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Greg Magarian

@gregmagarian.bsky.social
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Thinks liberals are too far right, hyper-analyzes pop music and old movies, wants everyone to love Milwaukee.

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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Sir Keir decimates his own governing party, serves up hundreds of council seats on a platter to the extreme right, and now has the gall to claim that resigning (which would constitute his only positive contribution to British politics) would “plunge the country into chaos“?
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Looking to the future, the recommendations in this report are crucial. Will the Democrats listen? I’m not holding my breath. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives’ autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures
RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats – and Gaza stance did not help
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Yet another blatant First Amendment violation by the Trump administration. At this point, I guess, who’s even counting? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/u...
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For ‘No Tax on Tips,’ the I.R.S. Gets Intimate
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Almost every day, The Guardian publishes detailed, credible reports of Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity. Almost every day, The New York Times doesn’t. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says
Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Please avoid Starbucks starting today. Union baristas are striking over employment terms and unfair labor practices. Unionizing service industries is massively important for the future of our national politics, let alone the well-being of workers. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘Whatever it takes’: Starbucks workers launch US strike and call for boycott
Unfair labor practice strike on ‘red cup day’ in over 25 cities comes amid stagnant negotiations with coffee chain
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Trump is firing non-MAGA civil servants in blatant violation of federal law. He wants the Supreme Court to validate this power grab. He must be stopped. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...
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Opinion | Trump v. James and Maurene Comey
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
My friend Alan Greenblatt — a profile in courage. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Opinion | I Quit My Job in the Face of Pro-Trump Censorship
A veteran journalist says his bosses were afraid of crossing the administration.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Anti-Islamic biker gang members hired to run security at controversial Gaza aid sites
More than 10 Infidels MC members deployed to sites run by US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I really wish our country had a political system that let us align with a party that actually reflected our values. But I guess a two-party system is essential for forcing broad coalitions that marginalize extremists. Oh wait. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is the Green party’s moment – not Farage’s. As leader, I’ll offer real solutions to Britain’s problems | Zack Polanski
For too long, the richest in this country have accumulated wealth at the expense of the poorest. It can’t go on like this, says Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
My Labor Day reflections on solidarity and democracy: www.acslaw.org/expertforum/...
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To Defeat Authoritarianism, We Need Labor | ACS
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“How did big holes appear in shooting victim?” It’s basic writing, NYT. Subject, verb, object. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza? (Gift Article)
Less food is going into Gaza now than during most other times in the war. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed while heading toward aid sites. Many others are suffering from serious malnutrition,...
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Conservative Rep. Andy Ogles used images of his stillborn baby to steal money from donors. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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REVEALED: What did Andy Ogles do with nearly $25,000 meant for child burial garden? He won't say
Now, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has uncovered more questions that the freshman Republican won't answer.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I wrote this essay for Governing magazine about the ominous resonance of Kent State 1970 for L.A. 2025. www.governing.com/politics/fro...
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From Kent State to L.A.: Echoes of a Dark Past in Protest Crackdown
Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard against anti-deportation protesters is sadly familiar after other attacks on the First Amendment.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Here’s an op-ed I wrote about Trump‘s attacks on free speech. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: Three ways the government can silence speech without banning it
The Trump administration doesn't necessarily need the blunt tool of censorship to control speech. It has less blatant but effective ways to suppress dissent.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
If you’re one of the people who falsely tarred last year’s overwhelmingly peaceful protests against Israeli genocide as pervasively violent, you’re a MAGA foot soldier. This is your fault. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...
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Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. (Gift Article)
The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare (Gift Article)
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Here’s a fascinating piece by Jill Lepore about the historical roots of Muskism. It connects the dots of bro culture, tech libertarianism, capital, apartheid, and fascism. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
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Opinion | The Rise and Fall of Elon Musk (Gift Article)
His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Can Israel do anything that will make the liberal democratic world stand up and say “no”? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says
Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It’s taken Trump less than three months to tank his party. Keep fighting! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Results 2025: Crawford vs. Schimel (Gift Article)
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Wisconsin spring elections.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
“If . . . universities fail to defend free speech and scientific research now, future generations could lose their treasures to creeping authoritarianism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
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Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump (Gift Article)
Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Columbia and Paul Weiss have the First Amendment squarely on their side. When they cave to Trump, it’s because they’d rather thrive under fascism than stand up for democracy. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole
We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I08g...
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C.I.D.
YouTube video by U.K. Subs - Topic
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I found this electoral data dive very enlightening. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won (Gift Article)
The Democratic pollster David Shor walks through what voter data reveals about the 2024 election — and how the American electorate is shifting.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I highly recommend this essay by my friend Jeff Melnick and his daughter Jessie Lee Rubin, which links the Trump assault on DEI, the anti-Palestinian assault on free speech, and the failings of liberal anti-racism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How antisemitism avoided the fate of antiracism | Jeff Melnick and Jessie Lee Rubin
The promotion of Israel’s national narrative remains exempt from Trump’s wholesale attack on DEI
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Palestinians are human beings, and starvation by blockade is the moral equivalent of taking hostages — except that starvation by blockade affects an entire population and denies even the possibility of keeping the victims alive. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
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Opinion | Palestinians in Gaza Face the ‘Gates of Hell’ as Israel and Hamas Face Off (Gift Article)
Lately it feels as if the human beings in Gaza are increasingly lost from our understanding.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
www.acslaw.org/press_releas...
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More than 950 Law Scholars Sound Alarm on Constitutional Crisis | ACS
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The oligarchs are closing ranks. To be clear: The Democratic Party is fully complicit in this moment. For 30 years the party has run from working people and indulged big donors. Well, billionaires gonna billionaire. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post’s opinion section. That’s a death knell | Margaret Sullivan
‘I couldn’t be more sad and disgusted,’ says former top editor Martin Baron
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Can people please stop acting like Trump’s support for Russian aggression in Ukraine somehow departs from the norms of U.S. foreign policy? Are we not in bed with Israel and Saudi Arabia? Did we not invade Iraq? Did we not train and arm Central American death squads? This is just what we do.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Here’s a great reminder of what the first amendment is for. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...
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Student Whose Racy Social Media Posts Riled a College Gets $250,000 Settlement (Gift Article)
The University of Tennessee threatened to expel Kimberly Diei over posts the school said were inappropriate. She sued on First Amendment grounds.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” - Justice Robert Jackson
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Trump Order Pushes Universities to ‘Monitor’ Protesters on Student Visas (Gift Article)
An executive order signed this week would push colleges and universities to combat antisemitism specifically by monitoring and reporting international students.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Weakness. apnews.com/article/dona...
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Trump White House rescinds memo freezing federal grants after widespread confusion
President Donald Trump’s budget office rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country, accordi...
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...
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Does Trump Have the Power to Block Spending That Congress Has Authorized? (Gift Article)
The White House’s temporary pause on trillions in federal spending could set up a court fight over executive authority and Congress’s control of the purse.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I did not see “Joe Biden, hero to Rastas” coming. www.axios.com/2025/01/19/b...
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Biden posthumously pardons Marcus Garvey
The pardon comes more than a century after Jamaican-born Garvey was convicted of mail fraud on June 21, 1923.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Summary of the Supreme Court’s unanimous Tik-Tok decision: the government can wave its arms, yell “national security,“ and make the First Amendment go away.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem (Gift Article)
Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The only reason our MAGA overlords don’t actually identify as Nazis is branding. Musk is a Boer. They have no moral qualms about killing whichever immigrants they can’t expel. Every person who voted for these monsters is another “good German.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/w...
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Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election
It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
If the French far right is so dangerous, why won’t Macron line up his supposedly centrist faction behind a left-of-center prime minister? Because his differences with the far right, like his entire political program, are far more about style than substance.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I wrote about Seth Moulton, Rahm Emanuel, James Carville and other more centrist Democrats blaming progressives for Harris's defeat. Their arguments, in terms of election analysis, are weak. But we are in the midst of an intra-party conflict with high stakes. wapo.st/3ZGh5UV
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Opinion | Centrist Democrats lost the election. They should quit blaming the left.
Whether to use he/she pronouns in emails wasn’t a factor in the Harris-Trump race.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds
Human rights group says Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The NYT is bursting with breathless stories about Brian Thompson’s murder. I don’t recall a single NYT story about any of the countless people who have died from United Healthcare’s willful neglect. Some lives clearly matter more than others.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Opinion | Even Centrists Agree: Ben Wikler for DNC Chair
The president of Third Way endorses a MoveOn alum to lead the Democratic Party.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New happiness policy: If a post shows up in my feed by some person I don’t follow, making some bold declaration about a matter I think is arguable and then insulting anyone who disagrees, I’m muting the account. People like that are egotists who need to lose the attention they crave.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“I don’t know how your family will do under this fascist regime whose rise my many errors have enabled. But I still have power, so I’m taking care of mine. Good luck!”
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Holy crap I never knew that this 1987 A Split-Second track, unreleased in the U.S., is an industrial disco rendition of Nixon’s resignation speech. MY WORLD NEEDED THIS.
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Ballistic Statues
YouTube video by A Split-Second - Topic
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I talked to SLPR’s Harshawn Ratanpal for this excellent story on the legal and political obstacles to minor political parties.
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A Missouri Green Party candidate needed 2% of the vote. She got 1.995%
The party’s candidate for lieutenant governor fell just shy of 2%, meaning the party will have to repeat the arduous process of signature-gathering next election to get on the ballot.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Barely a week, and victorious Republicans are literally covering up pedophilia. Great work, America!
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Exclusive: Woman told House Ethics panel she witnessed Gaetz having sex with minor, lawyer says
An attorney tells ABC News that one of his clients told the House Ethics Committee that she witnessed then-Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz having sex with a minor.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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Opinion | Why the Democratic Party should embrace the politics of Bernie Sanders
Economic populism can make billionaires, rather than immigrants, the central villain for voters.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I mean when BEN DOMENECH thinks you’re bad. BEN DOMENECH.
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Greg Magarian @gregmagarian.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Summary: Trump’s going to attack universities, and they have it coming. The NYT’s toadying to our new MAGA overlords is a thing to behold.
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What Could Happen in Higher Education During a Second Trump Term?
Higher education has been a favorite target of Republicans who believe schools have tilted leftward. Now, colleges and universities are bracing for the Trump administration to take action.
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