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Editor-in-chief of The Contrarian, MSNBC contributor, dog and art lover, democracy defender, and pro-Oxford comma. Book recommendations welcomed.
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Eliza Orlins explains today's ruling in the Eric Adams case . This is FABULOUS: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

submitted 20 hours ago • 249 comments

Trump Fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs The nominee to replace Gen. CQ Brown, the first black officer, to serve as the Pentagon’s senior military post, is a retired Air Force general... NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COLIN POWELL. This is the frigging WSj

submitted 21 hours ago • 35 comments

wasn't Colin Powell the first black Chairman of joint chiefs??

submitted 21 hours ago • 40 comments

Congressman Joe Neguse and Jen Rubin discuss Republican plan to Cut Medicaid open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

how's the election working out, Georgia? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Critical piece from @benwikler.bsky.social on Wis S Ct race open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

www.mediaite.com/news/jim-van... soulless, amoral, everything wrong with owned media

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

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Republicans are going along with stuff AMericans hate. 2026 will hold them accountable. ("More than 8 in 10 oppose the pardons for those who were convicted of violent crimes, and 55 percent oppose the pardons for those convicted of nonviolent crimes")

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

americans are ahead of the politicians "Americans disapprove by a 2-to-1 margin of Musk shutting down federal agencies that he decides are unnecessary, and most (63 percent) are concerned that his team is gaining access to sensitive personal data of individuals"

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

NO ONE better for democracy fight, for Dem Party than @neeratanden.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

@neeratanden.bsky.social's returning to lead the Center for American Progress is great news for CAP & also for serious pragmatic liberal policy solutions and a Democratic response to Trump, Musk, & Vance. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Thank GOD not everything has changed. Yet.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

fucking incompetents and/or malicious... they own every repeat offender who commits police misconduct www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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The Senate just confirmed Kash Patel as the next FBI Director. A MAGA loyalist and conspiracy theorist is now in charge of one of the biggest intelligence agencies in the world. This is a serious threat to Americans.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

I am wondering when people who have given their careers to defending the post-WWII world order, a Europe whole and free, and most recently to the defense of democratic Ukraine will use the Dissent Channel to denounce the repugnant sellout of Ukraine and Trump lies afsa.org/state-depart...

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

THANK YOU for getting us to more than 500,000 subscribers in 5 weeks. WOW. contrarian.substack.com/about

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

not flipping the script or rewriting -- he is LYING. Do better www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

when you lose frigging Mark Levin.... www.mediaite.com/news/mark-le...

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

COWARD, IRRESPONSIBLE, WEAK : “Right now, you have got to give him some space,” Senator John Thune, the South Dakota Republican and majority leader, said at a news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday after a closed-door Senate lunch with Vice President JD Vance. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

An Open Letter to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard... let's hope she reads it! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Trump is unpopular, Musk more so. And their actions even more. Republicans who tie themselves to them overtly or by silence will be sitting ducks in 2026.

submitted 2 days ago • 157 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Love this guy

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

What "Anti-Christian Bias" does for Trump .. why the party that used to scold victimology now adopts it open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

“Every American can do something—show up, walk out, call, sign up, demonstrate engagement.” The Musk-Trump axis thrives on chaos and intimidation, but resistance is growing. Thousands protested, DOJ lawyers resigned & NYC officials walked out. Jen Rubin explains.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

contrarian.substack.com/p/non-maga-t... Trump is blowing it

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Trump is either evil, a stooge of Putin or the most ignorant man ever to hold office. Actually all 3!

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

this is such a critical point, made powerfully by the brilliant @sifill.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

imagine what a weak quisling Rubio is that he cannot even explain to Trump that Russia started the war. Think about that. Utterly spineless.

submitted 3 days ago • 160 comments

worhtless. if true, he's superfluous and should resign www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 3 days ago • 179 comments

great. someone woke up. Now where are Cotton, Cruz, etc? Tough guys hiding under the desk instead of defending Ukraine. www.mediaite.com/news/top-gop...

submitted 3 days ago • 98 comments

What a sniveling fool Rubio is. Give him an umbrella

submitted 4 days ago • 84 comments

What the Last Four Weeks have Wrought ,,, superb piece from arguably the person most knowledgable about the nuts and bolts of govt. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Fitting the sellout has been in Munich. Trump has been articulating his own policy of appeasement to an expansionist, aggressive dictatorship in the same place British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain articulated his own country’s policy of appeasement in 1938 open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Americans are waking up, turning out open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Meet our Founding Contributors .... thanks to all !!! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u... BRAVO

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

LIVE on Substack with special guest @jonathanalter.bsky.social Watch now: contrarian.substack.com

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

mainstream media got nothing you are interested in? humor and insight on Presidents' Day : contrarian.substack.com/about

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments