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People who are outraged over the @bbc splicing together two soundbites from Trump’s J6 speech will surely be equally outraged over this kind of manipulative and deceptive editing. Surely.

It is as if the government is an enemy of the United States.

As basically anyone who’s talked to me since the summer knows, I’ve been working on this for months. Thanks to everyone who shared their insights. (I’ve got a lot more to say in the future, too.) nytimes.com/2025/11/18/mov…

What would the consequences be in a company boardroom? A university? A church? A pro sports team? In any organization?

Thinking of all the heat Biden took meeting with MBS in Saudi Arabia, only for Trump to lavish the ‘fantastic’ prince with praise in the Oval Office and claim MBS told him America was ‘dead’ under Biden…

Quiet, piggy.

Taking down Trump isn’t even political anymore, it’s about taking down a transnational criminal organization operating at the highest echelons of US government and putting our international security at extreme risk.

Ultra Processed Food, and the system that produces it, has overtaken tobacco in terms of health and economic harms, and is also the leading cause of plastic pollution, loss of biodiversity and deforestation, and the second leading cause of emissions. This week The Lancet

The wrongful arrest lawsuits are going to be endless, as are the monetary settlements and judgments

We’ll be lucky if our kids get to see what’s left.

You would have to be brain-dead to read this piece and not immediately wonder who is funding Semafor Gulf.

Senator Mark Kelly Thanks for your leadership, in the Navy and today, and for your willingness to fight against ALL enemies of American values, foreign or domestic.

At least one nation hereabouts understands the need to hold to account election-denying authoritarian wannabes. That nation would not be the U.S.

Today’s sewage from 1600 Pa. Ave. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

Sorkin is especially good at giving interviewees room to breathe - really getting inside their thinking. Here's Newsom with arguably the most chilling two minutes, ending with a direct callout to a room full of wealth, power and influence on the markets and nation.

let's skip to the part where they rule that California acted unconstitutionally 😉

VA must redistrict after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Texas case. The last excuse not to is gone.

Blow: When people deny racism, it says a lot about them. Brown: It is not denying existence of racism. This is a Republican state trying to create more Republican seats. Blow: And how did they do it? By disenfranchising black and brown people. And you don’t want to say it

TERRIFIC NIGHT ACCEPTING THE FIRST-EVER KENNEDY CENTER PEACE PRIZE!!! AUDIENCE WAS AMAZING (CHAIRS NOT GREAT, LIGHTING DISASTER). TRUMP AND JANITOR RIC GRENELL LET THE WHOLE PLACE GO TO HELL!! I TOLD THEM AS TRUMP DOZED OFF: RENAME IT THE NEWSOM CENTER!! ONLY I CAN FIX IT!!!