‘We’re on the inside now’: Meet the man building a political empire behind RFK Jr. - The Boston Globe A longtime publisher and ally of Kennedy’s, Tony Lyons has built a sprawling political operation to promote Kennedy and his “Make America Healthy Again” brand.

New from me:
As RFK Jr. has ascended from the health contrarian fringe to the center of American health care, he's been bolstered behind the scenes by a lesser-known figure.
Meet the man building a MAHA political empire behind Kennedy:

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/25/n...

The State vs. the Emma Goldman Book Club | Sara Van Horn The prosecutorial strategy is a puerile one: completely overwhelm the jury with unrelated images of leftist protest—for ten full days!—and then hope for guilt by association.

“In what has become a grotesque pattern of overreach, the government charges left-wing protestors engaged in protected First Amendment activity with the most serious felonies available.” New: Sara Van Horn reports from the Prairieland trial in Fort Worth.
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The Poughkeepsie Journal Photo Morgue and the Fight to Save Local History The Poughkeepsie Journal photo morgue holds decades of unpublished images. Artists, scholars, and librarians are fighting to keep it from disappearing.

“In 2019, as [Gannett] began fully moving operations out of the bldg, the entire collection—by then scattered across the basement—was suddenly in limbo… The Poughkeepsie Public Library stepped in, agreed to pay rent on a dedicated storage unit + took on physical custodianship of the archive…”

Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.

A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

North Carolina immigration raids expected to escalate As the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities

NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:

Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss

Elon Musk offers $1M for murals to be painted of light rail stabbing victim The tech giant posted on X, the social media platform he owns, in response to another post offering $500,000 in $10,000 grants to paint murals around America.

The bolts story about the charlotte sheriff is part of it, but video of a stabbing a few months ago went extremely viral on Twitter and in certain right-wing circles— Elon musk promised to pay for murals of the victim, e.g. www.wcnc.com/article/tech...

Sep 30: USDA issues guidance saying they can use contingency fund
Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse
Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance
Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund
Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds
Nov 1: no funds go out
Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

A great story about a truly malignant figure www.propublica.org/article/paul...

someone on here said "years of lead paint" and I can't think of a better caption than that

This is the moment for print. People will want to read the truth and when it’s hard to find online people will want paper.

Jesus Christ, this has got to be one of the worst public statements by a leader in history

The latest from the Great Leap Boerward…

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "I'm allowed to do it"

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

Billionaires Destroyed American News Media On Purpose It's not a conspiracy, it's simply what happened.

this is right www.todayintabs.com/p/billionair...

Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning – Spectre Journal

I reviewed Chuck Schumer’s new book. It is very bad.

But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.

Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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The authoritarian assault on higher education continues - UVA and Harvard have to hold the line www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.

This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

Wichita Falls Times, November 27, 1977

photo of two pages of the New York Times, Sunday June 22: left page is aerial photos accompanying the headline “U.S. Joins War Against Iran, Bombing Its Key Nuclear Facilities,” a NYT ad headed “Innovating new story formats,” and right page is an ad comprised of the front page of the latest print issue of the Onion, headlined: “Congress, Now More than Ever, Our National Needs Your Cowardice”

here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning

War on Terror Nightmare Arrives As Trump Bombs Iran Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?

Of course he was going to bomb Iran.

Is there an antiwar party in the U.S.?

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on the way back to the United States to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S., sources say.

ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States
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Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

Pretty much exactly what Tooze predicted two days ago
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Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS Shuttering IMLS would be "an act of monumental neglect, violating the very foundation of America and what it stands for as a country," the publishers assert.

Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...