke as so much worse than Gaza. I wrote about how it actually compares, and what the true toll may be. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Remember when Obama’s tan suit was a sign of intolerable disrespect for his office

This is a reprise of something that happened after I left New York, involving a department store my grandmother used to take me to when I was a little girl. Really depressing account, complete with John Baron quotes, from @glennkessler.bsky.social glennkessler.substack.com/p/trumps-bon...

surely just a coincidence.

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Thank you, Glenn! Can't wait to hear what you think of it!

NEW --> Trump’s Bonwit Tellerization of America glennkessler.substack.com/p/trumps-bon...

Congratulations @juliaioffe.bsky.social! Can’t wait to read it.

The incredible corruption of this is even worse because Trump didn't even pay his own legal bills (he used campaign funds) - this is purely theft for profit. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any crazier. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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On Trump’s Bullshit: The Jan. 6 Rewrite glennkessler.substack.com/p/on-trumps-...

Tawny Chatmon show in DC through March 8 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A great event Thursday night as we honored the amazing @glennkessler.bsky.social! Through programs like this, the Museum of Political Corruption encourages civic engagement - because that's what's needed to counter the corrosive effect corruption has on our democracy. Stay civically engaged!

If you think I'm exaggerating, read this ProPublica report in which national security experts say ICE is "an unfettered and unaccountable national police force" that "could eventually be turned against any groups the administration labels a threat." 2/2

Honored with the Nellie Bly Award glennkessler.substack.com/p/honored-wi...

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Turned in the badge today. My colleagues and I will stay on the beat, but in a new way. The work continues. Danlamothe.30

President Trump helped negotiate peace elsewhere