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When I said "read Orwell" I meant "Politics and the English Language" and "What is Fascism?"

intellectualtakeout.org/2015/12/geor...

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Politics and the English Language | The Orwell Foundation
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
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March 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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indianacapitalchronicle.com
Almost $30M spent lobbying Indiana General Assembly last year
Almost $30M spent lobbying Indiana General Assembly last year • Indiana Capital Chronicle
That includes about $10,000 in gifts like tickets, hotel rooms and more, according to the latest data from lobbying regulators.
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February 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Italian journalist Paulo Rumiz:
Excerpt from Robert Kaplan’s “Adriatic”: He goes silent for a moment. Then says, slowly, speaking at a more human scale: "When refugees tell their stories they become individuals, not a wave, and each individual, no matter how destitute, can be hiding a god within himself. Wasn't Homer's Ulysses the first refugee, a war veteran, who had lost all his companions in a desperate journey across the eastern Mediterranean, who wandered for years, at the mercy of storms and hunger: passing through dangerous places, and then arriving nearly naked in a house filled with strangers?"
January 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
Great day to watch "Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President"

RIP 🙏
January 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"In states with abortion bans, pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections and died with what medical examiners recorded as 'products of conception' still in their bodies.

"These are the kinds of cases maternal mortality review committees are supposed to delve into...
Are abortion bans across America causing deaths? The states that passed them are doing little to find out. | CNN
In states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conc...
www.cnn.com
December 26, 2024 at 2:17 PM