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You mean until now secret task force. C.I.A. Sets Up Secret Cuba Task Force as Trump Pressures Havana www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
C.I.A. Sets Up Secret Cuba Task Force as Trump Pressures Havana
The task force will allow the spy agency to quickly direct more financial, human and technical resources at the island, with the goal of creating fissures among the Cuban political elite.
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Thinking about research showing that diverse groups avoid groupthink and about the US administration’s adamant opposition to diversity and intense reliance on groupthink. Two women led the resistance to Infantino’s World Cup sell-off. That matters www.nytimes.com/athletic/748...
Two women led the resistance to Infantino’s World Cup sell-off. That matters (Gift Article)
Lise Klaveness and Laura McAllister were instrumental in collapsing FIFA's controversial plan last week
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Does that m an he’ll stop sending fundraising emails?
Mediaite@mediaite.com · last wk.James Carville Tells Fox News He’s Out of the Democratic Party if Hasan Piker Stays: ‘One of Us is Going to Leave’
Amateurs talk about tactics. Professionals talk about logistics. (Really stupid amateurs talk about “warrior spirit”)
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump has burned through around a third of US stockpiles of key precision munitions in his failed war in Iran, ABC reports.
"Just get to the right result." Stop with all the "originalism" articles and debates. It's a fig leaf, post hoc justification for the desired result. Focus should be on the political science attitudinal model reflecting the shit ton of research on how ideology correlates with legal outcomes.
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last mo.Meet Mike Davis, founder & president of the Article III Project, which advises Trump on judicial nominations. In 2024, he told Steve Bannon, “I would say this to Justice Amy Coney Barrett: … [M]aybe you should get your HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS … Just get to the RIGHT DAMNED RESULT.” 1/
This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.
I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don’t Have To — Anna O. Law
As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship , a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) ...
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"It's over, right?" a journo asked me this morning about the birthright citizenship case. No. No legal or political result is final unless the losing side gives up fighting. They will try again. New prez, new judges. There's a social movement based on racial grievance + scapegoating immigrants.
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
My one firmly held opinion on how to improve the World Cup is that the group that has Argentina, Austria, and Algeria should be Group A.
I must have missed the stories about Mamdani’s Nazi tattoo.
Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST@chathamharrison.bsky.social · 2mo agoBut you can't write this stuff off as "Platner etc." without saying "Mamdani etc." & "El-Sayed etc." & "Raman etc." At some point you have to accept the facts: there is a new wave in the Democratic Party. Folks are going to have to swim with it or risk being pulled under.
Very on-brand
Andrew Levesque@andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 2mo agowww.cbc.ca/news/world/a... Alex Pereira, a prominent mixed martial arts fighter set to headline the U.S. president's 80th birthday UFC event at the White House, is facing allegations of abuse from two women — and it isn't the first time….
Finished Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship. Highly recommend. I learned a huge amount about the history and politics of immigration as well as about American Political Development (including learning what American Political Development is). @unlawfulentries.bsky.social
Breaking | Trump to make it up to the Knicks by sending JD Vance to visit the Spurs.
Refusal to acknowledge and confront bad faith actors is damaging faith in democracy. California’s Excuses Are Damaging Faith in Government www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...
Opinion | California’s Excuses Are Damaging Faith in Government
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The NYT keeps running these exclusives quoting confidential talks about how JD Vance opposed the Iran war and JD Vance wanted transparency on the Epstein files. I wonder who the source could be? Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...
Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files
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All the criticism of this ludicrous appointment is correct but keep in mind that he’s replacing Tulsi Gabbard. No deterioration but maintaining an impressively low standard. New Intelligence Role Puts Bill Pulte’s Housing Agenda in Doubt www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/b...
New Intelligence Role Puts Bill Pulte’s Housing Agenda in Doubt
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Singapore (#12) exports more wine than Austria(#17)? I call bullshit.
American Association of Wine Economists AAWE@wineecon.bsky.social · 2mo agoGlobal Wine Export Value by Country, 2024
If you’re part of the X exodus reply with a 💙 and please repost. I want my friends to follow you.
I am no James Comey fan. He made a huge contribution to Hillary Clinton losing in 2016. But this is an "I am Spartacus " moment. I am reposting Comey's seashells Arrest me motherfuckers.
Really looking forward to discovery. F.B.I. Director Sues The Atlantic Over Article Claiming Excessive Drinking www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...
F.B.I. Director Sues The Atlantic Over Article Claiming Excessive Drinking
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I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoButtigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"
