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A podcast by attorney Whiteside that looks critically at the American legal system with a focus on behind-the-scene power-players and how it can improve.
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“These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die” and “Competitive Authoritarianism” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

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They are hurting their own people. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

submitted 35 days ago • 2684 comments

Writing a poly sci undergrad honors thesis on the tabloidization of mainstream media (NYT) in 1998 was deemed not poly sci enough, too sociological, so no honors for me.

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"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

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Counterpoint: No, that's not how it works. protectdemocracy.org/work/impound...

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NBC News confirms: Matt Gaetz paid two women for sex while he was a member of the House, the women's attorney told NBC News. Joel Leppard said one of the women told the House Ethics Cmte. that in 2017 she saw him having sex with her friend, who was 17 at the time. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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I am so sick of this discourse. The question isn't whether random left-wing people do irritating things. The question is why Democrats are held responsible for the actions of the fringe left while Republicans are not held responsible for the actions of the fringe right.

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Give Coleman Domingo the Oscar for his performance of Bayard Rustin in Rustin on Netflix.

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Trump’s Court Whisperer Had a State Judicial Strategy. Its Full Extent Only Became Clear Years Later.

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Don’t love how my feed almost exclusively shows the responses of people I follow to other posts without showing the original post. Is this a setting issue or how this site works? #newbie

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Black farmers in America are disappearing. They’re living on less land, and are severely restricted by having less access to credit One study found that Black farmers lost $326 billion in land — and wealth — between 1920 and 1997 alone

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My sympathies to his family and legal team. Devastating

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