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Sudanese political analyst Kholood Khair explains the roots of the "nonsensical conflict" between Sudan's military and the paramilitary RSF, causing the world's largest humanitarian crisis. "We're seeing really a war against civilians."
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Sudanese political analyst Kholood Khair explains the roots of the "nonsensical conflict" between Sudan's military and the paramilitary RSF, causing the world's largest humanitarian crisis. "We're seeing really a war against civilians."
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The authoritarians want to buy up all of the means of communication.
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The authoritarians want to buy up all of the means of communication.
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It clearly doesn’t matter if you imprison 500 foot soldiers when the movement leadership is left unscathed and allowed to organize their return to power.
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It clearly doesn’t matter if you imprison 500 foot soldiers when the movement leadership is left unscathed and allowed to organize their return to power.
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“The United States, the NSS implies, should intervene in European politics to weaken transnational institutions and legitimize the far right.” www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...
Sovereignty for Me, None for Thee
Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy reveals a radical blood-and-soil conception of national strategy based on maintaining white patriarchal Christian domination at home and abroad.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“The United States, the NSS implies, should intervene in European politics to weaken transnational institutions and legitimize the far right.” www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...
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Its time to stop taking the misogyny for granted and do something about it. Please read: joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-on-w...
Trump on Women
The new Mayor of Miami, Florida, is a Democrat.
joycevance.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Its time to stop taking the misogyny for granted and do something about it. Please read: joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-on-w...
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This is very cool. The manipulation-busters of the future will be hacks like this one: reengineering the system to expose the algorithms beneath and how they trick us...
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is very cool. The manipulation-busters of the future will be hacks like this one: reengineering the system to expose the algorithms beneath and how they trick us...
In which Heather Cox Richardson discusses trans-national crime syndicates
youtube.com/watch?v=ecZW...
youtube.com/watch?v=ecZW...
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 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
In which Heather Cox Richardson discusses trans-national crime syndicates
youtube.com/watch?v=ecZW...
youtube.com/watch?v=ecZW...
Marc Elias of Democracy Docket on his upcoming SCOTUS case on dark money in politics
With Heather Cox Richardson #HCR
youtube.com/live/LojhZEN...
With Heather Cox Richardson #HCR
youtube.com/live/LojhZEN...
American Conversations: Marc Elias
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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December 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Marc Elias of Democracy Docket on his upcoming SCOTUS case on dark money in politics
With Heather Cox Richardson #HCR
youtube.com/live/LojhZEN...
With Heather Cox Richardson #HCR
youtube.com/live/LojhZEN...
American Conversations: Marc Elias
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Marc Elias of Democracy Docket on his upcoming SCOTUS case on dark money in politics
With Heather Cox Richardson #HCR
youtube.com/live/LojhZEN...
With Heather Cox Richardson #HCR
youtube.com/live/LojhZEN...
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i don't know why so many old white guys think a civil war will be easy to win when from the looks of them their entire army is gonna have to march on blood pressure medication and hemorrhoid pillows
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
i don't know why so many old white guys think a civil war will be easy to win when from the looks of them their entire army is gonna have to march on blood pressure medication and hemorrhoid pillows
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we seem to have forgotten that liberal values clawed a consensus out of stubborn humanity because they solve real problems
religious tolerance is how you avoid a Thirty Years War
rule of law is how you avoid a bandit government taking all your rice
the list goes on
religious tolerance is how you avoid a Thirty Years War
rule of law is how you avoid a bandit government taking all your rice
the list goes on
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
we seem to have forgotten that liberal values clawed a consensus out of stubborn humanity because they solve real problems
religious tolerance is how you avoid a Thirty Years War
rule of law is how you avoid a bandit government taking all your rice
the list goes on
religious tolerance is how you avoid a Thirty Years War
rule of law is how you avoid a bandit government taking all your rice
the list goes on
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
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"Vaccine advisers for the US ... (CDC) voted ...to limit hepatitis B vaccines in a major move signaling the Trump administration’s regressive approach to vaccines that have been given safely and effectively for decades."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
via @theguardian.com @melodyschreiber.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
via @theguardian.com @melodyschreiber.com
CDC advisory panel votes to limit hepatitis B vaccines for newborns
Move from CDC advisers mirrors Trump team’s regressive approach to longstanding vaccine guidance
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"Vaccine advisers for the US ... (CDC) voted ...to limit hepatitis B vaccines in a major move signaling the Trump administration’s regressive approach to vaccines that have been given safely and effectively for decades."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
via @theguardian.com @melodyschreiber.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
via @theguardian.com @melodyschreiber.com
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Friends, Yesterday and today, I watched many hours of the CDC’s meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
It was painful.
But we learned a lot.
That bad news is that our kids are going to pay the price for RFK jr’s views.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/analysis-o...
It was painful.
But we learned a lot.
That bad news is that our kids are going to pay the price for RFK jr’s views.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/analysis-o...
Analysis of the latest ACIP meeting at the CDC: Vaccines—and rigorous science—are increasingly under attack.
A close look at how the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee under RFK Jr. again changed high-stakes recommendations without solid evidence.
insidemedicine.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Friends, Yesterday and today, I watched many hours of the CDC’s meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
It was painful.
But we learned a lot.
That bad news is that our kids are going to pay the price for RFK jr’s views.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/analysis-o...
It was painful.
But we learned a lot.
That bad news is that our kids are going to pay the price for RFK jr’s views.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/analysis-o...
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Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.
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Perspective from @drdebhoury.bsky.social on the destruction of the CDC and public health, and the lack of action in response
time.com/7338714/dr-d...
time.com/7338714/dr-d...
I Left the CDC 100 Days Ago. My Worst Fears About the Agency Are Coming True
"Things have not improved," writes Dr. Debra Houry. "They have worsened. And Congress has still failed to act."
time.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Perspective from @drdebhoury.bsky.social on the destruction of the CDC and public health, and the lack of action in response
time.com/7338714/dr-d...
time.com/7338714/dr-d...