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The King, the Beatles, and I: On Becoming British
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The King, the Beatles, and I: On Becoming British
Geniuses and Migrants Help a Culture See Itself Anew
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December 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Tried, and failed, to let this sink in: "The scale of Israel’s destruction of Gaza is higher than that in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dresden, London during the Blitz, Syria, and Iraq."
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August 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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June 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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This Saturday, June 14th, join one of the 1,800+ No Kings protests across the country. While Trump celebrates his birthday with a military parade in D.C. like a wannabe king, we'll be joining together to uphold our democracy and protect our rights! @indivisible.org #NoKingsDay
June 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
carlapower.bsky.social
Nary a mention on BBC or New York Times. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
French Muslims decry religious hatred as mosque stabbing suspect arrested
Man held in Italy over killing of worshipper in French mosque amid growing concerns over Islamophobia
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April 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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"We're in the worst crisis in the history of this country--[during the Civil War] while a bunch of states seceded and started a war, the danger as I understand was that the US would lose some of its territory, not that it would cease to be a democratic republic...which is what's going on now."
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 5
"Meanwhile the difference between reducing and eliminating all the leased space seems more or less like the difference between a haircut and the guillotine." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/maybe-you-sh...
Maybe You Should Shout Fire in a Crowded Theater (If It's On Fire): The Coup Continues Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit 05 Feb 2025 — 8 min read Yesterday the Associated Press ran a story with this sentence in it: "Last week, regional managers for the General Services Administration, or GSA, received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide, according to an email shared with The Associated Press by a GSA employee." That sentence came a little after after the opening sentence which declared that Musk and Trump were moving "to cut down on office space." So far as I can tell this means largely eliminating the federal government--for example the federal government has in my region (California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, some Pacific US territories) 170 government-owned buildings and leased space in 827 buildings. Meanwhile the difference between reducing and eliminating all the leased space seems more or less like the difference between a haircut and the guillotine. And the story, which seemed clear to me if not the AP, clarifies that Musk's apparent goal isn't to reduce the size of the federal government; it's to eliminate it. Especially if you relate it to all the other stories out there about what Musk is doing, though there's often a notion in mainstream journalism that connecting things to other things is editorializing, that the audience should be delivered facts stripped of context in the name of objectivity.
February 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Of course it’s a coup
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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February 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM