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I have wondered for a long time which mattered more: reality, or the online perception of reality. If people whose children die still don't believe in vaccines, then we have the answer.
July 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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"Vladimir Putin is not looking for a cease-fire, and he does not want to negotiate. Why? Because he believes that he can win. Thanks to the actions of the U.S. government, he still thinks that he can conquer all of Ukraine"

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Great Realignment
Trump is giving the Russian dictator every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.
www.theatlantic.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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This is very good. The outline of the New Dark Age emerges
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Feudalism Is Our Future
What the next Dark Ages could look like
www.theatlantic.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too.
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
February 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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January 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. CARL SAGAN
January 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . .
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
Auschwitz is liberated | January 27, 1945 | HISTORY
The Soviet Red Army enters Auschwitz, Poland, and liberates the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally reveals to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.
www.history.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM