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May 16, 2025

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Maxwell Frost Wants Democrats to “Get Caught Fighting.” Andor | Season 2. Rep. Delia Ramirez Accuses Kristi Noem of Corrupt Acts and Demands Resignation. Fear of AIPAC and Elon Musk Intimidates Democrats and Republicans. Trump's Epic 'Weave.'

May 16, 2025

15,000 EPA Employees Refuse To Snitch on Colleagues

Mark Olalde ProPublica

Trump asked Environmental Protection Agency employees to use a tip line to identify colleagues working on DEI programs to assist in slashing them. No employees, then more than 15,000 people strong, responded to that plea, ProPublica learned.

May 16, 2025

Syria After Assad

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad Dissent Magazine

Hope has been restored for many Syrians. But vigilance will be needed to ensure that democratic institutions emerge and withstand autocratic impulses.

May 16, 2025

What the Complete Ape Genome Is Revealing About the Earliest Humans

Michael Marshall New Scientist

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially changing how we think of the earliest hominins

May 16, 2025

Trump’s Attempt To Destroy Due Process Meets 7–2 SCOTUS Defeat

Mark Joseph Stern Slate

It is unclear whether Thomas and Alito would offer any restraint whatsoever on Trump exercising absolute power. The rest of the court, by contrast, is seemingly running out of patience for its tricks, misrepresentations, and defiance.

Maxwell Frost Wants Democrats to “Get Caught Fighting”

May 16, 2025

The youngest member of Congress is showing his older colleagues how to punch back in the age of Trump: how to act as an “opposition party” rather than just a minority one

Andor | Season 2

May 16, 2025

Andor is the Star Wars series that shows what fascism really looks like. Full review.

Rep. Delia Ramirez Accuses Kristi Noem of Corrupt Acts and Demands Resignation

May 16, 2025

At a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) relentlessly questions Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Fear of AIPAC and Elon Musk Intimidates Democrats and Republicans

May 16, 2025

“If you speak up on that issue you’ll have ... AIPAC going after you” says Sanders, explaining why many Democrats in Congress are refusing to take a stand against the intentional starvation of children in Gaza.

Trump's Epic 'Weave'

May 16, 2025

Concluding his Mideast corruption tour in the United Arab Emirates, Trump engages in a 15 minute ramble about Sean Duffy and Pete Buttigieg’s bicycle