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One of the funnier running subplots of the Trump era is that he hasn't won a Nobel Peace Prize, and it really eats at him.

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Worth noting that back in the 1920s many localities were filled with mask wearing vigilantes, many of whom were also police officers, who sought to rid the nation of foreign “contaminants.” That group was the Klan and they targeted Catholics, Jews, Black people, and Mexicans.

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If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

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Kansas City played an important role in the early gay rights movement, even predating Stonewall. Here's how you can honor LGBTQ+ history in Kansas City this Pride Month. (Originally published in 2022) https://loom.ly/4C3M__M

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Yes, please. 😁

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And a jury.

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One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

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The lawyer in the office next to me: "I wish Scalia was still alive just to see him have to try to rebut this."

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The National Association of Christian Lawmakers had a conference early this month at Liberty University. One of the speakers, Braeden Sorbo, has a history of racist and antisemitic rhetoric. angrywhitemen.org/2025/06/19/m...

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Take it from me, a guy who went from a divisive political asshole to a proud, woke Democrat in just 15yrs, redemption is way better than retribution. Trump is all about retribution. Fuck that. We need a politics of redemption. Today’s Substack. Here.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

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It is true that sometimes New York City is frightening. For example today these men were loitering in the hallway of the 12th floor of the federal building.

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One thing I have a hard time squaring is that the trait I most admire in a writer/thinker/journalist is curiosity, and absolute lack of curiosity seems to be the trait most rewarded by the Marketplace of Ideas (the money one and the attention one)

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Whoa. Spicy footnote from Justice Jackson, dissenting in the ADA case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.

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So the left has now reached the "welfare queens" portion of the horseshoe. "I want you to starve to death so you learn how much empathy I have for..." shut the fuck up.

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We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.

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I accidentally closed a browser yesterday with 72 VERY IMPORTANT TABS that have been following me around like Jacob Marley and somehow my history is not recoverable. Reader, I let them go, and have lived to tell the tale.

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Important context to the Supreme Court ruling is that Tennessee only has one gender clinic for kids and it performs 5 top surgeries per year. This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist. apnews.com/article/heal...

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Etymology fact of the week: "calque" is a loanword, while "loanword" is a calque. #etymology #language #linguistics

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Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

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🎼 The Finding Out is the Har…dest…Part 🎶

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I love the idea that telling people to listen to Boygenius or Take Five by Dave Brubeck or whatever each year isn't overexposure or dilution, but speaking out regularly about our descent into fascism would be. He just doesn't feel like it. Probably doubts he has much to say. He's probably right.

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“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸

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She inhaled trace amounts of empathy and her body went into anaphylactic shock.

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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process is how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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From Jesus to Juneteenth, we see that authentic liberation is not accomplished by some distant proclamation, but by neighbors who are up close, standing in solidarity with the oppressed, staring down the demons of injustice face to face.

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Not gonna lie: I’m a little weirded out by the people who seem extra shocked and horrified that the guy who shot four politicians also killed a dog. Like, yes, dogs are wonderful, only a monster kills dogs for no reason. But did all the murders not already establish who this guy is?

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It's way down on the list of horrors, but National Parks having to post signs asking visitors to report anything there that provides "information that [is] negative about either past or living Americans" is utterly pathetic. The past isn't all positive, kids. I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings.

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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

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“you’re going to die because of this” is not a thing i’d ever say to a trans kid, whose life is hard enough as is. i didn’t get the care i needed. i survived. “some trans kids will die because of this” is a thing a lot of cis people need to hear. the ones whose “reasonable concerns” led here.

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We really need to stop talking about this as some kind of looming threat rather than a process well underway. It’s not “close.” You have arrived at your destination. The order has been delivered.

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If international relations teaches us anything, if there's a practical takeaway from decades of research, it's this: The confusion and fear generated by uncertainty in militarily-heightened moments is where a lot of bad happens, and responsible leaders should reduce uncertainty where they can.

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Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

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You cannot have fascism without militarism. It’s a violence cult, and that violence goes outward as well as inward. This is a regime that celebrates the violent domination of people of color and treats insurrectionists as martyrs. Of course it’s going to war.

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going to keep saying: a society that would like to maintain its basic functions has really got to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by people in positions of authority

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I bet they got in a lot of trouble together. 😊 Photo from my collection, no date/info.

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Someone just scolded me that I should shave Francie in the summer and I want to address that briefly for educational purposes. First of all, our vets do not recommend summer shaving and as far as I know no other vets do, either. 🌟THREAD🌟 www.petmd.com/cat/shaving-...

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It's pretty outstanding the extent to which Fox basically exists as a place for every lunatic with a voice in the Trump admin to boost their wackiest ideas in the hope that Dear Leader will like the sound of it and do it.

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So maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, if ICE wore uniforms and didn't hide their faces, they wouldn't run into these issues identifying their own people.

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Whole section of the Federal Government now spends its time masked, out-of-uniform, and unidentifiable, variously snatching people from courthouses, handcuffing elected officials, and driving around LA trying find the best location to provoke a riot for TV coverage purposes.

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When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine. It's the same court and lawyers.

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Bartleby the Child Snatcher

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this wonderful piece from @profmsinha.bsky.social gets to what was truly great about lincoln — his open mind and great capacity for moral growth www.theunpopulist.net/p/abraham-li...

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My gaping bullet wound has stirred fears, but according to The Times stylesheet—not definitively proven—that I have been shot.

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