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We should have a 2nd wave of mostly-compulsory primary education that happens somewhere in your 30's or 40's.
You are going to relearn history and reread classics, this time with the benefit of far more worldliness, and you'll interact with a broad slice of your community.
You are going to relearn history and reread classics, this time with the benefit of far more worldliness, and you'll interact with a broad slice of your community.
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 AM
We should have a 2nd wave of mostly-compulsory primary education that happens somewhere in your 30's or 40's.
You are going to relearn history and reread classics, this time with the benefit of far more worldliness, and you'll interact with a broad slice of your community.
You are going to relearn history and reread classics, this time with the benefit of far more worldliness, and you'll interact with a broad slice of your community.
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i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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Everybody talks as if this is impossible, but all Democrats need is the will to power. Which is to say, the will to admit DC as 250 states so we can rewrite the constitution at will
Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Everybody talks as if this is impossible, but all Democrats need is the will to power. Which is to say, the will to admit DC as 250 states so we can rewrite the constitution at will
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face
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right. precisely. the right as presented in the media is not even the right as it presents itself, but rather "the right as it would be fair to represent them if they were worth debating."
September 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
right. precisely. the right as presented in the media is not even the right as it presents itself, but rather "the right as it would be fair to represent them if they were worth debating."
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It is unfortunate to speak ill of a man on the occasion of his death, and I do not do so cavalierly or idly. But how much more unfortunate to live a life that calls forth such truthful condemnation.
September 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
It is unfortunate to speak ill of a man on the occasion of his death, and I do not do so cavalierly or idly. But how much more unfortunate to live a life that calls forth such truthful condemnation.
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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If you think that due process only applies to citizens then ask yourself what you would do if someone accused you of being a non citizen. Either we all have due process or no one does. The Constitution affords the former. SCOTUS has unleashed the latter.
September 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If you think that due process only applies to citizens then ask yourself what you would do if someone accused you of being a non citizen. Either we all have due process or no one does. The Constitution affords the former. SCOTUS has unleashed the latter.
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trump does not intend for the next january 6th to fail www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump order calls for broader National Guard role in domestic unrest
President Donald Trump’s National Guard directive was issued as he touts his efforts to assert control over D.C. and muses about deploying troops to other major U.S. cities.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
trump does not intend for the next january 6th to fail www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
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admit every block in Washington DC as its own state
First priorities of the 2029 trifecta:
1. Filibuster abolition
2. SCOTUS expansion and reform
3. DC + PR statehood
Go from there.
1. Filibuster abolition
2. SCOTUS expansion and reform
3. DC + PR statehood
Go from there.
August 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
admit every block in Washington DC as its own state
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we have to destroy the Republican majority on the Supreme Court or they will reinstitute Jim Crow
August 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
we have to destroy the Republican majority on the Supreme Court or they will reinstitute Jim Crow
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the reason it was extraordinarily important to persecute Trump and his sycophants under the Biden Administration is that it would have reduced Trump's support among Trump supporters. it is precisely his impunity which makes him popular among authoritarian submissives.
July 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
the reason it was extraordinarily important to persecute Trump and his sycophants under the Biden Administration is that it would have reduced Trump's support among Trump supporters. it is precisely his impunity which makes him popular among authoritarian submissives.
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You can just create a new district court that only has jurisdiction over the uninhabited bits of US Minor Outlying Islands and transfer them all over. This stuff is super flexible.
I just want to remind everyone that impeachment (which is effectively impossible in this environment because of the super-majority requirement for conviction) is NOT the only way to remove a federal judge, contrary to popular belief.
The “good behaviour” clause has never been used but it’s there.
The “good behaviour” clause has never been used but it’s there.
Bove is going to be the new Clarence Thomas, but worse (until he gets elevated): A petulant, vindictive asshole who is going to use the bench to make up for his moral emptiness and deep sense of inadequacy
July 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
You can just create a new district court that only has jurisdiction over the uninhabited bits of US Minor Outlying Islands and transfer them all over. This stuff is super flexible.
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The most infuriating thing about the whole "mental acuity" stuff isn't the rank double standard, it's that even if the absolute worst case scenario with Biden were true, he would still be a better president than Trump, an out-and-out fascist.
July 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The most infuriating thing about the whole "mental acuity" stuff isn't the rank double standard, it's that even if the absolute worst case scenario with Biden were true, he would still be a better president than Trump, an out-and-out fascist.
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the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
Emil Bove has been confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
July 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
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we need to turn Marco Rubio over to the Hague for sending people to CECOT
July 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
we need to turn Marco Rubio over to the Hague for sending people to CECOT
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“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”
July 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”
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i'm reading this charles sumner speech from february 1866 and my dude is cooking
July 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
i'm reading this charles sumner speech from february 1866 and my dude is cooking
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Wonder if there's a lesson in this. Oh well, probably not
Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool
June 4, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Wonder if there's a lesson in this. Oh well, probably not
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If we're ever going to have a chance of rebuilding from this mess, the left-right axis is far less important than the fight-don't fight axis. Moderates who are willing to do whatever it takes to recover from Trumpism are far more valuable to the left than "leftists" who just care about their seats.
tester was far to the right of my preferences and i have never said a negative word about him. so is peltola. gillibrand is far to both of their left and i'll be donating to the first person who tries to primary her out of office.
May 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
If we're ever going to have a chance of rebuilding from this mess, the left-right axis is far less important than the fight-don't fight axis. Moderates who are willing to do whatever it takes to recover from Trumpism are far more valuable to the left than "leftists" who just care about their seats.
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the reason that i am so insistent on primaries is that the supreme court will have to be expanded and the votes will be, at best, tight, and no one in a solid blue seat should be a vote which is even vaguely in question
May 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
the reason that i am so insistent on primaries is that the supreme court will have to be expanded and the votes will be, at best, tight, and no one in a solid blue seat should be a vote which is even vaguely in question