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“I think we’re looking at 10-15% of stations — that’s a speculative number — might fall out of FCC compliance, meaning they can not afford to maintain their license. So we’ll see shutdowns. It will disproportionately affect Indigenous communities…”

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You know, he just has a volatile side is all…

Doing this by rescission is really rubbing salt in the wound - Congress had already approved two more years of funding! And then they took back money that had already been appropriated just because Trump asked them too. Shameful.

RIP, CBS Trump's cronies move in at the Tiffany Network

Terry Moran: "I wish all my former colleagues in the legacy media all the best in the coming years. And I wish all of us, here in these newer, freer, untamable media spaces strength and good cheer. There is so much work to do." terrymoran.substack.com/p/rip-cbs?ut...

Really ashamed of my doctoral alma mater

Sure; but I think he’d be surprised that in 2025 he’s be able to use dead and dying Palestinians as pawns in advancing his antisemitic white nationalist agenda.

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"Howell wrote, 'If a professor is too much of a wimp to let me read his syllabus then he’s in the wrong business.'

When asked to provide a list of donors to the Oversight Project, Howell responded, 'And no of course I’m not sending you a list of donors but please do send donors to our website.'”

Grim subject but wonderful to talk to my former student about IU and more.

Thank you for the conversation!

Barbara Everett · An East Wind behind it: Farewell to ‘Hamlet’ Ungodly power, random power, power courses everywhere through Hamlet like fog with an east wind behind it – even Osric...

‘Power is surely the greatest moral problem that human beings face, and is important above all in monarchical, courtly, political tragedies like “Hamlet”: this of course gives the play its mysterious third line, “Long live the king!”’

Barbara Everett on ‘Hamlet’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Straight out of your run of the mill Hollywood cartoon villain script

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

My overwhelming memory from Hebrew school is being young and seeing images of ancestors starving in the camps. “Never again” was our religion. Here is the paper of record today. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

To the people (remarkably) astonished by the cartoonish performances of Trump officials attempting to pivot away from Epstein: they were carefully chosen and precisely for moments like this. Blind, cartoonish loyalty is the job requirement. To them, he is judge, jury, and executioner.

Coordination theory is essential for understanding what is happening, how resistance can be built, and how the administration can seek to undermine it. "The fundamental argument is this: that power in modern societies depends on social coordination." www.programmablemutter.com/p/absolute-p...

I’ve only ever been invited once to one of these confabs (2005 Davos, as part of a Canadian delegation) and I respectfully disagree that the hollowness was exposed only this month. These gatherings have long been a parade of the status-hungry over the principled.

Making America Alone Again History offers few parallels for Washington’s repudiation of its own alliances.

Margaret Macmillan: “In Trump’s world, mutual trust and respect, so hard to establish and so easy to destroy, do not matter.”

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Suddenly there’s a third-person voice and no less than 4 mention of “President Trump”

Is there historical precedent for a president yelling at members of his own party for propagating a conspiracy theory that he invented?

With the large number of advanced centrifuges Iran has, I don't think even going back to natural brings Iran's breakout time to a year. You'd have to uninstall centrifuges too.

To be clear, sure sounds like there was space for negotiations and a deal, which is the central pt.

Um. Natural uranium is 0.7% U-235. So, not really sure what this means enrichment-wise. Enriching depleted up to natural? Just enriching and then downblending in some weird loop? Kind of confusing.

And, of course, that's not the only factor in breakout time.

1. What a gift to Pam Bondi (and Trump); and

2. Biden just can’t get out of the way, can he? Literally, every media appearance and interaction by him is a giant gift to Trump.

1. What a gift to Pam Bondi (and Trump); and

2. Biden just can’t get out of the way, can he? Literally, every media appearance and interaction by him is a giant gift to Trump.

Nobody rode into Florence and announced “the Renaissance has arrived!”

What did they call the Seven Years War when it was happening?!

It takes people a LONG time to understand the world in which they live. And there’s always another change after that.

What a ‘Spiral of Silence’ Can Do to a Democracy Protests show people they are not alone in caring about an issue.

“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”

I think a lot of us - and especially those teaching at public institutions - had modeled this all wrong because we never accounted for preemptive capitulations and cowardice of the elite private institutions before public ones. Beyond shameful.

The Coup Continues: Trump's Purge, MAGA Meltdown, and the War on Free Speech Podcast Episode · The Oath and The Office · 07/09/2025 · 53m

New record! Thanks to our terrific listeners our latest episode of The Oath and the Office is now 11 on Apple in the government category! If you haven’t already check us out.

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0-2 on WMD-related wars in the Middle East so far.

Dictator in foreign policy, domestic policy, and now, foreign domestic policy. We’ve dismantled our checks and balances and the world is experiencing the consequences. @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Systematic dismantling of public goods in Indiana continues apace