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User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality
Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent
18 hrs ago
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Matthew Sheffield
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As Trumps targets Portland, the MAGA war on blue America turns increasingly literal
Conjuring fantasies of mayhem and anarchy to justify the latest domestic troop deployments, MAGA cites an "enemy within" that turns out to be. . …
Oct 4
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Jim Carroll
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Trump’s shutdown strategy is far more radical than you know
White House budget director Russell Vought is waging war on the government, secularism, and modernity itself
Oct 2
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Matthew Sheffield
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Don Moynihan
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Trump’s mass censorship is what far-right Republicans have always wanted
Historian Seth Cotlar discusses how far-right Republicans like William F. Buckley and Ben Shapiro embrace authoritarianism and conspiracism
Oct 1
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Matthew Sheffield
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September 2025
The Third Great Awakening
Tales of revival and rapture
Sep 29
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Lance Aksamit
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‘Abundance’ is neoliberalism redux
Kate Willett on why the agenda and the funding behind the lavishly funded but unpopular movement seems so familiar
Sep 27
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Matthew Sheffield
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Triumph of the ill will
Look below the surface of RFK, Jr.'s insane anti-health policies, and you'll glimpse the basic fact of Donald Trump's urge to dominate the American…
Sep 26
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Jim Carroll
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Far-right pastor brags that his Bible study class led to millions of Americans losing health insurance
Ralph Drollinger says Senate Republicans are turning his anti-compassion form of Christianity into law
Sep 25
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Christian nationalist author hails Charlie Kirk killing as opportunity to repress ‘evil presence’ of liberals
Author Stephen Wolfe urges Republicans to ‘suppress what is evil; that’s the whole purpose of government’
Sep 24
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To stop Trump’s authoritarianism, his opponents must understand and wield power
Karen Attiah, a victim of Trumpist purge at the Washington Post, discusses how liberals and progressives can get their groove back
Sep 23
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Matthew Sheffield
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Karen Attiah
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The Trump administration’s jihad against normal Americans will turn them against him
A movement that considers everyone from feminists and city dwellers to minorities and scientists to be un-American zealots is making a bad bet on mass…
Sep 20
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Jim Carroll
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Why everyone wants a piece of ancient Egypt
Egyptologist and documentarian Kara Cooney on why Romans, Napoleon, and even Mormons have sought the mysteries of Kemet
Sep 19
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Matthew Sheffield
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