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Astroturf can wilt

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It's nice to be a benefactor on the wingnut welfare circuit, but its funders and its audiences alike can be very fickle mistresses: The conservative media company Daily Wire was once a star of the MAGA digital universe, dominating social media feeds and podcast apps with...

Week 68

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The rhododendrons are blooming! They are pulling out all the stops. John Taney Roberts and his racist colleagues opened the way for the South to rise again, and the white.

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Russia-Ukraine Roundup

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Haven't done one of these in a while... The toll: About 352,000 Russian soldiers had died in the war against Ukraine through the end of 2025, according to a new estimate, underscoring the high cost that President Vladimir V. Putin is willing to bear to pursue...
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Bad for Business

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It is at this point banal to note that Mark Burnett making a mass audience believe that Donald Trump was a business genius is a critical factor in explaining his political raise -- a nontrivial number of his marginal voters think that he will personally make...

It’s just a shot away

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I don't know what to do about this either: https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3mldyh4jbqk2x Speaking of the prisoner's dilemma, if one party does nothing but defect then the other party has no rational alternative.

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