Butlerian Jihad
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Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
Here are a few things I’ve learned about how authoritarians exercise power. ( Sounds like David Brooks has finally read George Orwell's 1940 review of "Mein Kampf".)
Opinion | The Season of the Wolves
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Here are a few things I’ve learned about how authoritarians exercise power. ( Sounds like David Brooks has finally read George Orwell's 1940 review of "Mein Kampf".)
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How we’re still going to mess this up: by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
How we’re still going to mess this up: by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer
Conspiracy theories are an easy way out, the fact that Americans freely voted for this monster is much more frightening and depressing than any conspiracy theory.
So retro that people are bringing up Russian bots again as a reason why people are bigoted dickheads as opposed to accepting that polls show that at least 30% of people are just always like this and always will be
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Conspiracy theories are an easy way out, the fact that Americans freely voted for this monster is much more frightening and depressing than any conspiracy theory.
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So retro that people are bringing up Russian bots again as a reason why people are bigoted dickheads as opposed to accepting that polls show that at least 30% of people are just always like this and always will be
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
So retro that people are bringing up Russian bots again as a reason why people are bigoted dickheads as opposed to accepting that polls show that at least 30% of people are just always like this and always will be
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A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes
The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes
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The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
How ICE Spies On WhatsApp
ICE’s HSI division gets contacts from the WhatsApp account of a fake ID dealer and has little trouble identifying them, according to warrant.
www.forbes.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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Miller and Vought are the ones ruling the USA. They are stinky and vile.
October 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Miller and Vought are the ones ruling the USA. They are stinky and vile.
I’m doing it because he’s freaking out the business-as-usual power elites and driving establishment members of his own Democratic Party bananas.
Opinion | Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I’m doing it because he’s freaking out the business-as-usual power elites and driving establishment members of his own Democratic Party bananas.
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Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed
While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.
October 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed
Republicans are behaving as if they will be in power forever, and nothing they do will be reversed.
Republicans are also assuming that if Democrats regain power, they will be too spineless to employ those same tactics against Republicans.
Republicans are also assuming that if Democrats regain power, they will be too spineless to employ those same tactics against Republicans.
October 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Republicans are behaving as if they will be in power forever, and nothing they do will be reversed.
Republicans are also assuming that if Democrats regain power, they will be too spineless to employ those same tactics against Republicans.
Republicans are also assuming that if Democrats regain power, they will be too spineless to employ those same tactics against Republicans.
Something I’ve always thought. To most Americans, their “freedoms” are just abstractions.
October 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Something I’ve always thought. To most Americans, their “freedoms” are just abstractions.
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📌The White House just released this new photo of Stephen Miller because they thought it makes him look younger.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
📌The White House just released this new photo of Stephen Miller because they thought it makes him look younger.
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If "never leave your drink unattended" were a person.
October 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If "never leave your drink unattended" were a person.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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A common talking point in far right publications in the 1970s had to do with a bunch of Cold War executive orders laying out a range of “emergency powers” a POTUS could temporarily take on in a crisis. They used to say this was the blueprint for communist takeover. Turns out they were just jealous.
Trump's tweet that Portland is "war ravaged" just backfired. A Trump-picked judge cited it in blocking National Guard deployment to Portland, declaring him "untethered from facts."
On the pod, Oregon AG Dan Rayfield illuminatingly explains the ruling and what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
On the pod, Oregon AG Dan Rayfield illuminatingly explains the ruling and what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Trump’s Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss
As a judge’s blunt ruling blocks Trump from deploying troops in Portland, Oregon’s Attorney General tells us in an interview that Trump’s lawless threats are working against him—and discusses what com...
newrepublic.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A common talking point in far right publications in the 1970s had to do with a bunch of Cold War executive orders laying out a range of “emergency powers” a POTUS could temporarily take on in a crisis. They used to say this was the blueprint for communist takeover. Turns out they were just jealous.
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New Yorker cartoons nail it again.
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New Yorker cartoons nail it again.
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Turns out the constitution and bill of rights only apply if our government upholds them. Once people who spent their lives undermining it got into power that all went away.
October 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Turns out the constitution and bill of rights only apply if our government upholds them. Once people who spent their lives undermining it got into power that all went away.
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I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
The NY Times still doesn’t get it. Hurting the Civil Service is the point.
Partisan Shutdown Messages Could Hurt Civil Service, Experts Warn
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The NY Times still doesn’t get it. Hurting the Civil Service is the point.
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they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is
October 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is
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A couple of things in the latest Pew survey show how America got here.
8% of respondents never heard of Vice President J:D. Vance.
36% never heard of House Speaker Mike Johnson.
56% never heard of Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
8% of respondents never heard of Vice President J:D. Vance.
36% never heard of House Speaker Mike Johnson.
56% never heard of Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Americans view Trump, Vance and congressional leaders in both parties more negatively than positively
Democrats now express more disapproval of their congressional leadership than they have in several decades.
www.pewresearch.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A couple of things in the latest Pew survey show how America got here.
8% of respondents never heard of Vice President J:D. Vance.
36% never heard of House Speaker Mike Johnson.
56% never heard of Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
8% of respondents never heard of Vice President J:D. Vance.
36% never heard of House Speaker Mike Johnson.
56% never heard of Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...