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Setting aside that the emoluments clause, are companies not risking bribery charges themselves?
President Trump and Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, announced Wednesday that Apple would invest an additional $100 billion in the U.S., after Cook presented Trump with a 24-karat gold gift and lavished him with praise. Read more: nyti.ms/3J2VVue
August 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Setting aside that the emoluments clause, are companies not risking bribery charges themselves?
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For the overwhelming majority of people who practice it, sports is not about competition. It's about social belonging. Once you understand that, the reason why transphobes want to ban trans women from it even outside of competition and even in disciplines like darts is pretty obvious.
August 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
For the overwhelming majority of people who practice it, sports is not about competition. It's about social belonging. Once you understand that, the reason why transphobes want to ban trans women from it even outside of competition and even in disciplines like darts is pretty obvious.
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Building *slows* gentrification; and *not* building makes it much worse: "The findings suggest that not allowing more homes to be built—even for high-income residents—pushes up all rents, making it harder for low-income tenants to remain in their neighborhoods." -- www.pew.org/en/research-...
New Housing Slows Rent Growth Most for Older, More Affordable Units
The nationwide housing shortage has driven rents up more in low-income neighborhoods than in the U.S. overall, but in areas that have recently added large amounts of housing, rents have fallen the mos...
www.pew.org
August 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Building *slows* gentrification; and *not* building makes it much worse: "The findings suggest that not allowing more homes to be built—even for high-income residents—pushes up all rents, making it harder for low-income tenants to remain in their neighborhoods." -- www.pew.org/en/research-...
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Seeing Kamala Harris openly say that the system is broken was so powerful.
Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.
Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.
August 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Seeing Kamala Harris openly say that the system is broken was so powerful.
Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.
Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.
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There’s evidence that repeatedly hearing a lie (EVEN WHEN TOLD IT IS A LIE) makes you more likely to believe it, so reposting rightwing videos to dunk on them may actually aid them in propagandizing.
The point of propaganda isn’t to persuade by being compelling—it’s to exhaust your reasoning.
The point of propaganda isn’t to persuade by being compelling—it’s to exhaust your reasoning.
I understand the utility of posting clips of rightwing media where people say dumb factually incorrect things but I’ve kind of gotten to the point where it’s like “yep still lying, why would I watch this again?”
July 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
There’s evidence that repeatedly hearing a lie (EVEN WHEN TOLD IT IS A LIE) makes you more likely to believe it, so reposting rightwing videos to dunk on them may actually aid them in propagandizing.
The point of propaganda isn’t to persuade by being compelling—it’s to exhaust your reasoning.
The point of propaganda isn’t to persuade by being compelling—it’s to exhaust your reasoning.
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“He won’t win!”
“They won’t overturn Roe!”
“ICE won’t arrest US citizens!”
“They won’t cut Medicare and Medicaid!”
“They aren’t mainstreaming fascism in pop culture!”
“They won’t overturn Roe!”
“ICE won’t arrest US citizens!”
“They won’t cut Medicare and Medicaid!”
“They aren’t mainstreaming fascism in pop culture!”
July 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“He won’t win!”
“They won’t overturn Roe!”
“ICE won’t arrest US citizens!”
“They won’t cut Medicare and Medicaid!”
“They aren’t mainstreaming fascism in pop culture!”
“They won’t overturn Roe!”
“ICE won’t arrest US citizens!”
“They won’t cut Medicare and Medicaid!”
“They aren’t mainstreaming fascism in pop culture!”
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The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving.
We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!
www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...
We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!
www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
July 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving.
We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!
www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...
We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!
www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...
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I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This is such a fantastic essay that has put into words something I have felt strongly for many years.
“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This is such a fantastic essay that has put into words something I have felt strongly for many years.
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It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
July 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
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Too many people - Jews included, myself included until fairly recently - don't realize the truth of what antisemitism is: It's not the belief that Jews are evil. It's the belief that anything evil is somehow, even if secretly, Jewish. That's why we can be Oligarchs and Marxists at the same time.
... on antisemitism is meaningless. The material flows across boundaries, creates alliances across otherwise insurmountable barriers - to categorize antisemitism (or any other bigotry, for that matter - I saw this with Islamophobia, among other things, in the same abyss session) as left or right
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July 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Too many people - Jews included, myself included until fairly recently - don't realize the truth of what antisemitism is: It's not the belief that Jews are evil. It's the belief that anything evil is somehow, even if secretly, Jewish. That's why we can be Oligarchs and Marxists at the same time.
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cw antisemitism
I stared into the abyss last night; it was a big mistake.
As I'm burning my last bridges with Twitter, I checked on some antisemitic networks I'd gotten a glimpse of... after that I could not sleep.
Let me at least share a few insights.
1) the left/right distinction...
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I stared into the abyss last night; it was a big mistake.
As I'm burning my last bridges with Twitter, I checked on some antisemitic networks I'd gotten a glimpse of... after that I could not sleep.
Let me at least share a few insights.
1) the left/right distinction...
1/5
July 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
cw antisemitism
I stared into the abyss last night; it was a big mistake.
As I'm burning my last bridges with Twitter, I checked on some antisemitic networks I'd gotten a glimpse of... after that I could not sleep.
Let me at least share a few insights.
1) the left/right distinction...
1/5
I stared into the abyss last night; it was a big mistake.
As I'm burning my last bridges with Twitter, I checked on some antisemitic networks I'd gotten a glimpse of... after that I could not sleep.
Let me at least share a few insights.
1) the left/right distinction...
1/5
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my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.
you are SUPPOSED to signal virtue. The actual argument, such as it exists, is that people are signaling virtue while not actually being virtuous. But you are supposed to signal virtue and BE VIRTUOUS.
Really was one of the dumbest and most harmful things possible for “virtue signaling” to become some kind of epithet. Sending externally visible signals that you are engaging in pro-social behavior is normal, natural, and good, it’s how society works. Other people can’t read your fucking mind.
July 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.
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🚨Federal judge orders DHS to limit “roving patrols” in Los Angeles.
The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.
The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.
July 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
🚨Federal judge orders DHS to limit “roving patrols” in Los Angeles.
The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.
The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.
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Okay right I am in a cafe feeding both of us so let’s talk about this. It’s one of those things where it almost seems reasonable, at first: why *shouldn’t* breastfeeding be discreet? Let’s unpack that because it’s not actually reasonable.
I am going to wake up and drink my coffee and run my errands and then I am going to give you all a talk about this specific strain of misogyny because wow it is pervasive
July 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Okay right I am in a cafe feeding both of us so let’s talk about this. It’s one of those things where it almost seems reasonable, at first: why *shouldn’t* breastfeeding be discreet? Let’s unpack that because it’s not actually reasonable.
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There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.
July 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.
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one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.
The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion."
But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
in addition to his "shylocks" comment, i can't imagine the media backlash if Biden said anything like from this screenshot - that he "hates Republicans" - and i'm also tired of having this "IMAGINE IF BIDEN!" thought experiment but it's just a constant reminder of the double standards
July 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.
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“Plaintiff Abrego Garcia repeatedly observed prisoners in nearby cells who he understood to be gang members violently harm each other with no intervention…Screams from nearby cells would similarly ring out throughout the night without any
response from prison guards…”
response from prison guards…”
July 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“Plaintiff Abrego Garcia repeatedly observed prisoners in nearby cells who he understood to be gang members violently harm each other with no intervention…Screams from nearby cells would similarly ring out throughout the night without any
response from prison guards…”
response from prison guards…”
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“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”
July 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”
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NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland.
Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”
Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”
July 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland.
Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”
Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”
I wanna know if people were like “we can always tell” with Jews.
July 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I wanna know if people were like “we can always tell” with Jews.
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Hmm. Where have I seen that in the New York Times before...
June 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Hmm. Where have I seen that in the New York Times before...
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1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government.
It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering."
He was warned of arrest.
They marched anyway.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering."
He was warned of arrest.
They marched anyway.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
200,000 March In Budapest Pride, Refusing To Capitulate To Anti-LGBTQ+ Law
The march can teach the world the power of organized solidarity in the wake of a global, anti-LGBTQ+ reactionary movement.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government.
It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering."
He was warned of arrest.
They marched anyway.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering."
He was warned of arrest.
They marched anyway.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
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The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others
Sotomayor, in dissent, correctly says that today's decision in Mahmoud will lead public schools to simply censor books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes, creating "chaos" and stigmatizing children with LGBTQ families. This decision will lead to book bans.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others