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David Badash

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Founder and editor of The Harbinger. Founder and former editor of The New Civil Rights Movement, an award-winning news & opinion site. theharbinger.news

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/09/2026
This is why they wanted Pentagon reporters to sign an oath promising to seek approval before publishing anything. They wanted to lie without pushback. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Dozens of aircraft, hundreds of buildings: US loss to Iran attacks revealed
The Pentagon watchdog's report paints a picture of significant losses to US forces and facilities in the region.
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David Badash @davidbadash.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Some personal/professional news: After founding The New Civil Rights Movement nearly 18 years ago, today I resigned as editor. I'm grateful to the folks at Raw Story, who acquired the site in 2018 through Alternet. What's next? More soon. Keep in touch! substack.com/@davidbadash
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David Badash @davidbadash.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Thinking back to December when Trump's advisors said he would be traveling the country this year to promote his economic agenda — because he felt he wasn't getting enough credit for it. Instead, he started a needless war, skyrocketed inflation, and pummeled consumer sentiment.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/03/2026
Trump on Joe Kent: "I'm not a fan of the guy ... His wife was killed. He remarried fairly quickly."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/02/2026
Work alongside New York City's Strongest as we get through this historic storm.    Emergency shoveling pay is now $30/hour. Walk into any sanitation garage to sign up TODAY BY 8PM or TOMORROW from 9AM to 8PM.    Let's get NYC back on its feet— together. bit.ly/NYCShovel
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/02/2026
Democrats should run this year on returning tariff revenue to Americans. Trump already said today he’s going to fight this in the courts. An easy mode way to be on the right side of the affordability issue.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 20/02/2026
This is a long-established authoritarian tactic: obliquely introduce the idea of this kind of threat - “their families” - but not precisely enough to incur any causal blame if something God forbid happens. I mean, Jesus. Just such dark stuff.
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 16/01/2026
Trump heads off for long Mar-a-Lago weekend as crises grow
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Trump heads off for long Mar-a-Lago weekend as crises grow
With the first year of his second term drawing to a close, President Donald Trump is being confronted by multiple crises, several tied to his own administration’s policy decisions, as his domestic support approaches his post-January 6 all-time low of his first term. Yet, despite mounting criticism i...
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
WUSS Can Trump Take Greenland by Force Without Congress? Johnson Won’t Say, Walks Away via @davidbadash.bsky.social www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2026/01/can-...
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Can Trump Take Greenland by Force Without Congress? Johnson Won't Say, Walks Away
The White House has said that all options are on the table — including military force — for President Donald Trump to decide how he wants to acquire Greenland. But when asked if the Commander in Chief...
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David Badash @davidbadash.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
!!! Johnson Set to Jet to UK as Shutdown Looms and Majority Shrinks www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2026/01/john...
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Johnson Set to Jet to UK as Shutdown Looms and Majority Shrinks
As Mike Johnson’s razor-thin majority shrunk even further this week, the Speaker of the House is announcing a trip to London to address the British Parliament — just days before the U.S. federal gover...
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
House GOP Math Gets Brutal After Republican’s ‘Sudden’ Death and Another Hospitalized via @davidbadash.bsky.social www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2026/01/hous...
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House GOP Math Gets Brutal After Republican's 'Sudden' Death and Another Hospitalized
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson’s razor-thin majority took three hits on Tuesday. They include the effective date of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation, the unexpected passing of U.S...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
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David Badash @davidbadash.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
“California will miss billionaires when they’re gone.” The best part of this Washington Post editorial is the comments, which are exactly what you’d imagine. wapo.st/4pVbOmW
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card). There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well. The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial www.usni.org/magazines/na...
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The Peleus War Crimes Trial
After sinking the Greek steamer Peleus in 1944, the captain ordered his crew to attack the survivors, three sailors survived and faced their attackers in a war crime trial.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
There's a new word: affordability. Let's talk about affordability. Old word was groceries. Now it's affordability. Anyway, I still need money. Trump to Hold Million-Dollar-a-Plate Fundraisers Amid Affordability Push via @davidbadash.bsky.social www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/11/trum...
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Trump to Hold Million-Dollar-a-Plate Fundraisers Amid Affordability Push
As President Donald Trump and his administration continue their focus on touting affordability — insisting prices for many everyday food items have dropped while consumers lament grocery store prices ...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Uhhhhh, what the actual...??? The thing is, Jake has been a scoop machine since joining Wired a few months ago. Conde Nast just made Wired worse off with this action. It was just a few days ago that he broke the Nancy Mace police meltdown story.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/10/2025
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/11/2025
Trump confirms he is weaponizing hunger
SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) during Crooked Joe Biden’s disastrous term in office (Due to the fact that they were haphazardly “handed” to anyone for the asking, as opposed to just those in need, which is the purpose of SNAP!), will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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David Badash @davidbadash.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Some experts believe the justices won’t take up Davis’s case at all, while others say they will, and see it as a vehicle to overturn marriage equality and toss it back to the states — which the Court did in Dobbs — removing the constitutional right to abortion.
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Same-Sex Marriage in America: What Happens if the Supreme Court Takes Up Kim Davis’ Case?
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to meet behind closed doors this week, where it will consider whether to hear a petition filed by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who is urging the justices to ov...
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.
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David Badash @davidbadash.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"But, you know, from Trump's perspective, I'm sure, it means he thinks that, this is a real tough thing to do to really show the world that we're not afraid to test our weapons, maybe we're not afraid to use them," WaPo's Josh Rogin told CNN.
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'How Authoritarians Rule': National Security Experts Blast Trump's New Nuclear 'Fear Show'
A wide array of national security and intelligence community experts is strongly criticizing President Donald Trump’s new nuclear policy, announced on his social media website, which effectively order...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Decisions of the utmost gravity and consequence to life on this planet made by Trump unilaterally based on completely false understandings. But one thing's clear. He really admires Rocket Man.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
what? There's no naval shipyard in Philadelphia at all, let alone one that can handle the specialized needs of submarines, or of building nuclear propulsion systems.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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David Badash @davidbadash.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Oh look — my favorite Apple accessories maker, Woolnut, in Sweden, is currently not shipping to the U.S. Thanks, Donald Trump. #Tariff #Insanity
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Bluesky, prepare yourself for hundreds of Minneapolis residents now sharing pictures of themselves in our wonderful, lovely parks. We have a LOT so, really, get ready.
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David Badash @davidbadash.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
It just hit me: This is the last summer we will live as a free people in a functioning democracy, for a long time. Now that Trump has signed his “Big Beautiful Bill” into law, this weekend feels like a demarcation point—the moment in time we’ll remember as the line where freedom fell.
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David Badash @davidbadash.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” shovels billions to the ultra-wealthy—and it’s about to pass. The Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts built libraries, hospitals, and universities. They at least bought some redemption. 1/2
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 13/05/2025
GOP 'voucher scheme for the wealthy' would hand $5 billion to religious, private schools
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GOP 'voucher scheme for the wealthy' would hand $5 billion to religious, private schools
Speaker Mike Johnson’s House Republicans want to insert a provision into their massive tax cuts bill that would create a system to hand private and religious schools $5 billion annually and wealthy donors yet another tax break.Calling it an “unprecedented effort to use public money to pay for privat...
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 08/05/2025
"Frankly, if we didn't do business, we would have been better off." (By @davidbadash.bsky.social)
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'Embarrassed Emoji': Trump torched for calling major drop in port traffic 'good'
President Donald Trump is facing backlash after claiming that a sharp decline in port traffic—and a significant drop in goods entering the U.S.—is actually a positive development. When warned that the...
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David Badash @davidbadash.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This just fed my soul. How far we as a nation have sunk. How much of what America means we have lost. Hope you can hear this. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjAN1acp/
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TikTok video by Bill Holden
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
To hell with this.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Um www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs
By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The stock market lost $1.4 trillion in value today. Another day in Trump’s America.
