BREAKING: A Russian scientist who opposed Putin’s war, fled Russia & found work at Harvard was detained at Logan Airport returning from a French academic conference and has been sent to an immigration detention center in Louisiana for deportation to Russia https://t.co/tHRM015aMP
Moscow is rejoicing after the much-anticipated call between Putin and Trump. Kremlin propagandists think they have Trump exactly where they want him.
My latest for @thedailybeast:
https://t.co/KugZrG12FH
"The DOGE Helpline: Comms from Armageddon"
"The scene: an office in the West Wing of the White House, with a 'DOGE Helpline' sign on the door. Four consumer relations specialists take phone calls."
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The end goal is to make education a privilege for children born into wealth while destroying the meritocracy that is at the center of the American dream.
Every American has the right to know what DOGE is doing with their personal information. I submitted a Privacy Act request to DOGE, demanding they tell me why they have my Social Security number and direct deposit information. https://t.co/rPfEHBrb03
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, a top Tesla investor, Ross Gerber, is calling for Elon Musk to resign his position as CEO. Tesla is tanking under Musk.
Utterly predictably, Putin rejects the unconditional ceasefire offered by Ukraine, sends Trump off on the errands of making the Russian invasion easier and denying Ukrainian sovereignty, while Trump claims he has accomplished something.
It is as though the Trump people have a list of concessions to Russia they must make and a list of Russian talking points they must repeat. This one is cruel and absurd.
"The American antisemitism now merges with the Russian antisemitism and reinforces it. The idea that Zelens'kyi is not a real president, and that his government is therefore not a real government, has been a very specific Russian antisemitic trope from the beginning. And the Russian approval for the American behavior in the White House since Friday could hardly have been more explicit."
That flag hangs in a Ukrainian brigade’s r&r house near the front in Kharkiv region, where I was visiting some infantrymen in September. I was proud to see it.
The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
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