curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Dean Blundell:
The Confiscation Plan: How America Takes Back Everything Musk and the Trump Crime Family Stole, Step by Step
From freezing Elon’s shares to clawing back Lutnick’s trusts, a plain English plan for turning guilty verdicts into seized fortunes.
Why this is about accountability, not revenge
- Step One: Rebuild the machinery they destroyed
- Step Two: Freeze first, argue later
- Step Three: The charges, by name
- Step Four: Conviction triggers forfeiture, automatically
- Step Five: Nationalizing SpaceX without stealing a share from anyone innocent
- Step Six: Where the money goes
- Step Seven: Pardon proofing
Marvin Olasky:
Behind the falls of Donald Trump and “Housing First”
Compassionate Dr. Jim O’Connell: “Loneliness is really what drives much of what goes on in our world.”
Matt K Lewis @ Washington Sun:
An Open Letter to Republican Leaders: This Is Your Moment to Finally, Conclusively Break With Trump
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Phillips P. OBrien:
Trump Has Stood Between Ukraine And Military Success
(Phillips P. OBrien more…)Charlie Hancock @ Moscow Times:
Official Data Shows 450,000 Russians Killed in War, Death Rate Accelerating – Rosstat Leaks
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Paul Krugman:
After the Bubble BurstsWhat past recessions can tell us about the AI hangover
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Karen Attiah:
I was wrongfully fired from the Washington Post and won my job back. Then I faced an excruciating choice.
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Ruth Ann Crystal MD:
Dr. Ruth Report, 11/8/263 US measles deaths this week, < 19% of multisymptom Long COVID patients improve by 3 years, H5N1 death in WA, doctors and nurses win big in the midterms, CAR-T may reset autoimmune diseases.
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – November 8, 2026Since the dramatic victories of the Democrats on Tuesday, Trump has been posting increasingly provocative material on social media in what appears to be an attempt to turn attention away from the Democrats and back to himself.
Amidst all that mess, there are signs that the president is deeply concerned about anyone getting a window into how his administration has been operating. …
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)Heather Delaney Reese:
Donald Trump is not taking it wellIdaho Learning News:
Kaitlan Collins Presses Trump on Plane-Collision Blame Claims
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Wendy Vasquez @ Tampa Free Press:
‘He Lied In An Official Record’: Judge Blasts ICE Officer For Fabricated Arrest And Perjury In Oregon
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Katie Benner, Lauren McGaughy @ NY Times:
Trump Administration Steps Into Planned Parenthood Lawsuit in Texas
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Tripp Mickle, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Julian E. Barnes, Ana Swanson @ NY Times:
Nvidia Opens Investigation Into Jensen Huang’s Relationship With Chinese SpyMr. Huang, the company’s chief executive, acknowledged on Sunday that he was intimate with a business executive who U.S. officials had determined was working for Chinese intelligence.
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neozeed @ Virtually Fun:
AI has really become the Auto-Tune of codeThe history of music production makes the comparison fascinating.
Digital recording was already commercially viable in 1972, when Nippon Columbia began releasing digitally recorded music. By 1979, Ry Cooder’s Bop Till You Drop was demonstrating what all-digital recording could do for popular music.
Then came Auto-Tune in 1997.
Chers ‘Believe’ in 1998 was the real turning point. The technology stopped hiding behind the performance and became part of the performance itself.
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Thom Hartmann:
The Myth of the Well-Armed CowboyThe power of mythology to kill…
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The January 6Memory Project
ICE Detention Expansion Tracker
A field guide to claims
Last Days in Two Nations
Climate.us
formerly Climate.gov
Climate Solutions Explorer
Have I Been Flocked?
Cleanview Data Center Traker
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
Mourning Those Who Have Died in ICE Custody
Mike Ludwig @ truthout: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
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Suffering Under President Obama
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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