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NYT doing some hardhitting journalism again

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Oh my god

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It’s very true that this moment is frighteningly volatile, but it’s not unprecedented in American politics. The 1960s-70s were incredibly turbulent and marked by horrific acts of politics violence. Other decades have been so. Not saying anything novel, just stressing the point.

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Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

Use up the rest of the fireworks, folks, we're done

Yup, this checks out

If you weren't yet worrying about the folks left at the Washington Post, now would be an excellent time to start

"(CNN)The sheer panic Democrats felt in 2012 after Mitt Romney demolished Barack Obama at their first presidential debate in Denver can't be overstated." www.cnn.com/2016/09/25/p...

When Romney trounced Obama | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Barack Obama’s lackluster first debate in 2012 against Mitt Romney nearly cost him the race

2012

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i wrote about how fascist billionaires and their minions are destroying media and how we need to keep making their lives miserable to stop the rot

The Washington Post is in fascist-guided free fallwww.thehandbasket.co Former Murdoch employees have taken over. Now corruption and scandal abound.

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it rules that a jury of rando New Yorkers is braver than several federal judges and basically every single senator

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@emilylhauser.bsky.social You can break this one out again.

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please remember, when you dm someone you are dming with everyone they’ve dmed with

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here's something ive been working on for over a month: the story of a jewish women's sex strike, the reasons behind it, and why no woman should be chained:

‘Mitzvah Night Is CANCELLED’www.thecut.com Inside the sex strike that has infuriated husbands and shaken the ultra-Orthodox world.

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i promise i’ll stop posting it but just wanted to share my latest piece one last time because i think it’s one of the better things i’ve written

The real rioters? Cops and college presidents.www.thehandbasket.co The kids are alright. The adults are not.

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i consider katherine maher a friend and an important presence in our democratic debates. so i've followed the right's attempt to take her down with disgust. judd legum does a nice job here showing how bari weiss & her fellow free speech phonies are part of the effort.

The real cancel culturepopular.info In 2020, Bari Weiss quit her job as an editor and writer at the New York Times editorial page in a huff. In her public resignation letter, Weiss argued that she was forced out because the paper had be...

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Prof Marianne Hirsch lays it out

How a university administration relinquishes its educational missionwww.columbiaspectator.com I am writing this in my 50th year of teaching at the university level. Like my colleagues, I have balanced instruction and scholarship; mentoring students and younger peers; chairing programs, centers...

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Only Democracy in the Middle East update

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I sat down and tried to sum up the last week or so of campus protests. This is what I got.

The real rioters? Cops and college presidents.www.thehandbasket.co The kids are alright. The adults are not.

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remember the lmao

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just got an email from my alma mater saying it had been compelled to deploy police to defend the Community from violent outside agitators who had begun to protest on the quad; the first video in my feed is cops in full gear arresting the chair of the philosophy department

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🧵ok brace for what may be a longish thread! @lifewinning.com really has hit the bottom-line point. It's bananas. And/but, let me explain a little of how we got here, because that also matters right now: American Jews have not been able to agree on what "being Jewish" means for decades. 1/

imagine being a nation state terrified of college students in another country

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Today in @thenation.com we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

“The Bulldozer Kept Coming”: A Girl Stares Down Death in Gazawww.thenation.com The extraordinary story of a 14-year-old, her mother, and what happened when the Israeli military came to destroy their house.

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We all stand against book bans in theory, but 4 librarians in Prattville, Alabama lost their jobs standing against them. Please join me in donating to the GoFundMe that will help them make ends meet in this tough time. Show me a receipt, I'll give you a compliment www.gofundme.com/f/protect-pr...

Protect Prattville Library Staff and Patrons, organized by EveryLibrary Institute NFPwww.gofundme.com The Autauga-Prattville Alabama Library board has fired the lib… EveryLibrary Institute NFP needs your support for Protect Prattville Library Staff and Patrons

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When this tragedy happened, I was so moved and saddened that I thought of trying to write about it myself. I'm glad somebody far better than I went ahead and did it. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

They needed a study to figure that out, huh?

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This charming lion of the law, flagged by @mjsdc.bsky.social on the Other Site, relates the article about depressed Con law professors I commented on yesterday.

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🧵 This is hugely important work from Haaretz, Israel's paper of record. "Residents, military officials and journalists describe scenes of vast devastation. 'It's like after an atomic bomb,' one of them reported in Haaretz after visiting northern Gaza."

Gazans fled their homes. They have nowhere to return towww.haaretz.com ***

Lord save me from my friends' diets

That's cutting-edge science, right there