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OMG. Chotiner skins and filets Cass Sunstein, who doesn't even seem to notice. Who knew that "You may be the most hopeful man in America" could be so damning???

Let’s be clear: What Donald Trump said in public, in plain view, on his own social media feed is more corrupt and dangerous than anything Richard Nixon was caught on tape saying in the White House tapes. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rid-me-of-...

First post in "How to be American" is up! Please take a look at "Grieving for the idea of America" -- and pass it on to anyone who might need it. open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...

Justice delayed. But better now than never. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/m...

NEW: A judge just cleared Revolution Wind to resume construction, calling the Trump administration‘s halt of the nearly-completed offshore wind farm the “height of arbitrary and capricious.” connecticut.news12.com/revolution-w...

What could go wrong? Surely oracle will use this only for good. "The software giant Oracle will oversee the security of Americans’ data and monitor changes and updates to its powerful recommendation technology under a new deal to avert a TikTok ban." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

First post in "How to be American" is up! Please take a look at "Grieving for the idea of America" -- and pass it on to anyone who might need it. open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...

Face it, you need this!

Tomorrow I'm launching a newsletter about confronting the dissolution of American democracy. Know anyone still grappling with losing our childhood faith in truth, justice, and the American way? Sign them up or pass this along. howtobeamerican.substack.com

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Folks in Cambridge, MA: I'm hosting a 'meet the city council candidate' event this Thursday at 7 pm for Stan Rivkin, stanrivkin.com. if you're interested, DM me your email address, and I'll send an invite. Our just check out his website yourself.

I’d never seen this one.

Isle by Burhan Dogancay, 1974 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137689

George Carlin's daughter says it plainly just like her dad would!

RFK Jr, who is causing unprecedented damage, is deeply unpopular with the public. Democrats absolutely need to demand his firing as a basic minimum for supporting any effort to fund the government.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

Melissa Hortman. Say her name.

So not everything is terrible. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/b...

Commentary: Ohio’s violent crime rate has hovered between three and four times that of Washington D.C. over the past four years. So Gov. Mike DeWine's idea that resources should be sent from Ohio to D.C. to quell violent crime is strange. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/16/f...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Trump’s chilling effect on Big Law firms taking on pro bono work has “been a nightmare,” said the president of a small nonprofit that investigates civil rights violations. “People don’t want to stand up, and because of that, people are suffering.” By @mtredden.bsky.social

Live look of Ezra Klein engaging with a right-wing radical thinking he's encouraging unity and compromise:

To wit:

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"Kirk was not just putting on a show. He was a dedicated proponent of ... an authoritarian politics that backed the repression of opponents and made light of violence against them." @jamellebouie.net again says it precisely and with receipts. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Hello, Sen. McCarthy, welcome back to US politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

The Nevers. SO GOOD

This is a powerful and important form of resistance. Go DC!!

The State Dept is warning “immigrants” not to mock Kirk’s death. Puzzling: if the murder is causing the government to warn a group, shouldn’t it be 22-year-old white men from conservative families?

On Monday I'm launching a newsletter called "Write Up," to help YOU, #polisky, put your ideas out into public discussion. I'll lay out lessons, tips, and tricks on how to expand your reach. Please sign up! open.substack.com/pub/ejgraff/...

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

I have to confess I never considered that presidents could literally demolish parts of the White House just because they felt like it.

Tim Snyder's piece today usefully distinguishes what he calls “me speech” from “free speech." He says the first is practiced by rich and influential Americans who: "use the phrase “free speech” quite a bit. But what they mean is free speech for themselves." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights

NEW: Massachusetts has one of the strictest deadlines in the country for prosecuting rape. After the 15-year mark, no DNA match, testimony or even confession can give a rape victim a chance of facing their attacker in court. With @wbur.org

I offered a few thoughts about the Charlie Kirk assassination, the continued background hum of political violence in America, and what's different today: the neverending effort to define political enemies through violent acts attributed to all of them. prospect.org/politics/202...

In Germany's Weimar Republic in 1922, of 376 assassinations, all but 22 were by right-wing extremists. Left-wing killers were sentenced, on average, to 15 years; right-wing killers' sentences averaged 4 months. This was BEFORE Nazi goons got really busy... See: "Vertigo" by Harald Jahner, p 41.

This shooting is nothing short of horrific. I'm praying for Charlie Kirk and thinking of the students at the event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country — it's never ok.

Pour one out for all the employees Elon is taking this out on today #teslatakedown edition.cnn.com/2025/09/10/i...

This Day in Labor History: September 9, 1739. The largest slave rebellion in the American colonies before the American Revolution took place in South Carolina. Let's talk the Stono Rebellion and the fight for worker freedom in a slave society!

For another president, this would be a national emergency. For this one, it's a feature, not a bug. Illiterate = fact-free. That's good for authoritarians. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Get out and vote TODAY, Boston! 🗳️ Check where you vote at wheredoivotema.com and find more voting info at michelleforboston.com/vote.

What is it with these meganarcissist b*st*rds that they think the world needs more of them?? "Epstein also discussed using the desert compound as a venue for inseminating women in order to seed the human race with his DNA." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...