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FinTwitter
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ZELENSKIY SAYS HE SPOKE TO MACRON ABOUT APPLYING PRESSURE ON RUSSIA, AGREED TO MEET IN NEAR FUTURE
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Laura Phillips
about 20 hours ago
Max Seddon, FT Moscow Bureau Chief: ‘Some choice quotes from Trump’s meeting with Zelensky, from which it appears one call from Putin was enough for him to throw out several months of posturing on Ukraine and repeat Russian talking points instead.’
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Anne Applebaum
1 day ago
"The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier"
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Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia
US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting
https://on.ft.com/4n9nlNd
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Tom Nichols
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Pennsylvania.
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Ron Filipkowski
3 days ago
It must really make everyone working at US Attorneys Offices around the country and DOJ, from prosecutors to staff, proud to know that you serve under an admin that has wiped out the convictions and/or sentences of every Republican convicted of a crime over the last decade.
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Seriously, I have never seen that man* happier than when he is in the company of Russians.🤔
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Carl Quintanilla
3 days ago
#NY03
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Harry Litman
3 days ago
how much stronger an indication do we need that Trump is indifferent to criminal conduct and attuned solely to loyalty to himself. George Friggin' Santos! just beyond belief...
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Paul Waldman
3 days ago
"The person we shot tried to ram us with their car" is the new "The person we shot was reaching for his waistband"
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Steve Herman
7 days ago
WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.
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southpaw
8 days ago
Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.
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Walter Olson
13 days ago
As shocks to the system go, you might group these with the argument from U.Va.'s Caleb Nelson, already making waves, that originalism properly understood does not entail a strong version of the unitary executive theory. /3, end
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
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Caleb Nelson's Originalist Critique of Unitary Executive Theory
NA The Supreme Court seems likely to embrace "unitary executive" theory (UET) in its upcoming case in Trump v. Slaughter,…
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/01/caleb-nelsons-originalist-critique-of-unitary-executive-theory/
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Walter Olson
13 days ago
In the second, Prakash notes that while many moderns disdain the "result-oriented," "it turns out that interpreters have long used consequences, particularly inconvenient consequences, to decode the law." Jefferson called argument from consequences one of the "great foundations of the law." /2
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The Inconvenience Doctrine
Many disdain the use of consequences in legal interpretation. Yet it turns out that interpreters have long used consequences, particularly inconvenient conseque
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5174242
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Walter Olson
13 days ago
Two exceedingly interesting articles from Sai Prakash (U.Va. Law) on founding-era legal interpretation. In the first, he argues that "the Founders were not textualists," frequently elevating the "spirit" of the law above its letter in ways modern textualists resist. /1
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Spirit
The Founders were not textualists. Certainly, the letter of the law mattered quite a bit. But, as William Blackstone noted, interpretation also required the con
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4983925
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Danielle Citron
8 days ago
About my brilliant, principled, and extraordinary colleague Caleb Nelson (also kindest mensch) see
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...
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Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/us/politics/originalism-trump-supreme-court-unitary-executive.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Carl Quintanilla
8 days ago
“Fiction.”
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...
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Home of the Brave
8 days ago
On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
@gtconway.bsky.social
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Keith R. Hanson
8 days ago
"Cigars and champagne. Who the hell cares?". Trump asking the Knesset for a pardon for his pal Bibi who is facing corruption charges. Because strongmen everywhere should be able to wheel and deal with impunity. Otherwise what's the point of even stealing an election and commandeering a country?
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Aaron Rupar
8 days ago
Trump to Israeli Knesset: "I have an idea -- Mr President, why don't give him a pardon? Give him a pardon. Whether we like it or not, this has been one of the greatest wartime presidents. And cigars and champagne -- who the hell cares about that?"
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Walter Olson
8 days ago
As Trump administration takes shares in more companies, a survey of finance economists warns that government ownership of share stakes tends to undercut corporate performance and governance, as accountability blurs and managers' side agendas proliferate. [Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller,
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Finance Economists Warn Against Government as Shareholder
Just as most economists oppose price controls that distort market incentives, they view government ownership stakes as a threat to the market discipline that makes firms productive and innovative. In ...
https://www.cato.org/blog/finance-economists-warn-against-government-shareholder
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Carl Quintanilla
10 days ago
A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects. In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.
@washingtonpost.com
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Carl Quintanilla
10 days ago
The rupture “raises fresh doubts about whether Trump, operating with a hollowed-out national security team and a fragmented China strategy, is prepared for Beijing’s latest power play.”
