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Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
They’re again advocating against Denmark when it comes to Greenland
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
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How it started. How it's going.
December 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
How it started. How it's going.
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Turns out the 1st Amendment doesn't work when regime allied oligarchs purchase the media and censor unfavorable content willingly.
December 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Turns out the 1st Amendment doesn't work when regime allied oligarchs purchase the media and censor unfavorable content willingly.
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What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy
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Today, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case challenging Colorado’s 2019 ban on dangerous and discredited “conversion therapy.”
So-called “conversion therapy” is an abusive pseudoscience that has been rejected by EVERY major medical and mental health organization.
So-called “conversion therapy” is an abusive pseudoscience that has been rejected by EVERY major medical and mental health organization.
October 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case challenging Colorado’s 2019 ban on dangerous and discredited “conversion therapy.”
So-called “conversion therapy” is an abusive pseudoscience that has been rejected by EVERY major medical and mental health organization.
So-called “conversion therapy” is an abusive pseudoscience that has been rejected by EVERY major medical and mental health organization.
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Stand-up comedy has come a long way from Lenny Bruce to the preferred medium of state propagandists. Inspiring.
September 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Stand-up comedy has come a long way from Lenny Bruce to the preferred medium of state propagandists. Inspiring.
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I wrote about Trump's new executive orders targeting "antifa" and how they are paper tigers that rely on preemptive compliance in order to achieve their goals.
www.thedissident.news/trumps-paper...
www.thedissident.news/trumps-paper...
Trump's Paper Tiger Executive Actions Targeting Anti-fascism
Yesterday, Trump signed the National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). If you’ve read the text of it, you’re probably scared. That’s the point. The document is a masterclass in intimidation...
www.thedissident.news
September 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I wrote about Trump's new executive orders targeting "antifa" and how they are paper tigers that rely on preemptive compliance in order to achieve their goals.
www.thedissident.news/trumps-paper...
www.thedissident.news/trumps-paper...
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This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left.
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M
Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.
www.texastribune.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left.
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
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Everyone should read this. You’ll learn something about Hawai’i history and get a very clear condemnation of the lawlessness of the Roberts court.
Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...
September 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Everyone should read this. You’ll learn something about Hawai’i history and get a very clear condemnation of the lawlessness of the Roberts court.
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I'm sure the Harper's Letter people will be speaking up any moment now...
September 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'm sure the Harper's Letter people will be speaking up any moment now...
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I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.
September 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.
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I lose all respect for every actor I see in a gambling ad. They're getting paid 6 figures to be the happy and friendly face of massive amounts of exploitation
September 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I lose all respect for every actor I see in a gambling ad. They're getting paid 6 figures to be the happy and friendly face of massive amounts of exploitation
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Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.
September 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.
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The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
September 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
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Justice Jackson sums it up better than I ever could.
August 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Justice Jackson sums it up better than I ever could.
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Brown's capitulation to the state is as great a threat to academic freedom in America as Columbia's cowardice. Anonymous student course evaluations have been potentially weaponized to punish speech that might anger students in the classroom. A serious chilling effect. www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
www.brown.edu
July 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Brown's capitulation to the state is as great a threat to academic freedom in America as Columbia's cowardice. Anonymous student course evaluations have been potentially weaponized to punish speech that might anger students in the classroom. A serious chilling effect. www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
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This is from Trump's second inaugural address! And within hours of making this promise, he starts sending out masked agents to terrorize and imprison people who said things he didn't like! And the Free Press et al. simply do not care! www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025...
July 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is from Trump's second inaugural address! And within hours of making this promise, he starts sending out masked agents to terrorize and imprison people who said things he didn't like! And the Free Press et al. simply do not care! www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025...
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I'm still stuck on the fact that Trump ran on promoting free expression, promised to do so in his inaugural address, then immediately began abducting and imprisoning people based on their speech. And the right-wing free speech warriors are almost entirely silent! Makes you wonder about their candor.
July 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I'm still stuck on the fact that Trump ran on promoting free expression, promised to do so in his inaugural address, then immediately began abducting and imprisoning people based on their speech. And the right-wing free speech warriors are almost entirely silent! Makes you wonder about their candor.
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"If your work is being cited by some of the worst individuals that pass laws that restrict the rights of the very people you pretend to care about, then at its core haven't you fucked up?"
(Confronting the second most blocked man on Bluesky on his own show)
(Confronting the second most blocked man on Bluesky on his own show)
July 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
"If your work is being cited by some of the worst individuals that pass laws that restrict the rights of the very people you pretend to care about, then at its core haven't you fucked up?"
(Confronting the second most blocked man on Bluesky on his own show)
(Confronting the second most blocked man on Bluesky on his own show)
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It's so funny how these guys say "import the third world, become the third world" and then their own policy preferences end up converging with the taliban
July 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's so funny how these guys say "import the third world, become the third world" and then their own policy preferences end up converging with the taliban
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A nice reminder of the immense power contained in saying “no.” When people refuse to comply, it raises the costs ($$$, political, social, etc) of enforcing authoritarianism. They very well might try anyway, but every person that says “no” is another point of friction.
www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...
www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...
Around 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's ban
Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing part...
www.npr.org
June 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A nice reminder of the immense power contained in saying “no.” When people refuse to comply, it raises the costs ($$$, political, social, etc) of enforcing authoritarianism. They very well might try anyway, but every person that says “no” is another point of friction.
www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...
www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...
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The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
June 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
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Opinion | People are comparing Trump’s America to Nazi Germany. But a better comparison would be Jonestown.
June 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Opinion | People are comparing Trump’s America to Nazi Germany. But a better comparison would be Jonestown.
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Exactly the right response and shows significantly more courage than those who capitulated to Trump’s false claims of unrestrained authority
In defiance of President Trump’s announcement last Friday that he was firing her, Kim Sajet — the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery — has continued to report for work.
Defying Trump, National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet is still at work
The president said he had fired the museum leader — setting up a standoff between the White House and the Smithsonian.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Exactly the right response and shows significantly more courage than those who capitulated to Trump’s false claims of unrestrained authority
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The dude who spent his entire career talking about how shadowy elites are going to implement advanced technology to track and control the population is now cheerleading for Palantir because Trump
June 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The dude who spent his entire career talking about how shadowy elites are going to implement advanced technology to track and control the population is now cheerleading for Palantir because Trump