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"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - Wilhoit
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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 18 hours ago • 472 comments

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2381 comments

when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

submitted 2 days ago • 588 comments

Cannot encourage you more to read this gift article. In three minutes the oped distills and contextualizes the terror and madness of Musk and what’s happening with our information www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Government by thuggery. www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

With the announcement of Asheville city manager Debra Campbell's retirement it's worth remembering key moments from her administration, like blanketing downtown in tear gas and literally exclaiming "Yippee!" about cops dragging poor people away in handcuffs from a homeless camp #avlnews

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

submitted 4 days ago • 357 comments

Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...

submitted 6 days ago • 584 comments

Here is my third weekly dispatch, imagining how the US media *should* be covering the Musk coup if it was clear-eyed about the threat to our democracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

Trump's DOJ is lighting the Public Integrity Section on fire just to watch it burn.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

submitted 7 days ago • 559 comments

Those of us who warned about this moment were often the subject of rageful responses from the people we disagreed with. Many had it worse than me. None of us deserved this. We were trying to sound the alarm bell. It’s not our fault they didn’t listen.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Only speaking in generalities to preserve source confidentiality. But we hear a lot about DOGErs heading right for the personnel files at these offices they go to. Seeing increasing amounts of evidence that these files are being searched for details to create pretexts to fire people. But the ...

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

submitted 8 days ago • 481 comments

Rae’s cancellation of her sold-out show "comes after Shonda Rhimes resigned from her treasurer position … Ben Folds also announced that he was resigning as artistic adviser of the National Symphony Orchestra, and Renée Fleming, who was serving as artistic adviser at large, followed.”

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

submitted 9 days ago • 701 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 882 comments

This is why all the Wine Dads still rep Katie Couric.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 10 days ago • 3886 comments