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Creating the Enemy Within A running TPM project tracking the Trump administration's state campaign to treat dissent as terrorism.

We went deep on this case and others in our series, Creating the Enemy Within. Check it out here

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Reupping because Kat lying about her upbringing and *still* claiming she's poor should've come out much sooner and been a bigger story, which adds to what I've always seen as a bit of phoniness to her, including moving to Streeterville to run for a seat in another district.

Exclusive | White House Puts RFK Jr.’s HHS on Tighter Leash After MAHA Setbacks Aides close to the president grew worried that perceived disorganization and an antivaccine focus could prove damaging in the midterms.

I love these journalistic fictions that normalize the administration and act like there are reasonable people there working to intelligently rein in dangerous impulses

Pol Pot

elon musk

elon musk and pol pot

Elon Musk apparently got so sick of people saying that he looked like Pol Pot that he decided to destroy USAID and try to beat those mass- murder numbers.

Like telling ICE agents you aren't mad?

You might be cool, but you'll never be a black rockabilly street gang hunting Nazis in Paris cool.

Why Little Was Done to Head Off Oil’s Strait of Hormuz Problem

Pray tell, who did so little?
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Tankerbuchet.

Far more stylish than what I had in mind...

@manmademoon.bsky.social

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"I ASSUMED the US Military had an active plan to open the Strait." How can people who are paid to understand geopolitics be so bafflingly naive?

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Phillips P. OBrien (@phillipspobrien) Hi all, @Paul Krugman and I did a podcast on the Trump Administration and what might be happening in the bombing of Iran. Not the most uplifting of talks, but you might find it interesting.

Hi all, Paul Krugman and I did a podcast on the Trump Administration and what might be happening in the bombing of Iran. Not the most uplifting of talks, but you might find it interesting. substack.com/@phillipspob...

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Fox News started as a propaganda op. It became a government training school.

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...

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France's President Emmanuel Macron just powerfully decried Trump's decision to revoke sanctions on Russian oil. Allies are furious with Trump. #cdnpoli

#jazzsky

I guess she's been holding back something for her next book.

Frustrated Senators Dig In on DHS Funding Fight Worries are growing about TSA staffing a month into the shutdown, as Democratic and Republican proposals stall in the Senate.

How is this not simple?? We are fighting over reforming an out-of-control ICE. We have agreed to fully fund, no conditions attached, TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard and more.
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Another tanker in the gulf region went up in flames last night, this time off the coast of Sharjah, UAE.

I still can't get over this. It says so much about the US of A.

I'm telling you people, this is the one correct take on Clown-Shoe-gate.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans died to stop “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer"

80 years on, with Musk and Bannon saluting it, the enemy is truly within

Why Trump Didn’t Plan for the Strait of Hormuz In wartime, the enemy always gets a vote.

Latest in @theatlantic.com . Much like Putin in 2022, Trump did not seem to realize that the enemy has a say in how a war turns out. The US seems to have started this war thinking Iran would not react effectively. I hope it does not pay the price. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It almost seems impossible, but it happened. Phil Berger, the political boss of North Carolina and the architect of the right-wing turn of the state, has lost. #NCPol #NCGA

Stewart Lee: Blair. Hegseth. Disinformation. Hats. This post-truth news cycle is mutilizing our brains How are we supposed to cope with the tidal wave of lies, posturing and mangled English that is the byproduct of Trump at war?

Your weekly Stewart Lee!
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