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El Salvador approves indefinite presidential reelection and extends terms to 6 years The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has approved constitutional changes to allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend terms to six years.

Step by step. This is how it happens. Like out of a textbook and predictable as the sunrise. apnews.com/article/el-s...

It may be that CN is more Nietzschean and less Christian (as Nietzsche and most historical Christians would understand Christianity) than they let on. If you take out the theology, the political project is very Nietzschean. Tagging @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social

Protecting Educational Equity in America: A Critical Call to Action for State Legislators Over 70 years ago, the United States experienced a major shift in education and social policy. The decades of civil rights progress made since Brown is endangered unless state policymakers and advocat...

New from Gabrielle Gray: with the federal government rolling back civil rights and defunding education, the onus is on the states to address inequities in education. A call to action to state legislatures and education supporters. kettering.org/protecting-e...

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

Help me understand how Nietzsche is compatible with Christian Nationalism though.

You are fooling yourself if you think there is such a thing as a "good" agreement with somebody extorting you.
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The 2nd Annual #DaytonDemocracySummit is on Mon, Oct 27, 2025, at Sinclair College!

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🗣️ Keynote address: #KetteringFoundation Senior Fellow William J. Barber II.

Texas Republicans have unveiled a more extreme new gerrymander that targets 5 Dems by diluting Latino & Black voting power.

Trump won 30 of 38 seats by >10 points & 27 seats by >15 points. All GOP seats likely stay safe, & none that Trump won by <20 got bluer davesredistricting.org/join/b82658a...

I hate to say it, but the only way this is going to stop is after a few very painful lawsuit.

That is the essence of "competitive authoritarianism"

MAGA actions suggest they believe Democrats will never be in power again

Screenshot of tweet from Matt Walsh. Original tweet, from AF Post, on how the Arkansas Attorney General "has launched an investigation into Return to the Land, a White-centric intentional community... in the Ozarks." Walsh's commentary: 1) "f you don't have the right to build a community on a private piece of land and live around the sorts of people you want to live around, then you don't have any rights at all. This is as basic and fundamental as rights can possibly get. Freedom of association." And 2: "No black person is being deprived of anything or harmed in any way. This is not taking anything away from anyone or preventing anyone from exercising their own freedom of association. In a "free country" a whites-only community shouldn't be controversial enough to even be worth debating. Of course they have the right. And if any other race or ethnicity wants to do the same (and they all have in one form or another), they have the right too."

Current state of the far right mega-influencers. Arguing that "whites-only communit[ies]" are totally cool in a free country. It's "as basic and fundamental as rights can possibly get. Freedom of association." This is where we are, folks.

"Separate, but equal. What's the harm in that?" /s

Trump administration reminds federal employees they can proselytize in the office Supervisors can solicit employees to attend their church, OPM says in new guidance.

OPM states that it is OK for federal employees to religiously proselytize their coworkers *or the public* while on duty, or for supervisors to ask their subordinates to join them in prayer in the workplace.

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If you are not familiar with Ukraine's Holodomor - now acknowledged as a massive genocide on the scale of the Holocaust - a major reason is that the mass starvation was not covered accurately by the Western press. Continuing to honor Duranty continues the mistake and undermines genocide awareness.

If he had thought about it for a few seconds, he could have used his leverage to get a buyout for $10M that is donated to charity.

This is very well put. Zohran is demonstrating, rather than lecturing, to people on why living in a cosmopolitan city is really pretty cool

The most important thing now is to change my position in a way that allows me to save face.

Why does CNN platform this nonsense?

This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.

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Imagine rather than an incriminating Trump cartoon on Epstein’s 50th birthday, the WSJ had instead uncovered an even bigger bombshell—a memo from Trump to Bondi and Gabbard and Hegseth and JD Vance that said the following:

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1/Even with the Epstein drama still unfolding, MAGA Republicans are making plans to consolidate their hold on the American psyche. They have to reframe the January 6 insurrection, Trump’s role in it, and their role in it, to ensure Trump’s place in history. And they’re ready to do it.

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

Great discussion!

Likely written by Christopher Rufo?

How to capitulate to and enable authoritarianism 101. Textbook case by Columbia University.

Not that there was any doubt about this.

What's new about No Kings? What does it mean for democracy? Social movements expert @devawo.bsky.social sees signs of a new approach to protest and civic organizing.

BREAKING: the obvious