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There’s a reason politicians and normal society didn’t use to say the quiet part out loud. That reason still exists.
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
There’s a reason politicians and normal society didn’t use to say the quiet part out loud. That reason still exists.
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Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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ICE officials insist they did not use excessive force. Yet in a chaotic scene at an immigration detention facility in the Chicago suburbs, Illinois Democratic congressional candidates reported being tear-gassed, hit with
September 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
ICE officials insist they did not use excessive force. Yet in a chaotic scene at an immigration detention facility in the Chicago suburbs, Illinois Democratic congressional candidates reported being tear-gassed, hit with
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I’ve seen enough.
Impeach Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Impeach Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
September 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’ve seen enough.
Impeach Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Impeach Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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BREAKING: Senator Raphael Warnock just called for RFK Jr. to resign to his face.
September 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
BREAKING: Senator Raphael Warnock just called for RFK Jr. to resign to his face.
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Here's hoping that in 2026 Janet Mills runs and drives Collins out of office, Josh Stein does the same to Thom Tillis, Ernst throws in the towel to prevent a humiliating loss, and Dems find stellar candidates to pick off more seats. Certainly the Rs House majority MUST
evaporate.
evaporate.
June 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Here's hoping that in 2026 Janet Mills runs and drives Collins out of office, Josh Stein does the same to Thom Tillis, Ernst throws in the towel to prevent a humiliating loss, and Dems find stellar candidates to pick off more seats. Certainly the Rs House majority MUST
evaporate.
evaporate.
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Not to focus on the obvious. But if it's important to end Iran's nuclear program, and if the effort in fact failed and the Hegseth is lying about it, the patriotic thing to do (setting aside the journalistic thing to do) is probably to make clear that it failed.
instead of doing critical coverage, Hegseth urges reporters to "Wave an American flag. Be proud of what we accomplished."
June 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Not to focus on the obvious. But if it's important to end Iran's nuclear program, and if the effort in fact failed and the Hegseth is lying about it, the patriotic thing to do (setting aside the journalistic thing to do) is probably to make clear that it failed.
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One of the most honest things a super PAC donor has ever said
June 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
One of the most honest things a super PAC donor has ever said
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A US Senator was thrown to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents, and then the DHS Secretary went on to say that they are taking control from the "socialist" local government. That is fascist, there is no other proper word for it than that. No euphemisms are necessary or warranted.
June 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A US Senator was thrown to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents, and then the DHS Secretary went on to say that they are taking control from the "socialist" local government. That is fascist, there is no other proper word for it than that. No euphemisms are necessary or warranted.
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it’s secondary to everything else but i have some follow up questions about “there’s no recording here per fbi rights”
FULL clip of agents throwing Sen. Alex Padilla to the ground and handcuffing him.
Officers threw him and held him to the ground even while he is seen as not resisting.
Footage from Sen. Padilla’s staff
Officers threw him and held him to the ground even while he is seen as not resisting.
Footage from Sen. Padilla’s staff
June 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
it’s secondary to everything else but i have some follow up questions about “there’s no recording here per fbi rights”
Some tiny purple balm for the soul . . .
June 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Some tiny purple balm for the soul . . .
If you can bear it, the Columbia Sabin Center "Silencing Science Tracker":
climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc...
climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc...
Silencing Science Tracker | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
climate.law.columbia.edu
June 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
If you can bear it, the Columbia Sabin Center "Silencing Science Tracker":
climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc...
climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc...
Thanks (NYT) for letting us know timely that Elon Musk is an addict.
On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Thanks (NYT) for letting us know timely that Elon Musk is an addict.
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REPORTER: When could the administration resume interviews for foreign students visa?
TRUMP: On what?
REPORTER: Foreign student visas
TRUMP: For the French?
REPORTER: All the foreign students
TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?
TRUMP: On what?
REPORTER: Foreign student visas
TRUMP: For the French?
REPORTER: All the foreign students
TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?
May 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
REPORTER: When could the administration resume interviews for foreign students visa?
TRUMP: On what?
REPORTER: Foreign student visas
TRUMP: For the French?
REPORTER: All the foreign students
TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?
TRUMP: On what?
REPORTER: Foreign student visas
TRUMP: For the French?
REPORTER: All the foreign students
TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?
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A bunch of people who really ought to know better have been toddler gullible about the ludicrous pretense that Trump’s assault on universities has anything at all to do with combatting antisemitism.
May 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A bunch of people who really ought to know better have been toddler gullible about the ludicrous pretense that Trump’s assault on universities has anything at all to do with combatting antisemitism.
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"A federal judge on Thursday permanently barred the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelans it has deemed to be criminals...saying that the White House’s use of the statute was illegal."
ayyy
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
ayyy
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
Texas Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans
The ruling, which is limited to the Southern District of Texas, prohibited the administration from using the wartime law because the president’s claims about a Venezuelan gang do not add up to an “inv...
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"A federal judge on Thursday permanently barred the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelans it has deemed to be criminals...saying that the White House’s use of the statute was illegal."
ayyy
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
ayyy
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
WOULD DEMS PLEASE EFFING STOP APPROVING NOMINEES?! Nothing they do should get ANY cooperation!
April 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
WOULD DEMS PLEASE EFFING STOP APPROVING NOMINEES?! Nothing they do should get ANY cooperation!
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Morale is in the toilet.
The Trump administration’s months-long hunt to root out the resistance is ramping up. Investigations are intensifying, with polygraph tests being used to create a climate of fear and intimidation.
The Trump administration’s months-long hunt to root out the resistance is ramping up. Investigations are intensifying, with polygraph tests being used to create a climate of fear and intimidation.
April 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Morale is in the toilet.
The Trump administration’s months-long hunt to root out the resistance is ramping up. Investigations are intensifying, with polygraph tests being used to create a climate of fear and intimidation.
The Trump administration’s months-long hunt to root out the resistance is ramping up. Investigations are intensifying, with polygraph tests being used to create a climate of fear and intimidation.
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has handed over control of the Department of the Interior to Tyler Hassen, a former oil executive and Musk staffer. Hassen, who came to the agency through the so-called DOGE, now has broad authority to cut costs and consolidate operations across the department,
April 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has handed over control of the Department of the Interior to Tyler Hassen, a former oil executive and Musk staffer. Hassen, who came to the agency through the so-called DOGE, now has broad authority to cut costs and consolidate operations across the department,
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Judge Boasberg’s 46-page memorandum opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Judge Boasberg’s 46-page memorandum opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world.
Don't let him be forgotten.
Don't let him be forgotten.
April 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world.
Don't let him be forgotten.
Don't let him be forgotten.
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror