Ann Lang
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As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves
There is no basis to withhold these images under the clear terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. None.
WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
December 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves
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In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
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The "poverty penalty."
Excellent points.
Excellent points.
December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The "poverty penalty."
Excellent points.
Excellent points.
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“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
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The best thing to have is enough.
I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
May 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The best thing to have is enough.
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Absolutely correct
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Absolutely correct
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FDR Memorial, Washington DC.
-RIP East Wing-
-RIP East Wing-
October 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
FDR Memorial, Washington DC.
-RIP East Wing-
-RIP East Wing-
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Most people in the US do not understand the severity of the situation we are in. This is not just a rogue president where we can ride it out and vote for someone else in a few years. This is a well planned takeover that has been shaped for decades. Every action creates opportunity for the next.
October 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Most people in the US do not understand the severity of the situation we are in. This is not just a rogue president where we can ride it out and vote for someone else in a few years. This is a well planned takeover that has been shaped for decades. Every action creates opportunity for the next.
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Starbucks CEO made $95M last year. The median worker made $14K. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1.
This isn’t capitalism rewarding risk, it’s extraction on autopilot. Every empire ends with elites hollowing out the core. You’re watching it.
This isn’t capitalism rewarding risk, it’s extraction on autopilot. Every empire ends with elites hollowing out the core. You’re watching it.
August 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Starbucks CEO made $95M last year. The median worker made $14K. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1.
This isn’t capitalism rewarding risk, it’s extraction on autopilot. Every empire ends with elites hollowing out the core. You’re watching it.
This isn’t capitalism rewarding risk, it’s extraction on autopilot. Every empire ends with elites hollowing out the core. You’re watching it.
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I am so sick of the left saying that Trump is in the Epstein Files. He’s the President and deserves top billing. Epstein is in the Trump Files
August 1, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I am so sick of the left saying that Trump is in the Epstein Files. He’s the President and deserves top billing. Epstein is in the Trump Files
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The administration transferred nearly $1 billion dollars to a Pentagon project to modernize nuclear weapons, but those funds will be used to renovate Trump's "flying palace."
Trump Is Trying to Hide the Cost of Renovating His New Air Force One
The administration transferred nearly $1 billion dollars to a Pentagon project, but those funds will be used to renovate Trump's "flying palace."
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July 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The administration transferred nearly $1 billion dollars to a Pentagon project to modernize nuclear weapons, but those funds will be used to renovate Trump's "flying palace."
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Prisons drive $1.3 billion in NY overtime spending https://gothamist.com/news/prisons-drive-13-billion-in-ny-overtime-spending
Prisons drive $1.3 billion in NY overtime spending
The Marcy Correctional Facility
The figure for 2024 is a 10% increase in overtime from the previous year. [ more › ]
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July 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Prisons drive $1.3 billion in NY overtime spending https://gothamist.com/news/prisons-drive-13-billion-in-ny-overtime-spending
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In this episode of “Interesting Times,” Ross Douthat talks with the Miami Herald investigator Julie K. Brown about who really bears the responsibility of the Jeffrey Epstein case. “It’s the job of our government to find out what’s plausible or what’s real and what’s not real,” she says.
Opinion | She Exposed Epstein, and Shares MAGA’s Anger
The reporter who took down Jeffrey Epstein on what’s still hidden.
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July 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In this episode of “Interesting Times,” Ross Douthat talks with the Miami Herald investigator Julie K. Brown about who really bears the responsibility of the Jeffrey Epstein case. “It’s the job of our government to find out what’s plausible or what’s real and what’s not real,” she says.
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This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
June 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
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Picking radishes is no easy task. Efrén spends 8-10 hrs/day on his knees, picking and sorting the radishes into small bunches to fill dozens of crates a day in CA's Ventura County. He's proud to have worked in America's fields for 49 years. #WeFeedYou
June 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Picking radishes is no easy task. Efrén spends 8-10 hrs/day on his knees, picking and sorting the radishes into small bunches to fill dozens of crates a day in CA's Ventura County. He's proud to have worked in America's fields for 49 years. #WeFeedYou
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Ken Burns Presents: A Soldier's Dispatch from the Front Lines in L.A.
June 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Ken Burns Presents: A Soldier's Dispatch from the Front Lines in L.A.
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This image is from Trump's first term. It's deeply offensive for anyone to try to claim that people didn't know this was gong to happen again.
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Image of child crying at border wins World Press Photo award
Getty Images photographer John Moore's winning image shows 2-year-old Yanela Sanchez and her mother, Sandra Sanchez, after they were taken into custody last June 12, and it fueled debate about tough T...
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June 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This image is from Trump's first term. It's deeply offensive for anyone to try to claim that people didn't know this was gong to happen again.
www.pbs.org/newshour/art...
www.pbs.org/newshour/art...
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Awkward way for Joni Ernst to find out she isn’t funny.
Let’s stop sending people like Joni Ernst and Lindsey Graham to the Senate.
Let’s stop sending people like Joni Ernst and Lindsey Graham to the Senate.
June 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Awkward way for Joni Ernst to find out she isn’t funny.
Let’s stop sending people like Joni Ernst and Lindsey Graham to the Senate.
Let’s stop sending people like Joni Ernst and Lindsey Graham to the Senate.
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You have to hand it to the Felon 47 regime. They are relentless when it comes to wasting time & our tax dollars.
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Feds sue four New Jersey Dem mayors for policies blocking immigration enforcement • New Jersey Monitor
The Trump admin says the mayors' efforts to "shield illegal aliens within the Garden State are unlawful." The mayors say they won't back down
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May 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
You have to hand it to the Felon 47 regime. They are relentless when it comes to wasting time & our tax dollars.
newjerseymonitor.com/2025/05/23/f...
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NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
www.npr.org
May 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.