The misogynist male supremacists, the racist white supremacists, the anti-immigrant xenophobes, the homophobic bigots and the fake Christian supremacists (the Venn diagram is almost a circle) can all go straight to hell. They will eventually. And they aren’t going to win medium-term on Earth either.

Ali Akbar, who's sold newspapers on the streets of Paris for 50 years, is now a knight For decades, Ali Akbar has sold papers on the Left Bank of Paris. Last month, France gave the beloved 73-year-old immigrant from Pakistan one of its highest honors — and his neighborhood is cheering.

For decades, Ali Akbar has sold papers on the Left Bank of Paris. Last month, France gave the beloved 73-year-old immigrant from Pakistan one of its highest honors — and his neighborhood is cheering.

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

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But what really blew up Michelle’s employment at the mag, former staffers say, was her response to October 7, after she put an effective gag order on commissioning any pieces acknowledging the genocide in Gaza. “Michelle told us variously that she was facing pressure from the board not to say anything anti-Israel, and also that she had, in her words, ‘Jewish people in her life whose feelings would be hurt,’” says another former editor. “It was a workplace issue and treated as such. People were saying, ‘This is sort of unconscionable. Like, what are we doing?” “It’s important to note that in the last year of Boris’s tenure as editor-in-chief, we probably published forty things about the war in Ukraine,” that editor told me. “But Michelle told us we couldn’t even discuss Gaza in editorial meetings.”

At LARB, they weren’t even allowed to discuss Gaza in editorial meetings.

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Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

At this point, we should just assume they’re lying. But by their own account the kid had no record. US citizen. At the very least, it looks like multiple policy violations — they surrounded the car, fired into a moving vehicle, killed him through the driver’s side window.

Opinion | ‘Our Patients Are More Frightened and Sicker Than Ever’

Every American needs to read this (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/o...

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science.

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US reportedly presses allies to block Ukraine from full participation at NATO summit The reported move would limit Kyiv's role at a key gathering of NATO leaders.

⚡️ US reportedly presses allies to block Ukraine from full participation at NATO summit.

The reported move would limit Kyiv's role at a key gathering of NATO leaders.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

It’s important that Minnesota be not just a shining example of what can be done. It needs to be a harbinger of what’s going to be done. lnk.thebulwark.com/3MCBgiK

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Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing rail tunnel funds Funding for the Gateway Project has been held up since October.

Politico: Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing federal rail tunnel funds

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After 167 Years in New York, a Priceless Coin Collection Heads to Toledo

Old money fleeing Mamdani's New York for a red state www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...