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Sasha Abramsky

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Freelance journalist, Nation magazine correspondent, teacher, book author, tennis fan and skier. Send me a chat message if you have tips for stories.

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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 23h
Trump's "paid for by the US government" campaign ad, AI nightmares, Big Tech lickspittling... my latest Authoritarian Watch column for the Nation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Is Trusting Tech Companies to Self-Police AI. What Could Go Wrong?
Trump’s refusal to heed the warnings from within the tech industry might end up being his most asinine legacy.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Two stories on same page of NYT: 1) hundreds of thousands of LEGAL immigrants, including refugeees, being kicked off of Medicaid. 2) State Dept replaces flags of world's nations with 190 US flags in its atrium. This mix of cruelty and jingoism is what passes for patriotism in Trump's America.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need to get a full accounting of every dollar each media company accepted of our money stolen by Trump to run his partisan political ads on their channels. Companies who accept these ads are receiving property stolen from the American people & are a disgrace for accepting them
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Using the UN as a podium to push for fascist policies at home and abroad, attacking free press, preparing for mass deportation of children... all in a day's work for America's wannabe-king. My latest Authoritarian Watch column for the Nation details what's at stake. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Impersonated Hitler at the United Nations
It was just one more of many examples of the president mirroring a fascist leadership.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every day Trump attacks another pillar of the constitution. This week, it's the First Amendment, and his assault on the WH press corps. My latest Santa Fe Reporter column details each Constitutional Amendment Trump has attacked. sfreporter.com/columns/lett...
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Trump’s Assault on the Constitution By the Numbers
The Big Orange coup d'etat is happening right now
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This morning WH correspondents for MS NOW and CNN were denied access to WH and had their press passes seized. This attack on press is absolutely antithetical to democracy. Thought: What would happen if entire WH press corps walked out in solidarity? Why give these fascists the oxygen of publicity?
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fascist is as fascist does. I sincerely hope the entire WH press corps walks out in solidarity. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The rails are off on Trump's erratic, cruel presidency. But don't expect his lickspittle cabinet, staffed with quacks and grifters, wedded to conspiracy theories and junk science, to rein him in anytime soon. My latest Authoritarian Watch column, for the Nation... www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Is a Runaway Train—and Nobody’s Pulling the Brakes
Everywhere you look, the president is causing chaos and destruction.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2026
Lie after lie
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In the days of Tammany Hall, corrupt politicians tried to bribe handfuls of local voters with beer. In the days of Trump, corrupt politicians try to bribe the entire country with BS promises, that will never materialize, of $5000 per person if the country re-elects the crooks.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump wants to rename New Mexico as New America. He also wants to rename the Strait of Hormuz as the Trump Strait. He's getting more insane by the minute, with consequences for all of us. My latest Santa Fe Reporter column explores the escalating political madness. sfreporter.com/archives/op-...
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The Troll on The Hill Takes Aim at the Mexico in New Mexico
Covering for the chaos he created in Iran, Big Orange turns to trolling the Land of Enchantment
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In the last two days, Trump has leaned into Neo-Nazi language to praise AfD's state election win in Germany; posted a map of most of the Western Hemisphere owned by the United States; generated AI superhero imagery of himself; and further insulted Canada... This is breathtakingly malignant politics.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yes, there was that whole "Deutschland Uber Alles" thing. It didn't work out too well for Germany or for the rest of the world first time around... How shameful that the US president is now spouting avowedly Nazi phrasing.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Look at Trump's fevered vision of an expanded US covering the hemisphere, and the map that he posted is really no different from Hitler's Third Reich vision of an expanded Germany covering continental Europe. Birds of a feather... newrepublic.com/post/215149/...
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Trump Sparks Diplomatic Incident With His “USA” Map
Iceland has summoned the U.S. ambassador.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 06/09/2026
This is an update from the April allegations that led to Chavez-DeRemer’s resignation—that she had an affair with a member of her security, asked staffers to buy alcohol for her throughout the day, and used taxpayer funds to throw herself a birthday party. trib.al/NGKwxkS
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What happens when the US government fires firefighters and shutters regional fire resources? No surprises... there are more fires and those fires take longer to put out. My Truthout article on this: truthout.org/articles/wil...
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Wildfires Are Sweeping North America. Trump Fired the People Who Fight Them.
As climate change worsens wildfires, a gutted US Forest Service is struggling to keep up.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The warning signs are flashing red about Trump's willingness to go to extreme measures to prevent a midterm election loss. My latest Authoritarian Watch column in the Nation plays out these scenarios. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Shadowy Powers that Trump Could Use to End American Democracy
Two Washington insiders are sounding the alarm about what could happen if Trump activates the top-secret Presidential Emergency Action Documents.
