Timothy Weaver

How can this be allowed? The original price is exorbitant; a resale price of $3667 is shameful. FIFA is such a disgrace. The World Cup ticketing process is turning the event into a carnival of greed.

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Senator Chuck Schumer conducts a news conference in the U.S. Capitol in May 2025. Image: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images FORUM How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated. Adam Bonica, Jake Grumbach With responses from → Cori Bush, Amanda Litman, Matthew Yglesias, G. Elliott Morris, Julia Serano, Eric Rauchway, Suzanne Mettler & Trevor E. Brown, Thomas Ferguson, Timothy Shenk, Jared Abbott & Milan Loewer, Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, Lily Geismer, Danielle Wiggins, William A. Galston, and Henry Burke

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism

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I doubt it - not least because it covers a lot of very recent messages (as opposed to documents held back under the 30 year rule) and written by people who felt secure in the expectation that the correspondence would remain private.

Plenty of primary source documents to consult.

😂 There were literally zero clues up until this point.

Alistair Darling and the official Treasury were always aware that investment banks had an inside track to Number 10. But the brazen nature of that inside track is rather breath-taking.

This is AMERICA, after all.

On the upside, the cars were a lot more colorful. Maybe we could simply aim for fewer, more colorful cars.

Doesn’t exactly look like a deadly rioter who could not possibly have been subdued without being shot and killed.

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It’s almost as if the two greatest challenges of our time - economic inequality and climate change - have dropped out of the picture entirely. All the while, things are getting worse on both fronts.

The Bill of Rights, a quaint idea.

In a world of overachievers…

As opposed to Swiss?? 🤡🤣🤡🤣

Pure stupidity.

Here’s what I listened to in 2025.

Quite the chart.

They are unlawfully detaining people for First Amendment protected activities, as far as I can tell. Dragging people out of their vehicles absent witnessing a crime and without a judicial warrant is repugnant to our constitutional order.

This is terrorism, by which I mean “the unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government, with the goal of furthering political, social, or ideological objectives.”

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

The absolute state of this…

The fact the Not Sure comes first speaks volumes!

Thiel Gives $3 Million to Group Seeking to Block California Wealth Tax

As if to confirm the wisdom of the measure…

Thiel Gives $3 Million to Group Seeking to Block California Wealth Tax www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

Good to see that the @financialtimes.com is not buying the administration’s specious nonsense about the Renee Good killing.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
— George Orwell, 1984

I fear they see 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale as manuals.

Thames Freeport launches AI and 5G Lab for port innovation Thames Freeport has announced a programme of global innovation partnerships aimed at supporting job creation.

Thatcher's (and Hong Kong's) long shadow:

The freeport dream has become an "AI Growth Zone" dream

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