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📄 NEW: Moody's is now the last of the big three credit rating agencies to downgrade U.S. sovereign debt from "AAA." Here's what that might mean in the context of the ongoing budget and debt standoff. My latest. america2.news/u-s-credit-d...

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

submitted 13 days ago • 1116 comments

A thought provoking dystopia by @davetroy.com. The fictional aspect isn’t much of a stretch, frighteningly. My take away is that rather than simply waiting for the next awful news story, we might stop and think more deeply about the philosophical questions we face as individuals and as a culture.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

📄 NEW: A dispatch from the not too distant future warns that our crisis is more metaphysical than political, and urges us to use our collective imaginations to defeat autocracy. My latest. america2.news/a-letter-fro...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Federal Regulators Hold Celebratory Seatbelt-Cutting Ceremony

submitted 35 days ago • 46 comments

We're not prepared, and there's no light at the end of the BSKY scrolling tunnel. Relationships between some l/w progressive populists and some r/w reactionary populists are stunning and, as @davetroy.com describes here, converging. Exit the tunnel for a minute and check it out.

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments