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Is GoFundMe the New Insurance? âAs the internet says, âThis is not...
Is GoFundMe the New Insurance? âAs the internet says, âThis is not a heartwarming story.ââ (Dynamic I was unaware of but that makes sense: higher income GFM beneficiaries receive more...
Total Context Collapse: New Polls Show That 100% Of Americans Have Forgotten...
Total Context Collapse: New Polls Show That 100% Of Americans Have Forgotten Why We Built A Society In The First Place And Why We Need To Keep Doing It. âWell...
On Saturday, Steph Curry dunked in a regular-season NBA game for the...
On Saturday, Steph Curry dunked in a regular-season NBA game for the first time in 6 years (heâs only done it 27 times in his entire career). âThat will probably...
A good, long profile of author Robert Caro, in which he reveals...
A good, long profile of author Robert Caro, in which he reveals that heâs written 951 pages of the fifth (and final) installment of his series of books on LBJ...
Rick Steves announces that he is cancer-free. âPSA 55 to PSA 0.09...
Rick Steves announces that he is cancer-free. âPSA 55 to PSA 0.09 to PSA <0.03âŚYes! If you know prostate cancer, you know the happy story of those numbers.â đŹ Join...
âNo constitutional text is well written enough to save the rule of...
âNo constitutional text is well written enough to save the rule of law when the American people elect a president who doesnât believe in the Constitution, especially when he is...
Menswear writer Derek Guy on Zelenskyyâs lack of suit in the WH:...
Menswear writer Derek Guy on Zelenskyyâs lack of suit in the WH: âI dislike the idea of respectability in dressâŚbecause it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing...
America Alone
From Angry Staffer on Bluesky on the Trump/Vance/Zelenskyy meeting: The public nature of the meltdown amplifies the embarrassment. Unlike past Oval Office tensions â like Nixonâs private rants or Clintonâs...
Putin Is Ready to Carve Up the World. Trump Just Handed Him...
Putin Is Ready to Carve Up the World. Trump Just Handed Him the Knife. âWhat happens if Russia unleashes its aggression against Europe, unchecked or even aided by the United...
Good grief, the last two paragraphs of Heather Cox Richardsonâs piece on...
Good grief, the last two paragraphs of Heather Cox Richardsonâs piece on Trumpâs not-so-new alliance w/ Russia. Kremlin spokesperson: âThe new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This...
âThe Conscience of the Nation Must be Rousedâ
In the NY Times crossword for Sunday, March 2, the clue for 47-down reads, ââAt a time like this, scorching ___, not convincing argument, is neededâ: Frederick Douglassâ. The answer...
Russian activist Garry Kasparov on The Putinization of America. âUnleashing Elon Musk...
Russian activist Garry Kasparov on The Putinization of America. âUnleashing Elon Musk and his DOGE cadres on the federal government, menacing Canada and European allies, and embracing Vladimir Putinâs wish...
How the US press would cover the 2025 Coup if it were...
How the US press would cover the 2025 Coup if it were happening in a foreign country: ââŚand instead ever-more-firmly embraced an authoritarian government structure united primarily by transactional kleptocracy...
Skilled technologists are being forced out of government; 18F and USDS are...
Skilled technologists are being forced out of government; 18F and USDS are gutted by DOGE. âMusk is not just destroying core government functions, he is also destroying the actual tech...
Great Timothy Snyder analysis of the Trump/Vance/Zelenskyy meeting. âThere was a logic...
Great Timothy Snyder analysis of the Trump/Vance/Zelenskyy meeting. âThere was a logic to what happenedâŚthe logic of throwing away all reason, yielding to all impulse, betraying all decencyâŚin order to...
Teens Seeking Abortions Face Huge Challenges. INeedAnA Is Here to Help. The...
Teens Seeking Abortions Face Huge Challenges. INeedAnA Is Here to Help. The website shows the closest clinics, info about parental consent laws, and abortion funds that can help pay for...
An interesting summary of a call with Dem Reps Raskin & Stansbury:...
An interesting summary of a call with Dem Reps Raskin & Stansbury: âall 215 Dems are communicating on a scale they never have before and the senators are doing the...
Jamelle Bouie: Democrats should skip Trumpâs State of the Union address and...
Jamelle Bouie: Democrats should skip Trumpâs State of the Union address and hold their own event to explain to the American people whatâs going on. (On Bluesky, AOC asked what...
Hero Snow Reporter Who Took on Vance Still Employed
Good news: at least for now, Lucy Welch remains employed by Sugarbush. From the Boston Globe (archive): In a statement to the Globe, Sugarbush spokesperson John Bleh said the resort...
JD Vance cut his Vermont vacation short, perhaps because of the cold...
JD Vance cut his Vermont vacation short, perhaps because of the cold or because he felt unwelcome. Protesters lined his route all the way back to the airport in Burlington...