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Posts by David Dobbs

This would be a good moment for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that Trump has lost his mind and you don’t have to cover him like he’s normal anymore.

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This this this

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No

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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

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Gillian Welch

Gillian Welch

I stand by my choice.

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Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

This is not wrong.

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Yo all, it’s great to see jetkocko writing — even though he’s one of the very best editors I know — because he’s also one of my favorite writers. His stuff always has bounce

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Scott Wiener defeated California’s NIMBYs. Can he fix America’s housing crisis? By running for Nancy Pelosi's House seat, he's putting the abundance theory to the test.

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Oy.

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In George Springer we trust. Go Toronto!

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This is a NUTS postseason, no? I'm pulling for the Jays as well, an all-in convert who started watching them when they signed Springer. What a wonderful team.

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This is a legit pairing. From a huge flea market in Maine.

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this is a good thing, that they're coming home. what a mess.

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As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.

As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support
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👇🎯 University presidents, take note & start getting in front of microphones, en masse, now:

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I had the chance to talk with @scottdetrow.bsky.social for “All Things Considered” about my belief that an important line was crossed in America this month: www.npr.org/2025/08/30/n...

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Little kids with brain cancer.

That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.

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Vermont Towns Struggle With Homelessness Without State Help Each rollback of Vermont's motel housing program has pushed more people to the streets. With few resources, smaller Vermont towns are struggling to respond.

Small towns with few resources are struggling to respond. Local leaders are now echoing the calls that have come from Burlington for years: Vermont needs to take a larger role in managing what is a statewide issue.

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But it's the truth: the choice is between a small-d democratic coalition — one in which a majority either supports or is sympathetic to the causes we're talking about – and a fascist authoritarian regime that will use every tool at its disposal — including violence — to suppress vulnerable "others."

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The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.

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If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:

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RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

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Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of the CDC shooting Before the shooting, social media companies relaxed their protocols around misinformation.

Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of the CDC shooting. “On X, for example, verified accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers openly claimed in recent weeks that Covid vaccines act like ‘chemical lobotomies,’ which is false.” www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

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‘Experts’ Cited By RFK Jr. to Justify mRNA Vaccine Funding Cut Have Ties to Anti-vax Supplement Company Four authors of the non-peer reviewed, anti-vax bibliography cited by Kennedy’s HHS are involved with The Wellness Company.

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Good to see you here, dear John. (I've been absent ... long story.) Hope you're doing okay.

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Pretty sure the Gulag Archipelago was meant to be a cautionary tale, rather than provide a model to be emulated.

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Twenty-five years ago, and before, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and I would not have agreed on much.

He is entirely on the right side here.

These governors of SC and OH, whose urban crime problems are *worse* than DC's, should mind their own business.

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Democrats have so failed this moment in US politics.

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