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Old Soviet joke: A man goes to the newspaper stand every day, unfolds one, scans the front page, doesn't buy it, and leaves. Vendor: Why do you do this every day? Man: I’m looking for an obituary. Vendor: Obituaries aren’t on the front page. Man: The one I’m waiting for will be.

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Reminds me of this guy I met at Occupy Wall Street

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this is good

submitted 2 days ago • 447 comments

Relatedly, I think it’s time to reopen the conversation about why “The Last Jedi” is a terrible movie for reasons having nothing to do with racism or sexism

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New this week: I did a deep dive into what I think is primarily driving the national murder plunge. Spoiler: I think enormous community investment and spending in the wake of COVID is the primary driver (though there are undoubtedly other factors as well!). jasher.substack.com/p/why-i-thin...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Who talks about their fellow Americans like this? More than 1 in 40 of us live in Los Angeles County

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

As an elder millennial who saw the rise of video games and gaming culture firsthand: (1) Video games are good (2) People who build their identity around them should be viewed with suspicion

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Economically punishing blue states and terrorizing their citizens isn’t a sustainable way to run the country. At a certain point people will fight back.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This kind of caving to bullying by media corporations is common in electoral autocracies like Turkey or Hungary, where the media ultimately becomes owned by loyalists. Caving early seems easy, but in the long run makes these media companies state mouth pieces, no matter what execs tell themselves.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Extremely bad timing to have this come out the very day the President started using the armed forces to terrorize his political enemies

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Seconding this. (Albeit for a decade and not 35 years). There is an overwhelming focus on inputs — whether that's throwing more money at a problem, or critiquing political structures that limit how much money you throw at a problem. And nearly zero focus on outputs.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

No law enforcement agency is a monolith; even one predisposed by culture, mission, and lack of oversight to attract violent bullies is going to show cracks when given an amoral mission. But also:

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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

The way President Trump is wielding his authority to deploy National Guard troops in Los Angeles is “unprecedented and untested,” says @lizagoitein.bsky.social.

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

I don't really like the "they're using drama to distract you from their evil policies" talking point. They're not. Fascists are always emotionally driven clowns. This is what it looks to have them in power. The violence and stupidity are two sides of the same coin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The uncertainty is actually at the root of the current mass dysregulation.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 5 days ago • 329 comments

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

submitted 5 days ago • 1094 comments

WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

submitted 5 days ago • 157 comments

note that this completely inverts the public justification for the deportation scheme. they claim they’re deporting criminals, but they deported Kilmar without knowledge of a crime, and now that they supposedly found one they’re bringing him BACK.

submitted 5 days ago • 137 comments

This sounds like a scandal in the making.

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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From @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Too many Christians are transforming Christianity into a vertical faith, one that focuses on your personal relationship with God at the expense of the horizontal relationship you have with your neighbors,” writes our columnist David French.

submitted 6 days ago • 408 comments

Build Banana Better

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Why was I never informed how stunningly beautiful Chicago is

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HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

submitted 8 days ago • 1572 comments

New Yorker here. Leaving aside that “English muffin” as an answer to this question should be automatically disqualifying for any office in New York, it’s “bacon, egg, and cheese,” not “bacon, cheese, and egg.”

submitted 8 days ago • 74 comments

They're literally doing the meme

submitted 8 days ago • 142 comments

Got two of my favorite fountain pens working with great nib/ink combos just in time for a trip! Folks I am thriving.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

When Adams won, a friend prophesied that crime would revert to the mean after Covid — meaning a massive decline — and allowing Adams to slide in and disingenuously take credit. Seems the trick worked, on Yglesias at least.

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But the tomato plant is native to the Americas, meaning the Romans were Italians without Italian food

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Sickening how many voters seem to just not care about Cuomo’s long history of sexual harassment

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No reason for the FBI affidavit in the Boulder hate crime case to mention USAID except as a way to directly feed MAGA conspiracy theories.

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This should be a much bigger story. Murder has plunged across the country—so much so that the U.S. may see the lowest murder rate ever recorded. That this is even possible after the 2020 murder spike is truly amazing.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

Prototyping unicorn coins to print in silver & gold as “Tooth Fairy” gifts for our five year old, as one does at 11:00 at night

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Setting aside everything else wrong with him and his beliefs, Yarvin is, quite simply, not that bright.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is absolutely right. Borrowing from Gramsci, only way out of the Time of Monsters is to lay out a clear vision for a better world. But for that troubling incident with Rachel News I’d say we should just make Jeff Computers the new DNC Chair.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

when law professor posting goes wrong

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