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A message of hope at a moment of despair. History will look at 2026 as a year we either got "it" right or let "it" happen. What "it" is is yet to be determined.
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What This Year Looks Like to a Historian | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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December 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A message of hope at a moment of despair. History will look at 2026 as a year we either got "it" right or let "it" happen. What "it" is is yet to be determined.
youtu.be/LSEV5uuzbq8?...
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Give yourself a treat. It will take about 27 minutes of your time with one of the best emerging comedic minds of our time
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Josh Johnson on Trump's Epstein Scandal, MAGA Meltdowns & Hopes for Heaven in 2025 | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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December 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Give yourself a treat. It will take about 27 minutes of your time with one of the best emerging comedic minds of our time
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For 2026, media could commit to not laundering the administration’s talking points in their headlines. The EU bans were not triggered by censorship but about misleading X users.
December 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
For 2026, media could commit to not laundering the administration’s talking points in their headlines. The EU bans were not triggered by censorship but about misleading X users.
Please spare 33 minutes of your time [you may want to spare a few more minutes to repeat segments you find particularly enlightening] to attend to an essential lecture about our moment in time.
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Beyond Boundaries: Redefining Humanity in the Age of Innovation | Yuval Noah Harari
YouTube video by Yuval Noah Harari
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December 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Please spare 33 minutes of your time [you may want to spare a few more minutes to repeat segments you find particularly enlightening] to attend to an essential lecture about our moment in time.
youtu.be/7qhHzQSjwuQ?...
youtu.be/7qhHzQSjwuQ?...
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In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
A good discussion/explanation of where we are, what we are up against, and what we can do about it.
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ALARM: Trump’s DOJ is pulling all the levers with SUDDEN lawsuits, Famed Dem Lawyer
YouTube video by MS NOW
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December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A good discussion/explanation of where we are, what we are up against, and what we can do about it.
youtu.be/bO_wT7BkpJA?...
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I've wondered how human minds operate to guide our conduct. In my mind, a system of, best case, functional myths or, worst case, functional delusions. To the extent notions were "shared" they worked. Woefully incomplete.
Fortunately, a truly great mind put it all together.
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Fortunately, a truly great mind put it all together.
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Yuval Noah Harari: Why advanced societies fall for mass delusion
YouTube video by Big Think
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December 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I've wondered how human minds operate to guide our conduct. In my mind, a system of, best case, functional myths or, worst case, functional delusions. To the extent notions were "shared" they worked. Woefully incomplete.
Fortunately, a truly great mind put it all together.
youtu.be/I4l1fr-t3ZE?...
Fortunately, a truly great mind put it all together.
youtu.be/I4l1fr-t3ZE?...
Essentially listening for this moment.
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Making Sense of a World in Crisis | Yuval Noah Harari
YouTube video by Yuval Noah Harari
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December 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Essentially listening for this moment.
youtu.be/5qIfC-fsxgM?...
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Portend of the future? AI screening system at WA school triggered [no pun intended] shutdown when it "identified" what could be a gun. It was a clarinet.
BTW, that AI system is used in 48 states.
BTW, that AI system is used in 48 states.
December 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Portend of the future? AI screening system at WA school triggered [no pun intended] shutdown when it "identified" what could be a gun. It was a clarinet.
BTW, that AI system is used in 48 states.
BTW, that AI system is used in 48 states.
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Alliances are built on trust and attraction, otherwise known as soft power, and they are the most effective tools that democracies have in their struggle with autocracies.” Steven Kotkin in @foreignaffairs.com
The Weakness of the Strongmen
Not long ago in the sweep of history, countries that had once been buried behind the Iron Curtain, and even some Soviet republics, were transformed into members of the solidly democratic club. Some of...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Alliances are built on trust and attraction, otherwise known as soft power, and they are the most effective tools that democracies have in their struggle with autocracies.” Steven Kotkin in @foreignaffairs.com
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James Talarico’s message to Gen Z: “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
Your boss, your landlord, and your insurance company cares about politics.
And until you care about politics, they're gonna keep using the political system to screw you over.”
Your boss, your landlord, and your insurance company cares about politics.
And until you care about politics, they're gonna keep using the political system to screw you over.”
December 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
A half-hour well spent.
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Is America Sliding Into Authoritarianism? Post-Truth, Media & the Free Press
YouTube video by News Not Noise with Jessica Yellin
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December 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A half-hour well spent.
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Some more get-your-blood-boiling video about ICE/CBP conduct. DHS "spokesperson" Tricia McLaughlin still posts on an official government website a denial of what happened to George Retes, American citizen, war veteran at the hands of ICE.
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Kristi Noem's Lies Exposed and Documented
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
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December 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Some more get-your-blood-boiling video about ICE/CBP conduct. DHS "spokesperson" Tricia McLaughlin still posts on an official government website a denial of what happened to George Retes, American citizen, war veteran at the hands of ICE.
youtu.be/Wss311WldJk?...
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If you're in need of a genuine pep-talk on fighting the good fight in our current, chaotic, seemingly bleak political climate, this might do you some good.
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Trump's Plan to Steal the Election: What's Beneath the Surface?
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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December 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
If you're in need of a genuine pep-talk on fighting the good fight in our current, chaotic, seemingly bleak political climate, this might do you some good.
youtu.be/di-eBOz4dRU?...
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If you have a general awareness of the likes of Adrien Vermeule, illiberalism, Catholicism [don't have to be a Catholic] as it relates to politics and immigration to the US, you might enjoy this discussion. Or you just like thoughtful, learned minds in thoughtful discussion.
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Pope Leo STRIKES BACK against Trump INSIDE USA
YouTube video by Legal AF
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December 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If you have a general awareness of the likes of Adrien Vermeule, illiberalism, Catholicism [don't have to be a Catholic] as it relates to politics and immigration to the US, you might enjoy this discussion. Or you just like thoughtful, learned minds in thoughtful discussion.
youtu.be/irG8PN07uhQ?...
youtu.be/irG8PN07uhQ?...
Who Do We Turn To?
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Who Do We Turn To?
Or should it be "To Whom Do We Turn?"
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December 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Who Do We Turn To?
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For all you folks who identify as Christian and support Trump & the Trump Administration, would you agree that Trump's plan to use tariff revenue to pay $12B to American farmers who lost business because of Trump's tariffs is an exquisite example of the adage "robbing Peter to pay Paul?"
December 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
For all you folks who identify as Christian and support Trump & the Trump Administration, would you agree that Trump's plan to use tariff revenue to pay $12B to American farmers who lost business because of Trump's tariffs is an exquisite example of the adage "robbing Peter to pay Paul?"
Interesting discussion about how we all must begin to think like intelligence and counterintelligence officers. About 50 minutes of your time hosted by the ever entertaining and interesting Malcom Nance.
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Will AI Kill Us All or Make Us Stupider... Or Both?
YouTube video by Malcolm Nance
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December 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Interesting discussion about how we all must begin to think like intelligence and counterintelligence officers. About 50 minutes of your time hosted by the ever entertaining and interesting Malcom Nance.
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An hour and a half well spent
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American “Heritage” vs. American History | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
An hour and a half well spent
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A good refresher and review of our intelligence services and current issues, domestic and foreign, related to intelligence and security.
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What’s Happening to U.S. Intelligence Under the Second Trump Administration? | Senator Mark Warner
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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December 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A good refresher and review of our intelligence services and current issues, domestic and foreign, related to intelligence and security.
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President of Obfuscation [or P.O.O.]
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President of Obfuscation [or P.O.O.]
At times I have referred to #47 [sarcastically, of course] as King Donald.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
President of Obfuscation [or P.O.O.]
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