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Politics in plain English for normal people and the common good.
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Jason Karsh
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100% this. Dems touting how we do deportation ‘the right way,’ is a losing argument every time. You’ll never win Republicans because they always want more deportation, particularly more violent, punitive deportation. And lauding deportation angers a huge part of your base every time. It’s lose/lose.
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ProPublica
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12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water. “The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter. By
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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I think Democrats should stop with “Trump is doing deportation wrong” because I think they should stop focusing on immigration as a matter of crime and punishment. It should a matter of freedom and opportunity. The question should be how is the government going to protect and advance both.
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Aaron Rupar
about 17 hours ago
Massie: "Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these people in NYC and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he's not. He's still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration."
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Virginia Heffernan
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Here's to all the intellectuals not in the Epstein files. They're the ones the Epstein class feared. They're the ones who could spell.
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Toni Morrison Is Not in the Epstein Files
Let's talk about the serious intellectuals, the ones not on the Lolita Express, the ones who could spell.
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/toni-morrison-is-not-in-the-epstein
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siobhan
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steve bannon joined the war on child sex abuse in the catholic church on the side of child sex abuse
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I owe my supporters an update. Here it is.
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Update on my health insurance situation
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A writer at The New Republic is trying to put Graham Platner at the center of what the TNR calls a "Democratic Tea Party." I think the concept has merit, but Platner doesn't belong at the center. He's a working-class impersonator. See this thread and article from November.
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Joshua Erlich
about 18 hours ago
this is a really important point. the district courts are trying to contain this administration. the circuits, by and large, are still working, with the occasional exception of the 5th, 8th, and DC circuits. the Supreme Court is on an island. lawless and completely rogue.
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Noah Berlatsky
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Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate.
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Progressive Candidate Has Dropped Out Of ME Senate Race
Not Platner. Daira Smith-Rodriguez
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Doghouse Reilly
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“With its contempt for the humanities, Edge offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without even opening a book, they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial theory and queer studies.”
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This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like
A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/this-is-what-destroying-the-vaccine-market-looks-like-moderna-flu-prasad-fda?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Outspoken™️
about 18 hours ago
Interesting, litter boy
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Rachel Maddow
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Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters
Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used force in ways that appear to violate their own policies or general policing guidelines, NBC News found.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-dhs-immigration-protests-injuries-less-lethal-weapons-force-rcna258388
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I have no doubt this is true to some degree but I think it’s a mistake to believe that most people are against hostility and intolerance in the abstract. I think a lot of respectable white people saw themselves in Good and Pretti and didn’t like anti-Black racism coming for them.
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On Thursday, I said the Democrats need to make an example of Pam Bondi, lest they invite even more contempt for the Congress. They can do that by impeaching her in due time, or short of that, by making her name synonymous with Epstein's.
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Pam Bondi is daring the Democrats to impeach her
The reasons for her contempt are secondary to the contempt itself.
https://www.editorialboard.com/pam-bondi-is-daring-the-democrats-to-impeach-her/
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On Wednesday, I said Bad Bunny offered a radical new view of belonging. Immigrants are here. Therefore, they're American. "Abolish ICE" is only one step toward making a fact of life a fact of law.
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Bad Bunny’s ‘together, we are America’ is dangerous to Trump
Immigrants are here. That makes them American.
https://www.editorialboard.com/bad-bunnys-together-we-are-america-is-dangerous-to-trump/
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗
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Why are TikTok leftists acting like the Democrats have already picked a nominee for 2028, and why are regular Democrats on TikTok humoring them by discussing it as if the leftists are adults? Come on, now.
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I would not be shocked to learn that Piker is paid by, I dunno, *someone* who’s jealous of Putin’s success.
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Simon Rosenberg
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Polling these last two weeks is very clear that Trump has not only lost the argument about ICE, he's also lost it on mass deportation. Country wants him to focus on the criminals and leave the rest of us alone. From new Yahoo/YouGov:
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Aristotle: Politics is knowledge to foster virtues and the good life Rousseau: Politics is the pursuit of the common good Yglesias: Politics is paying consultants to win elections The value of a Harvard education.
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cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug
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finding a flow writing consistently
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I think these people know what the right thing is but are too childish to admit their elders are right. Anyone with a teen in the house should recognize this behavior.
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Evan Barnes
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If Wasserman has to do this, there will be more pressure on Giants co-owner Steve Tisch From what we know, Wasserman only sent flirty emails to Ghislaine Maxwell years before Epstein’s crimes became public. Tisch emailed Epstein directly about meeting women after his 2008 conviction.
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Paul makes a point that needs more attention. Bondi has seen the unredacted Epstein files. She knows who the ghouls are and what they have done. Yet she acted like it means nothing to her. Her name should be made synonymous with Epstein’s.
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Greg Sargent
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Yeah I mean the *2024 exit polls* found 56% support path to legal status for most undocumented versus only 40% deportations. Entire commentariat has pretended not to know this for the last year or so
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yes, dear God, yes.
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Trump is creating conditions in which being an American means being a Republican, and if you don’t like that, you deserve death.
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Brendan Nyhan
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Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
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Fortune
2 days ago
Despite President Donald Trump insisting it’s foreign businesses paying for his raft of tariffs, mounting data indicates that, actually, American households and businesses are footing the bill for his import taxes.
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New York Fed economists confirm that Americans are the ones footing the bill for 90% Trump’s tariffs | Fortune
The president has insisted other countries are paying for his import taxes. American companies and consumers are telling a different story.
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Fortune
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N. Craig Smith, chair in ethics and social responsibility at the business school INSEAD, argues the business world is following the example set by the Trump White House, which has brushed off numerous controversies that might have imperiled past administrations.
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The Epstein files reveal an alarming new normal for corporate America | Fortune
In business, bad judgment is not always a fireable offense.
https://fortune.com/2026/02/14/epstein-files-accountability-kathryn-ruemmler/
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Charles Gaba ✡️
1 day ago
Thanks for the shout-out this morning,
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Seth Cotlar
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
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I may say more later but part of what some of us need to understand is that the right has built an entirely distinct civic society, with its own hierarchy and (mostly networked) cultural institutions. That includes celebrity.
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Lauren Harper
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"You have to vote for us.”
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Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg
Army policy prohibits partisan displays, and most service members refrained from cheering.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/13/trump-rally-gop-fort-bragg/
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Last Friday, I said Trump is trying to crush a religious uprising against him. He's succeeding thanks to media complicity.
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Donald Trump is trying to crush a religious uprising against him
You might not know that thanks to the media.
https://www.editorialboard.com/donald-trump-is-trying-to-crush-a-religious-uprising-against-him/
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Jay Rosen
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Times columnist
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poses a familiar question, and arrives at a... let's say an unusual answer. Why, she asks, has trust in the news media cratered? Because aggressive, probing journalism isn't really that popular. People resent it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...
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Grudgie the Whale
1 day ago
This is an excellent piece that I agree with entirely. Most people in 2016, including Trump, thought evangelicals really were like pious conservatives. But Trump learned what some of us already knew, they’re total fucking phonies who use spirituality as a weapon & cover not as a moral compass.
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Mark Copelovitch
2 days ago
Either he's lying again about stolen elections & should be immediately removed, or he's detached from reality & should be immediately removed. I'm sure Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson will be all over this tomorrow & in the coming week.
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Alan Elrod
4 days ago
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis. It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
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From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mills-to-prop-bets-prediction-markets-and-mobile-sports-betting-apps-are-fueling-americas-next-addiction-crisis/
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RFK Jr. promised to restore trust in US health agencies. A year later, it’s eroding
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reshaping U.S. health policy as HHS secretary, and doctors say his changes are eroding trust.
https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-kennedy-cdc-covid-health-trust-7ef5f0e2c6f91ce6d908cb58f9e2fcb2?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-14-One+Must-Read
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Chuck4Democracy 🦋
1 day ago
Of course we can’t fund every independent news source. But if you haven’t picked one yet, consider this one. See for yourself.
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We have to push the press corps to say plainly that what they mean is that Democrats are not legitimate Americans. "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
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elias isquith
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i need to admit something. the more i think about how many of our problems are downstream of a very small number of ppl and organizations hoarding all the wealth and power, the less interested i am in discussions of american democracy that prefer to focus on anything else.
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Aaron Huertas
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American democracy can absolutely withstand a non-legally binding EO about voter ID. The president does not control state election requirements. Organizers, activists and operatives are prepared for Republicans to try to mess with election results as they have been for decades.
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Lauren Ashley Davis
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At least a half-dozen top officials in the current Trump administration have connections to Jeffrey Epstein, according to an NBC News review of some of the over 3 million documents the Justice Department has released.
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At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files
The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/least-half-dozen-top-trump-administration-officials-appear-jeffrey-eps-rcna258749
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