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We're examining the unraveling of American democracy through history, politics, and culture, connecting past events to today’s challenges with insight and urgency. Substack: http://threadbarerepublic.substack.com

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Submitted for Your Disapproval: The Bullshit Zone When the president uses the world’s stage to rage, lie, and gloat

Yesterday, Donald Trump stepped up to the marble podium at the United Nations General Assembly and delivered what may be remembered as one of the most destabilizing addresses ever given by an American president.

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Scapegoating Science When politics needs a villain, even Tylenol will do

It’s bad politics. It is terrible science.

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The United States’ No Good, Very Bad Week In seven days Trump pressured the press, rewrote immigration, claimed control over prosecutors, erased history, and pushed the courts to their limits.

In a single week, Donald Trump moved across the corridors of power like a storm, leaving upheaval in his wake. Any one of his moves might seem calculated or chaotic. Together, they reveal the pattern of a leader testing the limits of every institution meant to constrain him.

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In ABC's defense, Jimmy Kimmel should have said something much less offensive during his monologue, such as advocating that we kill homeless people.

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Democracy Dies in Silence When the FCC silences comedians and networks shovel dirt for mergers, freedom of speech dies.

Freedom of speech is being hollowed out. If a regulator can use merger approvals to pressure broadcasters into canceling dissent, then the government has found a back door into censorship. That is authoritarianism, plain and simple.

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