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Author, teacher, father of seven, really swell guy. Boston University faculty. williammckeen.com
Why Does Trump Get Away With It?
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Opinion | Why Does Trump Get Away With It?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/opinion/trump-pardons-republican-party.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Over a Cheever
Thoughts on Short Stories and a Visit to a Writer's Grave
https://open.substack.com/pub/wmckeen/p/over-a-cheever?r=7kljl&utm_medium=ios
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Elizabeth Warren
2 months ago
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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Ray E. Boomhower
2 months ago
“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.” William Zinsser
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Are We Losing Our Democracy?
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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/31/opinion/trump-autocracy-democracy-report.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
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How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/history-lessons-ethnic-studies-retreat.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
2 months ago
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Great column
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Opinion | Burnin’ Down the House
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/opinion/trump-white-house-east-wing-demolition.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
2 months ago
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What JD Vance, Kash Patel and a Throw Pillow Have in Common
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Opinion | What JD Vance, Kash Patel and a Throw Pillow Have in Common
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/opinion/trump-vance-patel-bondi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
3 months ago
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Bill Kristol
3 months ago
Trump hates America.
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Fraidy-Cat at the Pentagon
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Opinion | Fraidy-Cat at the Pentagon
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/opinion/pentagon-journalists-news-hegseth.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Trump: What's the Deal? (Full 1991 BANNED Documentary)
The film was commissioned in 1988 by Leonard Stern. Donald threatened to sue any broadcaster or distributor that took on the film. It was screen only twice & subsequently suppressed.
https://theofficialurban.substack.com/p/whats-the-deal?r=7kljl&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=audio-player
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Amy King (@poemz)
Dr. Jane Goodall recorded this interview in March 2025, with the understanding that it would be released only after her death. #drjanegoodall
https://substack.com/@poemz/note/c-163573963?r=7kljl&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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Christopher Webb
3 months ago
We went from taking out terrorists to terrorizing hotel staff. What a downgrade. Are we great yet?
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Something Is Stirring in Christian America, and It’s Making Me Nervous
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Opinion | Something Is Stirring in Christian America, and It’s Making Me Nervous
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/opinion/christianity-charlie-kirk-revolution-revival.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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great column
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...
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Opinion | The Appalling Campaign to Erase Jan. 6 Never Ends
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/opinion/january-6-trump-erase.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Assholes: A Theory of Donald Trump - The Philosophers' Magazine
Matthew Meyer on a book that charts the rise of the American asshole.
https://philosophersmag.com/assholes-a-theory-of-donald-trump-a-review/
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Video: Opinion | Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Meta’s A.I. Chatbot Is Dangerous for Kids
Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta’s universe. But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrai...
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010421228/joseph-gordon-levitt-metas-ai-chatbot-is-dangerous-for-kids.html?smid=url-share
3 months ago
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
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Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ta-nehisi-coates.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Good piece
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What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/magazine/charlie-kirk-rhetoric.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Gen. JC Christian
3 months ago
Identify him
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Bill Kristol
3 months ago
“Carr should be mocked mercilessly, the same way all bad actors/apparatchiks should be resisted who are trying to inflict their repressive ways on others by force. Mocking such people isn’t just our Constitutional right, but our moral duty.”
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Brendan Carr, Un-American Weasel
When Americans fail America
https://open.substack.com/pub/mattlabash/p/brendan-carr-un-american-weasel?r=1emko
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅
4 months ago
OMG, have you guys seen this? 🤣😂🔥🔥🔥
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He is obviously insane
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‘Your Countries Are Going to Hell’: Trump Airs His Grievances at the U.N.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us/politics/trump-un-aid-israel-gaza.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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From The New Yorker
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#TuckFrump
4 months ago
'I am going on facts!' Crockett tears into MAGA colleagues for rhetoric after Kirk murder
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'I am going on facts!' Crockett tears into MAGA colleagues for rhetoric after Kirk murder
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Bill Canacci
4 months ago
#REMTop30
#MusicChallenge
Man on the Moon A Top 10 hit in Canada, Iceland, Netherlands and New Zealand, this tribute to Andy Kaufman made it to No. 30 in America (and No. 2 on the Alternative Airplay chart).
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R.E.M. - Man On The Moon (Official HD Music Video)
YouTube video by remhq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLxpNiF0YKs&list=RDdLxpNiF0YKs&start_radio=1
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Linda💙🌊🆘🐕🐿️🕊️🇺🇦
4 months ago
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
Many media types and Dems continue to operate as if Trump is a politically invincible figure, or "Teflon Don." But in truth he's become a weak, failing, diminished, unpopular, naked-emperor figure, and it's time to treat him as such.
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Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So
It’s possible for Trump to be an inept buffoon—but still extremely dangerous. And it shouldn’t be so hard to make that case.
https://newrepublic.com/article/200096/trump-polls-approval-rating-weak-failing-president
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Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/opinion/trump-senate-democrats-shutdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Spoiler alert!
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“Defense is too defensive,” he added. “And we want to be defensive, but we want to be offensive too if we have to be.”
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Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/politics/trump-department-of-war-defense.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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A New Yorker classic
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Is he ever going to shut up? How long can this go on?
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Trump’s Slavish Stupidity
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Opinion | Trump’s Slavish Stupidity
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/opinion/trump-heaven.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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One Sentence in the Constitution Is Causing America Huge Problems
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Opinion | One Sentence in the Constitution Is Causing America Huge Problems
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-constitution-unitary-executive.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo
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In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/trump-diversity-black-americans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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One of “The Boys on the Bus”
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Jules Witcover, Political Reporter and Columnist, Dies at 98
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/business/media/jules-witcover-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Drew Harwell
5 months ago
Kristi Noem, who wore a $50,000 Rolex for photos at El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, is living in a waterfront home on the government dime
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Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant’s home
A DHS spokesman said Noem must live on the military base because she had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.”
https://wapo.st/4mike5W
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Mother Jones
5 months ago
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
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The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/trump-administration-propaganda/
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From Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The Police Force I Bled For Is Now Trump’s Political Weapon
I can’t believe I’m writing this right now.
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelfanone/p/the-police-force-i-bled-for-is-now?r=7kljl
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Opinion | Trump is letting Putin manipulate him, again
The president’s desperation to end the Ukraine war might lead to another Munich moment with Russia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/09/trump-putin-summit-ukraine-munich/
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HT Barry Blitt
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Now he has tarted up the Oval; it’s the modern version of worshiping the golden calf and just as profane.
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Opinion | President Midas’ Terrible Touch
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/opinion/trump-design-rococo-gold.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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The Smithsonian Changes Its Description of Trump’s Role on Jan. 6
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The Smithsonian Changes Its Description of Trump’s Role on Jan. 6
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/arts/design/smithsonian-trump-impeachment-jan-6.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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I Helped Bury Stories About Trump. I Regret It.
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Opinion | I Helped Bury Stories About Trump. I Regret It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/opinion/national-enquirer-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem
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Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem
Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/14/opinion/fix-congress-proportional-representation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Barbara Sobel (@barbaraj.sobel) on Threads
Kristi Noem get wrecked. South Park does it again
https://www.threads.com/@barbaraj.sobel/post/DNCiL5ONaJE?xmt=AQF09zki6hNpgR_6-ObexMS_ryjGHsDjVdkTW0Ox375Nkw
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America Will Suffer From Trump’s Assault on Facts
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Opinion | America Will Suffer From Trump’s Assault on Facts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/opinion/trump-bls-head-fired-truth.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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