@politico.com
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Jenny Cohn
9 days ago
“Tech Executives [From Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI] Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings” 6/27/25
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Tech Executives Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings
The new formation is set to recruit tech executives to work on major Army challenges, but the service has not articulated exactly what those individuals would do -- instead focusing on recruiting tale...
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/27/tech-executives-commissioned-senior-army-officers-wont-recuse-themselves-dod-business-dealings.html
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Peter Baker
9 days ago
Before targeting Trump foes, Pulte practiced on his own family, per @ Brian Slodysko and Chris Megerian. He accused his grandfather’s widow of insider trading, was tied to a website trashing an aunt as a "fake Christian" and called another relative "a fat slob."
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How Bill Pulte learned the art of the attack, from his own family to Letitia James
Bill Pulte has become a significant player in the Trump administration. Known for his aggressive online persona and bitter public fights with several family members, Pulte currently serves as director...
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pulte-james-schiff-pultegroup-38cb41350da29248c10d4d29134a5730
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The Tennessee Holler
11 days ago
AXIOS: “Dominion Voting Systems — the voting machine behemoth Trump and his allies baselessly attacked after the 2020 election — has been sold to a Missouri-based company run by a former Republican election official…” 🤔
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
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Ivan the K ™☑️
11 days ago
THEY ALLOWED MAIL-IN VOTING FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. IT WAS RIGGED.
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Carl Quintanilla
11 days ago
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.”
@cnbc.com
$UPS
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UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems
Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ups-delay-customs-tariffs-packages-destroyed-rcna236607
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The Daily Show
11 days ago
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Governor JB Pritzker
11 days ago
Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law. Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois. And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
11 days ago
"no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois." It's mind boggling than in 2025 a federal judge in Chicago just uttered these words in court case between against the President of the United States. My god.
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Denise Wheeler
13 days ago
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
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Fascism for Dummies
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Ron Filipkowski
11 days ago
All to cover up the Epstein files.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸
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Max Boot
12 days ago
“We’re going to stop drug trafficking,” Trump said on Sunday. News flash: The US has been trying to “stop drug trafficking” since Nixon declared the “war on drugs” in 1971.
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Opinion | Trump is turning the ‘war on drugs’ from metaphor into an actual war
Beyond the question of whether blowing up boats off Venezuela is legal, what’s the military objective?
https://wapo.st/4o9ZEVW
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Aaron Rupar
12 days ago
Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand
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Aaron Rupar
12 days ago
Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."
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Aaron Rupar
12 days ago
Jeffries: "The streets are hot right now on Capitol Hill because the Republicans are just falling apart. They cannot justify their position having shut the government down. They cannot justify their position in terms of hiding the Epstein files from the American people."
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Jeet Heer
12 days ago
This is probably the best time to be in organized crime since before the repeal of prohibition in 1933. I mean if you wanted to commit high level non-immigrant related crime, now is the time to go hog wild.
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Bloomberg News
12 days ago
Donald Trump will undergo a routine physical exam on Friday, the White House announced, following questions about the president’s health after he developed noticeable bruising and swelling in recent months
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Trump to Undergo Regular Physical Exam at Walter Reed on Friday
President Donald Trump will undergo a physical exam on Friday following mounting questions about his health prompted by noticeable bruising and swelling in recent months.
https://bloom.bg/48rMQWB
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All In with Chris Hayes
12 days ago
WATCH:
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
explains precisely why Mike Johnson is stalling the new Dem rep's swear-in over the Epstein vote: "Right now, Johnson can pressure the four Republican signers to change their minds. He has time to do it—as long as he keeps Adelita Grijalva out of Congress."
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Quinta Jurecic
12 days ago
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
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Kai Ryssdal
12 days ago
This is the lesson of 2025
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Carl Zimmer
12 days ago
Today my
@nytimes.com
colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link:
nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Anna Bower
12 days ago
The President of the United States doesn’t seem to know what habeas corpus is
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Truth Social(ist)
12 days ago
“There's videos of you with teenage girls in the Epstein files.”
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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈⬛🇺🇦
12 days ago
Nice to see Sen. Gallego and Kelly going to bat for Adelita Grijalva, as they and everyone else should be. Speaker Johnson is stalling her swearing-in because her vote would help finally reveal the Epstein files.
#USDemocracy
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Mark Hamill
13 days ago
IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH: djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey." Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it." djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret." And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children.
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Pam Spaulding
12 days ago
That's why it's time to
#ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles
. Trump won't meet w/survivors. Why? Survivors have not been invited to testify before Congress. Why? Mike Johnson is stalling to keep the House from voting on releasing the Epstein files. Why? The GOP is the party of
#PedophileProtectors
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