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“We cannot let this stand, never mind letting it escalate. We must take to the streets, we must do everything in our power to change the collective perception of the political environment.” www.liberalcurrents.com/now-is-the-m...

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Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

What to do? End unanimous consent, call for leadership resignations by tomorrow, and if not, impeachments.

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No Kings, Saturday, all over the country. Be there or be square

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this should be the biggest domestic story right now: the military occupation of multiple major cities, with open assaults on private individuals and journalists. This is the biggest widespread violation of civil rights and liberties in my lifetime.

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World Cup and Olympics cannot be held in the US.

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Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

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My strong instinct is that Trump's threats against Americans' first amendment right to peaceably assemble is going to massively juice attendance at Saturday's protests. www.nokings.org

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This is a fantastic critique of what is going on in legacy media these days.

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Exactly right - and “buzz” is the key word here. The returns VC investors are expecting can’t come through those marginal productivity increases. They’ll only come through conjuring (hallucinating?) a structural, embedded, labor-replacing role for AI throughout government/military/industry.

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This is a delightful watch.

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We all know the nazi salute is terrible. The salute launched the Tesla Takedown protests. But since then Musk is responsible for mass murder. That needs to be stressed so that people know what they're facing and can form a meaningful opposition. It isn't mentioned because it's unpalatable.

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Seems reasonable in an era where people are snatched off the streets and immediately flown to a foreign hell hole prison to serve a life sentence without ever appearing before a judge or having an opportunity to appeal.

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Mayor Wu has the courage to say it like it is: federal law enforcement are acting like the secret police of the societies we once thought the antithesis of America.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Spot on.

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Really good Gender thread here.

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The Owens Valley is a special, beautiful place that has survived in spite of our best efforts to destroy it. A Canadian mining company wants to begin exploration for an open pit gold mine just off the 395. BLM is accepting public comment til 6/16. Please speak out. eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui...

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Very much this. Things have actually gone pretty well in the courts, all things considering. I am worried about the "big beautiful bill" being a sign of a congress that isn't just passive, but actively enabling Trump. But what I'm really worried about is the stuff Jonathan talks about.

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The Wikipedia paradox: nothing you can read about on Wikipedia is as interesting as the fact that Wikipedia exists

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SCOOP: Elon Musk will not be fully exiting DOGE. In fact, federal workers from at least six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments, and President Trump himself said in a press conference today that “Elon's really not leaving.”

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"The strength of the US dollar comes partly from its institutional integrity: the rule of law, independence of central banking and policy that’s predictable. These are the components that create the dollar as the reserve currency. The last three months have called that into question."

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Great, interesting thread here.

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As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

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Clear distillation of the moral failings of Trumpism by Brooks. "a giant effort to narrow the circle of concern to people just like us" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

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“If you heard the conversations U.S.A.I.D. staff had with the DOGE people, there is no word in any language that captures the level of obliviousness about what U.S.A.I.D. actually did,” said Samantha Power.

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There’s no practical or ethical way to “debate” the rights of minority Group A when that same group is currently under attack from state and federal governments, legions of trolls, a vast propaganda media ecosystem, hostile billionaires, militias, bigots, grifters, and stochastic terrorism

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Serious thread here.

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Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez (Category is, favorite song about another band or artist)

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And now, to soothe your timeline, a patch of Illinois tallgrass prairie.

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I've said it once and I'll say 1000 more times: Donald Trump is in a mutualistic relationship with social decay, and acts as both a driver of it and a symptom of it.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

A massive lane open for some ambitious anti corruption democrats

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"The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a postcolonial African dictatorship." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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