@julius-sneezer.bsky.social
@jonathanhaidt.bsky.social I found your 2022 “After Babel” artice in The Atlantic to be highly insightful and prescient. Obviously much societal deterioration has occurred since you wrote it. Our ability to execute on your prescriptions now seems even more unlikely. Do you see any signs of hope?
July 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
@jonathanhaidt.bsky.social I found your 2022 “After Babel” artice in The Atlantic to be highly insightful and prescient. Obviously much societal deterioration has occurred since you wrote it. Our ability to execute on your prescriptions now seems even more unlikely. Do you see any signs of hope?
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Action item 👇
This is something we can all do.👇🏼
File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.
File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.
April 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Action item 👇
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My translation of a viral Japanese meme summarizing decades of U.S. complaints about Japan not buying enough American cars (while not making the kind of cars Japanese consumers actually want):
April 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
My translation of a viral Japanese meme summarizing decades of U.S. complaints about Japan not buying enough American cars (while not making the kind of cars Japanese consumers actually want):
Anyone care to explain why the “DEI hires” of the last administration are so much more competent than Dump’s “best people”?
March 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Anyone care to explain why the “DEI hires” of the last administration are so much more competent than Dump’s “best people”?
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Seeing those men being paraded in shackles, heads shaved, heads down sent to a random country and we have no list of names, proof of criminality, or even proof of nationality is terrifying. El Salvador agreeing to keep them as long as the US keeps paying is terrifying. It could be any one of us next
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Seeing those men being paraded in shackles, heads shaved, heads down sent to a random country and we have no list of names, proof of criminality, or even proof of nationality is terrifying. El Salvador agreeing to keep them as long as the US keeps paying is terrifying. It could be any one of us next
I think this up-to-date adaptation of the Martin Niemöller quote is worth sharing:
First they came for Mahmoud Khalil… a Syrian, and a Palestinian sympathizer, so I shrugged and I said nothing…
Then they came for Ranjani Srinivasan, but she was Indian… therefore I kept my head down…
First they came for Mahmoud Khalil… a Syrian, and a Palestinian sympathizer, so I shrugged and I said nothing…
Then they came for Ranjani Srinivasan, but she was Indian… therefore I kept my head down…
March 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I think this up-to-date adaptation of the Martin Niemöller quote is worth sharing:
First they came for Mahmoud Khalil… a Syrian, and a Palestinian sympathizer, so I shrugged and I said nothing…
Then they came for Ranjani Srinivasan, but she was Indian… therefore I kept my head down…
First they came for Mahmoud Khalil… a Syrian, and a Palestinian sympathizer, so I shrugged and I said nothing…
Then they came for Ranjani Srinivasan, but she was Indian… therefore I kept my head down…
Don’t these people (especially attorneys) have any shame about lying so brazenly to the court?
…this is insane????
March 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Don’t these people (especially attorneys) have any shame about lying so brazenly to the court?
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America is *so* stupid.
March 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
America is *so* stupid.
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March 13, 2025:
March 13, 2025
Stocks fell again today.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
March 13, 2025:
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A humiliation at the White House and what does it tell us? Trump would make a colony of my country
By Andrey Kurkov
A cold reality hit us in Washington. Zelenskyy was being forced to buy hope of survival by people who have no care for our freedom
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
By Andrey Kurkov
A cold reality hit us in Washington. Zelenskyy was being forced to buy hope of survival by people who have no care for our freedom
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A humiliation at the White House and what does it tell us? Trump would make a colony of my country | Andrey Kurkov
A cold reality hit us in Washington. Zelenskyy was being forced to buy hope of survival by people who have no care for our freedom, says Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
A humiliation at the White House and what does it tell us? Trump would make a colony of my country
By Andrey Kurkov
A cold reality hit us in Washington. Zelenskyy was being forced to buy hope of survival by people who have no care for our freedom
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
By Andrey Kurkov
A cold reality hit us in Washington. Zelenskyy was being forced to buy hope of survival by people who have no care for our freedom
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.
March 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.
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USAID used to purchase $2 billion worth of rice, wheat, lentils, and peas from American farmers—until Elon wiped them out. Makes you wonder who most of those farmers voted for…
February 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
USAID used to purchase $2 billion worth of rice, wheat, lentils, and peas from American farmers—until Elon wiped them out. Makes you wonder who most of those farmers voted for…
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February 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Say it with me
If you haven't yet read JVL's piece from yesterday about why Trump would want to fire the archivist of the United States, who heads the National Archives and Records Administration, you should, especially now that it's actually happened.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-story-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-story-...
February 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Say it with me
Fox News is no longer pretending to be anything other than state-run propaganda TV.
www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-fin...
www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-fin...
Fox News Finds New Way to Kiss the Ring With Lara Trump Show
No sitting president’s relative has hosted a network show before.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Fox News is no longer pretending to be anything other than state-run propaganda TV.
www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-fin...
www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-fin...
This is how our mainstream media would cover what the Trump Administration is doing if it were happening in any other country:
The US media has failed this week. We would much better understand the current coup and installation of Musk’s junta if the media was covering it overseas. My attempt at such a clear-eyed dispatch: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
February 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is how our mainstream media would cover what the Trump Administration is doing if it were happening in any other country:
When you’ve managed to make Canadians hate you, you’ve definitely hit the bottom of the barrel.
apnews.com/article/fans...
apnews.com/article/fans...
Fans at Raptors game continue trend of booing US national anthem at pro sporting events in Canada
Fans at a Toronto Raptors game have continued an emerging trend of booing the American national anthem at pro sporting events in Canada.
apnews.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
When you’ve managed to make Canadians hate you, you’ve definitely hit the bottom of the barrel.
apnews.com/article/fans...
apnews.com/article/fans...
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Toronto Raptors Fans Boo US National Anthem
YouTube video by TMB
youtu.be
February 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Don't Believe Him #ABlueView🧵1/3
Ezra Klein brilliance:
"Trump has never wanted to be president... He has always wanted to be king. His plan this time is to 1st play king on TV. If we believe he's already king, we will be likelier to let him govern as a king. Don’t believe him"
Ezra Klein brilliance:
"Trump has never wanted to be president... He has always wanted to be king. His plan this time is to 1st play king on TV. If we believe he's already king, we will be likelier to let him govern as a king. Don’t believe him"
February 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Don't Believe Him #ABlueView🧵1/3
Ezra Klein brilliance:
"Trump has never wanted to be president... He has always wanted to be king. His plan this time is to 1st play king on TV. If we believe he's already king, we will be likelier to let him govern as a king. Don’t believe him"
Ezra Klein brilliance:
"Trump has never wanted to be president... He has always wanted to be king. His plan this time is to 1st play king on TV. If we believe he's already king, we will be likelier to let him govern as a king. Don’t believe him"
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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
February 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
Trump and Musk have been busy 1) firing Inspectors General, 2) cutting off managers’ access to systems, 3) firing cybersecurity leaders, 4) secretly modifying critical systems that handle personnel and the flow of all federal funds and payments. Could the goal simply be garden variety Grand Larceny?
February 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Trump and Musk have been busy 1) firing Inspectors General, 2) cutting off managers’ access to systems, 3) firing cybersecurity leaders, 4) secretly modifying critical systems that handle personnel and the flow of all federal funds and payments. Could the goal simply be garden variety Grand Larceny?