The misogynist male supremacists, the racist white supremacists, the anti-immigrant xenophobes, the homophobic bigots and the fake Christian supremacists (the Venn diagram is almost a circle) can all go straight to hell. They will eventually. And they aren’t going to win medium-term on Earth either.
For decades, Ali Akbar has sold papers on the Left Bank of Paris. Last month, France gave the beloved 73-year-old immigrant from Pakistan one of its highest honors — and his neighborhood is cheering.
Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut
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At LARB, they weren’t even allowed to discuss Gaza in editorial meetings.
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Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
At this point, we should just assume they’re lying. But by their own account the kid had no record. US citizen. At the very least, it looks like multiple policy violations — they surrounded the car, fired into a moving vehicle, killed him through the driver’s side window.
Every American needs to read this (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/o...
NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science.
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⚡️ US reportedly presses allies to block Ukraine from full participation at NATO summit.
The reported move would limit Kyiv's role at a key gathering of NATO leaders.
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
It’s important that Minnesota be not just a shining example of what can be done. It needs to be a harbinger of what’s going to be done. lnk.thebulwark.com/3MCBgiK
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"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
Politico: Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing federal rail tunnel funds
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Old money fleeing Mamdani's New York for a red state www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...
