Kara Keeling
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My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
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lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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I got lots of advice, some very specific. But one thing I heard again and again: America, you are running out of time.
Here is what I learned:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Here is what I learned:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
Autocracy is no longer something that happens only in other countries.
www.theatlantic.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I got lots of advice, some very specific. But one thing I heard again and again: America, you are running out of time.
Here is what I learned:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Here is what I learned:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State - The Atlantic
March 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State - The Atlantic
This is atrocious. Shame!
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is atrocious. Shame!
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This should be getting wider circulation
Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This should be getting wider circulation
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NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...
Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
March 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...
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They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel.
www.providencejournal.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
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I don’t buy the narrative that Trump & President Musk actually WANT a shutdown. If that was the truth, they would’ve put forth an even worse bill that would 100% guarantee zero Dem votes.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
March 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I don’t buy the narrative that Trump & President Musk actually WANT a shutdown. If that was the truth, they would’ve put forth an even worse bill that would 100% guarantee zero Dem votes.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
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They are rolling out a permission structure for genocide they intend to commit
NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to start a sweeping overhaul of military lawyers to make the US less restricted by the laws of armed conflict, per ppl familiar @theguardian.com exclusive www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war
The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general’s corps
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
They are rolling out a permission structure for genocide they intend to commit
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For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
March 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Federal Agency Deletes Website Page On #DurhamNC’s Pauli Murray; Censors Other References to Queer History
Numerous National Park Service websites have been censored in recent weeks, including pages on Pauli Murray and the Stonewall Uprising
indyweek.com/culture/fede...
Numerous National Park Service websites have been censored in recent weeks, including pages on Pauli Murray and the Stonewall Uprising
indyweek.com/culture/fede...
Federal Agency Deletes Website Page On Durham's Pauli Murray; Censors Other References to Queer History
Numerous National Park Service websites have been censored in recent weeks in response to an executive order.
indyweek.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Federal Agency Deletes Website Page On #DurhamNC’s Pauli Murray; Censors Other References to Queer History
Numerous National Park Service websites have been censored in recent weeks, including pages on Pauli Murray and the Stonewall Uprising
indyweek.com/culture/fede...
Numerous National Park Service websites have been censored in recent weeks, including pages on Pauli Murray and the Stonewall Uprising
indyweek.com/culture/fede...
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FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL!!!!!
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
March 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL!!!!!
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"if they take Mahmoud in the morning, they will be coming for us that night"
This is why we must fight for everyone. Whether they’ve been incarcerated or have had contact with the criminal legal system or are merely undocumented. When you accept that some people are deserving of detention and deportation the scope of who is eligible is always under threat of expanding.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"if they take Mahmoud in the morning, they will be coming for us that night"
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"When someone talks about 'free speech' while actively working to control speech, that’s not a contradiction or a mistake — it’s the point. It’s about consolidating power while wrapping it in the language of freedom as a shield to fool the gullible and the lazy."
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
www.techdirt.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"When someone talks about 'free speech' while actively working to control speech, that’s not a contradiction or a mistake — it’s the point. It’s about consolidating power while wrapping it in the language of freedom as a shield to fool the gullible and the lazy."
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
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“We’re all having to decide what we’re going to do in a moment where we’re sort of the last person standing between a kid who should be learning in their classroom and an immigration official who’s there to take that right away from them.”
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What Happens When ICE Agents Show Up at Your High School
Undocumented students and teachers are preparing for potential arrests.
www.teenvogue.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“We’re all having to decide what we’re going to do in a moment where we’re sort of the last person standing between a kid who should be learning in their classroom and an immigration official who’s there to take that right away from them.”
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The West Bank is completely under attack and there’s been very little coverage in American media
Israeli forces have blown up an agricultural facility in Qabatiya town, south of Jenin, reports the Wafa news agency.
🔴 LIVE updates:
🔴 LIVE updates:
Fears of all-out war return in Gaza as Israel besieges northern West Bank
Hamas says it won’t rejoin truce talks until Israel releases 620 Palestinians as the Gaza ceasefire hangs by a thread.
aje.io
February 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The West Bank is completely under attack and there’s been very little coverage in American media
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Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
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This is what’s actually happening. They’re forcing federal employees to train an LLM.
The richest man in the world has parasitically imposed himself on the federal government to insist that all employees generate content for his language-processing machine, conscripted the administrative state as monkeys at typewriters, all under penalty of dismissal should they refuse.
February 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This is what’s actually happening. They’re forcing federal employees to train an LLM.
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Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com
Not a good look at all.
A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network.
www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...
Not a good look at all.
A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network.
www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...
New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out
Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin have all lost their shows.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com
Not a good look at all.
A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network.
www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...
Not a good look at all.
A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network.
www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...
I just want to give a shout out to the Governor of Maine for standing up for the citizens of Maine and for trans rights. That’s what America at its best can do. We need more people to do the same.
February 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I just want to give a shout out to the Governor of Maine for standing up for the citizens of Maine and for trans rights. That’s what America at its best can do. We need more people to do the same.
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DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
February 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
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If you live in LA go to Union Station at 9AM to protest this criminal administration
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will make an announcement at LA Union Station tomorrow on California High-Speed Rail priorities.
February 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
If you live in LA go to Union Station at 9AM to protest this criminal administration