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After Kash Patel took office as director of the F.B.I., the bureau has significantly stepped up use of lie-detector tests. In interviews and polygraph tests, the F.B.I. has asked senior employees whether they have said anything negative about Mr. Patel www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
Vietnam thought it had a preliminary deal with the US to lower its tariff level substantially. Then, at the last minute, Trump raised the rate. âTrump sandbagged everybody,â said a DC-based lobbyist. He described the Vietnamese governmentâs reaction as âsurprise, as well as disappointment & anger.â
âFor those of us in the conflict prevention and stabilization space, those of us in the human rights space, and those of us in the mass atrocity prevention and accountability space, it ends the entire industry in the United States," one State Department employee told Mother Jones.
âIf ICE was a military, it would have the 16th biggest budget in the world. You wanna talk about America First? Think about all the things we could do in this country, like giving a [hurricane] warning system to these folks in rural Texas, instead of plucking brown people out of their homes.â
NEXT THURSDAY: People all across the country will gather together in honor of the late Rep. John Lewis to participate in the Good Trouble Lives On National Day of Action. In the face of an authoritarian takeover, itâs more important than ever that we stand up, speak out, and make some good trouble.
All of the Trump administration officials in question who are attorneys must be disbarred. This is a sprawling conspiracy to undermine U.S. rule of law that involves attorneys, and that is something my profession cannot allow. There should be massive state bar investigations across the board here.
All of the Trump administration officials in question who are attorneys mustbbe disbarred. This is a conspiracy to undermine the rule of law that involves attorneysâand that is something my profession cannot allow. There should be massive state bar investigations across the board here.
Hey yall! Leaving to go to France soon and would love book recs for me to read during my honeymoon⌠I love fantasy, sci fi, historical fiction, magical realism, and for nonfiction, almost exclusively history, and I prefer recently written stuff in general. Hit me with your faves. Gonna go to B&N.
âĄď¸Ukrainian tech gets $58.5 million boost from global backers. Ukrainian venture capital firm Flyer One Ventures announced the first closing of its new multi-million fund, dedicated to supporting early-stage technology companies across Ukraine as well as central and eastern Europe.
This is just sick. via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon
âBlaming intense media coverage and backlash to the US military deployment in Los Angeles, DHS expects the demonstrations to âcontinue and grow across the nationâ as protesters focused on other issues shift to immigration, following a broad âembracement of anti-ICE messaging.â
I wrote about the rightwing outrage in response to Temple University offering a new course on Kendrick Lamar. Link below. But that got me curious: what electives did y'all take in undergrad? Did you like them? What did they mean to you? charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/why-colleg...
Author Michael Wolff, who interviewed Epstein a lot, reiterates to the Daily Beast Trump was his âclosest relationship in lifeâ â and says Bannon told Epstein he was afraid of him during the 2016 campaign. @MarshaBlackburn, any thoughts? www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epst...
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I wrote about the rightwing outrage in response to Temple University offering a new course on Kendrick Lamar. Link below. But that got me curious: what electives did y'all take in undergrad? Did you like them? What did the mean to you? charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/why-colleg...