I found this extensive review in ⁦The New Republic⁩ of America Last by ⁦edburmila.bsky.social⁩ absolutely fascinating ⁦Christian Caryl⁩ ⁦Melinda Haring⁩ ⁦Edward Luce⁩ newrepublic.com/article/180137…

From praise for Hitler and Mussolini to friendships with Putin and Orbán, open adoration for authoritarians is a defining feature of the American right, writes edburmila.bsky.social.
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It was my first day at the New York Times; they passed me the Jenkem, which I was only too happy to drink. It would help take my mind off the Rainbow Parties.

The basic premise of “Where Have All the Democrats Gone?” is wrong. Democrats haven’t all gone anywhere; the party has done better than expected in three straight congressional elections, writes edburmila.bsky.social. trib.al/paQW0GV

If I had to guess I'd wager that their shared cognitive decline is affecting the two candidates differently because one is running as a chaos demon promising to wreak havoc in Washington and the other is running on a platform of stability and competence

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“all i’m asking for is to be covered in the lrb and given a tenure-track job in addition to making a lot of money writing my series Besties Squad” i mean sure you’re free to ask

My profile of Norman Finkelstein for The Drift

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My book, TAKING AMERICA BACK: THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE FAR RIGHT, is now available for pre-order.

Pub. date is April 16! amazon.com/Taking-America…

lol...'Democracy Defense Action', formerly MeidasTouch, raised $145.7K in the 2nd half of the year and spent $246.7K, paying Adam Parkhomenko's Prestige WW $162,000 for list acquisition and communications consulting/shitposting.

Lifelong Democrat Paul Vallas

Two things are true: our institutions are not going to protect us or save us from Trump, but fear of provoking the far right cannot be the guiding principle for our institutions. patreon.com/posts/95481748

It is my duty to inform you: Kyler fuckin Murray

On NYT extensively documenting and discussing Kamala Harris's problem (people have no idea what she stands for) while strenuously avoiding the the most logical conclusion: people who stand for nothing will neber be able to communicate what they stand for.
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Compared to eight years of Bush and the GOP stoking fears about Mexicans, Muslims, gays, & whoever was convenient, the impact of pathetic little Russian troll farms aren't even a drop in the bucket. If you think they're how we got Trump, you need to fucking log off.

New Mass for Shut-ins bonus: This is the Serious part (the Silly will follow) where QK talks about locking down during the recent campus shooting. We reflect on the larger problem of processing something everyone knows will keep happening.

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It's kind of funny in a sad way that when it seems that quantitative compensation trends are inadequate to explain workers' disgruntlement people default to 'poor people are stupid' instead of even broaching the question of the qualitative aspects of work

'The Democratic Party is a transactional partner to labor. It will only help us to the extent that we are strong enough to push it to do so. Joe Biden does not pass out union cards. The NLRB does not organize workers. Only the labor movement can do that.'

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