New in PN: Why Trump deserves all the blame for high gas prices "No POTUS has ever deserved to be hoisted on the petard of gas prices more. That’s not only bc of how he weaponized the issue before, but bc unlike almost every other POTUS, he's actually responsible for where the price is right now."

Why Trump deserves all the blame for high gas prices

Normally blaming the president is unfair. But not this time.

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Right now there is a job in America with more power over your actual life than the presidency, and you have never cast a single vote for the people who hold it. Here’s a clean, simple fix that already sits on the table… 👇 open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

Some policies are win-win. By contrast, Trump’s policies for state terror are a lose-lose for everyone unless you are a sadistic bigot who prioritizes your bigotry over well-being. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/o...

Opinion | ICE Is a Job Killer Everywhere It Goes

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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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“Ryan Holiday is right to invoke the Meditations to condemn Trump. Aurelius challenged populism and the ‘obsequious courting of the mob’…Aurelius was a cosmopolitan—a tradition worthy of revival as Trump tramples the liberal international order.” www.thebulwark.com/p/ivanka-tru...

Ivanka Trump Doesn’t Understand Her Favorite Philosophy

Author Ryan Holiday slammed Trump’s daughter for reducing Stoicism to a bauble, showing along the way how nonpolitical influencers can find their anti-authoritarian voice.

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The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0

Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.

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We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: zeteo.com/p/texas-ice-...

ICE and Border Patrol brutality over the past year qualify as extrajudicial violence, just as do the Caribbean boat strikes, and there need to be consequences for those responsible. New from me at @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

Extrajudicial Violence Risks Making the U.S. a Global Pariah

In the Caribbean Sea and at home, the Trump administration has acted outside the law.

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Read @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social on the "intellectually insecure reactionaries" around Epstein. Much here that I did not know www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Free Seamus Culleton!!!! Irish man from Kilkenny fears for his life in filthy Texas ICE detention for 5 months. Seamus has lived in Boston for 15+ years. His wife is American & he had applied for Green Card. He was kidnapped by ICE leaving Home Depot. www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/u...

Irish man detained by ICE in Texas for five months says he fears for his life | CNN

An Irish man who has been in US immigration detention for five months has said he fears for his life and is confined in appalling conditions, as international scrutiny grows over the treatment of immi...

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Abolish ICE

“After more than two years of marriage, he is legally entitled to a green card. Instead, he was ambushed.”

My Husband Was This Close To Getting His Green Card. Then The Officer’s Tone Changed — And ICE Appeared.

“After more than two years of marriage, he is legally entitled to a green card. Instead, he was ambushed.”

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@jvl.bsky.social was right as always. You predicted this scenario, but with Greenland. We have no idea who’s controlling what in Venezuela or what’s actually true. We don’t even know if any servicemembers were God forbid killed during this demented operation.

Now this is how you do journalism. Mother Jones is well worth a subscription, they are doing stellar and vital work during these dark times.👍

David Corn@davidcorn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Check this out!

Chris Murphy is one of the only Dems who gets that there is no budget “deal” to make. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

I read this story over and over, it is very uplifting. It tells the story of a young man struggling with mental illness and the path forward he found. It posits an intriguing way to view and perhaps manage even severe conditions. Hope I pasted the gift link correctly www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/n...

He Hears Voices in His Head. He Also Helped Win an Election.

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A wide range of academic organizations has signed a letter calling on the Department of Education to reinstate the Title VI program. For those not familiar, Title VI funds foreign language and area studies programs. The funding has prepared generations of students for international work and research

From Don Ayer, former Deputy AG under George HW Bush. newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/i-helped-r...

I helped run the DOJ. Trump is breaking it.

What a lifetime of service inside Republican administrations taught me about the current assault on rule of law.

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This thread by @maxblau.bsky.social is a must-read 👇👇

Max Blau@maxblau.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Over the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with one of the largest federal investigations happening in Georgia, known as Operation Blooming Onion. So I partnered with Zaydee Sanchez to uncover the untold story of an unnamed victim at the heart of the case. 🧵

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

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Timeline cleanse

An Everett woman and her son were detained by immigration officials in late July when they were coming back into Washington from British Columbia. The labor union representing her is requesting her immediate release.

State employee and son detained by ICE; transferred to Texas immigration facility | Cascadia Daily News

The labor union representing Sarah Shaw is calling for her immediate release

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People aren’t talking enough about how Baltimore and Mayor Brandon Scott have drastically lowered homicides/shootings with the “woke” policies Republicans love to disparage. As a public health issue, not as a way to enrich private prison friends. More: popular.info/p/the-secret...

Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

The Subway Is Not Scary

Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.

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Amen.

MiracleCharlie@miraclecharlie.bsky.social · last yr.

Any news organization that covered that speech and didn't mention that he is clearly suffering from dementia & often incoherently rambling has abdicated their responsibility to truth in reportage. This abdication and failure, pretending he & his cult are normal, is a large part of how we got here.

I have been waiting for a politician to finally address the Trump regime in its full criminal, anti-democratic, illiberal horror. Delia Ramirez finally cuts through the bullshit and lays it all on the table. @delia.bsky.social you are my hero. Noem Noem. 🇺🇸 www.mind-war.com/p/noem-noem-...

Noem Noem: Every Pro-Democracy Politician Needs to Hear This

Rep. Delia Ramirez eviscerates the DHS Secretary and provides a model for how to talk about the Trump regime.

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Just 80 years ago. Within my parents’ lifetimes. And history begins to repeat itself. Never again should mean never again.

Auschwitz Memorial@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · last yr.

30 April 1945 | Soviet soldiers liberated Ravensbrück concentration camp with around 2,000 sick prisoners. Around 120,000 women and girls, as well as 20,000 men, were registered at Ravensbrück as prisoners between 1939 and 1945. Up to 30,000 perished. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...