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Wow. These folks know the score.
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You Can Smell It Now: The Trump Presidency Is in Total Free Fall newrepublic.com/article/208633/trump-presidency-collapse-truth-social-iran via @newrepublic.com
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Soldiers directly contradicted Pentagon claims that the base was well-defended. They said there were no effective drone defenses & weak fortifications.
Intelligence showed their base was on an Iranian list for potential targets. Leadership left them vulnerable.
www.thedailybeast.com/us-soldiers-call-bs-on-pentagon-petes-version-of-deadly-strike/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Intelligence showed their base was on an Iranian list for potential targets. Leadership left them vulnerable.
www.thedailybeast.com/us-soldiers-call-bs-on-pentagon-petes-version-of-deadly-strike/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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The world’s greatest military power went to war w/poor, medievalist theocracy. It was an incredibly uneven match.
Yet Iran won.
America emerged far weaker. Trump destroyed our moral credibility & our political & civil institutions gave him permission to do so
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ignorance-and-ignominy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=277517&post_id=193578977&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2fku&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Yet Iran won.
America emerged far weaker. Trump destroyed our moral credibility & our political & civil institutions gave him permission to do so
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ignorance-and-ignominy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=277517&post_id=193578977&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2fku&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Logging lobbyists & executives achieved their goal of gutting the Forest Service, grinding it to the ground for profit. Science, research, environment be damned.
Trump's criminal gang is swallowing the country whole.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-forest-service-a-force-across-rural-america-reorganizes-under-trump
Trump's criminal gang is swallowing the country whole.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-forest-service-a-force-across-rural-america-reorganizes-under-trump
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Iran Offers Strait in Exchange for Straitjacket
open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/iran-offers-strait-in-exchange-for?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/iran-offers-strait-in-exchange-for?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Trump's Cruel Budget:
It calls for steep cuts to education, housing & health, & funnels resources toward the military.This shift would leave the portion of most domestic activities aside from Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and SNAP, at its lowest level since 1950s.
www.ms.now/opinion/trump-budget-military-spending?cid=eml_mda_20260404&user_email=1cb6db498901882c8e2ae81832afdbe6d44fd9d15e6f12bbb863b90b42027ca2
It calls for steep cuts to education, housing & health, & funnels resources toward the military.This shift would leave the portion of most domestic activities aside from Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and SNAP, at its lowest level since 1950s.
www.ms.now/opinion/trump-budget-military-spending?cid=eml_mda_20260404&user_email=1cb6db498901882c8e2ae81832afdbe6d44fd9d15e6f12bbb863b90b42027ca2
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More than 50 research facilities across 31 states will be eliminated, wiping out decades of long-term science that cannot be replaced. Studies, datasets, and partnerships will collapse.
The agency is now under Chief Tom Schultz, a former logging executive.
www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
The agency is now under Chief Tom Schultz, a former logging executive.
www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
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Placing U.S. Troops in Middle East Hotels May Violate Laws of War www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/us/politics/troops-iran-hotels.html?smid=bs-share
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I think Trump just called for pulling the federal government out of Medicare and Medicaid. Seems like a pretty big deal.
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apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-ballroom-construction-halted-9cafc70569a3a05fcbaa6cafddbeace4?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share <br>Judge orders Trump administration to halt White House ballroom construction unless Congress OKs it
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This toilet, spray-painted gold & set on a faux-marble pedestal, is the latest in a series of protest artworks and installations taking aim at President Donald Trump and his administration. A plaque on each side of the structure reads: a Throne Fit for a King.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/03/30/trump-toilet-statue-golden-throne-national-mall/?utm_campaign=wp_post_local&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=jtk-flex-day&utm_content=post_local&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F472c89a%2F69cba809410da21bc4beabe4%2F596cab709bbc0f2086625165%2F13%2F53%2F69cba809410da21bc4beabe4
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/03/30/trump-toilet-statue-golden-throne-national-mall/?utm_campaign=wp_post_local&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=jtk-flex-day&utm_content=post_local&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F472c89a%2F69cba809410da21bc4beabe4%2F596cab709bbc0f2086625165%2F13%2F53%2F69cba809410da21bc4beabe4
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GOP weighs health care cuts to pay for Iran war www.axios.com/2026/03/30/gop-health-care-pay-iran-war
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Are we going to stand by & watch him destroy our heritage & turn the White House, our house, into one of his trashy vulgar casinos?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/29/upshot/white-house-ballroom.html?campaign_id=29&emc=edit_up_20260330&instance_id=173309&nl=the-upshot®i_id=68944884&segment_id=217469&user_id=8cef0bd5014395ea2aa649153c05c925
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/29/upshot/white-house-ballroom.html?campaign_id=29&emc=edit_up_20260330&instance_id=173309&nl=the-upshot®i_id=68944884&segment_id=217469&user_id=8cef0bd5014395ea2aa649153c05c925
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social
Are we going to stand by & watch him destroy our heritage & turn the White House, our house, into one of his trashy, vulgar casinos?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/29/upshot/white-house-ballroom.html?campaign_id=29&emc=edit_up_20260330&instance_id=173309&nl=the-upshot®i_id=68944884&segment_id=217469&user_id=8cef0bd5014395ea2aa649153c05c925
Are we going to stand by & watch him destroy our heritage & turn the White House, our house, into one of his trashy, vulgar casinos?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/29/upshot/white-house-ballroom.html?campaign_id=29&emc=edit_up_20260330&instance_id=173309&nl=the-upshot®i_id=68944884&segment_id=217469&user_id=8cef0bd5014395ea2aa649153c05c925
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Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million in taxpayer money even though he pleaded guilty twice to making false statements to FBI agents about his interactions with Russian officials.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/michael-flynn-doj-settlement-trump.html?smid=bs-share
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/michael-flynn-doj-settlement-trump.html?smid=bs-share
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Reposted by Hala Arafa
"...allegations that the Trump administration began negotiating the transfer of the center’s space weather program to a private company in January, before the review had been completed...
"...attempts to improperly transfer public assets to private companies...
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/climate/ncar-breakup-plan-nasa-noaa.html
"...attempts to improperly transfer public assets to private companies...
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/climate/ncar-breakup-plan-nasa-noaa.html
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Tell me more about the whole 'war on fraud' thing.
"A month after Trump nominted Benjamin Landa to be US Ambassador to Hungary, the HHS inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments..."
www.propublica.org/article/benjamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit
"A month after Trump nominted Benjamin Landa to be US Ambassador to Hungary, the HHS inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments..."
www.propublica.org/article/benjamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit
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DOGE staffers are revamping rules in ways to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission veterans say the administration is limiting oversight in dangerous ways.
The safety culture is under threat.
www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
Nuclear Regulatory Commission veterans say the administration is limiting oversight in dangerous ways.
The safety culture is under threat.
www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
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The Trump Administration Just Won a Terrifying Victory Over Protesters newrepublic.com/article/207830/trump-administration-just-won-terrifying-victory-protesters-doj-prairieland-antifa via @newrepublic.com
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U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that the near-total shutdown of USAGM, violated federal administrative law. He ordered the full-time employees to return to work by March 23 and told the agency to resume international broadcasting.
wapo.st/4cSb4eP
wapo.st/4cSb4eP
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SCOOP. From my OUR LAND newsletter: Trump's DOJ is helping to get a convicted FBI informant tied to Russian intelligence out of prison. The lie this guy told the FBI—Joe Biden took a $5m bribe from Burisma—was the main evidence for the GOP impeachment drive. 1/2
link.motherjones.com/public/44694709
link.motherjones.com/public/44694709
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