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This week: ICE protests, Epstein, Don Lemon, seizing 2020 ballots, and a giant rolling finger.
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Through the Looking Glass
To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replac…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/02/02/through-the-looking-glass/
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The resistance in Minnesota has turned the narrative against Trump and ICE. But that’s just a potential turning point, not a decisive victory.
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Did We Win?
Trump is back-pedaling on Minneapolis. But has anything really changed yet? At this point, just about all observers agree that the occupation of Minneapolis has been a political and public-relation…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/02/02/did-we-win/
about 4 hours ago
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This week: resistance in Minneapolis, Trump’s Greenland retreat, the regime’s Nazi problem, still waiting for Epstein files, and a stare-down with a crocodile.
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Resistance
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. – commonly attributed to George Orwell What did we learn from the Holocaust? We have to act and we have to resist. If I…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/26/resistance/
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America has a chance to turn around here. Will we take it, or go past a point of no return?
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Turning Point or Tipping Point?
If the regime can repeatedly murder people in the streets with no consequences, there’s no turning back. Fortunately, more and more people are beginning to realize that. When I started the We…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/26/turning-point-or-tipping-point/
7 days ago
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This week: Greenland, Minneapolis, the Dual State, Trump’s unearned medal, no more Epstein files, and family resemblances.
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All We Have
All we have are whistles. They have guns. – Francisco Segovia, executive director COPAL This week’s featured post is “Greenland: It’s getting serious”. There is also a…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/19/all-we-have/
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No one can explain why it's worth blowing up NATO to acquire Greenland.
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Greenland: It’s getting serious
What started as a punch line is turning into a trade war with our allies. When President Trump began fantasizing about annexing Greenland back in 2019, the suggestion was hard to take seriously. Ma…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/19/greenland-its-getting-serious/
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Here's a phrase we all need to start using:
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Expand your vocabulary: the Dual State
[I haven’t done an Expand Your Vocabulary post in several years, but “the Dual State” merits one. We should all become fluent in its use.] It’s commonplace these days to com…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/19/expand-your-vocabulary-the-dual-state/
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This week: Renee Good, Portland, Venezuela, Greenland, and some cute baby animals.
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Two Options
They’re telling you to believe them and not your eyes. … So the message from this administration is clear: only they determine the truth, and when their forces come to your city, obey o…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/12/two-options/
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The most disturbing thing about the regime's gaslighting is that for many people it works.
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Renee Good and Our Epistemological Crisis
Is there any hope of finding a common reality? Wednesday in Minneapolis, ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot American mother Renee Good three times, killing her. There is so much to be upset about here, i…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/12/renee-good-and-our-epistemological-crisis/
21 days ago
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This week: Venezuela, year-end, Court, Smith, small towns, and five good stories of 2025.
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The Euphoria Period
We’re in the euphoria period of acknowledging across the board that Maduro was a bad guy and that our military is absolutely incredible. This is exactly the euphoria we felt in 2002 when our milita…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/05/the-euphoria-period/
28 days ago
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Reasonable people can debate what role Congress should have in questions of war and peace. But under Trump, Congress has no role at all.
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The Venezuela attack is a constitutional crisis for the United States
Is Congress still a branch of government? As I often point out: A one-person weekly blog is a bad place to cover breaking news. This morning, the attack on Venezuela is in that nebulous zone betwee…
https://weeklysift.com/2026/01/05/the-venezuela-attack-is-a-constitutional-crisis-for-the-united-states/
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This week: Trump’s pathetic week, war with Venezuela, Epstein, Wiles, and a new Randy Rainbow song.
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Blackouts
These documents are more blacked out than Pete Hegseth on New Years Eve. – feral streep, on the redactions in the newly released Epstein material No Sift next week. The next new posts will ap…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/12/22/blackouts/
about 1 month ago
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Trump can't make me angry any more. He just makes me sad.
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Three days in the life of a pathetic man
Everything Trump does to aggrandize himself just makes him smaller. From the time he came down the escalator in 2015, Donald Trump has gloried in his ability to get a rise out of people like me. Al…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/12/22/three-days-in-the-life-of-a-pathetic-man/
about 1 month ago
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Vance and the cabinet members shouldn't be asked whether they condemn Trump's Rob Reiner post. They should be asked why they're not invoking the 25th Amendment. No sane person wrote that post.
about 2 months ago
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This week: Hegseth, National Strategy, Supreme Court, geothermal power, and a racoon with a drinking problem.
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Decent World Order
No Sift next week. The next new articles will appear on December 22. The degree to which America is clearly a country that is open for sale is also really remarkable. But countries that are buying …
https://weeklysift.com/2025/12/08/decent-world-order/
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For years, Trump has dangled white-supremacist rhetoric to his base, then denied it when challenged. But now it’s part of the National Security Strategy.
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A MAGA National Security Strategy
America used to frame its self-image around freedom and democracy. Now it’s about making money and preserving whiteness. Back in July, J. D. Vance tried his hand at answering the question …
https://weeklysift.com/2025/12/08/a-maga-national-security-strategy/
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This week alone, we found out about likely crimes by Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem.
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Crime in the Cabinet
Most administrations come and go without credible evidence of a crime by a cabinet official. There were two this week alone. In January of 2017, as Barack Obama was getting ready to hand the presid…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/12/01/crime-in-the-cabinet/
2 months ago
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This week: Trump’s latest outrages, MTG’s resignation, Ukraine proposal, the regime’s bad week in court, Mamdani in the Oval, and a Thanksgiving playlist.
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Don’t Believe It
At some point, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything that Defendants represent. – US District Judge Sara Ellis,commenting on ICE and Border Patrol testimony cont…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/11/24/dont-believe-it/
2 months ago
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The disconnect between consumers and investors keeps getting worse.
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The Vibecession and the AI bubble
Depressed consumers and record-setting stock markets don’t usually go together. Why are they both happening now? I recently came across these two facts: The stock market hit an all-time high …
https://weeklysift.com/2025/11/24/the-vibecession-and-the-ai-bubble/
2 months ago
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This week: Paper Girl, aftermath, Epstein, and a few cracks in Trump’s support.
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Obliviousness
Urbana is basically the country club and the ghetto, and neither group has any idea that the other group exists. – Beth Macy, Paper Girl,on returning to the Ohio town where she grew up This w…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/11/17/obliviousness/
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"Paper Girl" is a compassionate look at the forgotten America.
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Beth Macy Goes Home Again
The author of Dopesick goes back to her small Ohio home town and wonders: Could a troubled teen do today what she did decades ago? Maybe. But the hurdles to jump are higher now. In the Broadway mus…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/11/17/beth-macy-goes-home-again/
3 months ago
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This week: elections, shutdown ending, federal thugs in Chicago, tariff arguments, Pelosi, Cheney, and a penguin with a lot of fish.
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Law and Order
Our residents have been attacked by a lawless entity, and we can’t just stand by and pretend this is acceptable. – Mayor Daniel Biss of Evanston,commenting on Border Patrol attacks on E…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/11/10/law-and-order/
3 months ago
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Let's take seriously Mike Johnson's claim that Republicans really do have ideas that will lead to a healthcare reform proposal. What would Johnson's system look like?
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What would a Republican healthcare plan look like?
The government can cut healthcare spending if it tempts people into gambling with their lives. The longest government shutdown in American history came down to one issue: healthcare. Republicans ha…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/11/10/what-would-a-republican-healthcare-plan-look-like/
3 months ago
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This week: SNAP, shutdown, tariffs, elections, and a parody of a Paul Simon classic.
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Despotic Encroachment
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutio…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/11/03/despotic-encroachment/
3 months ago
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It's all a political game until children start missing meals.
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The Shutdown Gets Serious
If you’re poor in America, food and healthcare just got way more expensive. Up until Saturday, most Americans had been able ignore the government shutdown. If you didn’t work for the fe…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/11/03/the-shutdown-gets-serious/
3 months ago
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It's unconstitutional. Or is it?
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Could a Third Term Happen?
It’s far-fetched but not impossible. For months Trump has alternately encouraged and then tamped down speculation that he might seek a third term. Wednesday, he acknowledged the constitutiona…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/11/03/could-a-third-term-happen/
3 months ago
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This week: No Kings, shutdown, Gaza, voting rights, Montana Plan, and the greatest performance in baseball history.
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In Free Countries
For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other. – Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) No Sift next week. The next …
https://weeklysift.com/2025/10/20/in-free-countries/
4 months ago
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The Trump-invincibility narrative hit a few bumps this week.
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The Resistance Stiffens
Chicago on Saturday. The No Kings rallies were the most obvious signs of resistance to Trump’s authoritarian rule, but congressional Democrats, Pentagon reporters, major universities, and an …
https://weeklysift.com/2025/10/20/the-resistance-stiffens/
4 months ago
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This week: Gaza peace, attack on Chicago and Portland, shutdown deadlock, Trump’s dementia, and some dancing frogs.
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Who will protect us from our protectors?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? – Juvenal, 2nd century AD This week’s featured posts are “Only Trump represents the People” and “Fantasies of a vast, violent left-wing …
https://weeklysift.com/2025/10/13/who-will-protect-us-from-our-protectors/
4 months ago
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Fascists believe in a mystical union between their Leader and the People.
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Only Trump represents the People
Pam Bondi’s disrespect of the Senate is only one example of a larger principle. If you watched Pam Bondi’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, you saw a number of t…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/10/13/only-trump-represents-the-people/
4 months ago
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Trump fears his reflection in the mirror.
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Fantasies of a vast, violent left-wing conspiracy
Trump’s security memorandum projects his friends’ behavior onto his enemies. Executive Order NPSM-7 got past my attention when it was first released on September 25. Seeking to exploit …
https://weeklysift.com/2025/10/13/fantasies-of-a-vast-violent-left-wing-conspiracy/
4 months ago
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This week: Trump and the generals, Chicago, shutdown, Gaza, dementia, Argentina, and 20 great dances.
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Companions and Instruments
A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive, will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at ho…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/10/06/companions-and-instruments/
4 months ago
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The regime’s invasion of Chicago cuts deeper if you know something about the city.
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Trump Comes for Chicago
Whatever this is about, it’s not public safety. I went to graduate school in Chicago during the 80s and lived there for six years. I’ve been back many times since and marveled at how mu…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/10/06/trump-comes-for-chicago/
4 months ago
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We can only imagine what the generals and admirals were thinking as they heard Trump describe his fantasy world.
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The Silence of the Generals
Lack of response leaves a lot of room for projection. Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hosted an unusual meeting: America’s top generals and admirals, 800 or so of them, were called to…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/10/06/the-silence-of-the-generals/
4 months ago
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Due to a vacation, I haven't posted a summary for three weeks. Has anything happened?
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The Show Must Go On
This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this. – Jimmy Kimmel This week’s featured posts are “What to M…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/09/29/the-show-must-go-on/
4 months ago
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Due to a vacation, I haven't posted a summary for three weeks. Has anything happened?
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The Show Must Go On
This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this. – Jimmy Kimmel This week’s featured posts are “What to M…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/09/29/the-show-must-go-on/
4 months ago
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I’m catching up on the news of the last three weeks. Most of what I’ve seen about Kirk is way too shallow, so I thought I’d give my own impression.
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4 months ago
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Can we read anything more into Jimmy Kimmel’s victory over Trump?
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Is Kimmel’s return a turning point?
For the first time, Trump used autocratic power in a way that the public couldn’t ignore, and a popular pushback forced a big corporation to stand up to him. Is that an anomaly or the start o…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/09/29/is-kimmels-return-a-turning-point/
4 months ago
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This week: Trump loses in court, the Epstein story is back, invading Chicago, blowing boats out of the water, RFK, and some baby animals.
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Speed without rigor
No Sift for the next two weeks. New articles will appear September 29. Judges in the trenches need, and deserve, well-reasoned, bright-line guidance. Too often today, sweeping [Supreme Court] rulin…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/09/08/speed-without-rigor/
5 months ago
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Trump's lower-court defeats will only matter if the Supreme Court backs up the lower-court judges.
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Will the courts hold the line?
The Trump administration has suffered a series of defeats in court recently. Will that matter? It’s been a bad week or two for Trump in court. Jay Kuo counts the ways: A major ruling from the…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/09/08/will-the-courts-hold-the-line/
5 months ago
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It's not to soon to start planning for the looming crisis at the end of the fiscal year.
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The Democrats’ Shutdown Strategy
The government runs out of money again on October 1. That gives the Democratic minorities in Congress some rare leverage. What should they do with it? The 2026 fiscal year starts in less than a mon…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/09/08/the-democrats-shutdown-strategy/
5 months ago
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This week: Lysenkoism, Chicago resists occupation, Trump's post-Palestinian Gaza fantasy, illegal tariffs, Fed firing, and a far-out view.
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Waking up to the difference
I think many Americans wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from “democracy” to “authoritarianism.” Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a n…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/09/01/waking-up-to-the-difference/
5 months ago
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To understand what RFK Jr. is doing to American health care and research, you need to recall a powerful figure from the Stalin regime.
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Lysenkoism Comes to America
As RFK Jr. purges the CDC and cancels billions in research grants, Americans need a refresher course on what happened to Soviet biological research during the Stalin years. In many ways, Trofim Lys…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/09/01/lysenkoism-comes-to-america/
5 months ago
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This week: redistricting, the Bolton raid, forbidden words, nationalizing Intel, troops still in DC, and a denial we may all need to make someday.
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Accusations
Tyrannies don’t always get their way by establishing a secret police force that arrests people at will — although we’re getting that too. Much of their power comes not from overt violence but from …
https://weeklysift.com/2025/08/25/accusations/
5 months ago
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It's not just that Trump has no plan to mitigate or delay climate change. He's actively making it worse.
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Policies to Make the Planet Hotter
You may think that Trump’s policies are just indifferent to climate change. You would be wrong. Not so long ago, conventional wisdom said that an administration should focus on one goal at a …
https://weeklysift.com/2025/08/25/policies-to-make-the-planet-hotter/
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This week: new format, Putin summit, DC takeover, redistricting, and what a John Brennan show trial might look like.
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Groundwork
If we show weakness today in front of Russia, we are laying the ground for future conflict. – President Emmanuel Macron of France This week’s featured post is “The Timescale of Ne…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/08/18/groundwork/
6 months ago
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My recent dissatisfaction with my own blogging led to a meditation on what news is or ought to be.
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6 months ago
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This week: Trump fixes the numbers by firing the number-crunchers, Gaza, Smithsonian, gerrymandering, trade deals, and Samuel L. Jackson's new ad.
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Adapting to Decline
We can expect the governing class to adapt pragmatically to the electorate’s collective decline in rational capacity, for example, by retaining the rituals associated with mass democracy, while qui…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/08/04/adap
6 months ago
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What happens to a democracy when it can't produce people with the ability to think deeply and clearly?
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Shaping Ourselves
In a democracy, the people shape their government. But in the long run, the government also shapes its people. What kind of citizens does a democracy need to have, if it’s going to sustain it…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/08/04/shaping-ourselves/
6 months ago
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This week: some court victories, trade deals, Gaza, Epstein, and a final tribute to Tom Lehrer.
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Choices
It’s alright for you if you run with the pack.It’s alright if you agree with all they do.If fascism is slowly climbing back,It’s not here yet, so what’s it got to do with yo…
https://weeklysift.com/2025/07/28/choices/
6 months ago
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