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Comments (by Sarah Canzoneri) in the tradition of my late mother, Faire Edwards, long-time social activist. My opinions, but I'm sure she'd approve.
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A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
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Part of why this stuff keeps getting underreported is that our media class can’t get it through their thick heads that this is not a weightless debate over political ideology, but a declaration of war on over 100 million Americans, which DHS is announcing an intent to eliminate
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Part of why this stuff keeps getting underreported is that our media class can’t get it through their thick heads that this is not a weightless debate over political ideology, but a declaration of war on over 100 million Americans, which DHS is announcing an intent to eliminate
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Sheila Bair: "The administration is right to blame the Fed for the high costs of housing, but this is not because it has kept mortgage rates too high. It is because it kept them too low and for too long in years past"
Trump needs to tackle housing supply, not mortgage rates
A focus on cutting interest costs only fuels home price inflation, hitting working families
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Sheila Bair: "The administration is right to blame the Fed for the high costs of housing, but this is not because it has kept mortgage rates too high. It is because it kept them too low and for too long in years past"
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
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Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
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This is a good piece of analysis, one that doesn’t give into doomerism
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
This is a good piece of analysis, one that doesn’t give into doomerism
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Some context from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on what KBJ is doing www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Some context from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on what KBJ is doing www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
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Huh. Imagine that.
NEW: Judges around the country are citing an unexpected source to free ICE detainees:
The Laken Riley Act
They're finding ICE's mass detention agenda is SO broad it could actually "nullify" the controversial law.
cc @courthousenews.bsky.social
The Laken Riley Act
They're finding ICE's mass detention agenda is SO broad it could actually "nullify" the controversial law.
cc @courthousenews.bsky.social
How the Laken Riley Act is working against ICE to free some noncitizens
Judges around the country are citing the GOP-backed immigration law, designed to detain more noncitizens, to free them instead.
www.courthousenews.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Huh. Imagine that.
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Cannot say enough: the Trump administration actively chose to illegally withhold SNAP benefits in November, pretending they weren’t allowed to deliver benefits this month despite their own guidance from September 30 saying they could — guidance they deleted on October 23.
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Cannot say enough: the Trump administration actively chose to illegally withhold SNAP benefits in November, pretending they weren’t allowed to deliver benefits this month despite their own guidance from September 30 saying they could — guidance they deleted on October 23.
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Looking forward to reading this!
What makes ordinary people believe extraordinary things?
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October 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Looking forward to reading this!
Important because it’s such fun. And right now we all need fun. (As well as fall fruit.)
🚨🍐 Important thread 🚨🍐
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
October 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Important because it’s such fun. And right now we all need fun. (As well as fall fruit.)
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And keep in mind that a LOT of folks aren't officially RSVPing out of concern over tracking/etc.
You don't have to "register"...you can just, y'know, show up.
You don't have to "register"...you can just, y'know, show up.
SCOOP: No Kings organizers tell MeidasTouch that RSVPs for the "No Kings" rallies have more than doubled since Mike Johnson and Republicans started attacking them
October 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
And keep in mind that a LOT of folks aren't officially RSVPing out of concern over tracking/etc.
You don't have to "register"...you can just, y'know, show up.
You don't have to "register"...you can just, y'know, show up.
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NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
October 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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Weird how that didn’t make the cut.
October 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Weird how that didn’t make the cut.
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Trump White House & Congressional GOP have reached historic levels of "drunk on their own wine." Stephen Miller sees no problem referring to federal judges—including some appointed by Trump—as "terrorists," and zero Republicans complain.
I dunno, man, seems a rather imprudent thing to do.
I dunno, man, seems a rather imprudent thing to do.
more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold
October 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Trump White House & Congressional GOP have reached historic levels of "drunk on their own wine." Stephen Miller sees no problem referring to federal judges—including some appointed by Trump—as "terrorists," and zero Republicans complain.
I dunno, man, seems a rather imprudent thing to do.
I dunno, man, seems a rather imprudent thing to do.
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This is correct.
If you heard someone in an assisted-living facility rambling on this way, you'd be talking with the doctors about appropriate next levels of care.
No kidding.
And every officer in the room has to realize it.
If you heard someone in an assisted-living facility rambling on this way, you'd be talking with the doctors about appropriate next levels of care.
No kidding.
And every officer in the room has to realize it.
September 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is correct.
If you heard someone in an assisted-living facility rambling on this way, you'd be talking with the doctors about appropriate next levels of care.
No kidding.
And every officer in the room has to realize it.
If you heard someone in an assisted-living facility rambling on this way, you'd be talking with the doctors about appropriate next levels of care.
No kidding.
And every officer in the room has to realize it.
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Here's the Nation article by @espiers.bsky.social that JD Vance falsely describes as an example of celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder -- and which he cites as a reason to go after Soros and the Ford Foundation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Here's the Nation article by @espiers.bsky.social that JD Vance falsely describes as an example of celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder -- and which he cites as a reason to go after Soros and the Ford Foundation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Great thread. Great piece.
Sunday reading: The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire
I wrote about the murder of Charlie Kirk, political violence in the United States, and the Trumpists’ desire to find a pretext for purges and mass arrests.
This week’s piece:
I wrote about the murder of Charlie Kirk, political violence in the United States, and the Trumpists’ desire to find a pretext for purges and mass arrests.
This week’s piece:
The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire
The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink
thomaszimmer.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Great thread. Great piece.
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
September 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
Excellent piece. Do read it.
Sometimes, you end up living in the world you worked so hard to create. And in that world, the bullets are flying
Charlie Kirk Is Dead
and we are burdened by what has been
www.bannedinyourstate.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Excellent piece. Do read it.
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“Do we need calm and peace and unity? Yes, we do. But over 77 million Americans chose to give the nation’s loudest megaphone to a man dedicated to sowing conflict, stoking fear and intensifying a climate of violence.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
Snapshot: Trump’s Speech Escalates the Conflict
No, his Oval Office remarks were not a surprise, but they are a tragedy for a country on edge
www.americaamerica.news
September 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“Do we need calm and peace and unity? Yes, we do. But over 77 million Americans chose to give the nation’s loudest megaphone to a man dedicated to sowing conflict, stoking fear and intensifying a climate of violence.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...