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"There’s no journalistic road map for addressing a vast portion of the potential audience that rejects facts and truth." www.thewrap.com/mainstream-m...

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From @timothysnyder.bsky.social: "Although one can never be sure exactly where a counter-factual example leads, the events in Czechoslovakia in 1938 help to clarify the stakes of the war in Ukraine." snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...

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Arielle Kane was an analyst at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare.

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Read the letter from Danielle Sassoon to Emil Bove about Eric Adams. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sassoo...

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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

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@mashagessen.bsky.social: "This is a pretty convenient country to pick for building an autocracy. We don’t have a culture of collective action... extraordinary leadership and some extraordinary organizing efforts really, really soon would be needed to stave this off." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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Good. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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I like the WIIFM parts in nos. 2 and 4 as a way to educate and motivate within your community: "Find out what specific pending changes will mean on the ground for your neighbors and your community’s hospitals, schools, and businesses." newrepublic.com/article/1905...

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Eerie and beautiful. “This post office receives 10 to 20 letters every day. … Most are written to the deceased. But some write to their bullied younger selves or their future, more accomplished selves.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

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Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

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"It is very hard to create a large, legitimate, functioning government. The oligarchs have no plan to govern. They will take what they can, and disable the rest. The destruction is the point. ... They want disorder in which their relative power will grow." snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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“Because stupid actions do not make sense, they invariably come as a surprise. Reasonable arguments fall on deaf ears.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...

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Inspiring list from @protectdemocracy.org. I plan to take more of these steps (although really, I'm not sure I can get to No. 13). www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-you-ca...

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“Public opinion might actually be one of the major constraints on Trump. I don’t think a majority of Americans wants to see him abusing his legal powers to try to harm his political enemies.” apnews.com/article/trum...

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"Isaac Asimov once said that 'there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.' Asimov argued that this ignorance is 'nourished by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is as good as your knowledge.'” www.cjr.org/analysis/how...

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Reading these 2 stories back-to-back ... o brave new world indeed. NYT: "Robert engages with 17 [AI] companions, spending an estimated six hours a day with them." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/s... Atlantic: "Americans are now spending more time alone than ever." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances. They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.

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Hear, hear. And the reporters who are there to put the heartbreaking scenes into words.

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Interesting … debate. And lord, the possible consequences. Reminds me of the discussion my parents got into years ago about whether to destroy the remnants of smallpox. She (scientist) said yes, keep to study. He (pessimistic student of mankind) said no. www.latimes.com/environment/...

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This is an astonishing piece. Thank you, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social and @propublica.org, and John Williams, wherever you are. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

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Given how many people have dropped the Washington Post, I imagine this reprinted work in the NY Times of the brilliant @anntelnaes.bsky.social might be seen by far more people. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/b...

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I’m not speaking ill of the recently departed, but in reference to the news coverage, I will say only that I don’t think I ever need to read another piece about the 39th president. But I did appreciate this by @markzbarabak.bsky.social

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Consider the humble radish. Then … consider this beautiful tradition. ♥️ www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/w...

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The metaphors people use to organize time: Dizzying, wonderful. For English speakers, “the past [is] typically ‘behind us’ and the future ‘ahead.’” But in Aymara, the past is “visible, thus stands in front of the speaker, while the future, unseeable, looms behind.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Lovely homage to the winter solstice by @johnhendrickson.bsky.social. Especially this: “Fighting that darkness with light is really what choosing to recognize the solstice is all about.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Bless The Marginalian for spotlighting John Koenig's "Obscure Sorrows" dictionary, which gives words to "profoundly relatable" emotional states. Here's just one: "CRAXIS n. the unease of knowing how quickly your circumstances could change." And oh, ÉNOUEMENT... www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/d...

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Becca Rothfeld at her eviscerating best. “In his prose, as in his oratory, the kitsch of grand pronouncements and the dazzle of quasi-technical terminology conspire to yield an imitation of depth.” www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

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Today I saw a red car with a Virginia license plate that said MAGA, but when I pulled closer, I saw it also sported Obama and “coexist” stickers. Which made me pause, then laugh, because … maybe the owner took pleasure in removing it from circulation for True MAGA Believers?!

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Hi, I’m God. Tax churches. Love, God

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Well, well, well: “California farmers, who are some of the most ardent supporters of Donald Trump, would seem to be on a collision course with one of the president-elect’s most important campaign promises.…mass deportation.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

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