Journalist/journo prof. Publisher: “The Croton Chronicle” thecrotonchronicle.substack.… and “Words for the Wise” michaelbalter.substack.com
Joined September 2008
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25 Art Shows Reckoning With the US at 250 hyperallergic.com/25-art-sho…
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Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right [habeas corpus] nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/po…
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Inside the Trump administration’s rapid rollback of gun regulations washingtonpost.com/national-…
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Of course they were trying to trademark the 'Trump Kennedy Center' name. OF COURSE THEY WERE. Never miss an opportunity to grift. 🙄
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BREAKING: Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address at commencement Sunday.
The walkout was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid as a protest against Google’s contracts with the IDF, Dept. of Homeland Security, and ICE.
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Leading medical journal The Lancet publishes call to expel Israeli Medical Association over Gaza genocide
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Medical journal The Lancet has published a petition calling for the Israeli Medical Association to be boycotted and expelled from the World Medical Association over its failure to condemn what the petition describes as Israel's genocide against Palestinians and the collapse of Gaza's healthcare system.
The campaign, launched by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, and Doctors for Gaza, has so far received support from more than 1,150 healthcare professionals and medical organizations. The call for expulsion is expected to be raised at the World Medical Association's general assembly in October.
The Israeli Medical Association opposed the move, arguing that its expulsion would not advance peace, healthcare, or human rights, and would instead create a precedent for using political pressure campaigns to isolate healthcare workers based on their nationality.
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There you have it. Anthropic's CEO said it: The murder of more than 100 schoolgirls in Minab targeted by Anthropic's CLAUDE "is a use case that doesn't even violate our red lines." Time to rise up against these technofeudal war criminals.
CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei awkwardly smiles through his answer to a question about why Claude AI directly contributed to the US Military bombing of the elementary school in Minab.
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Israeli doctors to Netanyahu: Israel 'severely damages' West Bank health system | Amira Hass haaretz.com/middle-east-news…
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When Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, prison officials had the former Honduran president's ICE hold lifted and he was driven to a posh New York hotel.
That “can never be allowed to happen ever again,” said Rep. Norma Torres.
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Judge blocks Trump’s efforts to whitewash history as “censorship” at national parks. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Thousands of Palestinians buried under rubble in Gaza 'may never be identified', says Red Cross
Gaza's 61.5 million tonnes of debris is 20 times more than all conflict-generated rubble in the strip since 2008
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More than half the Civil Rights Division lawyers have left. One in five Criminal Division lawyers. The National Security Division lost most of its senior terrorism and espionage attorneys.
"Mole people, just trying to stay out of the eye of leadership."
That's what's left of the Justice Department.
"The Department of Revenge" pulls back the curtain on President Trump’s Justice Department and the way he has used it as a tool to settle political scores. to.pbs.org/3QC7e0r
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Israel is destroying every single home in the southern 40 miles of Lebanon.
This is not “targeting Hezbollah strongholds.”
These are Christian villages and Sunni villages and Shia villages where people have lived for centuries.
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Trump officials claim that they are splitting up families for the children’s benefit. But lawyers who work with unaccompanied children paint a remarkably different picture.
The administration isn’t saving kids—it’s separating them from loved ones and putting them in detention for months on end. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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Pirro’s tough-on-crime approach is undercut by acquittals and mistrials - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/national-…
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Judge blocks Trump national parks order, calling it ‘censorship’ - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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La famille du journaliste Christophe Gleizes, détenu en Algérie, regrette le silence des stars du football français lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2…
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Emil Bove told career prosecutors: sign this motion and you'll be promoted.
The person who signed now runs the section.
Bove told Congress he didn't do that.
Barrett has the recording. Barrett talked to people who watched Bove testify.
They believed he wasn't telling the truth.
"The Department of Revenge" pulls back the curtain on President Trump’s Justice Department and the way he has used it as a tool to settle political scores. to.pbs.org/3QC7e0r
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Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
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