Federal judge rejects Trump’s dubious defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal The demise of the president’s case is a demonstration of the benefits of fighting back — and of the folly of appeasement.

As Trump’s foolish defamation case against the Wall Street Journal gets thrown out of court, there’s a larger lesson here:

Those who push back against his abuses — news organizations, law firms, universities, et al. — succeed, while those who try appeasement fail.
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Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

I needed just this

The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild.

"Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"

What You Need To Know About How A U.S.-Initiated Global Nuclear War Could Affect Television Broadcasts of The NBA Playoffs

Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.

Republicans have always hated the troops and we should always say so

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Useful The conservative media machine doesn’t want Jaden Ivey to get help. It wants him to keep talking.

New post! The people who actually know Jaden Ivey are worried about him. The people who've never met him want him to keep talking. I wrote about the difference. www.readtpa.com/p/useful

On this day in the year 2000, Janice Soprano cooked dinner for her fiancé Richie. It did not end well.

The Largest Physician Organization In The US Reaffirms Gender-Affirming Care Is Medically Necessary The American Medical Association is setting the record straight on trans people’s health care—expressing its full support of keeping decisions in the hands of doctors, patients, and their families.

1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary.

It disavowed the New York Times reporting.

Incredible development for trans youth.

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Circle as big as how much your account gets interacted with on X, and Elon Musk is a huge dot in the middle dwarfing everything else like the sun

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

We definitely need two more teams racing to the bottom

New Portland Trail Blazers Owner Played Key Role at Company Oregon Accused of Predatory Lending As CEO of Santander Consumer USA, the incoming Portland Trail Blazers owner was behind what regulators called an “aggressive push” to waive proof-of-income requirements.

Documents obtained by ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting reveal that new Portland Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon was behind what regulators called an “aggressive push” to waive proof-of-income requirements at Santander Consumer USA.

Just realized DeMar DeRozan is only 2 or 3 seasons away from 30,000 points?

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

Doctors say that vaccines are the best way to protect children against measles. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they should just swim in untreated sewage water instead. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

The Cracks in Adam Silver’s NBA Are Spreading Fast The NBA keeps selling the future, but the present is a mess

The NBA has never faced so many crises, on so many fronts, as it is right now. All eyes are on Adam Silver.

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Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

I’m aware of some behind the scene stuff from one of them, but beyond that major corporations failed the test to support the people of the state during the occupation.

To paraphrase Herb Brooks, “Screw ‘em.”

They just want to profit off of people’s sacrifices.

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:

- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema

This is just unconscionable man

This attorney is describing a concentration camp. The Holocaust didn't begin with exterminations, but systematic removal of legal rights, concentration in slums and then camps, and deportations and denatiralizations

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

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