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I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy:

There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

You’re blocking it? Nuh-uh, I’m blocking it before you can block it.

People in the U.S. are really, really angry at the wanton destruction of the parts of government that did good, and we want to know there will be consequences and restitution. IMO, it's not Magyar's center right creds that won, but his promise of consequences.

We need that here, stat.
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The cover of the book, "The Black Count" by Tom Reiss

Oh! Oh! Oh! A chance to plug this great book!

Several folks in my mentions said they quit watching the new Count of Monte Cristo on PBS because it features Black actors. My friend, you are going to be shocked when you learn the ethnicity of Alexandre Dumas.

SWEEEEEEEET

How someone reacts to changes in what speech is acceptable, expressly because said speech is dehumanizing, is very telling about their general regard for the basic humanity of the “other.”

In concert with everything else wrong with Platner, this is a crimson flag.

Elections like yesterday reinforce my belief that researching the political and economic conditions under which democratic mobilization is unleashed (in the world of energy and climate, and beyond) are crucial to the current moment, and do not need to be only depressing

Shibuya Hi-Fi Vinyl Bar in Ballard The goal of Shibuya is simple: To place our guests in the midst of an unprecedented leisure experience through an osmosis of taste and sound.

I’ve been digging www.shibuyahifi.com - great listening experience, and I can pay for an awful lot of nights there listening to top-tier music on a system that sounds like heaven, for way less than I’d spend to still end up a long way away from that intensity of musical experience

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

“We need to imagine a more democratic, more egalitarian, more generous country, one that operates in recognition of an abundance of wealth that should serve all of us-and nature and future generations too-rather than is driven by the moral poverty of billionaires” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Implicit in liberalism is, in fact, the ingredients necessary for fascism to occur.

Don't confuse "the beliefs liberalism espouses" for "the things liberalism ultimately allows to happen."

A thing is ultimately What It Does, not What It Is Supposed To Be

can't stop thinking about how casually these monsters are dismantling everything good and useful the government does in a year and a half and comparing it to Joe Biden who couldn't even manage to fire Louis DeJoy in four

At this point in the US, there are so many grotesque moral crimes for which no one has faced any accountability that it's getting difficult even to keep all of them in your head. We're too exhausted to catalog them much less seek any resolution or justice.

Apropos of nothing, just something I think about a lot:

During the worst pandemic in a century, lots of people told a bunch of outrageous lies that caused much, much more death. It was one of the more grotesque moral crimes I've ever witnessed & zero (0) of those involved faced any consequences.

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

This feels like something “Cat Pictures Please” by @naomikritzer.bsky.social would say clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/

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I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Refusal to Review I wrote the below email, when invited to review a paper that was partially processed by ChatGPT. As I imagine the email could be useful inspiration for others, I decided to make it available. Feel …

“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.”

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BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:

In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.

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The 28th Virginia battle flag is a Confederate battle flag that belonged to the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Captured by the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, the flag was brought to Minnesota and exhibited at the state's capitol for several years before passing into the permanent collection of the Minnesota Historical Society after 1896 where it has remained since.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up.

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🔥 @rokhanna.bsky.social to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.”

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

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Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

We may have reached the situation I worried about but always considered to be the likely outcome even before this war began:

This whiplash where the president terrifies the world for a few days with unhinged threats and then says “never mind” and then there’s this implication that anyone scared of his unhinged threats was overreacting is very domestic abuse but make it a country.