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I write books by the sea and help people tell their real stories. Brooklyn born Californian tumbling around the world.
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In the era that I studied when I was still part of the academic world one recurrent topic was that of "over-mighty subjects". This referred to subjects of the Crown who were themselves so powerful that they threatened the sovereign power of the Crown itself. In the US we have no sovereign, or ...

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Hitler, who I do not support, never would have embraced genocide, which I also do not support, if the Weimar shitlibs hadn't tried so hard to deplatform him. by Glenn Greenwald

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

Impressive. If true. And prolly true.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Great man great artist great essay.

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Those who back the Trump-Musk-Vance administration, or are still giving it the benefit of the doubt, have failed the simplest test of our lifetimes - and the one that really matters. They can't be trusted again.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Ron Howard FTW 🎯

submitted 14 days ago • 487 comments

🦗🦗🦗🦗

submitted 18 days ago • 2760 comments

I respect the filmmaking and acting and location scene settings but just watched Anora with great anticipation and 1) first third is rich kid excess with paid sex between a spoiled moron and sex worker masquerading as intimacy: 2) overlong attempt at screwball comedy looking for the degraded brat:

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Throughout my travels for “My Fabulous Fascist Summer Vacation : A Journey Through Europe’s Hearts of Darkness,” Donald Trump was considered by nearly all interviewees as the leader of a global fascist movement. I’ll post interviews free on Medium this month. The book is on sale at amzn.to/3NxJd5K

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

How could someone with 34 felonies become president?

submitted 49 days ago • 991 comments

In 1979, Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House. In 1986, Ronald Reagan tore them down along w/Carter’s clean energy funding. This sums up the difference between the two men & political parties. Investing in solutions for the future vs canceling progress to score political points.

submitted 49 days ago • 851 comments

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

submitted 49 days ago • 1092 comments

People criticizing the Hunter Biden pardon need to recognize: For the 1st time, the FBI and Justice Department could literally fabricate evidence, or collaborate with a foreign government to “find” evidence of a “crime,” with zero accountability. That’s why the pardon goes back to 2014. Think, McFly

submitted 82 days ago • 115 comments

The eradication of disease through vaccination is likely the greatest achievement of mankind. Please remember that when the barrage of bullshit begins.

submitted 82 days ago • 400 comments

Last year, Trump’s FBI Director was selling magic pills which would supposedly cleanse your body of the Covid vaccine to “reverse the vaxx” if you ever had one. A complete scam.

submitted 83 days ago • 479 comments

295,000 journalists from 44 countries will stop posting content on X. We are making change and the world has spoken. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

submitted 83 days ago • 730 comments

When businesses talk about ending government “overreach” they’re usually talking about screwing their customers over

submitted 94 days ago • 470 comments

Not to ruin the wonderfully positive vibes on this site, but is anyone else here concerned that American society, politics, and culture have become morally and psychologically addled?

submitted 95 days ago • 3354 comments

My walk through Munich's impressive Nazi Documentation Centre, the former "Brown House" home of the Nazi party. From “My Fabulous Fascist Summer Vacation : A Journey Through Europe’s Hearts of Darkness,” for sale at amzn.to/3NxJd5K. medium.com/@briangruber...

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