Sam Newman
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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When you omit "A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol," you completely alter what Scully was describing as "marvelous." Scully was NOT just broadly marveling. He was marveling at a very specific, very important thing.
July 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM
When you omit "A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol," you completely alter what Scully was describing as "marvelous." Scully was NOT just broadly marveling. He was marveling at a very specific, very important thing.
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one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?
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Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
June 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.
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"For many, the greatest atrocity is impoliteness to others like them. So, if you want to understand who somebody thinks is most like them, look for those to whom they are least comfortable being impolite to, and what atrocities they'd like to stay silent about."
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Winning the Middle
What makes for a purity test? What makes for a big tent? Unpacking the apparently pragmatic demand that we Speak Low about fascists to beat fascism.
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June 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"For many, the greatest atrocity is impoliteness to others like them. So, if you want to understand who somebody thinks is most like them, look for those to whom they are least comfortable being impolite to, and what atrocities they'd like to stay silent about."
www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...
www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...
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I am severely in love with how the trump/musk manly-man fans are trying this “people aren’t used to seeing how masculine men argue” thing. yes bros that’s right. being a messy bitch online, that’s real alpha behavior. if Achilles were alive today he’d be in Hector’s mentions on social fucking media
June 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I am severely in love with how the trump/musk manly-man fans are trying this “people aren’t used to seeing how masculine men argue” thing. yes bros that’s right. being a messy bitch online, that’s real alpha behavior. if Achilles were alive today he’d be in Hector’s mentions on social fucking media
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just a really long sustained and, as it goes on, increasingly obviously sarcastic round of applause to every Democratic op who is still pushing the utterly failed "culture war stuff is just a distraction" narrative and using "woke" as a pejorative.
Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it.
Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it.
Democrats just flipped the Omaha mayor's office with ads like this. The right-wing obsession with genitals is starting to backfire.
May 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
just a really long sustained and, as it goes on, increasingly obviously sarcastic round of applause to every Democratic op who is still pushing the utterly failed "culture war stuff is just a distraction" narrative and using "woke" as a pejorative.
Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it.
Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it.
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At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.
April 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.
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my offer to america: we bring woke back
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
my offer to america: we bring woke back
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I had been reluctant to amplify the theory that Trump's "reciprocal tariff rate" for a given country was based on the dumb calculation: (bilateral trade deficit) divided by (imports from that country)
But now USTR has confirmed it. Brief 🧵
But now USTR has confirmed it. Brief 🧵
April 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I had been reluctant to amplify the theory that Trump's "reciprocal tariff rate" for a given country was based on the dumb calculation: (bilateral trade deficit) divided by (imports from that country)
But now USTR has confirmed it. Brief 🧵
But now USTR has confirmed it. Brief 🧵
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🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
March 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
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An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.
February 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.
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if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
January 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
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The Japanese media has long struggled with how to translate "woke." None of the proposed solutions capture the contentiousness of it in English. So I took a shot at it myself. blog.hirokoyoda.com/p/how-do-you...
How do you say “woke” in Japanese?
A slight linguistic difference illuminates big cultural ones
blog.hirokoyoda.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:10 AM
The Japanese media has long struggled with how to translate "woke." None of the proposed solutions capture the contentiousness of it in English. So I took a shot at it myself. blog.hirokoyoda.com/p/how-do-you...
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Elon: We cut so much government waste. There was one ridiculous $300 billion program called “Mole People Annual Tribute”
(the ground beneath Washington DC starts rumbling)
(the ground beneath Washington DC starts rumbling)
November 16, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Elon: We cut so much government waste. There was one ridiculous $300 billion program called “Mole People Annual Tribute”
(the ground beneath Washington DC starts rumbling)
(the ground beneath Washington DC starts rumbling)