@longreads.com www.wrath-bearingtree.com/2025/03/02/n...

Pub date October 4, 2025 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796413...

So who owns the courts? Nearly every time the Supreme Court hears a case, that question will be at least be an issue, if not the issue. The words in the Constitution are only as meaningful as their enforcement, and right now, that is a major problem. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/two-guesse...

NEW: There’s the quid pro quo www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

What the hell? Did he dunk his face directly into the BBQ sauce at FaTdonalds?

MAY 4, 1970--Fifty-five years ago today, the National Guard executed students at Kent State University. They were killing us then. And I fear that kind of thing is not over, not in this current climate. I will always remember Kent State Day. #kentstate

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Time to start a Revolution. Civil unrest is the only path remaining.

4/ From Aug. 1 — when the law took effect — to Dec. 13, 2024, at least 70 Louisiana prisoners’ parole hearings were canceled just like that, ProPublica and @veritenews.org found:

If you want to follow the real story of Trump’s tariffs, ignore the headlines and watch his crypto exchange and the valuation of its so-called “stablecoin,” USD1. Follow the funny money and ask yourself this question: where are the tariffs on crypto? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-tar...

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff

The Economist: “Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful, and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded”

American Taliban Christian right strikes again www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

It is getting bad out there!! LOL!!

At this point, I’d be happy if the Dems did either.

"Why are you hiding your faces?" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WAPO:Mahmoud Khalil’s detention wasn’t just about a single immigration case or even about suppressing pro-Palestinian activism. It was a test balloon for something much broader: using the cudgel of antisemitism allegations to attack opponents and launch a full-scale assault on. . . free speech. . .

When you really care about the scourge of opioid addiction… www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

"What the Republican Party and Trump have that the Democratic Party doesn’t is a unified pugilism, a willingness to view every issue as a partisan fight and an indifference to respecting the constraints of reality in doing so." Philip Bump, Washington Post columnist

This is how Trump plans two win a third term in '28 www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

But the Palestinians are the bad guys www.yahoo.com/news/no-othe...

Big Brother Big Time www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...

Virtually every Cybertruck — those freaky Tesla vehicles made to look like aggression incarnate – has been recalled, because, literally, they come unglued. What a metaphor for this regime: a weak vehicle trying to look tough, a victim of its own cheapness, an ugly toy falling apart.

We are now Trump's prison bitch. I am ashamed of the university I work for. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. Lee Bolinger never would have let this happen. We should be leading the fight. Not kissing the ass of power. @columbiajournalism.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...