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Adam Tooze on Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War.
[...]An alignment between the three major petrostates – the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia – no longer looks implausible[...]
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The 2025 LRB Autumn Lecture
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October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
i suspect that they are relying on this ( see twords the end re. identification fo immigrants) www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Know Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLU
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...
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August 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
not long if this is anything to go by :"The community’s two architects — a classically trained French horn player who has livestreamed his own sex videos, and a former jazz pianist arrested but not charged for attempted murder in Ecuador...."
August 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The essence of Trump’s movement is an attack on the very concept of American citizenship. It’s the bright, red thread that runs through the entirety of its existence: from its origin in birtherism, the racist idea that there was something questionable or tainted about Barack Obama’s citizenship
July 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
March 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Quinn Slobodian has a great book on this particular libertarian obsession :
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Crack-Up Capitalism
Crack-Up Capitalism [Slobodian, Quinn] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Crack-Up Capitalism
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January 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A more realistic take taking into account his economic policies which in many ways foreshadowed Reagan's ;

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Jimmy Carter - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jimmy Carter has died. Carter was a pretty bad president and then one of the two greatest ex-presidents, along with John Quincy Adams. He’s become something of a beloved figure among liberals in the l...
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December 30, 2024 at 4:05 AM