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Washington DC metro is full of unknown heroes who made incremental yet wholly uncelebrated improvements to American lives while working for Uncle Sam.
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SE Cupp: What Trump has done in six short months as president is nothing short of stomach-churning. From intentionally wrecking the US economy with ill-conceived tariff threats, to disappearing people and trampling all over due process, from slipshod and indiscriminate

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“Kathy, I'm lost,” I said, though I knew she was sleeping I'm empty and aching and I don't know why Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They've all come to look for America

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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

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Meanwhile in Russia, Ukrainian drones destroyed a factory producing military equipment in Cheboksary, more than 1,000 km from the Ukrainian border.🇺🇦

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I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

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10/18/2024

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Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs. “You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.” “John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”

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To anyone who wondered, what could go wrong if we elected as president a highly volatile, deeply dishonest, simple-minded cretin with a revenge fetish, the answer is THIS. All of THIS.

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Jonathan V Last (attributed to Zeynep Tufekci): The received wisdom is roughly: Protests should be nonviolent, massive, with clearly articulated and achievable goals. -Civil rights for black people. -Independence for India. -Depose a corrupt undemocratic leader. -Stop buying Teslas.

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Daniel Treisman: Phrases used to describe the leaders or the government systems they control are electoral authoritarianism, competitive authoritarianism, and spin dictatorship. Each of these terms refers to political leaders who try to control people not through physical force but by using

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