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KPFA Radio @kpfa.org · 01/09/2026
They were legal residents. They had work permits. Then the government changed their status and began rounding them up. Sasha Abramsky discusses Trump’s war on Haitians and the politics of racial exclusion on Background Briefing. Listen at KPFA.org KPFA. Radio with Guts. @sashaabramsky.bsky.social
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The state-backed attack on Haitians communities in the US, especially in Springfield, OH, take Trump's war on immigrants to a whole new fascist level. My Nation column breaks down what Haitian community is experiencing this month as arrests and deportations ramp up. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Is Waging War on Haitians
In Springfield, Ohio, ICE agents are targeting a community that Trump has been villainizing since 2024.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So, while world burns, Trump is preoccupied with entirely meaningless name changes of lakes and musings about renaming oceans as well. Glad the most powerful man on earth is using his power and time so sagely. Imagine what a pickle we'd be in if he wasn't so focused on the important big picture...
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What is important right now for the Democrats to do is to discredit the political project of a Republican Party captured by far right extremists, and to kill dead any attempt at Redemptionist politics.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026
It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As Trump trains his ire on allies -- Oman, South Korea, Canada -- while praising dictators to the skies, my Santa Fe Reporter column explores the political and moral implications. What happens when the "leader of the free world" behaves like a common garden hoodlum? sfreporter.com/columns/lett...
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Trump Turns His Ire Toward US Allies
Oman and Canada will need to work on their boot-licking to get back in good graces
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, appalling abuses of human rights and civil liberties were done entirely legally, through capture of the political and judicial systems, and through reliance on the cowardice of those who, in theory, could have reined in Nazi and Soviet leaders.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The way Trump is talking about Canada is absolutely disgusting. If any country talked about the US that way, it would basically be a caucus belli. It is bullying, ignorant, rude, nakedly imperialist. The Canadians should tell Trump to shove it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Trump Threatens New 50% Tariffs on Cars, Trucks and Steel as U.S.-Canada Trade War Unfolds
President Trump vowed to increase tariffs on cars, trucks, auto parts and steel to 50 percent starting Jan. 1, as the countries edged toward a full-blown trade war.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As Trump's anti-vaccine madness intensifies, my Nation column explains how this is of a fit with the rest of his authoritarian project. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Is Trying to Sabotage the Health of All Our Kids
His executive order on vaccines is classic Trump: authoritarian, nonsensical, and deadly.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Last week, Trump got his consigliere confirmed as Attorney General. My Santa Fe Reporter column explains the implications of this shameful appointment. sfreporter.com/columns/lett...
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The Don, At Last, Has His Consigliere
Trump's corruption poised to reach new lows with Blanche confirmed as Attorney General
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I spent much of the spring working on a feature article for the Nation on protecting access to the ballot in the face of escalating threats from the Trump administration. The article is in the Sept issue of the magazine. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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“Nobody Is Resting”: Meet the Grassroots Advocates Defending the Right to Vote
At a time when the US president is actively interfering in elections, these groups, activists, and officials are protecting their local systems from federal sabotage.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I've been traveling around Argentina for past two weeks. In 1970s and 1980s, the junta disappeared its domestic opponents. My Nation column on the entirely predictable chain of awfulness that follows when a govt -- any govt -- dehumanizes entire groups of people. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Right-Wing Terrorism Miller and Rubio Conveniently Neglected to Mention at Their DC Summit
At their July event on “The Resurgence of Political Terrorism,” the secretary of state and the White House deputy chief of staff selectively presented information to malign the left.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
So, I guess when SCOTUS ruled, in no uncertain terms, that he couldn't end Birthright Citizenship via Executive Order, Trump -- the most anti-constitutional of presidents -- assumed they were just joking. Why do grifter-charlatans always wrap themselves in the flag? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...
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Live Updates: Trump Targets Birthright Citizenship Again in New Executive Orders
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In an era of trillionaire oligarchs coexisting in same country as people forgoing meals and medicines to pay for higher gas and rent costs, Trump's treasury secretary says growing inequality is a problem solved... Pathetic how out of touch these Trump enablers are. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/b...
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Bessent Declares Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor ‘Dead’
Despite data to the contrary, the Treasury Secretary made the case that the K-shaped economy no longer exists.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The CDC and other public health agencies have been so decimated under Trump that they can't respond adequately to outbreaks such as the Cyclospora crisis. My latest Truthout column explains the impact of these cuts. truthout.org/articles/dis...
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Disease Researchers Blame DOGE Cuts for Spiraling Cyclospora Outbreak
Public health agencies are struggling to mount an effective response with less resources and fewer staff.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Trump administration's record on public health is getting worse by the day. Instead of Making America Healthy Again, it is presiding over numerous epidemics. My latest Santa Fe Reporter column detailsprice we all pay for Trump's attack on healthcare and science. sfreporter.com/columns/lett...
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Pop Goes the Measles
At least in Red states
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
How horrifyingly similar to the Nazis' denunciation of "degenerate art." Let's hope that millions of Americans flock to the Smithsonian history museum to see what "inaccurate" history looks like; and that they leave huge donations in defense of "inaccurate" exhibits. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/a...
