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Joe, kiddo. I got my PhD when 2 ancient & 2 mod langs were required & 10y of bowing & scraping to men like you. So I use my title.
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This is a minority view but I’m increasingly convinced that Trumpism will disintegrate when Trump leaves office. As enlightened as it seems to see Trumpism as “systemic”—as inextricable from America
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I was listening to strange sheriffs, witnesses & private investigators say crazy things on @TexasMonthly’s podcast Tom Brown’s Body.I noticed that the only time I relaxed was when the host
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A word about intellectual diversity and dissent.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/substack-and-medias-groupthink-problem/617102/ When I was in graduate school at Harvard, I failed the oral exams on the grounds that I was too
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I’m starting a counter-narrative in which old man Joe is the shrewdest pol of our time. He waited for 50 years, studying this country’s every move. He understood the power
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Yet another creepy side of QAnon’s + the right’s obsession w/sex trafficking. The vast majority of trafficking is of people of color being trafficked for labor. The sex trafficking that
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As you assess this week's damage, remember that just Tuesday Bill Barr turned "E. Jean Carroll vs. Donald Trump" into "E. Jean Carroll vs. the United States of America" &
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I’ve been wondering why racist politics and corruption often go hand-in-hand. Why should racism lead to corruption more than any other sinister ideology (tax cuts for the rich, militarism, etc)
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An absolutist abt free speech shd be thrilled abt Twitter, where so many millions speak UNPAID truth to power—esp to the ruling class w/ paid platforms at the New York
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This by @awerbel is worth another look today.https://medium.com/@amywerbel/beware-bill-barrs-plans-for-a-papal-states-of-america-1c131df14526 Thankfully we have @JYSexton, @JeffSharlet, @C_Stroop & others to explain radical evange
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