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Associate Professor of Writing, USC. // Co-host
@thelongtakereview.bsky.social
film podcast.
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Kat Abughazaleh
11 days ago
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 2 months ago
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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Ryan Boyd
3 months ago
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
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Andrea Pitzer
6 months ago
For a decade, Trump has wanted to be a dictator. The only changes during that time are 1) the realization by Republicans across the board that they might be able to use his cult of personality as a *permanent* power grab, and 2) the speed of our institutional degradation and collapse.
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Tim Onion
6 months ago
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
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Sharon
6 months ago
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Senator Alex Padilla
7 months ago
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
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Stan Oklobdzija
8 months ago
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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Matt Pearce
10 months ago
We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.
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Joyce White Vance
10 months ago
If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
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Adam Serwer
10 months ago
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
11 months ago
This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
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Musa Okwonga
11 months ago
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
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Marc Elias
11 months ago
Here it is in a nutshell: 1. Trump is an authoritarian. 2. With the GOP controlling Congress, courts are key to protecting democracy. 3. So far, courts are doing a good job on #2. 4. GOP will next attack election rules like they did in 2021. Don't let the cynics convince you not to fight. FIGHT!
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jamelle
11 months ago
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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George Takei
12 months ago
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.
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Emily K
12 months ago
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
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One episode away from finishing the first season for the first time, and these are my thoughts, word for word.
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Kelsey Atherton
12 months ago
GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse ME IN 2025: ah, okay
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Emily St. James
about 1 year ago
It's fun to be living in a moment when it seems like we are about to enter an era of terrifying authoritarianism OR an era of authoritarian overreach that immediately crumbles and gives way to something better, and these two things might happen simultaneously, and we won't know for sure for A BIT.
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Kate Starbird
about 1 year ago
Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.
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Sarah Longwell
about 1 year ago
At the time, everyone, including Republicans, understood how bad it was. Then, brick by brick, they built a foundation of lies to justify doing what they know, deep down, to be wrong. Trump betrayed the country. And so do they.
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Charlie Warzel
about 1 year ago
A big one today with
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social
. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine.
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The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine
A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/01/january-6-justification-machine/681215/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0a4qV9a0Rv2_NNVQ656zT6A&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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jamelle
about 1 year ago
my armchair psychological diagnosis is that the drive to accumulate as much wealth as possible eats away at the drive for self-improvement or the internal desire to cultivate any skills or tastes. these people build huge mounds of treasure and then essentially just sit around looking at it, empty.
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Jamison Foser
about 1 year ago
LA TIMES: Greetings, President Trump! Our billionaire owner is personally approving every headline in order to ensure we never treat you unkindly. WASHINGTON POST: Here is one million dollars for your inauguration, sir. ABC NEWS: We got you a Christmas present. It's fifteen million bucks.
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Taniel
about 1 year ago
warning signs that the North Carolina supreme court may end up overturning the results of a major election:
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jamelle
about 1 year ago
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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Dr. Tara L. Conley
about 1 year ago
I was listening to an interview with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson a few days ago who said we need more stories in Hollywood depicting a solutions oriented future beyond dystopia. My first thought: Star Trek’s been there this entire time. Gene Roddenberry+ have given us a lot on which to build.
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Ryan Boyd
about 1 year ago
It is all going to get so, so much stupider
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The fact that, a week and a half after the country resoundingly elected Trump, everyone is focused on a boxing match between a 60 year old and a YouTube dipshit is huge “I’d buy that for a dollar!” dystopia energy.
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Fucking Bitch Hat
about 1 year ago
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And Yet It Moves
Thoughts The Day After
https://www.popehat.com/p/and-yet-it-moves
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Chris Hayes
about 1 year ago
Feeling my sanity slipping away as more and more (genuinely awful) stories about what Trump said or did accrues. Because: HE PLOTTED AND ATTEMPTED TO EXECUTE A VIOLENT COUP ON LIVE TV! HE ATTMEPTED TO END THE REPUBLIC! HE'S THE BIGGEST TRAITOR TO THE CONSITUTIONAL ORDER SINCE THE CONFEDERACY!
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Ryan Boyd
over 1 year ago
Every writer still on Twitter thinks they're Christopher Hitchens in a war zone instead of just someone with credulous brand loyalty (to a Nazi particle machine)
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Roxane Gay
over 1 year ago
I hope this reminds people of what I have said all along. Trump is beyond beatable whether it’s Joe, Kamala, or someone else. Fucking act like it.
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Seth Cotlar
over 1 year ago
This guy with full immunity for “official acts,” plus the unlimited ability to pardon any official who would implement such orders = “limited government” Republican style.
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Captain Awkward
over 1 year ago
From reading the article, there’s a ton of “yay for police!” to get through before the information that the city deployed social workers who referred troubled kids and their families to Social Services instead of putting them in the system.
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Ryan Boyd
over 1 year ago
One of the meanest, dumbest assholes on the planet got clocked on 34 charges, let yourself enjoy it a little
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
over 1 year ago
Probably a good time to repost eco’s 14 points on ur fascism. Instead of alt text I’m going to add them as a thread.
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Adam Serwer
over 1 year ago
Here’s what the national guard bullshit is really about.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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ryan cooper
almost 2 years ago
real marked difference between a country with a recent experience of dictatorship and one blithely convinced It Can't Happen Here, We're Too Special and Good
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A.R. Moxon
almost 2 years ago
Vladimir: Well, shall we log off? Estragon: Yes, let's log off. [They do not log off.]
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David M. Perry
almost 2 years ago
The answer to every story about elite college admissions is to make sure every American has access to a low price high quality public education within a reasonable drive of their hometown. The wild thing is we mostly achieved this. Then destroyed it.
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đź—˝LOLGOPđź—˝
about 2 years ago
One thing the framers of the 14 amendment understood insurrectionists have constituencies and insurrections shouldn't be allowed to continue via ballots.
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 2 years ago
If you see a graph of any trend in modern America with a sharp infection point, odds are good that’s the point labeled 1980
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Connor Lynch
about 2 years ago
Plans to use the military to put down civil protests on day one. It will get bad very fast!
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ryan cooper
about 2 years ago
aside from the most obvious stuff, centrist dipshits are really sleeping on the possibility that the House will not certify a Biden victory if any Republican is speaker
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Unsurprising that Bouie has a good take about media consumption in general. Lore fixation is a curse on genre/franchise storytelling. But...weird to me that he (and many others!) are applying this to Ahsoka, a show that, to me, had clear character arcs and central conflicts driving the story. (1/)
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