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Sam Mace

@thoughtgenerate.bsky.social

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An avid reader and sometime writer. Schmitt and the Middle East book due out in 2025. Link to my substack :) https://theorymatters.substack.com/

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Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate.bsky.social · 7d

"as I watched these young souls grapple with a profound question, I realised it was all for nought. Far from enlightening each other, confusion reigned."

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The Limits of Debate

This is a piece I wrote for Fusion. It is a great magazine and well worth a read! Below is a transcript of this piece- Enjoy!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

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David DeSteno @daviddesteno.bsky.social · 2d

Loneliness is on the rise. That's not news. But maybe part of the reason is: we're no longer sure what it means to be a good friend or lack tools to make it happen. I talk with Samuel Kimbriel & Robert Waldinger about what science, philosophy, and religion offer. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

TIME MAG - “The 69-year-old judge had received death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire…” (Stephen miller in particular has been lashing out at judges)

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Trump-appointed judge blocks White House order to send 300 troops to Portland as protestors clash with cops

Trump-appointed judge blocks White House order to send 300 troops to Portland

Justice accuses administration of ‘direct contravention’ of her orders as demonstrations against federal law enforcement intervention erupt on streets of Oregon city

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

The thing is, I'm not sure that "Farage wins, then discovers fiscal gravity" isn't a situation that leads to things getting *even worse*.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

I do think the media is giving too much attention to the possibility of Farage winning an election that's nearly four years away. I also think it's underplaying the extremely high possibility that, even if he does, he immediately drowns in the same mire that swallowed Starmer and Sunak before him

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

This story describes such a psychologically complex phenomenon, breaking with the parents who didn’t vaccinate you to get protected now. But it’s encouraging to read—it’s not too late to protect yourself and others, and the shots themselves are generally no big deal

Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 3d

When he started getting his shots in his 20s — including for polio, whooping cough and measles, according to medical records — he said it felt like an act of rebellion toward his parents, whose views he now vehemently disagrees with. “I was just like, ‘Load me up, Doc,’” he said.

Their parents never got them vaccinated. As young adults, they faced a choice.

Falling vaccination rates around the country mean more will grow up without protection from debilitating diseases until they are old enough to decide for themselves, typically at age 18.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 4d

#OTD in 1944, Dunkirk, France. Both British and German troops manning a checkpoint during a truce to allow refugees to enter British lines. (You don't see many of such pictures.) #WW2 #HISTORY

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 5d

The highest judges of the land and the prime minister cannot trust MI5 to investigate itself. This shows our constitution is working, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.

Why the prime minister ordered an independent investigation into MI5

Neither Keir Starmer nor the High Court accepted the security service’s explanation of a serious error

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

A quick note about money and comedy and power.

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

On a more serious note, Collins thinks the Riyadh lineup reflects something dire about both American politics and the bifurcated woke-versus-anti-woke comedy scene. Collins says there’s “a lot of money” behind enticing anti-woke comics to shill for the political project on the right. “I also like money, but I think getting hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell jokes for 10 minutes about ‘airline food is bad’ is actually illustrative of a much larger thing: The stuff that’s getting greenlit is not necessarily popular with the populace. It’s popular with rich people who are sick of being yelled at in the media. They are using some of these people as vehicles for whatever the comedy equivalent of greenwashing is.”

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 5d

Public affairs firms, including those with ties to Labour, were representing everything from oil and gas to defence contractors in Liverpool, writes @petergeoghegan.bsky.social.

Labour’s conference was thick with lobbyists

Public affairs firms, including those with ties to the party, were representing everything from oil and gas to defence contractors

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Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate.bsky.social · 5d

jesus that is bad

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote a short piece for the Observer on the attacks in Manchester.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

My son recently found a swastika drawn on the pavement at...

The Manchester attack didn't come as a shock. The only surprise is it hasn’t happened sooner

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate.bsky.social · 6d

"Debating a subject before knowing it can lead to profound misunderstanding rather than enlightenment."

theorymatters.substack.com/p/the-limits...

The Limits of Debate

This is a piece I wrote for Fusion. It is a great magazine and well worth a read! Below is a transcript of this piece- Enjoy!

theorymatters.substack.com

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Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate.bsky.social · 6d

"Debating a subject before knowing it can lead to profound misunderstanding rather than enlightenment."

theorymatters.substack.com/p/the-limits...

The Limits of Debate

This is a piece I wrote for Fusion. It is a great magazine and well worth a read! Below is a transcript of this piece- Enjoy!

theorymatters.substack.com

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 6d

Jason Burke, Helen Garner, Richard Holmes, Justin Marozzi, Adam Weymouth and Frances Wilson have been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025, worth £50,000.

Read more here 👉https://tinyurl.com/mr9w6f5m

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Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate.bsky.social · 7d

"as I watched these young souls grapple with a profound question, I realised it was all for nought. Far from enlightening each other, confusion reigned."

open.substack.com/pub/theoryma...

The Limits of Debate

This is a piece I wrote for Fusion. It is a great magazine and well worth a read! Below is a transcript of this piece- Enjoy!

open.substack.com

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 7d

new episode - freedom, urban design, & local vs national democracy

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/cars

Do Cars Make us Free? with Henrietta Moore & Arthur Kay

Symbol of mobility or a danergous dependence?

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com

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Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate.bsky.social · 7d

"as I watched these young souls grapple with a profound question, I realised it was all for nought. Far from enlightening each other, confusion reigned."

open.substack.com/pub/theoryma...

The Limits of Debate

This is a piece I wrote for Fusion. It is a great magazine and well worth a read! Below is a transcript of this piece- Enjoy!

open.substack.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9d

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons.
He said he had been offered "a large sum of money" - $375,000 for one performance - and said that other comedians had been offered as much as $1.6 million. He told his detractors to "get over it," adding, "So what if they have slaves, they're paying me enough to look the other way."
But in an episode of the Tim Dillon Podcast last week, the comedian announced he'd been removed from the lineup for the comments he made about the country's record on slavery.

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chesterchap.bsky.social @chesterchap.bsky.social · 9d

Ryder Cup ………….

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Leila Belkora PhD, astrophysics @leilabelkora.bsky.social · 9d

This weekend I went to a service for a friend, a great reader and book-discusser in my bookclub.

Her colon cancer had reached stage 4 before she knew about it.

I mention it, because I once talked another friend into getting a colonoscopy and her tumor was found in time. Do it.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9d

"It's a different sort of war, but the hostility, the cyber attacks, the physical attacks, intelligence work, is extensive."

Ex-MI5 chief says those who think UK already at war with Russia 'may be right'

Baroness Manningham-Buller, MI5 director general from 2002 to 2007, recalled meeting Vladimir Putin after the G8 meeting in 2005, and said "we all hoped that the past history of Russia wouldn't prevai...

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