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Fall Books features Matt Duss on the crisis of Democratic foreign policy, Becca Rothfeld on Ingeborg Bachmann, Laila Lalami on the Internet's lost souls, Sarah Chihaya on Susan Choi, Elias Rodriques on James Baldwin, and @jeetheer.bsky.social on William Buckley: www.thenation.com/issue/octobe...
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On Oct. 1, 2020, without mentioning his relationship with the company, Hegseth posted on Twitter praising and linking to a group of videos made by INX. “Worth watching,” wrote Hegseth. “I really like their vision of the future of finance.” He eventually deleted the tweets.
Pete Hegseth's Crypto History
Does the defense secretary have unclaimed earnings from a firm he formerly advised?
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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 9h
Lyle wrote about the idiotic Hegseth speech www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Dark Satire of Pete Hegseth’s Quantico Speech
The secretary of war’s plea for discipline collapses into its opposite—a demand for wanton violence and mayhem
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 11h
At Bari Weiss’s “Cheers to the Republic” mixer, I met anti-vaxxers, was recruited for a trip to Israel, and heard the word “heterodox” more than I would have liked to.
I Went to the “Free Press” Party for Under-30s. All I Got Was Ennui.
At Bari Weiss's “Cheers to the Republic” mixer, I met anti-vaxxers, was recruited for a trip to Israel, and heard the word “heterodox” more than I would have liked to.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 11h
Dr. Christina Greer joins us to reflect on the truths Black America has always known, 10/30 at St. Ann’s Warehouse. She joins Kaveh Akbar, Judy Collins, Dave Zirin, and more to celebrate 160 years of The Nation. https://stannswarehouse.org/choose-seats/36001/
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Counterstream Media @counterstream.bsky.social · 2d
People are demonstrating in the streets. Now what? In Ep. 2 of A People’s Climate with @shilpichhotray.bsky.social for @thenation.com, she chats with abolitionist Patrisse Cullors about how to build up mass movements.

🎧 Listen now: tinyurl.com/ep-2-cullors
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Shilpi Chhotray @shilpichhotray.bsky.social · 2d
Patrisse Cullors, artist, abolitionist, and co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter talks about the science behind movements and what it takes to build solidarity across climate and racial justice in my latest conversation for @thenation.com

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Mass Movements, With Patrisse Cullors
On Episode 2 of A People's Climate: This is when people-powered movements matter most.
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Counterstream Media @counterstream.bsky.social · 12h
How can we organize for climate justice? Abolitionist Patrisse Cullors, who co-founded Black Lives Matter, explains in our latest episode of A People’s Climate with @shilpichhotray.bsky.social for @thenation.com

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 11h
"We won’t let Israel’s violence and brutality deter us." Activists on the latest Gaza flotilla have been abducted by Israel. But that won't stop them, or their comrades.
Israel Just Attacked Another Flotilla. But the Movement Will Never Stop.
“We haven’t before, and we won’t let Israel’s violence and brutality deter us,” one participant told The Nation.
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Paul Adlerstein @pauladlerstein.bsky.social · 14h
Fantastic meditation on the quasi-Kubrickian menace of Pete Hegseth's recent speech. Always read @lylerubin.bsky.social!
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Lyle Jeremy Rubin @lylerubin.bsky.social · 14h
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The Dark Satire of Pete Hegseth’s Quantico Speech
The secretary of war’s plea for discipline collapses into its opposite—a demand for wanton violence and mayhem
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 14h
Justin Pearson will face off against the Democratic incumbent, Rep. Steve Cohen. Pearson tells @chrislehmann.bsky.social, "It always amazes me that America will always find billions and billions to fight wars, but won’t do anything like that to fight poverty.”
Why Justin Pearson Wants to Unseat a 10-Term Democratic Incumbent in Congress
The Tennessee state representative explains why he is facing off against Steve Cohen to be the Democratic nominee to represent the Memphis area in Washington.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 14h
Contradictions abound in the life and times of Pete Hegseth, writes @lylerubin.bsky.social. His harangue at Quantico focused on fat troops and fat leaders, and he waxed romantic about accountability, merit, and high standards—then he introduced Donald Trump.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h
Something not fully appreciated in the Riyadh comedy festival discourse is that in many ways Saudi Arabia is getting *more* repressive

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What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s Surge in Executions?
Activists believe that authorities are abusing the justice system to silence dissent and chill speech.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 16h
Memphis blues clash: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Why Justin Pearson Wants to Unseat a 10-Term Democratic Incumbent in Congress
The Tennessee state representative explains why he is facing off against Steve Cohen to be the Democratic nominee to represent the Memphis area in Washington.
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DG Farnsworth @dgfarnsworth.bsky.social · 1d
"$400 million jumbo jet... the Qatari dictatorship gifted to Trump... Vietnam, dodging its own laws in order to fast-track a new Trump golf course—& potentially dodge debilitating tariffs in the process"

"Saudi Arabia...welcoming another Trump-sponsored skyscraper"
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Trump Opens the White House Doors to Foreign Regimes and Their Dirty Money
Lobbyists for foreign countries have long helped other governments influence US policy, but nothing compares to the brazen corruption of the second administration of Trump.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d
On Oct. 1, 2020, without mentioning his relationship with the company, Hegseth posted on Twitter praising and linking to a group of videos made by INX. “Worth watching,” wrote Hegseth. “I really like their vision of the future of finance.” He eventually deleted the tweets.
Pete Hegseth's Crypto History
Does the defense secretary have unclaimed earnings from a firm he formerly advised?
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d
Largely ignored by a media overwhelmed by daily outrages from the Oval Office, Trump’s destructive foreign policy strategy has some truly serious implications for America’s role in the world.

Trump Is Effortlessly Destroying Washington’s International Influence
With Congress compliant, the Supreme Court complicit, and media corporations compromised, Trump has forged a clear path to international irrelevance.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d
Anyone anywhere can quietly bankroll Trump via his “memecoin,” writes @cjcmichel.bsky.social. We’ve never seen a White House so saturated in foreign lobbying and foreign money.
Trump Opens the White House Doors to Foreign Regimes and Their Dirty Money
Lobbyists for foreign countries have long helped other governments influence US policy, but nothing compares to the brazen corruption of the second administration of Trump.
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Sasha Ann Panaram @sashapanaram.bsky.social · 1d
"[Toni] Morrison’s skill as an editor surely made her a better writer, but it undeniably took time and energy away from her own work, and it was never fully appreciated as an intellectual endeavor in itself." -- Marina Magloire via @thenation.com
“To Free Someone Else”: Toni Morrison the Book Editor
A recent book on her career in publishing makes the case that the great American novelist should also be seen as a pathbreaking editor.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d
For at least four years, Pete Hegseth’s association with the crypto firm INX was public, but at some point it seems to have been obscured. In 2019, he was listed on INX’s website as one of the company’s advisory board members. By November 2022, INX had removed the list of advisory board members.
Pete Hegseth’s Crypto History
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d
These two grafs from @elienyc.bsky.social. Woof.

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This term, the court will continue to prop up the Trump regime. The six conservative justices will use the shadow docket—the name for the cases the court hears on “emergency” appeal, without regular argument or hearings—to fast-track Trump’s executive orders without even bothering to explain their reasoning. They’ll remove lower court injunctions to clear the path for Trump’s policies. They’ll use every procedural trick in the book, and when that’s not good enough, they’ll either rule for Trump outright or create opportunities for him to get second and third and fourth bites of the same apple until his unhinged administration tweaks its arguments to the court’s satisfaction. When the court isn’t playing handmaiden to Trump’s particular brand of authoritarianism, it will do what it’s generally been trying to do for the past 20-plus years under John Roberts’s leadership: continue to suck the life out of the democratic process and crush the rights of anybody who doesn’t happen to be a cishetero white man. While Democrats patiently wait for the magical day when the Supreme Court tells Trump no, the six Republicans will bully trans kids and poison the environment for all kids lucky enough to survive the next school shooting.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d
Will the United States go the way of the British Empire, stumbling through managed global retreat and into international irrelevance?
Trump Is Effortlessly Destroying Washington's International Influence
With Congress compliant, the Supreme Court complicit, and media corporations compromised, Trump has forged a clear path to international irrelevance.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d
"All we ask is for this relentless nightmare of genocide to end, for the land to become a land again, and for us to once again embrace life, not death."
I've Endured Two Years of Genocide. But I'm Still Here.
The world before October 7, 2023, is a distant memory. But we carry on, fueled by the determination that this land will become a place of life once more.
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Nancy Kricorian @nancykric.bsky.social · 1d
"I am exhausted. We are exhausted. If fatigue can be worn, we are all wearing threadbare shirts. We long for the Gaza we once knew, for the lives we once lived, and for the selves we once were."
~ Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

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I’ve Endured Two Years of Genocide. But I’m Still Here.
The world before October 7, 2023, is a distant memory. But we carry on, fueled by the determination that this land will become a place of life once more.
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Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 1d
Decades ago, a man named Ivy Lee jump-started the foreign lobbying industry, whitewashing the Nazis, Soviets, and Mussolini.

Nearly a century later, the industry is unlike anything we've ever seen—all of it thanks to the White House.

My latest at @thenation.com:

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Trump Opens the White House Doors to Foreign Regimes and Their Dirty Money
Lobbyists for foreign countries have long helped other governments influence US policy, but nothing compares to the brazen corruption of the second administration of Trump.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d
With the Opus Dei court, the sole question is: how much damage can we visit on America and its Constitution this term? How much progress can we make in building our signature authoritarian state with Trump at the helm? Don't underestimate them for a second. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Supreme Court v. Democracy
The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.
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