Alexander Stille, professor at the Columbia Journalism School, writes a lot on Italy and France. http://t.co/VN7fQTss01
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Now we can say it definitively.
Elon Musk donated $158M to SLF.
SLF donated $158M to Texas PAC.
SLF is Texas PAC's only donor.
Elon Musk is singlehandedly funding Texas PAC, which is boosting Ken Paxton.
Why isn't this a national scandal? Trump makes $2.2 billion from the presidency his kids are overnight billionaires and they still are grifting from Russian oligarchs. propublica.org/article/donal…
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1. Trump does so much crazy, corrupt shit that things can get lost. Last week, Trump embarked on what might be his most brazenly corrupt scheme yet, and it got far too little attention. Here's what you need to know:
Incredibly dumb and self-destructive: Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System nytimes.com/2026/06/01/clima… via @NYTimes
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If JD Vance wants to lecture the world about 'freedom,' he might want to check the rankings first. Kaja Kallas just politely dismantled the MAGA narrative by pointing out that the U.S. is currently a basement-dweller in press freedom compared to Estonia.
Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy:
“You know, coming from a country that is number two in the Press Freedom Index, hearing criticism regarding press freedom coming from a country [U.S] that is 58 on this list, it’s.….. interesting.”
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I just exercised my right as a Member of Congress to conduct an unannounced oversight visit of the ICE field facility in Baltimore. The staff I met with respected my right to visit, but what I saw was disgraceful. Kristi Noem has a budget of $75 billion she could use to ensure humane conditions, but we saw 60 men packed into a room shoulder-to-shoulder, 24-hours-a-day, with a single toilet in the room and no shower facilities. They sleep like sardines with aluminum foil blankets. Whether it’s for three days or seven days, nobody would want a member of their family warehoused there. The room set aside for dangerous criminals and violent offenders was empty. We’re demanding immediate answers and action.
The crypto industry, including Bitcoin, accounted for nearly half of all corporate money contributed in the 2024 election cycle. What does that tell you?
Like the Washington Post, One of Israel's Last TV Newsrooms Faces a Gutting by a Toadying Tycoon - Opinion haaretz.com/opinion/2026-02-….
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Pretty funny that Bitcoin, supposed to free us of govt, now depends on it: “I don’t think you can underestimate the importance of having support for the industry and digital capital at the very top of the political structure,” Michael Saylor
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Three numbers every American should know today.
Bezos paid Trump $40 million for the 'Melania' documentary.
Now, Bezos saves $8 billion because of Trump's corporate tax cuts.
While 17 million Americans lose health care.
Corruption, plain and simple.
politico.com/news/2026/02/06…
So short-sighted. Bezos net worth $253 billion generates $100m -- the amount of Post's annual losses -- every 2.8 days at a modest 5 percent interest. Whatever happened to Democracy Dies in Darkness?
Jeff Bezos making brutal cuts at W Post. The Post has been losing an estimated $100m a year. Bezo net worth $253 billion generates $100m every 2.8 days at a modest 5 percent interest. Short-sighted penny pinching. Whatever happened to Democracy Dies in Darkness?
Moderna’s recent disclosure that it plans no new late-stage vaccine trials because of policy uncertainty in the United States is a chilling consequence of the Trump administration’s anti-vaccine turn.wapo.st/46imjJc
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Americans. The BBC is the world's most respected broadcaster. @BBCRosAtkins is its most respected "fact checker". Here he analyses, frame by frame, what happened
ICE removed Alex Pretti's gun, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 shot him - 10 times in 5 seconds. Your government is lying to you👇
Eng. s/t
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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What a ridiculous lie. DHS has no shame, especially by throwing Somalians under the bus for no reason but to dog whistle. There was zero "acceleration" of Somali refugees under Biden.
They're making it up and hoping you won't know how to check. Well, I do. Here's the data.
.@USCIS is working to implement the most rigorous screening and vetting protocols in agency history.
The Biden administration recklessly accelerated refugee admissions from terror and gang-infiltrated countries, including Somalia, prioritizing sheer numbers over rigorous vetting and strict adherence to legal requirements.
Corrective action is being taken by @Sec_Noem to ensure those who are present in the United States deserve to be here.
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Alexander Stille (@a_stille) on the unlikely emergence of democracy in postwar Italy go.nybooks.com/3KGOFVW
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For @nybooks, @ColumbiaJournMA Politics Concentration professor @a_stille writes about Mark Gilbert's "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy" and how Alcide De Gasperi and the Christian Democrats constructed the foundations of postwar Italian politics. nybooks.com/articles/2025/12…