Bondi Fired

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It basically doesn't matter which fascist scumbag is Attorney General under Trump, so I get no particularly joy from this news or even find it interesting. The only part I.

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Social Media as Political Cancer

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It's hard for me to get past the fact that the internet is the worst invention in human history and that social media is the particularly cancerous part of it. The evidence suggests it too: Americans who spend at least five hours a day on social...

LOL whatever

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Good comment from rm about what a lot of people are saying was the greatest wartime (or peacetime) speech any president has ever given: Here's that sense of unreality again..

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A Major Address?

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Used to be that you had to win a war in order to declare victory... President Donald Trump will use a primetime address Wednesday night to declare that the month-long war in Iran is winding down, against a backdrop of spiking oil prices and increasingly dismal poll numbers. The...
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The Taney Revivalists

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Pema Levy and Isabela Dias have a great piece on the not-even-pseudo-scholarship being generated to create a "controversy" about the plain meaning of the citizenship clause on the 14th Amendment: On February 15, 2025, two law professors dropped a legal bombshell. Just three weeks before, President Donald...

March Reading List

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Here’s my reading list for March. This is last month’s list and you can follow it back from there. Professional: Kathleen DuVal, Native Nations: A Millenium in North America (Random House, 2024)..

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