Matthew G.
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When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
June 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
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'Moral ugliness': Ex-official shreds Trump move after hearing 'worst lie I've ever heard'
'Moral ugliness': Ex-official shreds Trump move after hearing 'worst lie I've ever heard'
President Donald Trump's new "refugee resettlement" program for white Afrikaners from South Africa was slammed by a former State Department official in the Obama administration and a former editor for Time Magazine during a segment on MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace on Monday afternoon, calling it "deepl...
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May 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
'Moral ugliness': Ex-official shreds Trump move after hearing 'worst lie I've ever heard'
The Gilded Cage: Why America's Retreat from Openness Dims the Promise of a Golden Age clight.us/2025/05/04/t...
The Gilded Cage: Why America’s Retreat from Openness Dims the Promise of a Golden Age
The President promised a ‘Golden Age’ in America. We’re not going to get one. Here’s why.
clight.us
May 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The Gilded Cage: Why America's Retreat from Openness Dims the Promise of a Golden Age clight.us/2025/05/04/t...
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Federal Regulators Hold Celebratory Seatbelt-Cutting Ceremony
April 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Federal Regulators Hold Celebratory Seatbelt-Cutting Ceremony
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It is not enough to cite year-to-year removal statistics from federal databases.
The Trump administration wants to be seen arresting immigrants, jailing immigrants, and deporting immigrants.
The Trump administration wants to be seen arresting immigrants, jailing immigrants, and deporting immigrants.
Trump’s War on Immigrants Has Become an Attack on Us All
What began as Trump’s mass deportation scheme has spiraled into a campaign of intimidation against citizens lawfully using their rights.
newrepublic.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It is not enough to cite year-to-year removal statistics from federal databases.
The Trump administration wants to be seen arresting immigrants, jailing immigrants, and deporting immigrants.
The Trump administration wants to be seen arresting immigrants, jailing immigrants, and deporting immigrants.
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There is one set of campaign promises Trump's fulfilling: shredding the Constitution to award friends and round up enemies.
Who Were Those Gullible People Who Believed Donald Trump’s Bullsh*t?
His campaign promises, from peace in Ukraine to “beautiful” tariffs, were truly unbelievable. And yet, somehow, many people believed him.
newrepublic.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
There is one set of campaign promises Trump's fulfilling: shredding the Constitution to award friends and round up enemies.
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Politically, the real pop culture contest today isn’t about who has the best entertainment franchise—it’s between who can effectively move their audience: Rogan or MrBeast?
How the Radical Right Captured the Culture
Blame Hollywood’s “unwokening” and the extraordinary rise of right-wing podcasters on slop: intellectually bereft, emotionally sterile content that’s shaped by data and optimized for clicks.
newrepublic.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Politically, the real pop culture contest today isn’t about who has the best entertainment franchise—it’s between who can effectively move their audience: Rogan or MrBeast?
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Research and experts are clear: “It is just common sense that in order to have the best science, we need the broadest, most inclusive environment for scientists.”
The dire consequences of science without DEI
"We are very much at risk of losing an entire generation of researchers."
www.motherjones.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Research and experts are clear: “It is just common sense that in order to have the best science, we need the broadest, most inclusive environment for scientists.”
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"Without steady support for scientific research and the academic institutions that generate it, without the rule of law that sustains constant innovation and capital risk-taking, our country’s ability to advance new industries will be greatly diminished." www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musk-is...
Elon Musk Is Working His Hardest to Make a Chinese Century
The Ketamine Koup will make America a mediocre backwater.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 18, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"Without steady support for scientific research and the academic institutions that generate it, without the rule of law that sustains constant innovation and capital risk-taking, our country’s ability to advance new industries will be greatly diminished." www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musk-is...
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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
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They're not fascists, they just think we're in a state of exception due to the pollution of the polity and citizen body by undesirable racial elements whose removal is of such paramount importance that it transcends the dictates of the law, justified by their embodiment of the Will of the People.
jd vance just tweeted this
"What process is due" the fucking constitution
"What process is due" the fucking constitution
April 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
They're not fascists, they just think we're in a state of exception due to the pollution of the polity and citizen body by undesirable racial elements whose removal is of such paramount importance that it transcends the dictates of the law, justified by their embodiment of the Will of the People.
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To read the late political scientist James C. Scott “is to feel the fatalistic sense that civilization may have been botched from the beginning,” Nikil Saval writes. “But it is also to be hopeful.” nyer.cm/94gfOpG
April 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
To read the late political scientist James C. Scott “is to feel the fatalistic sense that civilization may have been botched from the beginning,” Nikil Saval writes. “But it is also to be hopeful.” nyer.cm/94gfOpG
My 18 month old daughter leveled up this week. She started speaking in sentences and she is now correctly pronouncing words she used to fumble! A feather could have knocked me over after she said, "I love you Daddy!" for the first time.
April 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
My 18 month old daughter leveled up this week. She started speaking in sentences and she is now correctly pronouncing words she used to fumble! A feather could have knocked me over after she said, "I love you Daddy!" for the first time.
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This is the perfect place to start if you're looking for a new game. We’ve spent years researching, learning, teaching, and playing more than 150 games to find the best options for different players and situations. nyti.ms/3GbJFWV
April 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is the perfect place to start if you're looking for a new game. We’ve spent years researching, learning, teaching, and playing more than 150 games to find the best options for different players and situations. nyti.ms/3GbJFWV
It's important to note that "meritocracy" plays a central role in fascist ideology. Fascists hold a distorted view of meritocracy which they define as having the correct ethnic genes (traditionally white), being male, and successful in business.
February 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It's important to note that "meritocracy" plays a central role in fascist ideology. Fascists hold a distorted view of meritocracy which they define as having the correct ethnic genes (traditionally white), being male, and successful in business.
This is being charitable.
February 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is being charitable.
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So far the war on so-called "DEI" - has come for
- women at the CIA who want to get together and celebrate women spies
- people at the Defense Intelligence Agency who want to observe...Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- apparently, any federal celebration of...Black History Month.
- women at the CIA who want to get together and celebrate women spies
- people at the Defense Intelligence Agency who want to observe...Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- apparently, any federal celebration of...Black History Month.
January 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So far the war on so-called "DEI" - has come for
- women at the CIA who want to get together and celebrate women spies
- people at the Defense Intelligence Agency who want to observe...Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- apparently, any federal celebration of...Black History Month.
- women at the CIA who want to get together and celebrate women spies
- people at the Defense Intelligence Agency who want to observe...Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- apparently, any federal celebration of...Black History Month.
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
November 21, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
