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Slavery Was Very Bad

It is important to pause a moment and state this directly: Donald Trump, the current president of the United States, believes that the Smithsonian is failing to do its job, because it spends too much time portraying slavery as “bad.”…
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Let’s Face It

It’s Friday, so time for another song that I like: Let’s Face It by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. I’ve been listening to this one since I was in high school. Let’s Face It (The Mighty Mighty BossToneS – YouTube)
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How Does Trump’s Federal Takeover End?

What’s happening doesn’t look like a carefully regimented and organized attempt at standing up a military dictatorship. Trump seldom acts with that sort of discipline. Instead, it looks like an improvisational and opportunistic grab of power—Trump seeing what he can…
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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

It is a Monday afternoon in August, and I am on the internet watching a former cable-news anchor interview a dead teenager on Substack. This dead teenager—Joaquin Oliver, killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in…
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Trump & Putin

President Donald Trump emerged today from his summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin without a deal and without much to say. Trump rarely misses a chance to take advantage of a global stage. But when he stood next to Putin at…
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State Capitalism

If “state capitalism” were proposed by Democrats or progressives, it would be considered socialism or communism. Done by a neofascist president — as chronicled by the The Wall Street Journal — it’s simply considered inefficient (as the Journal concludes). Robert…
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Slavery Was Very Bad

Let’s Face It

How Does Trump’s Federal Takeover End?

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Trump & Putin

State Capitalism

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