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Published: June 21, 2025 01:43

Moral authority and the power of shame are legitimate weapons, and using them - in addition to courts, legislatures, and mass protests - is absolutely essential to winning this fight. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 20, 2025 17:02

It's really easy to be negative about social media - the platforms deserve every bit of criticism they get - but I've met so many truly lovely, wonderful, interesting, mind-expanding people through Twitter, Instagram, and now Bluesky.

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Published: June 20, 2025 16:45

I'll say this: Growing up in the rural Pacific Northwest and listening to things people have been saying there over the past 20 years makes what's happening today a lot less surprising. Timothy McVeigh was an inspiration to white supremacists I met on…

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Published: June 20, 2025 16:37

I'm sure the Times' Editorial Board means well with this, but it's pretty indicative of their lack of perspective on the present moment: "The Nation Encourages Political Violence by Allowing It to Seem Normal."…

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Published: June 20, 2025 16:17

Eventually, someone - an ICE agent, a person about to be snatched and disappeared, a protestor, a local cop - is going to do something that can’t be taken back. It’s a fucking miracle that didn’t happen in 2020, and we’re running out of luck.

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Published: June 20, 2025 02:22

Most accurate to describe these crews as an amorphous paramilitary group with ties to various federal agencies, tasked with suppressing dissent and causing fear in areas that don’t support the current President [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: June 19, 2025 16:39

I've never wanted to use an AI image generator as badly as I do today, on Juneteenth, to make a picture of Ulysses S. Grant pointing to a scoreboard

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Published: June 18, 2025 19:39

I wrote in the teen section of my local newspaper, my first writing gig, a pretty innocuous critique of the rush to war in Iraq and had a guy come to my job in the produce department at the grocery store to yell at me about WMDs. There were also letters to…

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Published: June 18, 2025 17:07

You do not ever have to hand it to Tucker Carlson, but the questions he’s asking are precisely the kinds of questions that should be asked of people trying to drag us into a massive military endeavor [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 17, 2025 17:26

I tried for years to get my dad to sit down for an interview with me, because he read at least ten popular history books every year (for 40 years) and knew the genre like the back of his hand. He had zero interest in having people hear him talk. It was…

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Published: June 17, 2025 16:53

I gave a eulogy at my dad's funeral a few days ago. He was a tremendously decent man, a lifelong educator who spent the last 20 years of his career working as a special-education director. He wasn't a hero, but thinking about his life made me realize how…

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Published: June 17, 2025 16:31

This is bravery and decency. This is what people upset about this administration want. If you really believe this stuff is wrong, and you have a public profile and principles and want to say you're a leader, then get out there and do the damn thing. …

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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…