Rachel Klayman

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein It’s not what you think it is.

The actual conspiracy theory is that multiple women independently lied, with apparently nothing to gain, and much to lose, about Trump’s entanglement with Epstein. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

The sad, sad state of the New York Times | Press Watch Trolling the libs is par for the course

NEW from me: The sad, sad state of the New York Times: presswatchers.org/2025/07/the-...

Actually I would probably sub Mulholland Drive for In the Mood for Love.

So many more I could have chosen! The Florida Project. Both Kill Bills. I basically just picked what first came to mind.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Join me on June 14

While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/aak1muKR

BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom delivers a 'major address' in response to the Trump admin.'s actions in L.A.

"Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves, but they do not stop there," Newsom said.

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

Again, this is finally some really good self-knowledge and we should support him in this insight and maybe help him find a job for which he is suited

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I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

US News & World Report’s Best Remaining Colleges, 2028 1. Florida Intranational University 2. Johns Hopkins School of Remunerative Medicine 3. Facebook.edu/DeVry 4. Colorado School of Mines—Nuuk 5. Mich...

SUNY (with ads)

Europe and the US: Thanks America, That’ll Be All Andy Warhol, Big Mac, iPhone: It was a grand American epoch. But it’s over. Europe must finally emancipate itself – just not as awkwardly as Jürgen Habermas might like.

Bracing, from Die Zeit: “Thank you for Andy Warhol. Thank you for the Big Mac and the iPhone. Thank you, too, for Francis Ford Coppola, for Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino. Thank you for Angela Davis, Joni Mitchell and Susan Sontag. Thank you….also for Levi’s 501s. And now: Goodbye.”

Keep hearing people say protests against first Trump administration were ineffective. Evidence suggests otherwise.

The United States of Terror Trump's Second Administration is transforming into a reign of terror for anyone and everyone who defies the MAGA agenda and refuses to bend the knee to its corrupt, authoritarian impulses.

It's late, but I was compelled to write this and share the amazing portrait:

"The United States of Terror"

Trump's Second Administration is transforming into a reign of terror for anyone and everyone who defies the MAGA agenda.

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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

A French researcher was detained on arrival in the US and his computer and phone were confiscated. Texts criticizing Trump's cuts to scientific research were deemed by DHS agents as "hatred of Trump …described as terrorism." He was deported.

We've always been at war with Greenland.

Sullivan invokes his heritage as an Irish American to call for others to denounce the dehumanizing of immigrants today.

Sullivan quotes Thomas Paine to call for Irish Americans to stand up for the country’s constitution and its principles.

Sullivan describes the discrimination faced by Irish immigrants, and their fortitude in creating a better life and shaping this country’s history, including during the Civil War when the Irish Brigade made huge battlefield sacrifices.

Sullivan calls on his audience to remember the sacrifices made by Irish Americans’ ancestors who fought for equality and liberty for all.

Powerful remarks by Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan in Northampton MA at a Patrick's Day Breakfast on March 17. 1/2

A really good discussion about why removing Section 230 would be extremely chilling to a lot of the internet communities, inarguably making them worse experiences and subject to the whims of bad actors.

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Why can’t American businesspeople talk this way?

Tesla Takedown We are taking action at Tesla. ⚡ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk. ⚡ Stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy. The stakes could...

In Brooklyn the next few Saturdays!

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

Word has it DOGE has terminated the five men protecting the cursed seal that holds the five dark sages in their slumber

Adrien Brody just won the Best Actor Oscar for playing a character who is sexually assaulted?

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org