Where has all the leadership gone?  If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment?  The “suspending indefinitely” of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the

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A big MSNBC scoop >>>> Trump border czar Tom Homan was under criminal investigation for potential bribery and claims he would steer fed contracts in new administration. Undercover FBI agents recorded him accepting $50k in cash. Trump U.S. Department of Justice shuttered the probe Me

Exclusive: Tom Homan investigated for accepting $50,000 from FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. With ⁦Carol Leonnig⁩ msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom…

Just to be clear: there is an undercover FBI video of Tom Homan taking $50,000, per this bombshell report by Carol Leonnig & Ken Dilanian msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom…

People need to pay attention to what is going on with Trump and DOJ — the President of the United States is demanding his attorney general prosecute enemies solely because he says they are “guilty.” nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/…

My book about Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain will be available from ⁦⁦Yale University Press⁩ a month from today! Please consider pre-ordering (link below)

Happy Birthday Shostakovich. Tea for Two - Fantastic! You won the bet.

This country is so lost

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Good 2 see S Sebag Montefiore has whole shelf @ hotel ambassade

I sometimes have the very old-fashioned, optimistic view that the act of reporting forces partisans of all sorts to converge on the facts.

Exclusive: China state oil majors suspend Russian oil buys due to sanctions, sources say reut.rs/4nlXMZx reut.rs/4nlXMZx

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And now Fox News has confirmed our story x.com/JenGriffinFNC/… Aaron Rupar

The New York Daily News has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for Mayor and has this to say about Zohran Mamdani:

US Treasury Sec. Bessent slams Putin’s Envoy Kirill Dmitriev as he had said new sanctions would “hurt Americans, not Russia”: Are you really going to publish what a Russian propagandist says? What else is he going to say? That it’s terrible and it’ll bring Putin to the table?

Sir Paul? Ringo? Actionable?

It is such a thrill to see Equator come to life. So many people I love and respect have been involved in creating this vital new magazine. equator.org