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David Badash @davidbadash.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Secretary Hegseth must be fired. Period. And to impart national and international confidence in the U.S. and the Pentagon, President Trump *must* nominate a Democratic or Independent previous Secretary of Defense to this critical position.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/04/2025
The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Literally “if you ask us to prove he’s a terrorist, then maybe YOU are a terrorist!”
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Pretty sure RFK jr just has no idea what either autism or vaccines actually are
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 11/04/2025
“So if you clean that up and shore it up, you save a lot of money, and you return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing video games all day." (By @davidbadash.bsky.social)
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'Cruelty': Johnson buried for using 'classist stereotype' to justify GOP’s Medicaid cuts
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is blaming what he calls “young men” playing video games instead of working, as he defends Republicans’ plan to gut Medicaid—slashing what Democrats say is $880 billi...
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 09/04/2025
“Noem is pointing the M4 muzzle at an agent with an open dust cover, indicating a chambered round. It’s the worst possible place to point it." (By @davidbadash.bsky.social)
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Kristi Noem slammed for pointing assault rifle at law enforcement officer
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—who has been participating in immigration raids across the country and traveling to prisons beyond U.S. borders—is facing sharp criticism from veterans and fire...
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 09/04/2025
"Donald Trump wants to slap tariffs on pharmaceuticals, most of which are made outside the States, including the raw ingredients that go into almost every pill we take? That’s not being tough on China—that’s playing politics with people’s lives." (By @davidbadash.bsky.social)
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'Dangerous' new Trump drug tariffs would lead to shortages, soaring costs, death: critics
In his 2023 State of the Union Address, then-President Joe Biden vowed, “Make no mistake: if Republicans try to raise the cost of prescription drugs, I will veto it.” Democrats cheered and applauded, ...
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 10/04/2025
Critics blasted the President for having inflicted the week-long imposition of high tariffs that have caused a global trade war, and for appearing to have no actual plan. (By @davidbadash.bsky.social)
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'No plan': Trump ripped for 'lurching' strategy after surprise tariff reversal
One week after “Liberation Day” and just hours after his latest wave of global tariffs took effect, President Donald Trump announced what appears to be a temporary “pause” on some of his market-roilin...
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 10/04/2025
"Who's benefiting? What billionaire just got richer?" (By @davidbadash.bsky.social)
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'Is this market manipulation?' Rumors swirling over potential Trump admin insider trading
After one of the best days on Wall Street since World War II, fueled by President Donald Trump and his team's conflicting messages and actions on tariffs, questions are swirling over possible insider ...
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 09/04/2025
“We have a trade surplus with Australia,” Warner, shouting, said as he chastised Greer. “We have a free trade agreement. Why? They are incredibly important national security partner. Why were they hit with a tariff?” (By @davidbadash.bsky.social)
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'Answer the question!’: Senator berates Trump official over 'ridiculous policy'
Jamieson Greer, the U.S. Trade Representative under President Donald Trump, came under sharp criticism from Senator Mark Warner, a leading Democrat, for the administration’s sweeping tariff policy—inc...
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 08/04/2025
“I was in the car with my husband and my parents, who are sitting behind me today, when I got the news that the officers were on their way to my house, where my teenage child was home alone." (By @davidbadash.bsky.social)
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'I will not be bullied': Whistleblower accuses DOJ of sending 'armed deputies' to her home
A former U.S. Department of Justice pardon attorney delivered sworn testimony before Congress on Monday, accusing her former agency—now under the leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi—of “corruptio...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
1/ Just as a reminder, we WERE onshoring a bunch of manufacturing jobs, thanks to the CHIPS and IRA acts. Those jobs were spread around the country, many/most in red districts. Trump trying to kill them all. www.jackconness.com/ira-chips-in...
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
$
116
BILLION
Total Projects
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Total Investment Dollars
Total Jobs Created
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CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS)
Total Projects
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Total Investment Dollars
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BILLION
Total Jobs Created
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David Badash @davidbadash.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Donald Trump did this:
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