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We agree that putin is a war criminal. We agree that the Russian military is mostly made up of humans who have been beaten, tortured, and made to toe the line for the Kremlin. But, don't forget our brothers and sisters in Russia who hate putin with a passion that we could only dream of.

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This is beautiful.

submitted 55 days ago • 34 comments

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

submitted 60 days ago • 481 comments

A trillion dollar defense budget. There’s plenty of money, it’s just not for you.

submitted 61 days ago • 22 comments

Hey let's trade Stephen Miller for the guy they illegally sent to El Salvador.

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Telling a story in a book or a novel is taking your reader on an adventure; to let them discover the world you’ve created, helping them to live inside the story and characters you've created for a while. - Wrtr #amwriting #author #Writing #writer #authorsky

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.

submitted 66 days ago • 136 comments

Remember how Mark Zuckerberg started cozying up to Trump as Meta donated $1 million to his inauguration? Well now Zuckerberg is trying to cash in — reportedly lobbying Trump to settle the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta. This is why you always follow the money.

submitted 66 days ago • 182 comments

If Trump were your elderly grandpa you’d have taken the car keys from him months ago, and would be starting to investigate assisted living.

submitted 67 days ago • 15 comments

The future is a web of branching paths, and each choice opens up new possibilities as it closes others. This is as true for a civilization as it is for an individual. The more our collective intelligence can inform each choice, the better our chances of finding paths through to a beautiful future.

submitted 70 days ago • 356 comments

Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻

submitted 70 days ago • 170 comments

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submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Good piece! I cover the fate of universities in Fascist Italy and Pinochet's Chile in #Strongmen. And here is my piece for Lucid: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

submitted 79 days ago • 39 comments

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submitted 87 days ago • 1010 comments

i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.

submitted 86 days ago • 491 comments

one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult

submitted 89 days ago • 1542 comments

thinking about when siskel and ebert were dicking off and riffing in-between takes and decided to roast the shit out of the protestants

submitted 92 days ago • 115 comments

Democrats holding up little paddle signs during Trump's avalanche of lies, slurs, and theater performance was..."cute", and not in a good way. They are the weakest opposition party I've ever seen. They should've all followed Al Green's lead. #resist #disrupt #getoffyourasses

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They tried to help us

submitted 98 days ago • 13 comments

It's March tomorrow. So only 15 days to the Ides. Just thought that was interesting. You know. Historically. Anyway...

submitted 101 days ago • 14 comments

Trump and Vance ran a televised scam today. What all America saw was a premeditated hoax to justify cutting off aid to Ukraine. Nothing Zelenskyy did was offensive or disrespectful—but that was the line Trump and Vance had clearly decided to use beforehand to justify what they and Putin wanted.

submitted 100 days ago • 308 comments

This is what ardent NYT _conservative_ Bret Stephens is saying. Anyone with any sense knows that today was an absolute disaster and disgrace for the United States.

submitted 100 days ago • 135 comments

it meant russia first.

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Putin is smiling right now.

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“Just set one day’s work in front of the last day’s work. That’s the way it comes out. And that’s the only way it does.” Born on this day in 1902, Steinbeck used his diary as training ground for winning two Pulitzers and a Nobel

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Why are other countries able to hold their leaders accountable for coup attempts and we can't? South Korea tinyurl.com/bdfzs8h8 and Brazil tinyurl.com/4mxsw93r come to mind.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

no more breaking news, put it back together

submitted 110 days ago • 11 comments

Works as advertised

submitted 109 days ago • 1187 comments