1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
Chris Daly
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Journalist, historian. Bostonian. Birder. 🦉
NYT desk: please be sure to note in all stories about this subject that the seashells were arranged in that pattern by someone else, NOT Comey himself. He was just passing by and took a photo. Trump Demanded Details of Agents’ Interview of Comey, New Filing Says www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
Trump Demanded Details of Agents’ Interview of Comey, New Filing Says
The demand suggests the intense personal involvement of President Trump in investigating one of his longtime critics, the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.
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Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.
Call me crazy, but maybe two men who fathered 19 children with 7 different women shouldn’t be lecturing us about family values.
😂 Republicans see ‘scary’ lack of enthusiasm among core voters ahead of midterms
"Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of the press." It seems self-evident that the Constitution does not authorize Trump's lawyers to spy on reporters' mothers! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...
Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives
The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.
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Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊
It's simple: When ICE agents act like goons on our streets, they should be arrested, investigated, and prosecuted by state and local authorities. Just like anybody else. If ICE agents commit federal crimes and the FBI fails to do anything, that's just negligence. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...
Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
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‘A Complete Devastation of Due Process’: What Really Happens Inside Immigration Court talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-day-a...
‘A Complete Devastation of Due Process’: What Really Happens Inside Immigration Court
When I walked up to 290 Broadway early on a late June...
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If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.
Donald Trump is a stone-cold liar. He lies about his height, his wealth and his golf game. He lies about his accomplishments and his failures. He lies about everything, large and small, important and insignificant. newsletters.democracydocket.com/-the-media-h...
The media has one job Thursday night: Tell the truth about Trump's lies
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Every headline, like this one from @apnews.com, should leave no doubt that he is full of shit. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump will speak on elections in primetime address after pushing debunked conspiracies
President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address this week that he says will include a focus on elections.
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"Last year, before flying to Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize, Dr. Yaghi . . . voiced concern about Mr. Trump’s immigration policies, saying that they endanger the nation’s system of universities, companies and governments that promote scientific excellence." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...
Nobel-Winning U.S. Chemist Will Move to China to Lead A.I. Institute
Omar Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley, will head an initiative to apply artificial intelligence to the discovery of new materials.
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History keeps happening. What the Definitive Book on Empires Says About America Today www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...
Opinion | “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” Isn’t Saying What You Think It Is
In the same year as America’s founding, Edward Gibbon wrote “Decline and Fall.” 250 years later, it still holds lessons for us.
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Don't forget: in this administration, the cruelty IS the policy. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/n...
Claims of Poor Conditions in ICE Facility Are Bolstered by Health Inspectors
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'Bout time! Does Trump owe her interest as well? Judge Orders $5 Million Trump Judgment Be Released to E. Jean Carroll www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...
Judge Orders $5 Million Trump Judgment Be Released to E. Jean Carroll
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A disgrace. Where’s the Natl Guard when we actually need them? White Nationalists March in Washington Amid 250th Anniversary Celebrations www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...
White Nationalists March in Washington Amid 250th Anniversary Celebrations
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The apotheosis of Trumpism. Trump created nothing of value but pocketed a fortune. Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...
Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin
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Big win … for the oligarchs! Supreme Court Lifts Spending Limits on Political Parties and Candidates www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
Supreme Court Lifts Spending Limits on Political Parties and Candidates
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Some thoughts on a very recent visit to Scotland. The country was full of surprises for a first-time visitor. substack.com/home/post/p-...
NOTES ON SCOTLAND
On a recent trip, I fell in love with the place . . . and the people!
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So, do I have this right? We’re removing artificial colors from M&Ms but giving immunity to companies that poison us?
A very important piece -- and not just for reporters. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Turning Journalists Into Criminals
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Excuse me: "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion . . ."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Dan Patrick: "Separation of Church and state is not in the Constitution"
What is Leon Black hiding? Because, if he isn’t hiding anything, why did he walk out of his Transcribed Interview in the Epstein investigation today? We will get answers. Nobody is above the law.
Some thoughts on a very recent visit to Scotland. The country was full of surprises for a first-time visitor. substack.com/home/post/p-...
NOTES ON SCOTLAND
On a recent trip, I fell in love with the place . . . and the people!
substack.com
And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.
m@keptsimple.bsky.social · last mo.Samuel Alito's dad was born in Calabria, Italy in 1914, which was a completely failed state shithole at the time. You either spent your life farming dirt or got killed at 16 working for an Ndrangheta underboss. Now his son spends all day panicking about uncivilized Haitians.
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."