Liz Trubey

Supreme Court rules that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal | CNN Politics The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law when he unilaterally imposed sweeping tariffs across the globe, a striking loss for the White House on an issue that ...

Well hot damn

Opinion | This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well.

This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

Trump Officials Demanded Confidential Data About Transgender Children Seeking Care

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

An idea:

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Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away

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Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas.

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Just loathsome. I know it’s old school, but is there no demand that Fox fire him? Losing his microphone should be the minimum.

1 in 4 nursing homes will shut down. Who will take care of all those people? Are you ready to do 24/7 home heath care for your aging parents and grandparents? This is what the Republicans are putting on us.

Wow. Way to recall some old timey racist propaganda

Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests

Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests

Protests are not riots. Verify what you see and read on social media.

Opinion | Women are having fewer kids. It’s not a mystery why. Republicans are finally waking up to the motherhood crisis, but their policies won’t help.

happy mother’s day

Trump’s scattered brain creates havoc The economy is at the mercy of the least informed president in history

Trump’s scattered brain creates havoc
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Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

"On a weekly basis more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings and other information that is based on federal science. But only 10% ... are concerned that cuts to federal support for science might impact their access to [it]."
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There are some extremely brave FOIA officers in the federal government - and this is a reminder that they often want to get the information out as badly as the public wants to read it.

Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work with the Trump administration violates the company's founding principles.

www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...

Stop Waiting for a Formal Declaration of “Crisis” It is here. We are living through it.

Stop Waiting for a Formal Declaration of “Crisis”

Mahmoud Khalil: What does my detention by ICE say about America?

From the article: “As I wrote for Rolling Stone back in 2021, being an American Jew is a mindfuck. And now we’re in more peril than ever because this destruction of this country’s university life and the lives of university students is being done in our name.”

It’s Republicans' Fault MAGA Republicans own the tariff and recession

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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Opinion | Universities Should Not be Afraid of Contentious Ideas Higher education cannot cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas.

I’m Cornell’s President. We’re Not Afraid of Debate and Dissent. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...

Millions of bees have died this year. It's "the worst bee loss in recorded history," one beekeeper says Bees play a key role in the U.S. food supply, and the mass deaths could jeopardize that.

Read Maja Lunde’s The History of Bees.

Opinion | Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional Where all this goes is still up to us.

Can we please stop asking “are we in a constitutional crisis?” WE ARE.

Stand Your Ground. Plant Some Flowers On It Too You know who's doing great organizing for us right now? Elon Musk and Donald Trump, that's who. By attacking and alienating more and more swathes of the American public, they're handing us the possibi...

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German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S. (Gift Article) Amid President Trump’s border crackdown, German news media have closely followed the treatment of two tourists who say they tried to enter the United States legally.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/w...