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Kennedy Center being operated as a ‘slush fund and private club for Trump’s friends and political allies’

From elsewhere — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:03:26 +0000

The Guardian reports: “That’s the tactic they use,” said Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island senator, pondering whether Donald Trump might attach his name to the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. “You float stuff and you float stuff and you float stuff until people get inured to what a stupid or outrageous thing it is that has been floated and then you pull the trigger.” Whitehouse was sitting in his Senate office and speaking to the Guardian at...

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Judge says government should release Russian scientist

From elsewhere — Thu, 29 May 2025 00:24:20 +0000

The New York Times reports: A federal judge on Wednesday said she would grant bail to Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, in an immigration case stemming from Ms. Petrova’s failure to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country. “There does not seem to be either a factual or legal basis for the immigration officer’s actions” in stripping Ms. Petrova of her visa on Feb. 16, Christina Reiss, chief judge of the U.S. District Court...

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A carve-up in gift wrapping: In Trump’s peace plan, all the sacrifice is demanded from Ukraine

From elsewhere — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:09:51 +0000

Dan Sabbagh writes: “Crimea will stay with Russia,” Donald Trump told Time magazine in a largely sympathetic profile on Friday. And with that statement, the US president made clear that he wanted to carve up another country, Ukraine, and so legitimise the forcible seizure of land made by Moscow 11 years ago. From reading the transcript of the interview, Trump’s thinking is hardly coherent. Crimea, he says, wouldn’t have been seized if he had been president in 2014, but “it...

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King Trump and his court

From elsewhere — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 01:44:41 +0000

Martin Kettle writes: The US is a nation increasingly governed by a court. But this governing court is not a court of law. Trump’s grip on the top judges in the US supreme court, many of whom he appointed during his first term, is already tight and likely to now grow tighter. Instead, Trump governs by placing himself at the centre of a presidential court almost on the monarchical model. Not all of this is down to Trump alone. During...

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Lady MacBiden still nurses a grudge against Nancy Pelosi while clutching a fantasy victory

From elsewhere — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 01:02:19 +0000

Jonathan Martin writes: Since breaking her hip in Europe last month, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been deluged with messages, flowers and calls of concern from heads of state, colleagues in both parties and even royalty, most notably Luxembourg’s Grand Duke Henri, who was hosting her when she fell and has been solicitous through her recovery. Yet it’s who she has not heard from that’s most remarkable, and that has infuriated Pelosi’s friends and family: Joe and Jill Biden. Fueling...

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Biden warns of the threat posed by the ‘tech-industrial’ complex

From elsewhere — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 01:36:07 +0000

HuffPost reports: President Joe Biden never mentioned his successor by name in his goodbye speech to the nation Wednesday, but nevertheless made it clear he believes that American democracy is at risk. “I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern,” Biden said in a 16-minute address from the Oval Office. He then ticked off allusions to Trump and his wealthy advisers as threats to Americans’ freedom. The outgoing president referred to Republican President Dwight...

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Megalomania: Elon Musk sows chaos globally in a blitz of social media posts

From elsewhere — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 01:28:10 +0000

The Washington Post reports: In the first three days of 2025, Elon Musk commandeered global politics through dozens of rapid-fire, often inflammatory posts to his 210 million followers on X. The world’s richest person called for the release of a jailed British far-right extremist. He shared a post pressing King Charles III to dissolve Parliament and order a new general election, as he posted memes and a flurry of attacks directed at Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Musk accused Starmer of...

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Vance shares Musk op-ed backing Germany’s far-right AfD party

From elsewhere — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 02:02:44 +0000

The Hill reports: Vice President-elect JD Vance took to the social platform X on Thursday to share an op-ed by Elon Musk in which the tech mogul expressed support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany, or AfD. Quoting Musk’s English version of the opinion piece, Vance said it was an “interesting piece.” The vice president-elect emphasized that he wasn’t endorsing AfD in the upcoming German elections, as it was not his country and “we hope to have...

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Charlie Sykes: GOP ‘absolutely confident’ that they will win in 2024

From elsewhere — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:32:03 +0000

The Republican National Convention begins next week in Wisconsin. In many ways, the battleground state reflects the recent history of the GOP, with Republicans swinging more and more to the right, ending in a full-on embrace of Donald Trump’s MAGA policies. A close observer of this phenomenon is Charlie Sykes, founder of The Bulwark and a respected voice amongst never-Trump Republicans. Sykes joined Walter Isaacson to analyze what cards Republicans might play in the upcoming election, and what strategies...

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Pelosi wants FBI to investigate pro-Palestinian protesters

From elsewhere — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:24:27 +0000

The New York Times reports: Representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California and the former House speaker, on Sunday called for the F.B.I. to investigate protesters demanding a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas conflict, suggesting without evidence that some activists may have ties to Russia and President Vladimir V. Putin. “For them to call for a cease-fire is Mr. Putin’s message,” Ms. Pelosi said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Make no mistake, this is directly connected to what...

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