Ken Hughes
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Author of Chasing Shadows and Fatal Politics. Bylines: @NYTimes @WashingtonPost @ConversationUS
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Thank you to the 15,000+ people who read my debunking of RFK Jr.'s false account of
#OperationNorthwoods
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If Books Could Kill
4 days ago
Episode 49: The Millionaire Next Door In 1996, two marketing professors revealed the characteristics of America's new elite class: They buy the right kind of watch, marry the right kind of wife and were born the right kind of white.
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The Millionaire Next Door
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 02/05/2026 · 1h 11m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-millionaire-next-door/id1651876897?i=1000748353476
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Jim Acosta
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world.
#standwithsurvivors
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Brendan Nyhan
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Attacking anyone who questions his policies using the biggest bully pulpit in the world (no doubt directing vast quantities of vitriol, harassment, threats, etc. toward Hess)
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The forgotten hero who helped eradicate one of humanity’s oldest killers William Foege helped give us a world without smallpox. Trump is marking his death by letting measles come back.
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
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The forgotten hero who helped eradicate one of humanity’s oldest killers
William Foege helped give us a world without smallpox. We’re marking his death by letting measles come back.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/477307/smallpox-william-foege-disease-infectious-disease-measles-vaccines-rfk
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Savannah Guthrie, in New Video Message, Promises to Pay for Return of Her Mother The “Today” show anchor, in a message on social media with her siblings, said the return of their mother Nancy “is the only way we will have peace.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
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Savannah Guthrie, in New Video Message, Promises to Pay for Return of Her Mother
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/savannah-guthrie-nancy-guthrie-video-message.html
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Good morning,
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#FreeSpeech
#FreePress
#FreeAssembly
#FreedomOfReligion
#PeacefulRedress
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Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minneapolis-hospital-ice-beating-assault-4e77742e0629fc7f127c0aa38b3d2a70
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
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Eoin Higgins
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Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
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ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/02/07/ice-detainees-from-maine-being-held-under-inhumane-conditions-at-mass-facility-attorneys-say/
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Mark Lemley
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Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/nbc-appears-to-cut-crowds-booing-of-jd-vance-from-winter-olympics-broadcast
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Nicholas Grossman
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“MAGA-aligned military commanders” is a phrase that shouldn’t exist. Telling subordinates they have to go see the president’s wife’s bribe movie shouldn’t be a thing either. Even in the best case scenario, undoing Trump’s politicization of the military will be long, difficult, crucial work.
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Brendan Nyhan
1 day ago
"the most flagrant display of presidential racism since Woodrow Wilson screened D.W. Griffith’s 'The Birth of a Nation' in the White House in 1915"
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Omar Wasow
1 day ago
In light of Trump’s post yesterday, some history: “On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.”
www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...
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In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens
On Sunday, Trump declined to disavow the support of white supremacists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/28/in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-queens/
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Omar Wasow
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“She seemed like the model tenant: 33, a nurse. There was just one hitch: Maxine Brown was black. The rental agent talked to his boss, Fred Trump. ‘I asked him what to do and he says, ‘Take the application and put it in a drawer and leave it there,’” Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/u...
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‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias (Published 2016)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.9KXP.nZwW28VburRY&smid=url-share
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Omar Wasow
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“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” he said. “It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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Here's the disgusting way black employees were treated at Donald Trump's casino
"They put us all in the back."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/trump-casinos-black-employees/
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Omar Wasow
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“Trump treated black employees differently. A former hotel exec said Trump criticized a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks.”
nyti.ms/3qriGio
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Opinion | Donald Trump’s Racism: The Definitive List, Updated (Published 2018)
The media uses euphemisms. Here’s the truth: President Trump is a racist.
https://nyti.ms/3qriGio
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Omar Wasow
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“In 1989, Trump took out ads in newspapers urging the death penalty for 5 black & Latino teenagers accused of raping a white woman in Central Park; he argued they were guilty as late as June 2019, more than 15 years after DNA evidence had exonerated them.”
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Brendan Nyhan
1 day ago
Not how the rule of law works. Precisely the opposite, in fact.
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Jake Grumbach
1 day ago
US elite institutions be as ethical as Burning Man challenge via
@henryburke.bsky.social
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Ben Goggin
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X awards $1 million to creator with a history of racist, Hitler-supporting posts
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
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X awards $1 million prize to creator with history of racist posts
X said it would give $1 million to a user who had previously shared racist posts, including one supporting Hitler.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/x-pays-1-million-prize-creator-history-racist-posts-rcna257768
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David Darmofal
1 day ago
The evil that Trump & Vance are doing on a daily basis in our names.
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Mike Hixenbaugh
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NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
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Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toddler-hospitalized-dilley-ice-detention-rcna257912
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Don Moynihan
1 day ago
The new appointee in charge is learning the costs of politicization. He has no criminal justice experience. The people who know what they are doing are leaving. Actual criminal prosecutions are not being done. Authoritarianism inevitably bends towards incompetence.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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Full story:
apnews.com/article/immi...
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Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minneapolis-hospital-ice-beating-assault-4e77742e0629fc7f127c0aa38b3d2a70#
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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Fred Kaplan
2 days ago
The real reason Trump let the New START nuclear arms treaty die--and the especially egregious lies he told while doing so.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Real Reason Trump Wants to Rip Up Our Nuclear Weapons Treaty With Russia
The president's lies have gone nuclear.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/trump-news-russia-nuclear-treaty-why.html
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A ‘wellness bro’, a cosmologist and an RFK Jr crony: meet Bari Weiss’s new CBS News contributors
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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A ‘wellness bro’, a cosmologist and an RFK Jr crony: meet Bari Weiss’s new CBS News contributors
The network’s editor-in-chief unveiled a curious list of 19 people to be paid contributors across different platforms
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/30/bari-weiss-new-cbs-news-contributors
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Rep. James Clyburn’s ‘First Eight’ warns about today’s war on Black wealth Clyburn’s history lesson on the first eight Black representatives recaps the playbook used to strip Black wealth. Read free:
wapo.st/4aC2W0c
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Column | Rep. James Clyburn’s ‘First Eight’ warns about today’s war on Black wealth
Clyburn’s history lesson on the first eight Black representatives recaps the playbook used to strip Black wealth.
https://wapo.st/4aC2W0c
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Psychiatrist Says Kennedy Was ‘Not Accurate’ in Discussing His Keto Studies Dr. Christopher M. Palmer said in an interview that the keto diet, while promising, did not “cure” schizophrenia as the health secretary had claimed.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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Psychiatrist Says Kennedy Was ‘Not Accurate’ in Discussing His Keto Studies
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/politics/christopher-palmer-kennedy-schizophrenia-keto.html?smid=tw-share
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Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop. Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good’s vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have departed... Read free:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
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Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-investigation-minnesota-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.KKp_.rvRKJiWa76rp&smid=url-share
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Good morning,
#FirstAmendmentPeople
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#FreeSpeech
#FreePress
#FreeAssembly
#FreedomOfReligion
#PeacefulRedress
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Brandon Friedman
4 days ago
This should be front page news. There should be hearings about it.
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daviss
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A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026
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Brendan Nyhan
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Would be comical if it weren't so sinister. What happens if they grab voting machines in 2026 before the results are official?
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Max Berger
4 days ago
The Trump regime's plan to rig the 2026 election is becoming clearer: - Send ICE to polling locations to intimidate voters - Attempt to federalize the elections and seize control of administration in critical states - Cast doubt on the results and declare they've won - If needed, seize ballot boxes
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Brendan Nyhan
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Using tech to manufacture BS anti-vax claims
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences
4 days ago
Professor
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
speaks to the danger of the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security’s repeated false claims. “Every American should be worried about that, because if they can lie about this, what else could they lie about?” he says, via
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DHS keeps making false claims about people. It's part of a broader pattern
Trump administration officials have falsely linked Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good to domestic terrorism. It's part of a larger pattern by the Department of Homeland Security.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/31/nx-s1-5690124/ice-alex-pretti-immigration-unproven-claims-dhs-enforcement-arrests
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Kathleen Clark
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I just read the declaration that Kira Kelley asked J. Blackwell to consider. This immigrant describes being -unlawfully arrested -taken from one overcrowded & filthy prison to another over 19 days -held incommunicado & ICE never telling him a court ordered his release He describes an American gulag
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only
5 days ago
US Citizens Commit 95% Of Welfare Fraud
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Dean Baker
4 days ago
Great piece on Trump's absurd lie about non-citizens voting
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Claims About Noncitizens Voting Are False. We Can Prove It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/opinion/trump-elections-nationalizing-voting-citizens.html
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Martin Luther King III
3 days ago
The murder of Medgar Evers was an act of racial terror. That fact is not partisan. It is historical. Calling it anything else is not “restoring truth.” It is erasing it.
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gelbach
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Real opening for Dems to run as the law and order party. So much corruption. So much abuse of individual rights. So much battery. So much contempt of court. Chaos, disorder. Run as party that will enforce the law against criminal goons. Of course Dems would need to stop funding the criming, too.
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
"That's just not true, as you well know" -- Sen. Chris Coons is a bit taken aback after CNBC's Joe Kernen pushes the great replacement theory during an interview
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Molly Jong-Fast
3 days ago
Incredible stuff from
@wsj.com
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)
3 days ago
The silver lining: after the regime is toppled, reconstructionist Democrats will be able to remove fascists from federal agencies via the same mechanism on their way to making a new non-partisan civil service. But the full project will take decades.
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Brendan Nyhan
3 days ago
To Britt's credit, she apparently is doing some stuff in private. But a few behind-the-scenes phone calls are just not enough given the magnitude of the threat we face.
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Brendan Nyhan
3 days ago
"This was not the first time Ms. Britt had been disturbed by something she heard about the second Trump administration." "disturbed" is the new Susan Collins "disappointed" You can, you know, do something. There's this part of the Constitution called Article I.
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Krissy Lunz Trujillo
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"Ubreu had been detained after federal agents rammed into his car and broke his car window...he had been delivering groceries for mutual aid work through his church when he was detained. She said he’s a legal immigrant." AND they won't give him meds that he'd likely die without. Heinous & cruel.
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Phil Lewis
3 days ago
Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, had this to say:
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The Bulwark
3 days ago
"This is a story about incompetent leadership that destroyed the paper’s economic viability. It’s a story of self-mutilation....What happened to the Washington Post over the last three years happened because Jeff Bezos wanted it to be so."
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The Washington Post Dies in Daylight
Civic vandalism and the mutilation of a great paper.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4qiJnyH
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Brendan Nyhan
3 days ago
The NYT editorial board increases its rating for democratic threat on stifling speech and dissent after Minnesota
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