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· Jul 26
Sinéad Will Be Missed
It's been two years since her tragic death.
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Two years ago today, the world lost a hero.
RIP Sinead
Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (Live in Europe 1990)
YouTube video by SineadOConnorVEVO
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July 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
RIP Sinead
Two years ago today, the world lost a hero.
Sinéad Will Be Missed
It's been two years since her tragic death.
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July 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Two years ago today, the world lost a hero.
Matt and Trey have ‘fuck you’ money.
That’s the spirit - kick him while he’s down.
www.wired.com/story/paramo...
That’s the spirit - kick him while he’s down.
www.wired.com/story/paramo...
Paramount Has a $1.5 Billion ‘South Park’ Problem
The White House says the show is “fourth-rate” after it showed Trump with “tiny” genitals. The controversy comes just as the FCC has greenlit Paramount’s merger with Skydance and promised to end DEI.
www.wired.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Matt and Trey have ‘fuck you’ money.
That’s the spirit - kick him while he’s down.
www.wired.com/story/paramo...
That’s the spirit - kick him while he’s down.
www.wired.com/story/paramo...
“For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law OUGHT to be King; and there ought to be no other.”
- Thomas Paine, ‘Father of the American Revolution’
- Thomas Paine, ‘Father of the American Revolution’
July 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law OUGHT to be King; and there ought to be no other.”
- Thomas Paine, ‘Father of the American Revolution’
- Thomas Paine, ‘Father of the American Revolution’
Yup.
I am not feeling the 4th of July this year. It is hard to celebrate America while SCOTUS is honoring a convicted rapist as their king, letting him kidnap people, and build concentration camps. — Does anyone else feel this way?
July 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Yup.
They dodged a huge bullet
July 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
They dodged a huge bullet
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How did the poor guy mowing your lawn every two weeks become the biggest national security threat, rather than a Defense Secretary posting war plans on Signal?
July 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How did the poor guy mowing your lawn every two weeks become the biggest national security threat, rather than a Defense Secretary posting war plans on Signal?
We voted for this 🤦🏻♂️
Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all
July 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We voted for this 🤦🏻♂️
Didn’t invent it, but he’s quite good at it, I’ll give him that
Donald Trump did not invent authoritarianism, but he permitted it to shout. His reign did not end in 2021. Its logic persists in the laws, judges, slogans, and silence. He normalized cruelty and wore it like armor. The press called it 'controversial.' We call it what it was: an authoritarian grift
July 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Didn’t invent it, but he’s quite good at it, I’ll give him that
One of the most prolific—and amorphous—terrorist groups to ever curse the nation.
The Kidnapping of Dr. Hector Zevallos and the "Army of God"
One of the most prolific—and amorphous—terrorist groups to ever curse the nation.
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July 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
One of the most prolific—and amorphous—terrorist groups to ever curse the nation.
Make sure you check out the latest in my Labor Wars series! This is a jaw-dropping and monumental historical event.
Labor Wars: The Battle of Homestead
A jaw-dropping series of events.
benjamingarland.substack.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Make sure you check out the latest in my Labor Wars series! This is a jaw-dropping and monumental historical event.
"Now when a people goes so far as to commit the error of giving power to one man so that he may defeat those whom they hate, and if this man be shrewd, it will always end in his becoming their tyrant." - Niccolò Machiavelli
June 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"Now when a people goes so far as to commit the error of giving power to one man so that he may defeat those whom they hate, and if this man be shrewd, it will always end in his becoming their tyrant." - Niccolò Machiavelli
"Of course, capital can do nothing without the assistance of labor. All there is of value in the world is the product of labor. The laboring man pays all the expenses. No matter whether taxes are laid on luxuries or on the necessaries of life, labor pays every cent."
Robert G. Ingersoll on "The Labor Question"
From his 1896 booklet "How to Reform Mankind."
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June 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Of course, capital can do nothing without the assistance of labor. All there is of value in the world is the product of labor. The laboring man pays all the expenses. No matter whether taxes are laid on luxuries or on the necessaries of life, labor pays every cent."
One of the most significant events in labor history.
Labor Wars: The Haymarket Affair
One of the most significant events in labor history.
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June 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
One of the most significant events in labor history.
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I don’t think I’ll ever get over the fact that almost half of the country willingly voted to have tens of thousands of armed thugs terrorize people in the street.
June 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I don’t think I’ll ever get over the fact that almost half of the country willingly voted to have tens of thousands of armed thugs terrorize people in the street.
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I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE.
Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.
Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.
Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
June 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE.
Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.
Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.
Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
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Always a Loyalty Test. My latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/writekat...
Always a Loyalty Test
What the Trump-Leo "spat" does--and doesn't -- mean
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June 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Always a Loyalty Test. My latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/writekat...
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Modern technology has allowed all of the worst people to band together and somehow take over the country.
This article is depressing as hell.
What an absolute nightmare.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
This article is depressing as hell.
What an absolute nightmare.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
www.newyorker.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Modern technology has allowed all of the worst people to band together and somehow take over the country.
This article is depressing as hell.
What an absolute nightmare.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
This article is depressing as hell.
What an absolute nightmare.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
www.newyorker.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.
Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of.
They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.
