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In my opinion, Anne Applebaum has the clearest understanding of Trump and I believe any and all analysis or discussion of his behavior has to be viewed in this lens, and not in a lens of thinking that assumes him having any kind of vision for America, Americans or the world.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

submitted 3 days ago • 554 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 12 days ago • 899 comments

“But can the truth win? My friends, nothing else does. It may be a long road, but the truth is coming.” “In a moment like this, when our country is in peril, don’t ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, ‘What’s the meaning of you?’”

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like a worthwhile addition to our regular vocabulary these days.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

submitted 40 days ago • 943 comments

On lies. From the @profgalloway.com podcast

submitted 42 days ago • 58 comments

The f***ing worst. youtu.be/wYS70hxsPME?...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

America was founded on the basic protection against unlawful imprisonment. Due process is a fundamental right in our constitution. Denying it or defending those who deny it is unamerican and illegal.

submitted 63 days ago • 76 comments

Dear Lisa Murkowski, in 1974 the president was so afraid of congress that he choose to resign rather than face them over a breaking and entering charge.

submitted 64 days ago • 78 comments

I am for every day all of us turning our first focus on fascism (or, if you prefer, authoritarianism) itself. They are attacking and gaining ground on countless fronts. Time spent arguing with those with whom one could be in coalition is time fascism uses to seize more territory.

submitted 65 days ago • 28 comments

"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."

submitted 66 days ago • 70 comments

Good on Harvard. This is what’s needed, no matter what the cost. No capitulation or blind obedience to totalitarianism. Trump administration freezes funds for Harvard www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

“If the government can disappear anyone it wishes, dump him in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid,” two constitutional scholars write in a guest essay.

submitted 72 days ago • 29 comments

The failure isn’t the insane President. The failure is all the supposedly sane people pretending he’s not.

submitted 73 days ago • 125 comments

I cannot overstate the importance of reading books, particularly novels by respected authors, for critical thinking skills and reading comprehension. If the big gun novelists don't interest you, start small and work your way up. Or read whatever interests you. Just read. Or listen. It's all books.

submitted 72 days ago • 279 comments

Elections have consequences

submitted 72 days ago • 2469 comments

An underrated factor in how we got ourselves into this mess is that Americans are increasingly relying on computers and the internet instead of their own critical thinking faculties (AI is making this even worse), and as a result are uninformed and easy to manipulate.

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