Kara Keeling

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

A Ticking Clock on American Freedom Autocracy is no longer something that happens only in other countries.

I got lots of advice, some very specific. But one thing I heard again and again: America, you are running out of time.

Here is what I learned:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State - The Atlantic

This is atrocious. Shame!

Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

This should be getting wider circulation

Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside

NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...

She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation. Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel.

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

I don’t buy the narrative that Trump & President Musk actually WANT a shutdown. If that was the truth, they would’ve put forth an even worse bill that would 100% guarantee zero Dem votes.

What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.

They are rolling out a permission structure for genocide they intend to commit

For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Federal Agency Deletes Website Page On Durham's Pauli Murray; Censors Other References to Queer History Numerous National Park Service websites have been censored in recent weeks in response to an executive order.

Federal Agency Deletes Website Page On #DurhamNC’s Pauli Murray; Censors Other References to Queer History

Numerous National Park Service websites have been censored in recent weeks, including pages on Pauli Murray and the Stonewall Uprising
indyweek.com/culture/fede...

FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL!!!!!

"if they take Mahmoud in the morning, they will be coming for us that night"

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…

"When someone talks about 'free speech' while actively working to control speech, that’s not a contradiction or a mistake — it’s the point. It’s about consolidating power while wrapping it in the language of freedom as a shield to fool the gullible and the lazy."

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

What Happens When ICE Agents Show Up at Your High School Undocumented students and teachers are preparing for potential arrests.

“We’re all having to decide what we’re going to do in a moment where we’re sort of the last person standing between a kid who should be learning in their classroom and an immigration official who’s there to take that right away from them.”

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The West Bank is completely under attack and there’s been very little coverage in American media

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives.

Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

This is what’s actually happening. They’re forcing federal employees to train an LLM.

New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin have all lost their shows.

Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com
Not a good look at all.
A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network.
www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...

I just want to give a shout out to the Governor of Maine for standing up for the citizens of Maine and for trans rights. That’s what America at its best can do. We need more people to do the same.

DOGE recommended firing workers at:

-FDA, which oversees Neuralink

-FAA, which oversees SpaceX

-USAID, which probed Starlink

-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.

"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

If you live in LA go to Union Station at 9AM to protest this criminal administration

Reminder: Do not obey in advance. (Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny)

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post didn’t want you to see our ad questioning who’s in charge at the White House. We won't stop holding power accountable. thehill.com/media/514849...

Can we bring a class action lawsuit against Musk as citizens? I’m not a lawyer so I’m just wondering.