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Julie Stilwell
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Come for the Dick Cheney dying, stay for the Mamdani winning
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone?

Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.

They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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A question asked by the "illiteracy is good" administration met by a counter question by the people.
September 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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There is no origin story of the police without the story of the reorganization of human society by the birth, expansion, and dominance of the system of capitalism.
Policing Has Always Been a Tool to Repress the Working Class
Modern policing was born out of a series of transatlantic ruling class experiments to repress radical rebellion.
buff.ly
September 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
August 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Bad enough in its own right, but....

"the true figures could be even worse, because the models did not include the torrent of meltwater from the Greenland ice cap that is also freshening the ocean waters"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Me, 2014 after a mass shooting: "The all-star feminist team tried repeatedly to kick it through the goalposts marked Widespread Social Problems, while the opposing team, staffed by the mainstream media and mainstream dudes, was intent on getting it into the usual net called Isolated Event."
Rebecca Solnit: Our Words Are Our Weapons
<p>The feminist battle of the story in the wake of the Isla Vista massacre.</p>
www.guernicamag.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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If nothing short of revolution can salvage the possibility of a better world, and yet if a viable revolutionary-left politics is nowhere on the horizon, then what does a life of radical commitment look like in the shadow of catastrophes that will not wait?
wenstephenson.substack.com/p/learning-t...
June 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Open letter from nearly 2000 NAS member scientists: "We see real danger in this moment. We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united (...) in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."
Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...
docs.google.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I wrote a book about bureaucratic violence and if there’s one thing I wish everyone knew right now, it would be:

The people most harmed can’t tell what’s happening or why. Their lives unravel and, more often than not, they are taught to blame themselves—or other victims.
March 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Musk Forms Dept. Of Underaged Clowns Harming Everything (DOUCHE)
He boasted that he was “taking DOGE to the next level.”
open.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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"Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them. One was accidentally left on an airport luggage trolley." www.propublica.org/article/trum...
They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...
www.propublica.org
February 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM