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My Recent Media Diet, the Endless January Edition
02/14/25 - 04:12PM MST
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How Trying Became Cool Again
02/14/25 - 03:32PM MST
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Ken Burns’ Criterion Closet Picks include Seven Samurai, a Fellini box set,...
02/14/25 - 02:56PM MST
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Thought-provoking musings on AI from Robin Sloan. “The language model reads Everything,...
02/14/25 - 02:25PM MST
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The Crazy Thing About Babies
02/14/25 - 01:59PM MST
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Girls Who Code’s “Five by Five” strategic plan is “reaching 5 million...
02/14/25 - 01:22PM MST
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I love this week-by-week map of Gina Trapani’s life. “This is a...
02/14/25 - 12:39PM MST
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Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listening to audiobooks (Austen,...
02/14/25 - 12:03PM MST
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Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama...
02/14/25 - 11:32AM MST
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Kevin Kelly’s 50 Years of Travel Tips
02/14/25 - 10:59AM MST
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Deadline: “Starz has acquired the rights to Miranda July’s buzzy novel All...
02/14/25 - 10:23AM MST
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From Nolan RoYAlty (cReAtor of oNE Million chEckBOXES), A globAL CAPS LOCK....
02/14/25 - 09:53AM MST
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Jerry Lawson was one of Silicon Valley’s first Black engineers and is...
02/14/25 - 09:19AM MST
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An Update
02/14/25 - 08:42AM MST
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How to stop Trump’s power grab. “Trump isn’t inevitable. Here’s a plan...
02/13/25 - 06:15PM MST
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The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Authoritarian Actions
02/13/25 - 05:38PM MST
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Really interesting essay about organizing: How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World...
02/13/25 - 04:52PM MST
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“Fuck the Middle Ground”
02/13/25 - 04:16PM MST
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House GOP has reintroduced the SAVE Act, which would require voters to...
02/13/25 - 03:30PM MST
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Elie Mystal on Elon Musk’s vision of neo-apartheid. “First and most important,...
02/13/25 - 02:49PM MST
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Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream is...
02/13/25 - 02:18PM MST
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Is This the End of the American Constitution?
02/13/25 - 01:30PM MST
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On a scale of +10 (full democracy) to -10 (full autocracy), the...
02/13/25 - 12:52PM MST
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RFK Jr. confirmed as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department....
02/13/25 - 09:39AM MST
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Heather Cox Richardson on the history of the liberal consensus, from Lincoln...
02/13/25 - 09:04AM MST
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The trailer for season six of The Handmaid’s Tale. Oh, no reason....
02/12/25 - 03:20PM MST
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What can I do to fight this coup? “We will succeed because...
02/12/25 - 02:35PM MST
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Do Not Obey In Advance
02/12/25 - 01:42PM MST
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You’re Allowed to Feel like Garbage. “If you are a remotely informed...
02/12/25 - 01:00PM MST
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Trump’s Obsession With Immigration Is Really an Obsession With Segregation. His policies...
02/12/25 - 12:22PM MST
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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by...
02/12/25 - 11:30AM MST
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“We Are Hurtling Towards Having a Russian-Type Regime”
02/12/25 - 09:56AM MST
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Jamelle Bouie: Trump’s War on DEI Is Really a War on Civil...
02/12/25 - 09:22AM MST
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Tressie McMillan Cottom’s latest is not easily summarized, but is well-worth a...
02/12/25 - 08:55AM MST
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The Trump administration barred an AP reporter from an event because the...
02/11/25 - 08:55PM MST
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Security expert Bruce Schneier & digital ethicist Davi Ottenheimer: “The U.S. government...
02/11/25 - 08:19PM MST
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Josh Marshall: “This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as...
02/11/25 - 07:37PM MST
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Law professors are a staid bunch. But: “We are in the midst...
02/11/25 - 04:15PM MST
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Pitching a Big Tent in an Emergency
02/11/25 - 01:02PM MST
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A federal judge has ordered the HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore...
02/11/25 - 12:17PM MST
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The Trump administration is defying federal court orders and maintaining the funding...
02/11/25 - 11:42AM MST
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I loved Russell Shorto’s The Island at the Center of the World...
02/11/25 - 10:20AM MST
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Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies. “Washington created the modern civil service...
02/11/25 - 09:39AM MST
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Unsurprising: a recent study of 32M tweets from politicians from 27 countries...
02/11/25 - 08:52AM MST
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Is Social Media Doing You Dirty? Apply the CUE Test.
02/11/25 - 08:21AM MST
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Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? Sherrilyn Ifill has a list...
02/10/25 - 03:11PM MST
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Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege. “[We’re writing] this...
02/10/25 - 02:36PM MST
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Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t...
02/10/25 - 01:52PM MST
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How People & Institutions in Budding Autocracies Obey in Advance
02/10/25 - 01:00PM MST
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One of the attributes of the modern condition is an inability to...
02/10/25 - 12:22PM MST
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From Greg Storey, a list of “ways to take in information without...
02/10/25 - 11:47AM MST
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“The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability...
02/10/25 - 10:59AM MST
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It’s a Coup, But It’s Not Just Musk’s Coup
02/10/25 - 09:47AM MST
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This is a great thread on how an ordinary person stepped up...
02/10/25 - 09:11AM MST
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The Power of Chaos
02/10/25 - 08:38AM MST
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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. Kendrick said, “The revolution ‘bout to...
02/10/25 - 07:31AM MST
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Judith Butler: “Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be...
02/10/25 - 07:01AM MST
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Some Wild Ice Skating
02/09/25 - 07:03PM MST
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Extinction Burst Explains MAGA Voters’ Racist Anger
02/07/25 - 04:30PM MST
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According to Wired’s reporting, a US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis has called...
02/07/25 - 03:13PM MST
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Doechii’s Tiny Desk Concert
02/07/25 - 12:20PM MST
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Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting, including donating to a...
02/07/25 - 11:35AM MST
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David Kurtz argues that we should refer to Trump’s mass removal of...
02/07/25 - 10:33AM MST
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“The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified”
02/07/25 - 09:31AM MST
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Trump tried to illegally fire US Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub....
02/07/25 - 08:49AM MST
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A kid named Big Balls (with some shady stuff in his past)...
02/07/25 - 08:26AM MST
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Wired is reporting that the Treasury Secretary and the White House press...
02/07/25 - 08:01AM MST
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Outrage Fatigue Is Real. These Tips May Help. “Repeated exposure to outrage-inducing...
02/07/25 - 07:26AM MST
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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism. “When it comes to...
02/07/25 - 06:52AM MST
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“In 2022, one of Peter Thiel’s favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump...
02/07/25 - 06:22AM MST
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The world has probably passed ‘peak air pollution’. “Global air pollution is...
02/06/25 - 05:32PM MST
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State Attorneys General to Sue Over Musk’s Access to Government Systems. “The...
02/06/25 - 04:42PM MST
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Mister Rogers on How to Talk to Kids About Distressing News Events
02/06/25 - 03:42PM MST
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A list of all the lawsuits related to Trump administration executive orders....
02/06/25 - 02:55PM MST
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The Musk staffer who broke into the Treasury Dept system has quit...
02/06/25 - 02:20PM MST
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“The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler”
02/06/25 - 01:47PM MST
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Business foot traffic is up within the [NYC] congestion pricing zone. “People...
02/06/25 - 12:34PM MST
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Resegregation, Coups, Orwell, and the Importance of Precise Language
02/06/25 - 11:40AM MST
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McSweeney’s: Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse. “I...
02/06/25 - 10:16AM MST
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A huge list of trans Girl Scouts who are selling Girl Scout...
02/06/25 - 09:09AM MST
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Unsurprisingly, it would be bad if Elon Musk breaks into the computer...
02/06/25 - 08:15AM MST
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Palate cleanser: Cabel Sasser’s review of all of the weird new snacks...
02/06/25 - 07:20AM MST
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From Scientific American, Avoiding Outrage Fatigue While Staying Informed. “We can take...
02/05/25 - 06:04PM MST
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Timothy Snyder: Of Course It’s a Coup
02/05/25 - 04:55PM MST
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Lots of people asking what they can do about the coup. Here’s...
02/05/25 - 04:55PM MST
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Federal software contractor Dan Hon (who’s worked with HHS, Head Start, Medicaid/Medicare,...
02/05/25 - 04:22PM MST
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“Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis”
02/05/25 - 03:47PM MST
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Since NYC began congestion pricing, subway ridership is up, subway crime is...
02/05/25 - 03:07PM MST
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Incredible: Nearly 96% of new cars registered in Norway in January 2025...
02/05/25 - 02:12PM MST
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Members of Musk’s team have tried to gain access to servers at...
02/05/25 - 01:18PM MST
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The End of the Liberal Consensus
02/05/25 - 12:44PM MST
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A Programming Note
02/05/25 - 10:30AM MST
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This Changes Everything
02/05/25 - 07:41AM MST
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“A self-coup, also called an autocoup…is a form of coup d’état in...
02/05/25 - 06:17AM MST
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FAIR calls out some of the shoddy coverage on the 2025 Coup...
02/04/25 - 04:46PM MST
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I’m a Federal Worker. Elon Musk’s Government Data Heist Is the Entire...
02/04/25 - 04:03PM MST
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Mike Masnick: Some Conservatives Admit We’re In A Constitutional Crisis. “It’s about...
02/04/25 - 03:33PM MST
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Personal Discretion Over the Treasury’s Payments System Means the End of Democracy....
02/04/25 - 03:05PM MST
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Why It Matters That Musk Has Taken Control of Key Government Operations
02/04/25 - 02:38PM MST
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The Verge interviewed federal employees about the chaos they’re seeing. “Many workers...
02/04/25 - 01:27PM MST
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‘Fuck That’: Federal Workers Say They’re Scared But ‘Digging In’ Amid Trump’s...
02/04/25 - 12:26PM MST
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The 2025 Coup (Derogatory)
02/04/25 - 11:46AM MST
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Here is some good news: the white nationalist terrorist group Proud Boys...
02/04/25 - 11:14AM MST
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Trump & Musk have discussed placing “spies” in gov’t offices to root...
02/04/25 - 10:46AM MST
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More on Musk’s alarming unconstitutional seizure of the Treasury Department payments system:...
02/04/25 - 09:20AM MST
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VERY VERY BAD: Under the direction of Elon Musk, a 25-year-old engineer...
02/04/25 - 08:55AM MST
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“Musk’s political project with DOGE is actually quite straightforward: The world’s richest...
02/04/25 - 08:32AM MST
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It Only Tuesday. “Not only do Americans have most of Tuesday morning...
02/04/25 - 08:05AM MST
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Donald Trump’s Executive Orders Aim to Create Jim Crow for Trans People....
02/03/25 - 06:26PM MST
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Heather Cox Richardson is perhaps too dispassionate in her piece about Trump’s/Musk’s...
02/03/25 - 10:31AM MST
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Scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder on the 2025 coup: “The people who...
02/03/25 - 09:57AM MST
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A complete archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025....
02/03/25 - 09:23AM MST
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A simple guide to using Signal for government workers (written by a...
02/03/25 - 08:20AM MST