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November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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From an Osita Nwanevu discussion with @jamellebouie.net
Nwanevu - 56:30 I think one of the reasons the Democrats lost this last election is that they weren't able to talk about democracy in a way that spoke to people who were anti-institutional, who have this distrust of Washington. Gallup did a poll that 71% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way American democracy is functioning. To go into an election in that environment and say we stand for our institutions and we stand for protecting American Democracy', was kind of suicidal. You need to be able to say we care about democracy, that means we are going to fundamentally change these structures and make them work for you. So if our defense of democracy is about protecting what already exists and saying what already exists is good and we just need to protect it from Donald Trump - that's not going to be enough. I think you're losing a portion of the electorate that is radically anti-institutional, but happens to be the portion of the electorate you need to win elections in this country. And if youce not speaking to them, then you're missing out. So speaking to that constituency in a way that respects their anger is important.
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Go off
They are not, however, any more intrinsically wrong than is the sign "SOMETHING NEW, CHEAP AND BEAUTIFUL" which, ostensibly, is an attempt to lure unwary AngloSaxons into a shop off the Piazza San Marco in Venice, but which actually — unless we very deeply err-is an epitome of the whole fascist program for Italy in particular and the world in general. Nor'do we, as an American, write the foregoing sentence without shame; for we realize that the glittering slogan just quoted reflects, all too well, our own nation's slipshod method of thought. The sad fact is, that Signor Mussolini has invented nothing. He has simply, as a means of purging his compatriots of their unworthiness, borrowed from America her most unworthy credo (the utterly transparent and lifeless lie: Time is money) and the results of this borrowing are already apparent.
October 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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archive.vanityfair.com/article/1926...

“How I Do Not Love Italy” e e cummings. 1926
Signor Mussolini, whose singularly uncheerful visage appears all over Italia at the present moment-not only in rotogravure, but painted on houses, fences, railroad stations, etc.-was, just a few years ago, a wicked radical. But one day this wicked radical turned a complete backward somersault and landed an ultraconservative. Shortly afterward he bought up all the black shirts in sight, hurriedly put a great many young men into them and captured Rome without difficulty. He then informed everybody that Italia had been dead for some time and that his program, il fascismo, consisted of nothing less than a revivification of the corpse. If Italia swallowed the dictatorship pill, Mussolini positively guaranteed that she would rise from the dead and be alive even as she was alive in the days of the Caesars. In other words, she would be alive at the expense of everybody else and would rule the modern world very much as Rome ruled the ancient world. After a number of Mussolini's former comrades, the Italian bolsheviks, had been beaten up, compelled to drink castor oil and sent to other planes, the corpse took her medicine and Mussolini was acclaimed as "Caesar". But Mussolini was no ordinary man. He could not possibly be satisfied with being merely Caesar. He also wanted to be Napoleon. This was easily arranged. A photographer "shot" him in Napoleonic costume, the photograph was printed on thousands of post-cards and the post-cards were circulated all over Italia. Taking the bull by the horns, Mussolini now rushed into international politics and mixed them up "something awful", as we say back home. But while the world at large recoiled from his exploits, Italia applauded with both hands and both feet-and exactly what the Hon. Caesar Napoleon Mussolini will attempt next, nobody knows. The French people guess that it will be the annexation of France, since he says quite frankly that Italia is overpopulated and must have a lot of brand-new territory-in a hurry.
October 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Walt Whitman, looking for that ideal progressive, working class avatar in 1856
Quote: I would be much pleased to see some heroic, shrewd, fully-informed, healthy-bodied, middle-aged, beard-faced, American blacksmith or boatman come down from the West across the Alleghenies, and walk into the Presidency, dressed in a clean suit of working attire, and with the tan all over his face, breast, and arms; I would certainly vote for that sort of man, possessing the due requirements, before any other candidate.
October 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Kids writing letters backwards is an undefeated bit. Totally organic, hits every time.
“No Kings” sign, but the ‘N’ is backwards because it was written by a small child
October 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Huh
October 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Google results for “tied for fifth”. The only result is Riley Gaines
September 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM