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TikTok just demonetized Current Affairs. No explanation. Just kicked us out and eliminated our income stream and said we violated an unspecified policy. Of course the only thing we've done that could possibly be controversial is be critical of imperialism and genocide.

The Iran War Is Unfathomably Depraved Our media’s sanitized coverage obscures the human toll. Are we able to confront the full sickening evil of what the U.S. is doing?

US media coverage sanitizes war and obscures the full horror of what we are doing to Iran. In this article I show how the war is far more twisted and evil than Americans understand:
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YouTube video by Baldwin & Co. JAMELLE BOUIE: Trump Didn’t Break America—This Did.

Our editor Nathan Robinson had a delightful conversation about politics and history with Jamelle Bouie here at Baldwin & Co Books in New Orleans! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUnA...

Don’t Let Elon Musk Implant a Device in Your Skull The world’s richest man is obsessed with putting Neuralink chips in people’s brains and integrating their minds with AI. He can’t be trusted with this technology.

The richest man in the world wants to implant a chip in your brain. You wouldn’t be the first: as of last September, 12 people have already undergone the operation and 10,000 more are on the waiting list.

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Is it even worth pointing out that it's a violation of the UN Charter to threaten to attack a sovereign country? That there is zero justification, moral or legal, for what Trump is doing? Does anybody even care, or does the U.S. just claim the infinite right to kill and destroy?

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The decimation of the Washington Post is a reminder that we cannot depend on billionaire-funded outlets and MUST build independent, subscriber supported media. Please subscribe to nonprofit newspapers and magazines that do not have corporate owners!
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JANUARY: @currentaffairs.bsky.social runs a fake ad for a new Trump EPA mascot called "Carson the Carcinogenic Cloud"

FEBRUARY: the Trump administration debuts "Coalie the Coal Lump" to push fossil fuels

Who in the admin is reading our magazine for ideas and how much are they going to pay us?

Rachel Cohen confronted Greg Bovino to his face. Now she talks to Current Affairs about how to stand up against ICE:
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The Washington Post may be ending its book reviews, but we at Current Affairs are NOT. Help us build a book review section of our magazine by subscribing, and writers please pitch us book reviews anytime!
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Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge.

We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

JANUARY: @currentaffairs.bsky.social runs a fake ad for a new Trump EPA mascot called "Carson the Carcinogenic Cloud"

FEBRUARY: the Trump administration debuts "Coalie the Coal Lump" to push fossil fuels

Who in the admin is reading our magazine for ideas and how much are they going to pay us?

YouTube video by Current Affairs It Isn't Nice (Abolish ICE) - Paris Flowerz

French Quarter street performer sings about why ICE should be abolished: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX0k...

Jesse Welles Is the Antidote To Everything That Sucks About Our Time Rough, warm, and human: in the age of AI slop and billionaire rule, we need a 21st century Woody Guthrie. Fortunately, we’ve got one.

wrote about how Jesse Welles is the antidote to everything crappy about our culture right now www.currentaffairs.org/news/jesse-w...

YouTube video by Current Affairs It Isn't Nice (Abolish ICE) - Paris Flowerz

French Quarter street performer sings about why ICE should be abolished: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX0k...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Today in Current Affairs, professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Today in Current Affairs, professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

I don’t think you’ll get a more “on the nose” example of blowback than a guy from Afghanistan who America trained to go around executing civilians in something called a “zero squad” who later moves to America and attacks the American government. Like holy shit what the fuck are we doing here?

Living in gratitude is more important than ever these days.

I try to treasure and embrace each and every day that a Government official doesn’t announce “release the robot dogs.”

A stylish gentleman in repose presenting the fact that we are warming the planet at a rate of 10 Hiroshima bombs per second.

Reading Olivia Nuzzis writing has really helped with this: it’s made me feel so lucky and confident

Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

A blockbuster investigation by the AP, out today.

So much in it, give it a read, but starts with: "The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious."

So far we have cost the NYT over $100,000 in annual subscription dollars over this article. We are well on the way to our goal of "defunding Bret Stephens."

There need to be consequences for publishing the warmongering propaganda of Bret Stephens. Email proof you have canceled your New York Times subscription to help@currentaffairs.org and we'll set you up with a free 1-year digital Current Affairs sub.
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I've studied a lot of right-wing propaganda but I've never encountered anyone whose output is as mindless and cruel as Stephen Miller:
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YouTube video by Current Affairs Dick Cheney's Legacy Is Mass Murder (w/ Adam McKay)

and on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtpl...

Adam McKay on the Late, Unlamented Dick Cheney The director of “Vice” reminds us that mass murder is Cheney’s only legacy.

on the day of Dick Cheney's funeral, we speak to Vice director @ghostpanther.bsky.social about the former VP's legacy of war crimes, torture, and lies
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