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There’s a loneliness crisis which the media decided to treat as just as male loneliness crisis open.substack.com/pub/theargum...
The loneliness crisis isn't just male
23,000 survey results are in.
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM
There’s a loneliness crisis which the media decided to treat as just as male loneliness crisis open.substack.com/pub/theargum...
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The most disturbing presidential press conference I have ever seen.
fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
‘Blind Into Caracas’
Less than 24 hours in, members of the Trump team are celebrating victory. None of them seem to have wondered what happens a day, a month, a decade from now.
fallows.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:21 PM
The most disturbing presidential press conference I have ever seen.
fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
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My Seat Projection [usual 'it's just one poll' caveat]:
RFM: 324 (+319)
LDM: 88 (+16)
LAB: 74 (-337)
SNP: 46 (+37)
GRN: 42 (+38)
CON: 38 (-83)
PLC: 7 (+3)
Others: 12 (+7)
RFM: 324 (+319)
LDM: 88 (+16)
LAB: 74 (-337)
SNP: 46 (+37)
GRN: 42 (+38)
CON: 38 (-83)
PLC: 7 (+3)
Others: 12 (+7)
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My Seat Projection [usual 'it's just one poll' caveat]:
RFM: 324 (+319)
LDM: 88 (+16)
LAB: 74 (-337)
SNP: 46 (+37)
GRN: 42 (+38)
CON: 38 (-83)
PLC: 7 (+3)
Others: 12 (+7)
RFM: 324 (+319)
LDM: 88 (+16)
LAB: 74 (-337)
SNP: 46 (+37)
GRN: 42 (+38)
CON: 38 (-83)
PLC: 7 (+3)
Others: 12 (+7)
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October 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Early reports of a school shooting this morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis (I was baptized at the church there). As always: it's the guns. The US is the only country in the world that politically tolerates and legally ensures the routine mass slaughter of its own citizens.
It's the Guns.
America is the only rich democracy that features the routine mass slaughter of its citizens with guns. Why does this happen? The data show a really clear picture: It's the guns. Yes, it's that simple.
www.forkingpaths.co
August 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Early reports of a school shooting this morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis (I was baptized at the church there). As always: it's the guns. The US is the only country in the world that politically tolerates and legally ensures the routine mass slaughter of its own citizens.
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This really feels like a defining post of our time
August 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This really feels like a defining post of our time
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
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Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
www.wthr.com/article/news...
Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
www.wthr.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
www.wthr.com/article/news...
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FWIW, I think it's rather ironic that a lot of low-quality media studies over the last 50 years - and by "low-quality" I mean almost all of it - has concentrated on why mainstream media can't be trusted. But instead of consumers being more critical many have now turned to low quality, slop content.
I'm all for more media studies education, but never entirely convinced that "media literacy" is quite the right framing for understanding mid/disinformation or the break down of the public sphere.
July 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
FWIW, I think it's rather ironic that a lot of low-quality media studies over the last 50 years - and by "low-quality" I mean almost all of it - has concentrated on why mainstream media can't be trusted. But instead of consumers being more critical many have now turned to low quality, slop content.
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Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
July 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
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They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
New details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about response
The Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours.
www.startribune.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
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A former US special forces veteran who worked at Israel's new aid sites says is whistleblowing, saying "without question I witnessed war crimes," and saw, among other things, *tank rounds* and mortar rounds fired at crowds of unarmed civilians. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC
A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.
www.bbc.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A former US special forces veteran who worked at Israel's new aid sites says is whistleblowing, saying "without question I witnessed war crimes," and saw, among other things, *tank rounds* and mortar rounds fired at crowds of unarmed civilians. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Texas Capitol Police arrest Isaiah Martin, candidate for the
18th congressional district in Houston.
18th congressional district in Houston.
July 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Texas Capitol Police arrest Isaiah Martin, candidate for the
18th congressional district in Houston.
18th congressional district in Houston.
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🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
July 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
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It's easy to lose perspective on how bizarre and dangerous this moment is. But man, "current president posts AI-generated video of himself grinning as he orders his predecessor hauled off to prison" is some fascist, dystopian shit.
Guy who posted this tried to avoid felony charges in four jurisdictions by arguing that presidents are absolutely immune from criminal prosecution
July 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
It's easy to lose perspective on how bizarre and dangerous this moment is. But man, "current president posts AI-generated video of himself grinning as he orders his predecessor hauled off to prison" is some fascist, dystopian shit.
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If all we needed to end ignorance and inform good choices was for accurate information to be public, the internet would have solved all our epistemic problems. It didn’t.
It’s not just a matter of having or not having information. The manner in which it is understood, the speech context, matters.
It’s not just a matter of having or not having information. The manner in which it is understood, the speech context, matters.
July 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
If all we needed to end ignorance and inform good choices was for accurate information to be public, the internet would have solved all our epistemic problems. It didn’t.
It’s not just a matter of having or not having information. The manner in which it is understood, the speech context, matters.
It’s not just a matter of having or not having information. The manner in which it is understood, the speech context, matters.
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David and I are both adoptive fathers and his experience speaks to me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | ‘Superman’ Is MAGA Kryptonite
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
David and I are both adoptive fathers and his experience speaks to me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
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The US macro picture is messy right now but the UK's looks truly horrendous. BoE cut rates four times since the middle of last year and inflation is reaccelerating alongside both rising unemployment and dire productivity. And real yields continue to march higher. Just grim stuff.
July 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The US macro picture is messy right now but the UK's looks truly horrendous. BoE cut rates four times since the middle of last year and inflation is reaccelerating alongside both rising unemployment and dire productivity. And real yields continue to march higher. Just grim stuff.
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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Die Temperatur steigt, beschleunigt. Global und auch in Deutschland.
In Anlehnung an die Grafik aus der New York Times hat Frank Kaspar (DWD) diese Grafik erstellt, hier angepasst ins Wetter-Set.
#Klimakatastrophe
In Anlehnung an die Grafik aus der New York Times hat Frank Kaspar (DWD) diese Grafik erstellt, hier angepasst ins Wetter-Set.
#Klimakatastrophe
July 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Die Temperatur steigt, beschleunigt. Global und auch in Deutschland.
In Anlehnung an die Grafik aus der New York Times hat Frank Kaspar (DWD) diese Grafik erstellt, hier angepasst ins Wetter-Set.
#Klimakatastrophe
In Anlehnung an die Grafik aus der New York Times hat Frank Kaspar (DWD) diese Grafik erstellt, hier angepasst ins Wetter-Set.
#Klimakatastrophe
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#OTD 146 years ago, Agathe Lasch (1879–1942) was born 🥳 An expert on Middle Low German, she became the first woman to hold a professorship in German Philology in Germany (1923). After 1933, she was persecuted as a Jew and murdered in 1942.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
July 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
#OTD 146 years ago, Agathe Lasch (1879–1942) was born 🥳 An expert on Middle Low German, she became the first woman to hold a professorship in German Philology in Germany (1923). After 1933, she was persecuted as a Jew and murdered in 1942.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
June 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
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“You do not have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens,” Lander repeated, as the officers tightened handcuffs to his wrists.
Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court
The arrest came in his latest visit to the courthouse to speak with migrants there.
www.thecity.nyc
June 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“You do not have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens,” Lander repeated, as the officers tightened handcuffs to his wrists.