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Published: June 14, 2025 16:03

Obama and Biden are not responsible for the actions of the GOP or outbursts of right-wing violence. They are, however, fully implicated in the failure to understand what the American right was becoming and accepting the consequences for addressing it…

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Published: June 14, 2025 15:50

Being a historian doesn’t give me the mantle of authority to say definitively what’s happening here or how anyone should respond, but I feel qualified to say this: If you were writing an account of how the United States devolved into violence and…

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Published: June 14, 2025 15:29

This is bad, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

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Published: June 10, 2025 17:35

Because if you don’t understand what your enemies want and believe, you can’t fight them. You’ll make bad reads of their intentions and come up with the wrong solutions to problems that don’t matter. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 10, 2025 16:16

I'm reading @drjoannepaul.bsky.social's new book on Thomas More and I was really struck by this line: "Those who are willing to destroy anyone who stands in opposition to their will...rule today as they did 500 years ago...The unconstrained power of petty,…

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Published: June 10, 2025 15:42

I headed over to Twitter to check on the vibes and it's impossible to overstate how radicalized a wide segment of its userbase has become for straight-up fascism and ethnic cleansing. Miller and Vance are both shaping and being shaped by these sentiments.…

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Published: June 9, 2025 18:17

It's essential to understand the deeper historical, cultural, and economic roots of political alignment, what and why these people believe what they do. But at the end of the day a lot of the MAGA stuff is just shitty people having free rein to indulge the…

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Published: June 9, 2025 18:09

He's been bottom-feeding scum for 15 years. The number of people he's screwed over, exploited, and actively harmed is enormous. Everybody working in sports media during that time has known this - if they've worked with him, they're aware on some level that…

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Published: June 9, 2025 13:40

This is in no way a defense of Rohm - he was a really, really bad guy - but Rohm was a decorated veteran of the First World War and one of the few people to ever tell Hitler to kick rocks. Homan, like Himmler, is fundamentally a cruel, weak man cosplaying…

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Published: June 9, 2025 13:23

They’ve found their Himmler [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 9, 2025 00:34

Other people have said this much more eloquently than me, but your average active-duty US servicemember is a reasonably ambitious young adult who couldn't afford to go to college, not a hardened SpecOps psycho who's been itching for an excuse to gun down…

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Published: June 8, 2025 23:58

It's worthwhile to pause for a moment and think about what a military operation to establish control over a major American city - let's say Los Angeles - would actually look like. The city of LA, which excludes most of the metro area, has nearly 4 million…