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- Reposted by democracy was just a momentREVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentPocket rescissions…aren’t a thing
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentPerformative public lying as proving loyalty.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentMartin Sandbu: "there is no settlement that will end Trump’s unreasonable demands and stabilise trade policy; the balance of bargaining power favours Europe more than conventional wisdom believes; and the EU may not need, in terms of its long-term economic interests,... www.ft.com/content/d508...
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentWe have the birthday note: "Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it. Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that. Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you." What Trump's covering up must be even more damning.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentDamn, to save Trump's ass on Epstein the Republicans will tell the most blatant lies. Senator Mullin is trying to blame Obama for an Epstein deal done under Bush.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentNo. There were like 1,600 of them and a lot of them are middle-aged car dealers. ICE and Border Patrol combined have over 32,000 officers. The pardons were unrelated. And masking has much more sensible explanations. Some like it, it makes them feel badass. Others don’t want to get doxxed.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentCNN put together a supercut of Pam Bondi being for releasing Epstein files before she suddenly turned against it
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- Reposted by democracy was just a momentThe former senior CIA officer who helped oversee the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election says Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and the White House are “lying” when they claim that it was an attempt to sabotage Trump.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentHe is a moron who doesn’t understand how things work except he understands that revoke licenses can just be code for “federal government brings a hammer down on you and makes your life miserable” so actually in that sense, sadly, he understands how things work
- Reposted by democracy was just a moment“It’s getting to be that time” — Trump gives Israel carte blanche to brutalize Gaza
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentIf you read only one thing today please make it this, by the great Vanita Gupta You May Not Be Trump’s Target This Time. But You Could Be Next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentNEW: Many of the world’s vital sources of underground fresh water took millions of years to form and could require thousands of years to refill, as water mined from them largely ends up in the rising oceans. Researchers warn: This drying is now nearly impossible to reverse “on human timescales.”
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentIsraeli tactics: 1. Stop aid entering Gaza 2. Deny famine is taking place 3. When famine becomes undeniable, stall as long as possible 4. When western pressure mounts, do the minimum possible 5. When western attention moves on, return to step 1.
- Reposted by democracy was just a moment"Self select" betrays an ignorance (maybe purposeful) of the impact of algorithms on the content we see and how that influences individuals.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentOn March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away. Now, their stories will begin to be told. Starting here 👇
- Reposted by democracy was just a moment5. “The director of national intelligence and the White House are lying, again,” Susan Miller, a retired CIA officer, said. “We definitely had the intel to show with high probability that the specific goal of the Russians was to get Trump elected.” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
- Reposted by democracy was just a moment1. Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel want everyone to think the so-called Steele Dossier was a major source for the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. No, it wasn’t — an assessment of the “dossier” was included as an annex, which they haven’t released. Why?
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentThe man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentBasically you can draw all kinds of maps (and we did), with ever-wilder shapes. But such maps generally cut pro-Republican margins closer, and create up to a dozen districts that are competitive - and in a wave election in 2026, could even go to Democrats. That is called a dummymander.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentIn case there is anyone following me who hasn’t seen this, I am still thinking about the kind of poise that it took to do what Powell does here
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentOf all the guys that Trump is gonna have around him this time, please keep a very close eye on this one. If confirmed, he is going to be carrying out some of the most destructive actions we're gonna see over the next for years.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentWait. Marc Thiessen has never heard of batteries? And he's still employed by the Washington Post?
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentNEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentNationalizing Spacex is the centrist position
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentLetting a billionaire run his own foreign policy and doing fuck all to reign him in, very smart
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentIt is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentReporter: "Would you consider a pardon or commutation for Ghislaine Maxwell?" Trump: "It's something I haven't thought about. I'm allowed to do it but it's something I haven't thought about." Reporter: "But you wouldn't rule it out?"
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentEpstein matters, but there's a much greater story of American moral depravity that ought to be leading the news America is building an archipelago of squalid concentration camps. No one knows where this will end. The time to scream 'Never again'? Now! My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
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- Replace the IDF and Palestine with Serbs in the former Yugoslavia and the historic nature of the Israeli crime is instantly apparent
- The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentLooming over the whole rescissions process is the White House’s repeated threat to challenge the Impoundment Control Act in court and to try out a maneuver officials have repeatedly previewed: so-called “pocket rescissions.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentI would like the list of questions, please. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentIt's almost as though the people obsessed with imaginary pedophilia rings paid no attention to the reporting on the actual pedophilia ring.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentI really can't get over how shocked the world is that Trump knew and partied with Jeffrey Epstein. This has been common, public knowledge with written, photographic, and audio evidence for years and years.
- This is just a continuation of the consolidation of power inside the judiciary. Bove is just more thuggish than the party operatives the GOP usually installs
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentI am deadly serious that he should be criminally investigated by a future administration for what he did in the J.G.G. case.
- Utter corruption
- There is going to have to be a reckoning for collaborators if this ever ends. Any future Dem administration will have to sanction these people using the same tools of coercion if social shaming and exile and exclusion via private markets are not sufficient
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentRather than questioning how or whether Trump’s extortion relates to “combating antisemitism,” in the lede the Times simply repeats the claim that that’s what this “deal” is about. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...
- Reposted by democracy was just a moment“Josh Shapiro won’t help keep Jews safe in NYC or Pennsylvania by feeding Trump’s narrative about our Democratic nominee for mayor.” — NYC comptroller Brad Lander www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentThe distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
- Reposted by democracy was just a moment“This is madness. We are running out of words to describe it. And the people of Gaza are running out of time,” says Chris Hayes on the dire aid situation amid Israel’s war on Gaza.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentColumbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
- Reposted by democracy was just a moment@ambpressman.bsky.social, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, compares Viktor Orban's authoritarian tactics to those of Donald Trump. Powerful institutions and individuals in the U.S., like in Hungary, are yielding to authoritarian advances instead of defending democratic norms.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentBracing analysis from Columbia Law School’s David Pozen about the significance and implications of Columbia’s settlement with Trump. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentA rapidly intensifying refugee crisis is playing out along Iran’s border with Afghanistan.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentIn 1999, Trump said on Howard Stern: “I have a deal with Ivanka. She’s 17 and doing great. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her. So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentA gruesome bookend to the post-Cold War period. Images of skeletal children spurred the administration of George H. W. Bush to deploy troops to Somalia to allow aid delivery. Now the US government is aiding and abetting the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza by enabling Israel’s military campaign.
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentOn Fox News, legal commentator Andrew McCarthy eviscerates Tulsi Gabbard over her lies about intel community findings, reviewing in detail how leading Republicans reached identical conclusions to the Obama administration. radio.foxnews.com/2025/07/23/a...
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentBy a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute. Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentListening to this interview of this whistleblower and it’s about as clearcut as you can ask for. Trump officials wanted him to lie to judges, claiming an immigrant was a gang member. He refused to. Then he was fired. This is why civil service protections, now being ignored, matter.
- Joe Biden will live on in infamy. Rest in piss
- The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
- Reposted by democracy was just a momentIn El Salvador, critics of President Nayib Bukele say they’ve faced raids, arrests and threats and were ultimately told: leave now or face prison. Fearing detention under new laws and a broader crackdown, more than 100 political exiles have fled in recent months.
