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For folks asking if I'm going to attend Trump's joint address to Congress next week: no. Instead, I'm choosing to hear directly from Oregonians and will be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook live. Oregonians can submit questions in advance here:
Town Hall Participation Form
If you are a constituent of a lawmaker of an upcoming People's Town Hall, submit your information here! If you have questions or difficulties with the form, email info@peoplestownhall.org
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February 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Wow, New York State has agreed to stop / lift its restrictions against the use of solitary confinement for three months!

Why? prison guards went on strike demanding they be allowed to put people in solitary more easily. gothamist.com/news/ny-reac...
NY reaches tentative deal to end prison strike by suspending anti-solitary confinement law
The state said officers will escape discipline if they return to work by Saturday, and the National Guard will remain in the prisons for now.
gothamist.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The fourth book in the NYT-bestselling Proof Series has been made free to the public (click below to read).

A main character is Kash Patel. The focus is on the last time Trump tried to use the Pentagon to amplify an intended overthrow of American democracy.

It’s information all Americans need now.
Proof of Coup: How the Pentagon Shaped An Insurrection
This fourth book in the NYT-bestselling Proof series is a 250-page exposé on the January 6 coup plot at the Pentagon, with hundreds of citations, photos and videos.
sethabramson.substack.com
February 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
February 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
Just filed an article about the upcoming German elections (out on Sunday) and what strikes me is how timid much of the institutional pushback against the far-right has been. Some people have distinguished themselves but for the most part it’s just been really complacent - really disappointing.
February 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM