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Tracinski!! @RobTracinsky brings it... https://open.substack.com/pub/tracinskiletter/p/how-to-build-a-police-state?r=3lm3p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
April 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Make American Grate Again Trump has totally delivered on his promise! America is more grating than ever. Kudos, Donny. Chef's kiss!
March 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As seen on friend's fridge... "It's not existentialism unless it comes from the existentialist region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling anxiety." -uncredited If someone knows who to attribute this to, please let me know.
March 31, 2025 at 6:37 AM
//open.substack.c
March 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Rob hits another ball out of the park @RobTracinsky 's post on Substack is required reading - especially for the Right of center - Rob is a stalwart Libertarian thinker so his bias is squarely to the Right of the line therefore his views on the current situation are that much more relevant. https:
March 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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March 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Alexa is about to start sending ALL your utterances to Amazon for analysis. In their defense, they never promised to not be evil (that was Google). Of course, their assertion is that they only listen when you say "Alexa" - but a) who the heck knows if that's true and b) see A https://www.youtube.co
March 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
l that soon - but in the meantime
March 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The shuttering of Voice of America is very unfortunate I've been meaning to write about the broader implications of what it means to kill Voice of America - most Americans have no clue about how valuable a project this was and how much effort and talent went into its programming. I'll write about al
March 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The shuttering of Voice of America is truly sad I've been meaning to post about the tragedy that is the shuttering of Voice of America and I'll write more about that soon but just wanted to bring this excellent piece about how deceptive and misleading the narrative about their "waste" is... https:/
March 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
David French at his best NYT is behind a paywall so I'll post the text of the article here a little later... but this is required reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/opinion/trump-canada-ukraine.html
March 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Heartbreaking Sunday musical interlude... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rkvze11ndE
March 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Testing Bluesky and Twitter cross posting This is just a test - If you're seeing this you should look away! https://substack.com/@yevgenysimkin/note/c-63551199
March 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
If you're still curious about why Putin behaves as he does... This is a very useful conversation... https://www.lexpress.fr/monde/europe/he-is-the-man-who-made-vladimir-putin-why-we-interviewed-vladislav-sourkov-RK2FI6RVPZDXJMMOJ275VMBLCE/
March 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Noah Smith hitting more nails on the head... https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/dems-need-to-moderate-and-fight?r=3lm3p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
March 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
why would they lie?) the Russians have
March 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Russia has never attacked Ukraine's energy infrastructure! This was really hard to find because if you google "infrastructure" you're only going to now find the news about the current conversation and offer from Putin - but here's a bit of history... As you can tell from their steadfast insistence (
March 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Michael Cohen's take on Newsom https://www.24sight.news/p/gavin-newsom-is-for-hehim Curious what you guys think...
March 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Daily Trump Lunacy I'm wondering if the administration has a specialized and focused cadre of destabilization actors whose job it is to come up with the dumbest or most invidious and insidious and asinine proclamations or declarations or announcements that serve the purpose of riling up the sane p
March 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Not for everyone... Fusion jazz is definitely an acquired taste that requires a fair amount of musical training to really appreciate but I just love discovering stuff on YouTube that I would have lost my mind over in the 90s when I was a "professional musican" (read: waiter). I've been following Mo
March 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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March 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I think this overlooks something important https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4SDBVaUboc I'm watching this video and I have a great deal of admiration for people who can be content living in such fraught situations but the narrator doesn't touch on the ease with which such cultures and all humans pr
March 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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March 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Where are the Otters, Adi?? @AdiWeiss you talk some big talk about otters and capybaras but so far... nada! :) BTW - when you do post things of that ilk please categorize them as "endearing" so that the people who come here looking for something other than political panic, like our COO @Akshay161
March 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM