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“That anyone with a rudimentary understanding of history, politics, economics or even pragmatic common sense would call the way these provocateurs operate civil debate says just how poorly prepared any of us are for what lies in front of us.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Opinion | Mourn, or Else
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“That anyone with a rudimentary understanding of history, politics, economics or even pragmatic common sense would call the way these provocateurs operate civil debate says just how poorly prepared any of us are for what lies in front of us.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.
yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.
Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."
September 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.
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yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.
Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."
September 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.
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He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.
gotta say I did not anticipate ICE goons going after the whitest possible immigrants with American families, jobs, and in good standing legally. a freaking Danish-born welder in Mississippi with four blonde kids and a pregnant wife. just omnidirectional hate
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.
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The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing.
Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.
Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.
But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.
See you soon, NYC.
But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.
See you soon, NYC.
July 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing.
Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.
Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.
“Carter who went on to an extraordinary post-presidential life that included winning the Nobel Peace Prize, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia…He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time.”
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says
The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office after one term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:11 PM
“Carter who went on to an extraordinary post-presidential life that included winning the Nobel Peace Prize, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia…He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time.”
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
“Trump thrives on chaos, but his chaos. Not someone else’s chaos.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Trump’s Trump
As you’ve likely seen, things kind of went off the rails today on Capitol Hill. Speaker Mike Johnson had assembled one of those big spending packages to avoid a government shutdown.
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 19, 2024 at 4:03 PM
“Trump thrives on chaos, but his chaos. Not someone else’s chaos.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
“To see the killing and mass indifference to Thompson’s death as a sign of moral decline, while ignoring the normalization of the death and suffering of every victim beneath him, is to advocate openly for the idea that there are those who deserve life and those who don’t.”
Unequal sympathies / Daily delights
Zito Madu has questions about the decline of civilization, and Jennie Rose Halperin makes space for pleasures
flaminghydra.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:43 AM
“To see the killing and mass indifference to Thompson’s death as a sign of moral decline, while ignoring the normalization of the death and suffering of every victim beneath him, is to advocate openly for the idea that there are those who deserve life and those who don’t.”
“Nowhere is the perverse nature of our moral economy more evident than health care.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...
Opinion | Three Columnists Wrestle With the Lionizing of Luigi Mangione
What other kind of company inspires this sort of hatred?
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:30 PM
“Nowhere is the perverse nature of our moral economy more evident than health care.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...
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The YouTube obsession with identifying (or really, inflicting the identification) of “easter eggs” on movies and TV shows has mauled what’s left of cultural criticism. Half the time, the so-called “easter eggs” are just examples of foreshadowing and narrative depth.
November 29, 2024 at 10:33 PM
The YouTube obsession with identifying (or really, inflicting the identification) of “easter eggs” on movies and TV shows has mauled what’s left of cultural criticism. Half the time, the so-called “easter eggs” are just examples of foreshadowing and narrative depth.
“Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.”
www.propublica.org/article/pors...
www.propublica.org/article/pors...
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2024 at 5:19 PM
“Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.”
www.propublica.org/article/pors...
www.propublica.org/article/pors...
Good riddance! And someone arrest him.
Live updates: Matt Gaetz withdraws bid to be attorney general in Trump administration - The Washington Post
Live updates: Matt Gaetz withdraws bid to be attorney general in Trump administration - The Washington Post
November 21, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Good riddance! And someone arrest him.
Live updates: Matt Gaetz withdraws bid to be attorney general in Trump administration - The Washington Post
Live updates: Matt Gaetz withdraws bid to be attorney general in Trump administration - The Washington Post
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In all likelihood, if you use public bathrooms, you have shared them with trans people plenty of times, and nothing has happened, and you haven’t even known, because you don’t interrogate people who are just trying to use the restroom in peace, which is as it should be.
November 21, 2024 at 3:33 AM
In all likelihood, if you use public bathrooms, you have shared them with trans people plenty of times, and nothing has happened, and you haven’t even known, because you don’t interrogate people who are just trying to use the restroom in peace, which is as it should be.
“Trump’s rhetoric and agenda may appeal to some voters based on racial identity, but the bigger story of Trumpism is how economic polarization is scrambling and complicating identity politics, especially in online spaces.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Opinion | How Trump Tapped Into America’s Online Spaces and Took Control
Trump excelled at tapping into the information ecosystems where minority and young voters express their identity.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:10 PM
“Trump’s rhetoric and agenda may appeal to some voters based on racial identity, but the bigger story of Trumpism is how economic polarization is scrambling and complicating identity politics, especially in online spaces.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
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One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
November 20, 2024 at 2:10 AM
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
“It took less than twenty-four hours after his reelection for young men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of regression: “Your body, my choice.””
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
A New Rallying Cry for the Irony-Poisoned Right
It took less than twenty-four hours after Trump’s reëlection for young men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of gendered regression: “Your body, my choice.”
www.newyorker.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:15 PM
“It took less than twenty-four hours after his reelection for young men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of regression: “Your body, my choice.””
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Some congressional staffer can go out in a blaze of glory. Leak it!
November 14, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Some congressional staffer can go out in a blaze of glory. Leak it!
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Much as I hate to bring in my baggage from the Old Place, there’s this
November 13, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Much as I hate to bring in my baggage from the Old Place, there’s this
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Breaking news: President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he plans to nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) as attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard, a former congresswoman from Hawaii, as director of national intelligence.
Follow live updates:
Follow live updates:
Live updates: Trump picks Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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November 13, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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wild living in a country where "this person had access to military grade weaponry" doesn't narrow anything down in terms of which sort of person could be responsible. Military veteran? PTA president? Disaffected tween? who knows
WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement recovered AR-style rifle at scene of Trump rally shooting, AP source says.
July 14, 2024 at 1:34 AM
wild living in a country where "this person had access to military grade weaponry" doesn't narrow anything down in terms of which sort of person could be responsible. Military veteran? PTA president? Disaffected tween? who knows