not unnoticed to me that the gun rights they declare absolute are not conveyed to this young man
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David Brooks, UChicago alum/NY Times columnist, informs us about the crisis of class division. You may think the solution is an institutional reform like taxing the rich/investing in social welfare. HA. Nope. The solution is for the college educated to go to church or participate in his nonprofit
“So you may want to stand up and be part of the resistance to Trump. More power to you. I myself have called for this. But let’s be clear that resistance is treating the symptom, not the ailment,” our columnist David Brooks writes.
Opinion | America’s New Segregation
To be one nation, we have to embrace ground-up social change.
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This is an absolute masterclass in bullshit😂
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The main recommendation is for Democrats to acknowledge the importance of policing. But police have shirked their duties and departments have shed staff during the period when crime has fallen! This is evidence against the editorial's core thesis and it's the only evidence cited.
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This is not a fence you can straddle. Condemning Trump’s authoritarian rhetoric while welcoming the agents of his authoritarian government is godawful messaging and governance from DC’s mayor
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
D.C. to see more federal troops as Trump pushes to extend emergency
The on-the-ground impact of Trump’s federal actions came into view Tuesday night, with National Guard Humvees staged near the Washington Monument.
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there’s a phenomenon in politics where on certain issues the general public is genuinely deluded about reality, and if you don’t buy into that delusion the political media will accuse you of being out of touch
Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: ‘There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere’
Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: ‘There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere’
Maggie Haberman said Democrats risk seeming out of touch when they push back on President Donald Trump over his policing takeover. The post Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: ‘There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere’ first appeared on Mediaite.
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We have him to thank for knowing what is happening in Gaza. Because of that, and because Israel is planning more slaughter, more ethnic cleansing, Anas, who was known as the Voice of Gaza, along with 4 colleagues comprising the entirety of Al Jazeera’s reporting team in Gaza, were killed today.
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“I have lived through pain in all its details…yet I have never hesitated to convey the truth.”
Glory to the martyr Anas Al-Sharif.
Anas Al-Sharif’s last will and testament, written in April: “I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person... I entrust you with its people, w/its wronged & innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace.”
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they are murdering the people who tell the truth.
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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I am darkly fascinated by imagining what would happen if court reform that I support (like court packing/term limits) was effectuated by Congress that is in direct opposition to a majority of sitting justice’s interests
