Hector Rodriguez
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Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.
April 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.
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In today’s atmosphere, it’s obvious why a book warning of totalitarian censorship would be in the American Library Association’s list of most commonly challenged books
April 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In today’s atmosphere, it’s obvious why a book warning of totalitarian censorship would be in the American Library Association’s list of most commonly challenged books
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Elder millennials watching traders freak out about a global economic collapse that will wreck tens of millions of lives and livelihoods, possibly irreparably
April 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Elder millennials watching traders freak out about a global economic collapse that will wreck tens of millions of lives and livelihoods, possibly irreparably
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When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.
March 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.
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“Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse, and it is Russia, not Ukraine, that is losing the attritional war, which makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic.”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Russia Is Losing the War of Attrition
Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse. That makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic.
www.theatlantic.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse, and it is Russia, not Ukraine, that is losing the attritional war, which makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic.”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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Bernie Sanders: "The struggle against Trump, the struggle against oligarchy, which is led by Elon Musk ... that's not gonna be won here in Capitol Hill. It's gonna be won by millions of people all over this country standing up and saying, 'we fought and died for democracy.'"
February 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Bernie Sanders: "The struggle against Trump, the struggle against oligarchy, which is led by Elon Musk ... that's not gonna be won here in Capitol Hill. It's gonna be won by millions of people all over this country standing up and saying, 'we fought and died for democracy.'"
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This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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Casar: "I don't know why Republican members even show up to this committee or Congress when it's clear who's really in charge of the federal govt right now, and that's Elon Musk."
February 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Casar: "I don't know why Republican members even show up to this committee or Congress when it's clear who's really in charge of the federal govt right now, and that's Elon Musk."
Southern states will LOVE this
Trump: "FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather see the states takes care of their own problems."
January 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Southern states will LOVE this
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Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk's Straight-Arm Salute
Right-wing extremists are abuzz over Elon Musk giving an awkward straight-armed salute during an inauguration rally for Donald Trump.
www.rollingstone.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
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“With Maduro at the helm, Venezuela is an asset to a rogues’ gallery of autocratic governments, including China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, and Russia—all of which rushed to recognize Maduro’s fraudulent victory.”
A Containment Strategy for Venezuela
To hasten a democratic transition, apply long-term pressure to the Maduro regime.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“With Maduro at the helm, Venezuela is an asset to a rogues’ gallery of autocratic governments, including China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, and Russia—all of which rushed to recognize Maduro’s fraudulent victory.”
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What he describes is one of the worst crises the American idea of government has ever faced, and yet it is also one that few Americans will feel directly
Chris Murphy: "There's no doubt that this administration's policy toward the Middle East is going to be compromised by the fact that they're making money off the very people they're sitting across the table from and supposedly having a conversation about the interests of the US"
December 13, 2024 at 6:20 AM
What he describes is one of the worst crises the American idea of government has ever faced, and yet it is also one that few Americans will feel directly
So true
If we weren't at such a weird moment in history, the collapse of Assad's regime would be widely understood as a huge success for the Biden administration, which pursued sanctions on Russia and Iran as well as Syria, armed Ukraine and thus weakened Russia, and supported Syrian democrats and activists
December 13, 2024 at 8:10 PM
So true
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Do you ever think the country would be better off if Zuckerberg hadn't dropped out of Harvard during his sophomore year? Maybe a little more education would have been a good idea?
December 13, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Do you ever think the country would be better off if Zuckerberg hadn't dropped out of Harvard during his sophomore year? Maybe a little more education would have been a good idea?
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Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters — theonion.com/assad-return...
Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters
MOSCOW—Just days after rebels seized Damascus, deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly returned to practicing ophthalmology at a Moscow LensCrafters, sources confirmed Tuesday. “Which one ...
theonion.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters — theonion.com/assad-return...
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A friend points out that dictatorships, nowadays, also fail because they run out of money. They can't steal enough from the state to pay loyalists, wind up relying on narcotics trade or international crime (true of both Syria and Venezuela, for example) and then their soldiers stop fighting
Why dictatorships fail gradually, and then suddenly www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The Sudden Collapse of Bashar al-Assad
The fall of the Russian- and Iranian-backed regime in Syria offers the possibility of change.
www.theatlantic.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:21 AM
A friend points out that dictatorships, nowadays, also fail because they run out of money. They can't steal enough from the state to pay loyalists, wind up relying on narcotics trade or international crime (true of both Syria and Venezuela, for example) and then their soldiers stop fighting
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Uniforms of Syrian soldiers from the dictator Bashar al-Assad’s army, abandoned as they fled Damascus. A historic image marking the end of the dictator and his army.
December 8, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Uniforms of Syrian soldiers from the dictator Bashar al-Assad’s army, abandoned as they fled Damascus. A historic image marking the end of the dictator and his army.
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Bashar-Al-Assad has learned his lesson.
by Susan Collins
by Susan Collins
December 7, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Bashar-Al-Assad has learned his lesson.
by Susan Collins
by Susan Collins
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Surreal scenes out of Damascus in Syria after the fall of the Assad regime which held onto power for 54 brutal years.
December 8, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Surreal scenes out of Damascus in Syria after the fall of the Assad regime which held onto power for 54 brutal years.
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The other day I was pitching our Gilded Age course to undergrads:
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a nation where the wealthy had insane power and ordinary people were reoeatedly crushed by them until they lashed out in anger?”
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a nation where the wealthy had insane power and ordinary people were reoeatedly crushed by them until they lashed out in anger?”
journalists really should have a gilded age/progressive era historian on speed dial for the next few years. it will help a lot!
December 5, 2024 at 11:52 PM
The other day I was pitching our Gilded Age course to undergrads:
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a nation where the wealthy had insane power and ordinary people were reoeatedly crushed by them until they lashed out in anger?”
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a nation where the wealthy had insane power and ordinary people were reoeatedly crushed by them until they lashed out in anger?”