usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
Jennifer Gordon Thomas
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Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
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Cuomo helped form the IDC, a group of rogue Democratic state senators who sided with Republicans year after year to keep loopholes in NY’s rent stabilization laws.
The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated.
www.politico.com/states/new-y...
Another Cuomo noninterference story falls apart
Andrew Cuomo has always been careful to maintain a plausible-looking deniability when it comes to his role in keeping his own party out of power in the State Senate.
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This isn't a betrayal of the public trust, this is an explicit violation of the first amendment, but the people who would have standing to seek remedy caved in and accepted the violation. In turn, the entire nation will be harmed because of their craven capitulation.
A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.
This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵
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Umm...
The Commerce Department threatening to take over Harvard's patents shows the extent to which the federal government is trying to pressure the university into a settlement. They are trying everything possible. (gift link)
Trump Administration Threatens to Take Over Harvard’s Patents
The move is the latest escalation in the White House’s battle with the Ivy League school.
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BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York.
ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.
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GET HIS ASS, BRAD
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True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.
Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.
Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...
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NEW ANALYSIS: To keep loyalists at the helm of U.S. attorneys’ offices, legal experts warn that Trump and the DOJ are exploiting loopholes and making extraordinary claims of presidential power that circumvent the appointment processes laid out by the Constitution and federal statutes.
How Trump’s Acting U.S. Attorneys Are Driving the DOJ’s Partisan Turn
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
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Cook openly bribed the president with a large hunk of gold in a televised performance of obeisance and walked away with a valuable tariff exemption.
“By indulging in the spectacle, the Apple boss helped legitimize Trump’s transactional style. .. Cook may see it as a small concession.. but the performance.. signaled to other corporate leaders that pandering is the price of doing business.”
