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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
March 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
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my latest newsletter piece: on how the Democrats' posture toward trans rights signals a fundamental misunderstanding of how politics work
The Tyranny of Public Opinion
The battle over trans rights shows that Democrats have forgotten the fundamentals of politics
stringinamaze.net
March 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
my latest newsletter piece: on how the Democrats' posture toward trans rights signals a fundamental misunderstanding of how politics work
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all americans know is
February 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
all americans know is
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
February 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
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There’s something happening in this country.
Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.
February 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
There’s something happening in this country.
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Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need
February 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need
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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
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I haven't revisited Coates' civil war essays for the Atlantic since they were published around 2011 and it now feels like the publication has spent the last few years doing all it can to apologize for publishing something this good in the first place
February 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I haven't revisited Coates' civil war essays for the Atlantic since they were published around 2011 and it now feels like the publication has spent the last few years doing all it can to apologize for publishing something this good in the first place
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elon musk is like if a president wasn't protected by the secret service
February 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
elon musk is like if a president wasn't protected by the secret service
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This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
February 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
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i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!
trump is unique in that his depravity creates the very cynicism he feeds on. it is necessary to uphold the idea that we are capable of better even if that belief is counterfactual. which is why we need to tell the bureaucracy that their work is valued and that they are holding the line for us.
Taking the President's symbolic roles as essentially being the central rituals of American civic religion, Trump's inability to perform them- to actually be presidential- signals that the civic religion is hollow and without power, that there are no consequences for blaspheming it.
January 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!
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what the FUCK
The federal government's new top HR attorney has said "Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish" and "Slaves owe us reparations," according to a new report from @pogo.org. www.pogo.org/investigatio...
“Raging Misogynist” Now Federal Government H.R.’s Top Lawyer
The Office of Personnel Management’s new general counsel has a history of racist and sexist social media posts.
www.pogo.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
what the FUCK
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halfway through going gentle into that good night googling “how to not go gentle into that good night” and “going gentle into that good night reversible?”
January 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
halfway through going gentle into that good night googling “how to not go gentle into that good night” and “going gentle into that good night reversible?”
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Obsessed with the Brazilian edition of God Emperor of Dune
January 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Obsessed with the Brazilian edition of God Emperor of Dune
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excited for the finger-wagging “murder is still wrong” posts when some guy who owns a dozen beat-to-shit overpriced ranch houses in the shadow of the 101 catches a bad one. If you jack the rent on the back of tragedy no fate is too dire for you
Now this, this is looting. Ain’t nobody gonna be arrested for it either.
January 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
excited for the finger-wagging “murder is still wrong” posts when some guy who owns a dozen beat-to-shit overpriced ranch houses in the shadow of the 101 catches a bad one. If you jack the rent on the back of tragedy no fate is too dire for you
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So upsetting that a guy who has changed his look to this on purpose has any kind of influence over anything. Should not be allowed
January 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
So upsetting that a guy who has changed his look to this on purpose has any kind of influence over anything. Should not be allowed
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the fundamental problem of civilization is that humanity's highest calling is Hanging Out With Friends, but a small minority of humans are maniacally driven to control everyone else because no one wants to hang out with them
January 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
the fundamental problem of civilization is that humanity's highest calling is Hanging Out With Friends, but a small minority of humans are maniacally driven to control everyone else because no one wants to hang out with them
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Going for a run on NYE in New Orleans and using the drunk drivers to simulate what it would be like to be the frog in the game about the frog trying to cross the road
December 31, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Going for a run on NYE in New Orleans and using the drunk drivers to simulate what it would be like to be the frog in the game about the frog trying to cross the road
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if you don't neatly break down and fold all your cardboard boxes before depositing them in the designated cardboard box area you are lower than an animal in my estimation
December 23, 2024 at 6:46 PM
if you don't neatly break down and fold all your cardboard boxes before depositing them in the designated cardboard box area you are lower than an animal in my estimation