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“The data is unambiguous that isolated demonstrations, regardless of size, rarely achieve their stated political goals when confronting entrenched power backed by unlimited money.”
Upgrade Your Activism: The Evidence-Based Path from Protest to Power
I know activists who have protested every American military action since the Korean War.
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September 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
“The data is unambiguous that isolated demonstrations, regardless of size, rarely achieve their stated political goals when confronting entrenched power backed by unlimited money.”
Thanks to all my Substack subscribers!
August 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Thanks to all my Substack subscribers!
I help a family in Gaza. I recently wrote about them on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/cryn/p/t...
The Struggle Has Just Begun: Update on the Ibrahim Family
Salem, Nourhan, and Elias in Gaza.
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August 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I help a family in Gaza. I recently wrote about them on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/cryn/p/t...
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WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
August 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
I just wrote a piece on how to support a family in Gaza open.substack.com/pub/cryn/p/t...
The Struggle Has Just Begun: Update on the Ibrahim Family
Salem, Nourhan, and Elias in Gaza.
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August 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I just wrote a piece on how to support a family in Gaza open.substack.com/pub/cryn/p/t...
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Do you support funding Israel?
July 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Do you support funding Israel?
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This isn't hypothetical.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
May 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This isn't hypothetical.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
May 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
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at the risk of sound like bill bennett, where exactly are the men in these boy’s lives? the fathers? coaches? anyone genuinely concerned with their lives?
Essay: A senior at an all boys high school on the appeal of the Tate brothers: In a confusing time for young men, they offer “answers that are appealingly simple.”
Essay | Boys at My High School Love the Tate Brothers. Here’s Why.
In this confusing time for young men, we take our role models where we can find them.
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May 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
at the risk of sound like bill bennett, where exactly are the men in these boy’s lives? the fathers? coaches? anyone genuinely concerned with their lives?
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love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives
“Mr. Rodríguez, we’re going to miss you,” a girl told the teacher after singing.
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Fearing deportation, a beloved music teacher gives a final lesson
Jesús Rodríguez, a Venezuelan national whose U.S. humanitarian parole status is set to expire soon, decided to voluntarily leave the United States out of worry of being detained.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives
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they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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so he's drunk right?
April 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
so he's drunk right?
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love this for us
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
love this for us
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JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
April 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
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It was too long for my column, but the historian with whom I spoke had some interesting observations about why some colonists remained loyal to the Crown — observations that are themselves relevant to the moment. In my (free to read) follower newsletter:
Follow Philip Bump: The first battle of the Revolution is newly relevant, 250 years later
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April 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It was too long for my column, but the historian with whom I spoke had some interesting observations about why some colonists remained loyal to the Crown — observations that are themselves relevant to the moment. In my (free to read) follower newsletter:
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Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today
Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license
Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license
April 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today
Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license
Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license
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Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.
RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is
April 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.
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Sean Duffy on Fox & Friends: "We don't care about the green, we don't care about the social justice."
April 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Sean Duffy on Fox & Friends: "We don't care about the green, we don't care about the social justice."
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I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia.
The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.
The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.
I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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April 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia.
The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.
The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.
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I am autistic. I pay taxes, I have a job. I dated. I get the desire to push this narrative autistic people DO accomplish these to rebut Kennedy. But there was a time when I DID NOT have a job. And non-speaking autistic people or thise with intellectual disabilities don't. They have worth as well.
April 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I am autistic. I pay taxes, I have a job. I dated. I get the desire to push this narrative autistic people DO accomplish these to rebut Kennedy. But there was a time when I DID NOT have a job. And non-speaking autistic people or thise with intellectual disabilities don't. They have worth as well.
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I've been saying I'm my own worst enemy but some other motherfuckers are now in the running.
April 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I've been saying I'm my own worst enemy but some other motherfuckers are now in the running.
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my offer to america: we bring woke back
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
my offer to america: we bring woke back
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Chinese 🇺🇸 embassy shares the anti-tariffs Reagan clip mwe have shared multiple times…
April 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Chinese 🇺🇸 embassy shares the anti-tariffs Reagan clip mwe have shared multiple times…