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I’ll admit, I was slow to appreciate Bernie Sanders leadership but it is crystal clear to me now. He has done more to defend and advance core values that should guide US politics than almost any other politician of this century. And now @aoc.bsky.social has joined him in that role. Is Mamdani next?
January 1, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I’ll admit, I was slow to appreciate Bernie Sanders leadership but it is crystal clear to me now. He has done more to defend and advance core values that should guide US politics than almost any other politician of this century. And now @aoc.bsky.social has joined him in that role. Is Mamdani next?
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Reviewing old notes today, I recall that the false fascist appropriation of "antisemitism" as a rallying cry has precedent in 2011 US rightwing celebs--Beck, O'Reilly, Geller--apologetics for Christian nationalist mass murderer Anders Breivik by dismissing his victims as antisemites. (They weren't.)
January 1, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Reviewing old notes today, I recall that the false fascist appropriation of "antisemitism" as a rallying cry has precedent in 2011 US rightwing celebs--Beck, O'Reilly, Geller--apologetics for Christian nationalist mass murderer Anders Breivik by dismissing his victims as antisemites. (They weren't.)
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Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019: "Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young nubile girls"
December 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019: "Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young nubile girls"
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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Folks, you can’t have Christian Nationalism without the antisemitism. It’s a central tenet of the ideology. The fact some of these Jewish Heritage folks are just realizing this is wild to me.
December 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Folks, you can’t have Christian Nationalism without the antisemitism. It’s a central tenet of the ideology. The fact some of these Jewish Heritage folks are just realizing this is wild to me.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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The endgame here is getting the Supreme Court to declare that the entire civil service system is unconstitutional. Which is to say, this administration does not want us to be a modern, efficient, globally competitive nation-state.
Supreme Court Poised to Vastly Expand Presidential Power, Again
The 90-year-old precedent protecting independent agencies is likely on its way out.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The endgame here is getting the Supreme Court to declare that the entire civil service system is unconstitutional. Which is to say, this administration does not want us to be a modern, efficient, globally competitive nation-state.
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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JB Pritzker: “We’re a nation mostly of immigrants — that is who we are fundamentally at our core. We ought to always be that, it’s what’s made our country great — Immigrants are the most entrepreneurial. Immigrants are the most grateful & patriotic”
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
JB Pritzker: “We’re a nation mostly of immigrants — that is who we are fundamentally at our core. We ought to always be that, it’s what’s made our country great — Immigrants are the most entrepreneurial. Immigrants are the most grateful & patriotic”
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This is how a real President is supposed to act
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is how a real President is supposed to act
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the "public as a thermostat" model is not just that there's a backlash to the party in power when they move policy too far from the median voter—it's also that the backlash is proportional to the amount policy is moved. last night's election results fit in that model, and suggest a swing in 2026 too
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
the "public as a thermostat" model is not just that there's a backlash to the party in power when they move policy too far from the median voter—it's also that the backlash is proportional to the amount policy is moved. last night's election results fit in that model, and suggest a swing in 2026 too
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I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
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What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.*
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.*
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
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Things like this keep happening.
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Things like this keep happening.
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Endless knee-bending in ways large and small. So much criticism and opposition now being silenced in ways large and small across society for fear of retaliation - goes well beyond "politics" as such.
October 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Endless knee-bending in ways large and small. So much criticism and opposition now being silenced in ways large and small across society for fear of retaliation - goes well beyond "politics" as such.
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My unprecedented use of federal power to prove I had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein is raising a lot of questions already answered by my truly unprecedented and otherwise inexplicable use of federal power to show I never have ever had anything to do with my very good friend Jeffrey Epstein
August 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My unprecedented use of federal power to prove I had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein is raising a lot of questions already answered by my truly unprecedented and otherwise inexplicable use of federal power to show I never have ever had anything to do with my very good friend Jeffrey Epstein
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These people are going to turn me into a conspiracy theorist.
August 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
These people are going to turn me into a conspiracy theorist.
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During the First World War, Louis and Antoinette Thuillier created thousands of glass negatives containing photographs of soldiers. The digitized images are astonishingly clear: you can read the date of a newspaper folded on a lap.
The First World War, in Sharp Focus
An English chronicler of the trenches, and his wartime romance, captured in long-lost photographs.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
During the First World War, Louis and Antoinette Thuillier created thousands of glass negatives containing photographs of soldiers. The digitized images are astonishingly clear: you can read the date of a newspaper folded on a lap.
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PBS and NPR are facing a Friday deadline for the Senate to act on Trump's funding-clawback proposal...
July 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
PBS and NPR are facing a Friday deadline for the Senate to act on Trump's funding-clawback proposal...
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There is no strict Constitutional amendment against having sex with minors, being blackmailed about it, murdering the person who is blackmailing you, and then altering the videotape of the murder. So it's hard to see why some on the left are so upset with Trump right now.
by Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley
July 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
There is no strict Constitutional amendment against having sex with minors, being blackmailed about it, murdering the person who is blackmailing you, and then altering the videotape of the murder. So it's hard to see why some on the left are so upset with Trump right now.
by Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley
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Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”
April 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”
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Opinion | It defies the American dream to give poor people help, but huge tax breaks and exceptions on tariffs for billionaires and personhood for corporations are part of the fabric of what makes us a great country.
April 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Opinion | It defies the American dream to give poor people help, but huge tax breaks and exceptions on tariffs for billionaires and personhood for corporations are part of the fabric of what makes us a great country.