For 60 years the National Endowment for the Humanities was a shining light. In a few short months the Trump regime destroyed it, shutting down all its good work for arts and education and converting its empty hulk into a corrupt scheme to send taxpayer money to right-wing operatives and activists.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
Some Democrats and supporters of the National Endowment for the Humanities are questioning what they see as gutted procedures and a tilt toward han...
 #NEH
The terrorists were the ones attacking the building.
ProPublica
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the gover...
 #ICE
Using the White House Situation Room to enforce the #EpsteinFiles coverup is a confession. Trump is the pedophile who needs protecting. Nothing else could justify it.
Trump didn't just “know” about #Epstein's sex trafficking. He was a customer. “[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him.”
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. E...
Eight of the most corrupt US senators, who helped Trump try to overturn the 2020 election and got away with it, who are now taking food out of the mouths of the poorest and hungriest of their constituents, have found a sleazy and unprecedented trick to hand themselves $500,000 each in taxpayer money. https://mas.to/@tpm_rss_bot/115531895091616066
How the Web Was Lost (The internet was not meant to suck). I review some history—thoughtful, philosophical, and enraged—by Tim Berners-Lee, Joanna Walsh, and @npub1hyku...3p33.
The New York Review of Books
How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick
The Internet was not meant to suck.
The following is a technical explanation by the president of the United States. The subject: #magnets. Every word is guaranteed verbatim. “China was going to hit us with rare earth. Now, everybody says, oh, what is happening? Magnets. If China refused to get magnets, 'cause they have a monopoly on magnets, 'cause they were allowed to happen over a 32 year period. There wouldn't be a car made in the entire world. (1/2)
It's easy to hate journalists, it's easy to hate the mainstream media. Here's something that's hard, though: working in Venezuela, village after village, to find out who Trump and Hegseth have murdered in the name of fighting “narco-terrorism.” They were real people, with names, jobs, and families. Credit to Regina Garcia Cano and the Associated Press.
AP News
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.