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We devote musicals, miniseries, and documentaries to the founders of our first republic and not to those of our second, who saw this country with clear eyes. We need fewer encomiums for Jefferson, Madison, and Lafayette. More respect for Sumner, Stevens, Bingham and Douglass (Frederick).

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”

submitted 9 days ago • 58 comments

Good morning! It’s a perfect day to realize that the politics you’re used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.

submitted 18 days ago • 75 comments

Cornell has announced that Itamar Ben-Gvir will fill in www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

i think it's worse than this. the Republican Party as an institution has thoroughly discredited itself as either interested in or capable of being trustworthy with respect to basic democratic governance

submitted 46 days ago • 124 comments

Yes nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

All the people that the culture told us were important and to be respected: University chancellors, Wall Street bankers, Republican, politicians, Democratic politicians NY Times reporters, turn out to be arrogant cowardly fools living in a fantasy and unwilling to defend their own values.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

submitted 50 days ago • 1362 comments

One way to think of what’s going on is that Trump & his gang are trust fund kids spending down the reservoir of U.S. power & influence without understanding or caring where the balance in that account came from. They treat it as just a fact of nature that there will always plenty there.

submitted 51 days ago • 98 comments

Every so often, it just comes back to me in full force. The political and economic order that allowed this man to come to power is obviously no longer tenable. The leaders who let it happen obviously have to be replaced. This is an epoch defining failure and we have to turn the page completely.

submitted 51 days ago • 419 comments

Feeling very good about my alma mater today www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Another great day for Richie Torres and John Fetterman

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

The stark contrast between the formidable resolve of grassroots protesters, Town Hall participants, #TakedownTesla activists, and others protesting the serious threats to our democracy, and the spinelessness of our leading institutions civil society in education, law, and elsewhere is remarkable.

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

Conservatism succumbed to fascism as easily and rapidly as conservatives long (and inaccurately) warned liberalism would succumb to communism.

submitted 56 days ago • 30 comments

the complete collapse of conservatism as an ideological formation in the west feels like it should probably be more remarked on.

submitted 56 days ago • 30 comments

I've resigned from the jury for the duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards in response to Columbia's capitulation to Trump. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

submitted 58 days ago • 54 comments

submitted 61 days ago • 10 comments

This www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/n...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment