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Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
"The main benefit from these deals (assuming they happen and last for a while), is that the United States will stop hitting itself in the face."
How We Lost the Trade War https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-we-lost-the-trade-war
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
@StefanThinks@beige.party innocent bystander?
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
@pseudonym@mastodon.online apparently I'm not the only one who dreams about weird toilets!
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
Got this used Barry White album, and the first song begins with this *endless* spoken part. So I drop the needle about an inch in. And I noticed it was extra scratchy right there, which means whoever had this album before me *also* always skipped the monologue!
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
When someone posts something and someone replies with a Snopes post denying it, some original posters will be, How dare you disbelieve my lived experience. But when someone you've never met who may or may not be the person in their profile picture, and may or may not live where they say they live and be who they say they are, makes a claim it would be insane to unquestioningly believe them. Snopes isn't perfect, but if you rage against Snopes I suspect you of being an asshole or a troll.
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
'Trump’s cuts to scientific research aren’t about shrinking government and saving money. They’re about dealing with possibly inconvenient evidence by covering the nation’s ears and shouting “La, la, la, we can’t hear you.”'
For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/for-maga-ignorance-is-strength
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
Twitter Is Dead, X Is Elon’s Personal Propaganda Platform, Where Grok Checks His Feed Before Answering
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
"Democrats have been down this road before. It leads nowhere good. You can't build a political coalition by constantly throwing people out of it. You can't inspire voters by standing for nothing. You can't protect some children by agreeing that others are disposable."
The Smallest Room in the House
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
Thanks, Supreme Court! It's now my right to prevent my kid from learning about Trump. | Opinion
Attempts to teach my children anything about Donald Trump place an unconstitutional burden on my First Amendment right to freely exercise my religion.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/29/trump-supreme-court-ruling-books-maryland-parents/84380649007/
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
The right-wing outrage machine gears up, and a cartoonist gets death threats
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-right-wing-outrage-machine-strikes
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
I Don't Disapprove of Trump's Strategy, Because He Doesn't Have One
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/i-dont-disapprove-of-trumps-strategy
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
Trump Administration Sends In The Marines… To Do Paperwork?
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/11/trump-administration-sends-in-the-marines-to-do-paperwork/
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
"The crazy thing about the Streisand Effect is that it’s so predictable, yet people keep falling for it."
Litigious Company Demands Removal Of A Tweet Linking To An Article About How Litigious They Are
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
'Once a movement committed to non-violence has been designated as terrorists, then a Rubicon has been crossed. “Terrorism” has been emptied of any real meaning, and can be applied far more widely.'
This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/09/palestine-action-britain-support-protest-law
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"Ice will be bigger than the military of many countries. When it runs out of brown and Black people to deport, Ice – perhaps under another name – will be left with the authority and capability to surveil, seize and disappear anyone the administration considers undesirable. It is hard to imagine any president dismantling it."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/09/ice-immigration-police-trump-budget-bill
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"Yet what, exactly, constitutes a “conservative idea?” That dictatorship is preferable to democracy? That white Christian nationalism is better than tolerance and openness? That social Darwinism is superior to human decency?"
The Trump administration pushed out a university president – its latest bid to close the American mind
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
"while Mamdani ultimately would have won a plurality contest or a ranked-choice one, his super-long-shot candidacy might have been squelched at the very beginning under the old system"
The other winner in New York’s mayoral contest: ranked-choice voting
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/06/new-york-ranked-choice-voting
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
Fascinating!
The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
'with every immigrant parent torn from their children’s arms, every family that loses their health coverage, every young person who decides to forego college, every rural health clinic that shuts down, every research grant that gets revoked, every solar energy project that gets dismantled, they can sit back, smile, and say, “This is why we came to Washington. No matter what happens tomorrow, it was worth it.”'
Why They Did It
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This Fourth of July, the world declares its independence from America
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2025/jul/04/independence-day-america-decline
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.
Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.