Paul Krugman: “When we do a post-mortem on how the Iran debacle happened, arrogant ignorance may still get top billing. But grotesque venality will come a close second.”
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Mar 11, 2026
NYT: « Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children….Officers at Central Command are responsible for checking the information... But in a fast-moving situation, like the opening days of a war, information is sometimes not verified. »
The only reason this was fast-moving is because Trump started an illegal war that way.
The only reason this was fast-moving is because Trump started an illegal war that way.
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Mar 05, 2026
From Springfield, Ohio, which was a stop on the Underground Railroad, and is now a place where a growing movement offers shelter from ICE to Haitians facing arbitrary, racist termination of their legal status. Remember “eating the dogs, eating the cats”? #GIFTLink #Resist #ICE #Haiti https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/trump-immigration-ice-raids-safe-houses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q1A.wjRb.iD3yra5Pdp2r&smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/trump-immigration-ice-raids-safe-houses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q1A.wjRb.iD3yra5Pdp2r&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Feb 18, 2026
Paul Krugman:
“The number of U.S. billionaires rose 85 percent between 2010 and 2023, from 404 to 748. But billionaires’ share of political contributions rose by 1700 percent.
“In short, we are in the midst of an unprecedented power grab by America’s oligarchs. This power grab is arguably the most important fact about contemporary U.S. politics. In many ways MAGA is just a symptom.”https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/billionaires-gone-wild?r=ad0yf&utm_medium=ios
“The number of U.S. billionaires rose 85 percent between 2010 and 2023, from 404 to 748. But billionaires’ share of political contributions rose by 1700 percent.
“In short, we are in the midst of an unprecedented power grab by America’s oligarchs. This power grab is arguably the most important fact about contemporary U.S. politics. In many ways MAGA is just a symptom.”https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/billionaires-gone-wild?r=ad0yf&utm_medium=ios
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Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Feb 01, 2026
ICYMI — and there are hundreds more children detained. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/opinion/ice-kids-liam-ramos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I1A.VgvE.nxkLJRdtXiPY&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Feb 01, 2026
Jamelle Bouie, in podcast conversation, tells it like it is: “…they are sending ICE agents to Springfield, Ohio, to round up Haitians. Haitians who are legal immigrants. They remove their temporary protected status and they’re sending ICE agents to round them up. That is ethnic cleansing. That’s all that is.” #Giftlink https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/opinion/ice-minnesota-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I1A.e4I-.0E19me8K5nD5&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
journa.host
Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Jan 28, 2026
Jamelle Bouie:
“ICE and C.B.P. still roam the streets, and Trump’s authoritarian aspirations have not dimmed. But surveying the wreckage of Operation Metro Surge — of this reactionary administration’s crushing defeat at the hands of another band of tenacious Northerners — it does look to me like MAGA’s Gettysburg.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/minneapolis-ice-trump-gettysburg.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
“ICE and C.B.P. still roam the streets, and Trump’s authoritarian aspirations have not dimmed. But surveying the wreckage of Operation Metro Surge — of this reactionary administration’s crushing defeat at the hands of another band of tenacious Northerners — it does look to me like MAGA’s Gettysburg.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/minneapolis-ice-trump-gettysburg.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
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Jan 28, 2026
This is what America looks like in Minnesota.
Billions of tax dollars have gone to recruit and outfit these paramilitary squads, now bringing those distant “forever wars” home to us. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/ice-agent-weapons-minneapolis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Billions of tax dollars have gone to recruit and outfit these paramilitary squads, now bringing those distant “forever wars” home to us. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/ice-agent-weapons-minneapolis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Jan 23, 2026
@shadowdancer The German case underscores that we have to focus on what is right and wrong, not what is made “legal” under a despotic regime. We are only now getting the kind of Brown Shirt violence that Germans experienced before Hitler took power. Resistance now is crucial, and still possible. Join a group like Indivisible, protest — there are solidarity rallies for Minneapolis-St Paul around the country — or at least call your reps.
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Jan 21, 2026
It is time to recognize not only the brutality and lawlessness of ICE, but to see that it is the shock troops of American tyranny.
What should ordinary Germans have done in 1934? There is action we US citizens can take right now to resist. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security runs out Jan 30. Call your senators & representatives today & demand they use the appropriations bill to rein in ICE and freeze its budget, and vote no on any appropriation that doesn’t. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/ice-shooting-renee-good.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GFA.Zy6q.ULc1u59zH1a8&smid=nytcore-ios-share
What should ordinary Germans have done in 1934? There is action we US citizens can take right now to resist. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security runs out Jan 30. Call your senators & representatives today & demand they use the appropriations bill to rein in ICE and freeze its budget, and vote no on any appropriation that doesn’t. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/ice-shooting-renee-good.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GFA.Zy6q.ULc1u59zH1a8&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Jan 20, 2026
Paul Krugman:
“How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia? …The answer…lies in the straight line from Bush vs Gore & the Roberts Supreme Court, to January 6th, to the execution of Renee Good. However, what’s more important is that we realize where we are right now, that we don’t try to sugarcoat & sanewash what’s happening: A petulant, violent and deranged individual is running America.”
“How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia? …The answer…lies in the straight line from Bush vs Gore & the Roberts Supreme Court, to January 6th, to the execution of Renee Good. However, what’s more important is that we realize where we are right now, that we don’t try to sugarcoat & sanewash what’s happening: A petulant, violent and deranged individual is running America.”
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Jan 18, 2026
Must read M.Gessen:
“We can’t count on change being brought about by elections when we can’t count on elections. We can’t count on the freedoms and resources we enjoy today to still be available to us tomorrow.” Use the right to protest now or lose it! #Resist #GiftLink https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/trump-one-year-later.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FVA.uLy0.xog4HiCIaSoV&smid=nytcore-ios-share
“We can’t count on change being brought about by elections when we can’t count on elections. We can’t count on the freedoms and resources we enjoy today to still be available to us tomorrow.” Use the right to protest now or lose it! #Resist #GiftLink https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/trump-one-year-later.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FVA.uLy0.xog4HiCIaSoV&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Jan 17, 2026
Source: the Guardian
« I’m a nobody. A dad in [conservative] Florida,” Davis wrote. “And I’m the one who bought nazis.us because [Trump’s Republican party] went full fascist and … not a soul in power thought to actually raise hell. So I did.”
Davis, who lists no party affiliation, added that if establishment figures “won’t fight Nazis, then a nobody fucking will”.
https://share.google/OJhaGF5MMqC4gk72x
« I’m a nobody. A dad in [conservative] Florida,” Davis wrote. “And I’m the one who bought nazis.us because [Trump’s Republican party] went full fascist and … not a soul in power thought to actually raise hell. So I did.”
Davis, who lists no party affiliation, added that if establishment figures “won’t fight Nazis, then a nobody fucking will”.
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Jan 16, 2026
“…she was among a number of people granted clemency by Trump who have been charged with new crimes after receiving a second chance.”
Fraud? Fine if you donate the proceeds to Trump and MAGA. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/16/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Fraud? Fine if you donate the proceeds to Trump and MAGA. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/16/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
journa.host
Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Jan 15, 2026
Paul Krugman: “While our institutions & our elites have failed us, ordinary Americans are rising to the occasion. If Minneapolis is a laboratory of democratic destruction, it has also become a laboratory of civil resistance — organized civil resistance, of a kind we haven’t seen since the civil rights movement. When ICE is on the rampage, crowds of brave Americans, summoned by texts and whistles, quickly gather to stand against the masked men with guns.” #Resist #MLPS
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Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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Jan 13, 2026
“None of this means that America is destined to become a fully fascist country. For now, we are trapped in the space between the liberal democracy most Americans grew up in and the dark, belligerent authoritarian state that our government seeks to impose.” Organize. You still have a right to protest. Use it or lose it. #GIFT #RESIST https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/opinion/resistance-libs-trump-fascism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFA.TxRD.YadghWqbChgu&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
journa.host
Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
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Jan 13, 2026
Paul Krugman on the economic consequences of Trump’s assault on the Fed:
“Every investor and businessperson who backed Trump or tried to accommodate him once he won should be looking in the mirror and asking why they helped enable this catastrophe. For none of what Trump is doing now is a surprise to people who paid attention.”
“Every investor and businessperson who backed Trump or tried to accommodate him once he won should be looking in the mirror and asking why they helped enable this catastrophe. For none of what Trump is doing now is a surprise to people who paid attention.”
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
journa.host
Nina Bernstein
@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.
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@NinaBernstein1@journa.host
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Jan 13, 2026
Paul Krugman:
“…the attack on Powell and Good’s murder are part of the same story: Trump and his minions have zero tolerance for dissent. No matter who you are, if you stand up to them they will try to ruin your life any way they can, up to and including shooting you in the face.”
“…the attack on Powell and Good’s murder are part of the same story: Trump and his minions have zero tolerance for dissent. No matter who you are, if you stand up to them they will try to ruin your life any way they can, up to and including shooting you in the face.”
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