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Trump's Big, Beautiful, Bill will raise taxes on poor Americans and raise costs for the rest of the working class, while disproportionately helping the richest Americans. This isn't a budget bill. It's a wealth transfer. This is what an oligarchy looks like.

An authoritarian police state in the making, with ICE empowered to fill role of state security forces abroad. Kidnappings, disappearances, intimidations of state-designated enemies, surveillance.

Why are people still not getting it?

So...what are they doing about the fact that Trump the GOP Bessent etc have enabled this private individual to take over and wrecked large areas of the US government for the benefit of his private businesses and foreign autocracies?

This is how you show utter scorn for international law and rule of law at home, and strike deals with other lawless governments. They refuse to clarify because giving an answer would already be a form of accountability.

Black shoppers are currently in the middle of one of the longest boycotts I’ve seen in my lifetime … and it’s working.

In recent years the biggest surge in recruiting for the military was from women. Hegseth's misogyny is not going to help with that....

Yes. Musk is entrenched via DOGE in an alarming number of government agencies.

Why are people so naive

I was interviewed on WBUR's On Point this morning about the state of institutions and corruption under the Trump administration. The full audio is available here. wbur.org/onpoint/2025/0…

Don't confuse the person and the apparatus. His DOGE is entrenched and still in control of federal agencies.

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Mornings these days as a journalist in Istanbul: 1. Coffee 2. Check the news to see if anyone you're scheduled to interview from the municipality has been arrested

Did the plan last 5 years?

How to wreck a superpower thoroughly and completely

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This is what I an trying to communicate

Authoritarian purge

NEW -- Yes, there absolutely was media malfeasance in our coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign. No, it wasn't about Joe Biden being old. It was about how we normalized the hell out of a man who had already tried to end American democracy once. huffpost.com/entry/trump-20…