"Bob Woodward revealed weeks before the election that Trump secretly sent Russia's dictator Covid tests while US doctors faced a shortage" feels like it might be the kind of thing the media would run with, because it has the precise narrative structure of an old-timey scandal.
Brilliant recontextualizing often makes visible what we can't otherwise see. Especially in this media environment. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
The chaotic face-off between Trump and Harris added to concerns over the state of US democracy.
Team Harris needs to send Sheryl Lee Ralph out on stage for the debate and see if Trump notices
âWhat is most exceptional about the Americans is not the voluminous record of their violence but their extraordinary ability in the face of that record to persuade themselves that they are among the best behaved and best regulated of peoples.â - Richard Hofstadter, American Violence, 1970 đď¸
Spend it wisely.
"The Republicans really have engineered a situation where the only way to be certain that constitutional democracy will endure is if certain named individuals were dead and buried." itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...
A few years ago, I was part of an event commemorating Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. Obviously, I was brought in to represent the "against" position (and you can read a version of my keynot...
If you're trying to win people over to your cause by vandalizing a library, or Stonehenge, or an oil painting, you are not remotely helping your cause. "It raises awareness!" Yes, awareness that you're a fucking idiot. Nothing good.
