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"Hope is a discipline." —M.Kaba
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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

Representative Sarah McBride reckons with the trans rights movement’s shortcomings, and how to win hearts and minds through a politics of grace.
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How to Beat Trump Back on Trans Rights — and Much Else | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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June 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Essay: A senior at an all boys high school on the appeal of the Tate brothers: In a confusing time for young men, they offer “answers that are appealingly simple.”
Essay | Boys at My High School Love the Tate Brothers. Here’s Why.
In this confusing time for young men, we take our role models where we can find them.
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May 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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What Was is part of how we got here. Harm and violence (including authoritarianism) do not happen in a vacuum. They occur because of conditions that create, allow for, and perpetuate them. We must not restore or reinforce the harmful and dangerous conditions that led us to this point.
It’s imperative that we understand that longing for the return to what was already an atrocity is not freeing us. We can fight for the world we want instead of begging for the previous (also) oppressive arrangement.
March 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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If you work for or are impacted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development or the Department of Transportation, @jessecoburn.bsky.social wants to hear from you.

Reach out on Signal at 917-239-6642.
February 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Several Department of Education employees told ProPublica they were directed not to contact students and schools about their pending civil rights cases.

“We’ve been essentially muzzled,” an attorney said.

By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and…
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February 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
"The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information...maybe what we really need is to start trusting each other and our own collective sense of what is true and good."

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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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February 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM