Amid all the bleak stuff in this country right now, the Mamdani mayoralty really keeps giving me hope. He's just out there fixing stuff and governing well and showing what it would look like if we had a functional country where the government did its job.
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Amid all the bleak stuff in this country right now, the Mamdani mayoralty really keeps giving me hope. He's just out there fixing stuff and governing well and showing what it would look like if we had a functional country where the government did its job.
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US media coverage sanitizes war and obscures the full horror of what we are doing to Iran. In this article I show how the war is far more twisted and evil than Americans understand:
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The richest man in the world wants to implant a chip in your brain. You wouldn’t be the first: as of last September, 12 people have already undergone the operation and 10,000 more are on the waiting list.
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Is it even worth pointing out that it's a violation of the UN Charter to threaten to attack a sovereign country? That there is zero justification, moral or legal, for what Trump is doing? Does anybody even care, or does the U.S. just claim the infinite right to kill and destroy?
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Rachel Cohen confronted Greg Bovino to his face. Now she talks to Current Affairs about how to stand up against ICE:
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JANUARY: @currentaffairs.bsky.social runs a fake ad for a new Trump EPA mascot called "Carson the Carcinogenic Cloud"
FEBRUARY: the Trump administration debuts "Coalie the Coal Lump" to push fossil fuels
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French Quarter street performer sings about why ICE should be abolished: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX0k...
wrote about how Jesse Welles is the antidote to everything crappy about our culture right now www.currentaffairs.org/news/jesse-w...
French Quarter street performer sings about why ICE should be abolished: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX0k...
Today in Current Affairs, professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
Today in Current Affairs, professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
I don’t think you’ll get a more “on the nose” example of blowback than a guy from Afghanistan who America trained to go around executing civilians in something called a “zero squad” who later moves to America and attacks the American government. Like holy shit what the fuck are we doing here?
Living in gratitude is more important than ever these days.
I try to treasure and embrace each and every day that a Government official doesn’t announce “release the robot dogs.”
A stylish gentleman in repose presenting the fact that we are warming the planet at a rate of 10 Hiroshima bombs per second.
Reading Olivia Nuzzis writing has really helped with this: it’s made me feel so lucky and confident
A blockbuster investigation by the AP, out today.
So much in it, give it a read, but starts with: "The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious."
So far we have cost the NYT over $100,000 in annual subscription dollars over this article. We are well on the way to our goal of "defunding Bret Stephens."
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I've studied a lot of right-wing propaganda but I've never encountered anyone whose output is as mindless and cruel as Stephen Miller:
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