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Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum
President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There's about a million reasons this is wrong -- but the bottom line is the Administration is flat out admitting that it is punishing individuals, research institutions, residents, etc for who they and their neighbors voted for. This is fundamentally un-American. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
What a total clown, and a vindictive one at that ... There's really no dignity or sense in US politics anymore. www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/b...
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Trump’s new 50% tariffs on Canada risk igniting a fresh trade war | CNN Business
President Donald Trump is invoking a 1930 trade law to impose whopping 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods, threatening to reignite a trade war with the United States’ second-top trading partner.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
An interview I did on Trump and authoritarianism on the radio show A Public Affair. www.wortfm.org/trumps-propa...
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Trump’s Propaganda Masquerades as Policy - WORT-FM 89.9
Esty Dinur speaks with Sasha Abramsky about his recent article for the Nation Magazine, “Trumpworld’s Global War on Multiracial Democracy.”
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump says Canada is deliberately sending smoke the US's way, that it constitutes an "invasion" and that he will up the tariffs on Canada to cover smoke damage. Question: is the man simply entirely senile, entirely evil, entirely lacking in empathy, or all of the above?
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My latest Authoritarian Watch column: on Trump's escalating race baiting politics, on ICE killings, and forever wars... www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Politics of Cruelty Starts With the Vulnerable
Trump’s attacks on Somali kindergarteners, immigrants, and the rule of law form a coherent authoritarian project. But voters and the courts are pushing back.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just when you thought GOP couldn't go any lower... this story shows just how unmoored and morally calamitous the provocateur wing of GOP has become. Meanwhile, Rubio and Miller are at their international security conference saying biggest threat facing world is Antifa. www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/p...
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GOP Senate candidate has close ties to White nationalist influencer, his son-in-law | CNN Politics
Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins has built a national profile as a combative, Trump-aligned online provocateur — a style that has repeatedly drawn scrutiny over his associations with far-right...
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My Santa Fe Reporter take on Trump at NATO. sfreporter.com/columns/lett...
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
So now this moron is a trained football referee as well?! Saddam Hussein was also renowned for interfering in football results he didn't like... Just saying. www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/p...
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‘I didn’t think it was a foul’: Trump says he asked FIFA president for review of controversial red card | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Monday that he personally asked FIFA chief Gianni Infantino to review the decision to give a red card and one-game ban to Team USA star striker Folarin Balogun.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Trump has spent past decade bashing trans athletes and decrying their unfair hormonal advantage. Now, on world's biggest sporting stage, he phones the FIFA chief and calls in an unprecedented favor for US team. Now THAT's a truly unfair advantage. Corrupt Trump has befouled even the World Cup.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My Authoritarian Watch column on Trump's befouling of the American Dream on this 250th anniversary of the country's founding. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Celebrate America’s Birthday by Fighting a Wannabe King
Congress and the courts aren’t going to rescue us—but the public just might.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 03/07/2026
It’s time to shout against MAGA’s perversion of the American Dream and to start articulating a better, kinder, and more decent future, writes @sashaabramsky.bsky.social. That’s a far better way to celebrate July 4 than mindlessly chanting “USA, USA." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Celebrate America’s Birthday by Fighting a Wannabe King
Congress and the courts aren’t going to rescue us—but the public just might.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My Santa Fe Reporter cover story: an essay on America at 250 -- the good, the bad, and the MAGA horrible. I've been thinking a lot these past weeks about what the American Dream means today, and, in distillate, this essay reflects my thoughts on it all: sfreporter.com/coverstories...
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Worst 250th Birthday Party Ever!
Red hats, White supremacy and the Blues mark this Independence Day
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
What could possibly go wrong??... the worst kind of clown-show governance. www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/p...
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Firings now underway at Office of Director of National Intelligence, source says | CNN Politics
The large-scale cuts that President Donald Trump’s acting director of national intelligence had been considering imposing at his own office started on Monday, a source familiar with the matter told CN...
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When two of the most senior ex-politicians in the country warn of Trump's "rolling coup," the warning ought to be taken seriously. My Nation take on the Wirth-Gephardt memo. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Warning America Can’t Afford to Ignore
Former House majority leader Richard Gephardt and former senator Timothy Wirth argue that a “rolling coup” is already underway—and that the greatest danger may lie ahead.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Please read my colleague @sashaabramsky.bsky.social on the "rolling coup" that is the Trump era www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Warning America Can’t Afford to Ignore
Former House majority leader Richard Gephardt and former senator Timothy Wirth argue that a “rolling coup” is already underway—and that the greatest danger may lie ahead.
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The single most inappropriate description of other people that could emanate from Hegseth's mouth is "shameful." This is a man who believes human rights are "woke," has argued for a holy war in the mid-east, has repeatedly denied women and African-Americans promotion. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/w...
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Hegseth Berates NATO Allies for ‘Shameful’ Response to U.S. War in Iran
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