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A history professor with books on the rise and fall of mutual aid, T.R.M. Howard, Rose Wilder Lane, and the New Deal's protracted war on the Bill of Rights. Northport, Alabama history.ua.edu/people/david-t…
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Scary stuff and the reporters at CBS seem to be cheerleaders for Germany's smug and Orwellian censorship regime. www.cbsnews.com/video/polici...

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2014 borders and NATO membership (Swiss style neutrality is a more worthy goal) were always unrealistic. If any deal looks better than that which Boris Johnson helped to scuttle in 2022, I'll be surprised. The sad difference is that so many Ukrainians died needlessly in the interim.

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From 2014...when many on the left were quite comfortable accusing USAID of being in bed with the CIA. www.democracynow.org/2014/4/4/is_...

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Some powerful moments in a much-maligned project. This is about as close to a complete version that we have. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDkx...

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“People think if you’re a secessionist, you’re crazy,” Ruiz Evans said on Saturday. “I hate Donald Trump,” he added. “I am full-blooded Mexican. The day he went on TV and said all Mexicans are rapists, I said, ‘He can go f*** himself.’ “ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Anyone convicted of sedition needs a full pardon (not just a commutation) for that offense. Long before Eugene Debs went to prison under that malleable standard, it belonged in the same discredited category as blasphemy laws. | www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/27330...

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A life sentence for facilitating peaceful transactions among consenting adults is hard to fathom, let alone justify.

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"Private efforts to combat wildfires are not just for the mansions of the superrich. In fact, many private companies that respond to wildfires now work for insurers..."

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Before taking office, Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles had said she would not go abroad. She was overseas when wildfires erupted.

submitted 156 days ago • 246 comments

NPR is trying to avoid funding cuts by depicting its stations as unique conduits of information for communities hit by disasters. Perhaps the folks there need to read my article about how talk radio performed this role in Tuscaloosa: www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...

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“And you know,” he added, “when you have millions of people reading, going online, reading this stuff, it is — anyway, I think it’s — I think it’s really shameful.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/u...

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It's no secret that months of pandemic-era lockdowns led to dramatic learning loss among American children. What has surprised researchers is exactly which students were most affected, especially in math.

submitted 158 days ago • 6 comments

That "anti-establishment" appointee sure folded quickly.

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Reminder: Insurance is not a savings account. It's a hedge against an unlikely scenario. A house located in a fire zone catching on fire is a likely scenario. Californians would stop building in fire zones if California legalized new affordable housing in cities and didn't cap fire insurance rates.

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment

Canada did not have a central bank until 1934.

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A majority of the members of the Israeli Palestinian Confederation (IPC) have endorsed a Swiss style canton system for Israel-Palestine. Full lively debate here: ipconfederation.org/recording-of...

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Biggest laugh I’ve had in a week is Trump saying he knows all there is to know about automation.

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The Brian Thompson murder has prompted comparatively few calls for gun control. It would seem a perfect opportunity for Democrats to call for a crackdown on ghost guns, but they don't seem too interested in pursuing that opportunity.

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John Fetterman on the online reaction to the killing of Luigi Mangione: "It's vile. And if you've gunned someone down that you don't happen to agree with their views or the business that they're in, hey, you know, I'm next, they're next, he's next, she's next.”

submitted 189 days ago • 3 comments

I'm probably a bit late to the punch here, but: At what point does "I hate rich people/corporate execs" become legit dehumanization? My assessment is that it starts when you're willing to celebrate their deaths and their killers. #PeopleArePeople

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

Luigi Mangione gave four stars to the Unabomber Manifesto, three stars to Hillbilly Elegy

submitted 190 days ago • 1 comment