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The shell of U.S.A.I.D that is left today is the result of a chorus of pleas and negotiations, and of hasty decisions made by leaders with little experience in foreign aid. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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... More than 500 directors, actors and other notable movie fans submitted their ballots for the Best Movies of the 21st Century. Now it’s your turn to vote. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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An 80-year-old model of American science is under threat. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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A customer told me she couldn't believe this store would put up a Pride display, because what if children see it?? Anyway, it was my display, and I'm proud of it, and you (and your children) should all see it. #BookSky 📚💙

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Senior officials tell the NYT that they do not know the whereabouts of Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium. JSOC trains extensively on the counterproliferation mission, but the idea that we’ve potentially got a loose nuke situation in the Middle East is fucking insane.

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Some thoughts on the current situation with Iran. Screenshot from the bad place.

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The number of immigrants detained in ICE facilities across the country has reached a record high of more than 56,000. The driving force behind this surge is the detention of immigrants with no prior criminal convictions.

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It’s too damn hot to be outside, & the world's burning anyway, so why not stay in & check out all the amazing public scholarly writing, podcast eps, new books from the last week in my 230th #ScholarSunday thread? Add more below, share widely, & enjoy! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

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U.S. bombs Iran nuclear sites; CT Reps question constitutionality ctmirror.org/2025/06/21/t...

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Gen. Caine: "At approximately 6:40 EST, the lead B-2 dropped two GBU-57 massive ordinance penetrator weapons on the first of several aim points at Fordo...The remaining bombers then hit their targets as well...All 3 Iranian nuclear infrastructure targets were struck between 6:40 and 7:05 EST."

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In ALL wars leadership oft slips into hyperbole. In this one we will be in a constant state of bold-faced lies. There is a difference.

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Please don’t presume this is now an American president making a serious decision for the good of America, not a malignant despot desperate to be seen as a strong man.

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🚨 Be Aware: The idea of enrolling your child in Jiu-Jitsu / mixed martial arts class might seem appealing, but a White Supremacy movement has been using the combat sport to recruit young boys into their neo-Nazi ranks...most recently in Tennessee. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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While bombing Iran is bad for Trump’s poll numbers, starting a war and creating chaos is good for Trump as an authoritarian. Authoritarians exploit chaos to claim emergency powers, deploy the military domestically, and undermine free and fair elections. These attacks must be viewed from this lens.

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Speaking at the Pentagon just now, Pete Hegseth said, “We give glory to God for his providence.” Sounds like typical rhetoric from Iran.

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I think people missed it amid Whiskey Pete's other faceplants in congressional hearings in last two weeks--but he struggled to distinguish the US from ISIS and al Qaeda two weeks ago.

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He was humiliated last weekend. This weekend he bombed someone. My guess is there is a relationship between those two events.

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And as @adambonica.bsky.social shows, this particular form of capital explains why increases in wealth are concentrated among the very wealthiest

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Repealing the 15th Amendment was a demand of the worst racist demagogues of the early Jim Crow era, like "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman of SC and James K. Vardaman, the "White Chief" of Mississippi. Roger Taney & the KKK are not this guy's only political and intellectual forebears, is what I'm saying.

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No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

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Oh my godddssss

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I'm just glad that as we face increased terrorism risks in retaliation for bombing Iran that there's a steady hand on the wheel for preventing terrorism in the US. Or mowing my yard. Or running a Model UN club. Or whatever he's actually qualified to do... www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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When fascism comes to America it will present as a megachurch audience of prosperous people in formalwear cheering a white woman in a black gown as she uses Jackson Pollack's painting method to create a Hobby Lobby portrait of their beloved, sex pest billionaire president who's never read the Bible.

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"They say with Trump accusation is confession. Having warned during the 2024 campaign that Joe Biden, then Kamala Harris, would trigger “world war three”, Trump is now offering a perilous test of that proposition." My take. www.ft.com/content/c689...

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If the Iranian program is now gone, that's a good thing, but as strategists and military planners always warn, the “enemy gets a vote.” The Iranians may respond in ways the U.S. does not expect. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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New: Trump’s two-week window was a smokescreen. He had already decided to attack Iran when he said he was open to negotiating. Our report on tonight’s historic U.S. strikes. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Five things to remember about war:

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Valuable summary of anti-fascist analysis from @rosansmits.bsky.social decorrespondent.nl/16177/this-i...

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Evil, petulant, dumb, and unfair to millions of people who paid into the system and deserve much better. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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We are lucky to have access to the early work of Taras Prochasko in English. More great work from the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. books.huri.harvard.edu/books/prokha...

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Helpful analysis of June 14th and a prod to action from Jeff Isaac www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-t...

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“In April, I resigned from my position at the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division for a simple reason: The department’s leadership is directing attorneys to use antisemitism as a pretext to undermine free speech.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Musk’s father, in Moscow at the invitation of the leading Russian fascist, called for reconciliation between his son and Trump. english.nv.ua/amp/musk-was...

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