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"... civil society has been impoverished by donors replacing constituencies. Instead of having an organized base for whom I speak, we have “whoever gave me the latest grant so that I can now speak for people who can’t speak for themselves.”" - M. Ganz ssir.org/articles/ent...

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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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Pay Attention to the Words Elon Musk Uses With DOGE www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...

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This is unfortunately true for too many journalism leaders.

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🚨NEWS: Massive layoffs are about to hit the IRS -- around 10,000 employees -- potentially in the middle of filing season. Of particular interest to the DOGE: Cutting IRS enforcement capabilities. -- with @jeffstein.bsky.social + Hannah Natanson

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The Barrage of Trump’s Awful Ideas Is Doing Exactly What It’s Supposed To www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

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I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

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"The rationale is based on a productivity myth that the goal of bureaucracy is merely what it produces (services, information, governance) and can be isolated from the process through which democracy achieves those ends: debate, deliberation, and consensus." techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

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Come hear me, scholar/writer Lan Duong & memoirist Mai Elliott talk about the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Viet Nam, especially in terms of a future of liberation. Plus artist Ann Le & a preview of the landmark anthology "The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora.” Link below.

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Every time I catch a headline about a new Exec Order or Senate confirmation, I think about Peele's "Get Out," Everett's "James."

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Reflections on "Pluralism in the Trump Era" artofassociation.substack.com?utm_source=n...

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my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

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Delighted to be giving an invited talk on the origins of NPR, PBS, and public media, for affiliates and stations themselves. It’s an open talk and all are invited to sign up.

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It's launch day! And I'm in my "dismantling outdated news systems and building better ones with an amazing community" era. Come join our community of journalists, organizers, public servants & educators working toward information equity for all www.newsfutures.org #NewsFutures #localnews #civicmedia

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My review of @joshshepperd.bsky.social's important and ever-so-timely book, Shadow of the New Deal, on the history of American public media has finally been published. I posted it online here:

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"There is no greater forcing function on this Earth than Trump on the podium making an announcement."

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Whoo. Say it.

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@davarianbaldwin.bsky.social I couldn't make your lecture earlier today. But! I'm buying your book!

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NEW: WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s DOGE project. By @telliotter.bsky.social

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I’m plowing through this deeply researched (rich with citations) but very accessible reappraisal of “New World” history by one of the best, Greg Grandin. Pair it with Ned Blackhawk’s REDISCOVERY OF AMERICA & Álvaro Enrigue’s fiction, & mwah … chef’s kiss.

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"She said she was concerned about “the level of license to be really quite cruel” that some people feel now." Bishop Asks Trump to ‘Have Mercy’ on Immigrants and Gay Children www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

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So on point. #HardTruths

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www.propublica.org/article/bide...

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“Greenland is for the Greenlandic people,” Prime Minister Múte Egede said at a press conference last week. “We do not want to be Danish, we do not want to be American. We want to be Greenlandic.” What Imperialist Game Is Donald Trump Playing with Greenland? www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

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"[Watch Duty] collects very little personal data from users, he said, adding that he runs it through a nonprofit because he has no intention of selling it. “This is my life and my community,” he said. “I owe it to my community to not be a disaster capitalist.”" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

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My friends, 2025 is going to be rocky. But one thing I know for sure is that some incredible people put a huge amount of care, craft, love and rage into writing books that will soon be published that are going to help us make sense of this broken and beautiful world. 📚🧵

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Sunday Sermon:

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hanging head I hate it here.

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Earlier this week, New College trustee Mark Bauerlein and Claremont Institute fellow Scott Yenor published a @chronicle.com piece advocating for an ideological government takeover of general education curricula. Today, Amy Reid and I respond. www.chronicle.com/article/flor...

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"Up to now, the University of Florida has allowed some 500 courses to fulfill one requirement or another. Florida State University allowed 900 before the Board of Trustees acted... . The same general-education creep has afflicted the Florida College System (FCS)." www.chronicle.com/article/prof...

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👏🏽 💯 @chuckwendig.bsky.social speaks the true true.

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"Thompson’s murder is one symptom of the American appetite for violence; his line of work is another." A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You’re Laughing? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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After backing Trump, low-income voters hope he doesn’t slash their benefits www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

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"Since October 2023, NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, and CNN’s State of the Union have not featured a single Palestinian guest." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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My article on the #latinx vote just came out today @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/lati...

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