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new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common
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August 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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warren.senate.gov
Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" in a nutshell:

14 MILLION people losing their health insurance just so Jeff Bezos can buy another $500 MILLION yacht.
Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" in a nutshell.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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May 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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jbf1755.bsky.social
I've been saying this for years.

Belief in American exceptionalism blinds people to what is happening right before their eyes.
isomorphism.net Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · Apr 2
One of the pathologies of the "America is the greatest country in the world" is that the folks who say it believe it as a manifestation of destiny, and thus feel no actual responsibility to make it be good at all.
April 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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jbf1755.bsky.social
GOOD

We need structured opposition.

A shadow government.
April 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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jbf1755.bsky.social
I’ll say it again.

THIS is the way.
isaacdovere.bsky.social Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · Mar 13
NEW from me -
Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...
Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts | CNN Politics
Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans, some of whom have stopped holding town halls amid the raucous receptions their colleagues...
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March 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
I'm exhausted by all the people out there who are trying to prove they're each the most cynical world-weary disillusioned person who's not gonna ever do a fucking thing ever except dump on everything and expect to be admired for that. Wrote about that in 2016:
ynicism is first of all a style of presenting oneself, and it takes pride more than anything in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is frequently both these things. That the attitude that prides itself on world-weary experience is often so naïve says much about the triumph of style over substance, attitude over analysis. Maybe it also says something about the tendency to oversimplify. If simplification means reducing things to their essentials, oversimplification tosses aside the essential as well. It is a relentless pursuit of certainty and clarity in a world that generally offers neither, a desire to shove nuances and complexities into clear-cut binaries. Naïve cynicism concerns me because it flattens out the past and the future, and because it reduces the motivation to participate in public life, public discourse, and even intelligent conversation that distinguishes shades of gray, ambiguities and ambivalences, uncertainties, unknowns, and opportunities. Instead, we conduct our conversations like wars, and the heavy artillery of grim confidence is the weapon many reach for.
January 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
Hi, I’m God.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

Thanks,

God
November 21, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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muellershewrote.com
Billionaire grifters are about to dismantle your government. So instead of your tax dollars going to your Medicare or your Medicaid or your affordable care act or to veterans benefits or your social security - it will go to THEM in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy.
November 15, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
The "Dept of Efficiency" is Monty Python level satire.
November 13, 2024 at 1:18 AM