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Yes if only Iran had signed some international deal to halt their nuclear weapons development in exchange for economic relief

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

I don't know why this paper is open in my tabs, or who sent it to me, but it's important! It's about the Democrats' faith that good policy will yield political support, which appears, with some examination, to be wrong.

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

submitted 23 hours ago • 316 comments

Where in god’s name are we as a society when “being young and ambitious on policy” is an unforgivable sin, while “being corrupt and resigning in disgrace after then sexual predation of dozens of women” is not?

submitted 23 hours ago • 36 comments

Fascinating point. Now to look up why Russia was booted from the G8…

submitted 21 hours ago • 144 comments

I regret to report we continue to slip into the Infinite Jest universe.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right

submitted 22 hours ago • 338 comments

This is one of the most unintentional @nytpitchbot.bsky.social passages ever.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 27 days ago • 378 comments

Wow, NYTimes be like, “Andrew Cuomo is our problematic fave." The editorial board willfully misunderstands something I figured out in early adulthood: that sexual harassment tells you everything about someone’s relationship with power, and on its own, ought to be enough to disqualify from office.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, massive.

submitted 1 day ago • 437 comments

There’s a real argument to be made that when this is over, we need to move to a Parliamentary system with a Prime Minister instead of a President.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is not a criticism of Chenoweth’s research, but Goodhart’s law is starting to kick in with respect to this benchmark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhar...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

submitted 3 days ago • 223 comments

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

submitted 2 days ago • 274 comments

I think a good rule of thumb is if your preferred source of news referred to yesterday's protest as "tens of thousands" and not "millions", you need to find a different news source.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

This was the retreat from Moscow of military parades.

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In its defense this tank was built 80 years ago to eradicate fascism and is cranky as fuck to wake up after all this time and find that it’s next job is to help Donald Trump feel like a big boy dictator on his birthday.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

submitted 2 days ago • 264 comments

THIS is my kind of Army parade.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

While I don’t think “oligarch” is as alienating a term as some claimed, this is a very solid edit.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

if the literal cops are out here saying "call us before you believe any cop saying theyre a cop is actually a cop" states need to pass laws about LEOs IDing like yesterday or they will face undermined cooperation and faith in the entire law enforcement mechanism at a level that beggars belief

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

A woman is hospitalized and receives staples in her head after LAPD trampled her with their horses. LAPD also impeded her receiving medical attention.

submitted 3 days ago • 637 comments

Assassins dress like cops & the secret police wear masks and no ID

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Very interesting thread.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

If it wasn't for Trump tearing the Iran deal, we wouldn't be in this war. We're all clear on that, yes?

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Living the Gospel

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FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large theonion.com/fbi-war...

submitted 3 days ago • 137 comments

5 things to know before you head out to protect the Constitution tomorrow (ok 6 i added one at the last minute) open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments