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“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” — KURT VONNEGUT

You MUST read this brilliant essay by Judge J. Michael Luttig: newrepublic.com/article/2151...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

The 'perversion of the concept of courage is central to the MAGA ethos,' writes David French. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

Woot!!! www.wsj.com/world/americ...

A good day for democracy. Let’s keep this streak going.

Are there any ghost candidates this time around, in the midterms?? Who? Where?

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Re Trump and Elon and all the rest of them, Gramsci said it best: "In this interregnum a great variety of morbid phenomena occur." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-monste...

Don't let anyone tell you how to live your life.

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Traces of Texas reader Sal Vitone saw the circa 1890 photo of the 4th Denton County courthouse that I posted a couple of days ago and graciously sent in this glorious -- and I do mean glorious --- 1902 photo of the 5th Denton County courthouse. And what a grand building it is. It still stands.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

This is Mike Rogers’ lifestyle. How about yours?

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There are bombshells and there's this www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

Mouth of the South! RIP

Thinking of you @atticus59914029.bsky.social

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The right is spending the day complaining that Abdul El-Sayed was "rude" and "a bully" to Tommy the Republican Operative at his town hall, which is hilarious given how they had nothing to say about a woman getting beaten up at a Trump rally as the president cheered on.

I knew Trump was a Conman since the mid to late 1970s!

This doesn't make any sense, the crowd didn't drown him out by shouting USA! USA!, assault the guy or have him violently dragged from the building while insulting how he looks. Must be ai.

Ask any law student or recent law school graduate. We were all acutely aware that we were not yet lawyers just by virtue of having a degree. No one gets their diploma and says “I’m a lawyer now”. No one. You have to pass the bar. And then you have to be sworn in. Being sworn in is one of the most

Most sensible people agree. @walshfreedom.bsky.social

This is a great, heartfelt post from a guy I truly admire. I think it speaks to what many of us are feeling.

Tillis is a Trump enabler who is trying to cash in on a twinge of regret without acknowledging the role he played in getting us into the terrible mess we are in. It's like an unrepentant menace to society trying to bullshit his way past the parole board.

“In the fascist worldview the fundamental unit is the nation—the people—the true Volk. Fascists do not care about individual rights, nor are looking to raise welfare. The nation is not the state or institutions. It is a group defined by race and culture.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

In 1963 New York’s Bronx Zoo showcased an exhibit titled ‘THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE WORLD’. It was a mirror.

This lady was canvassing for Greg Abbott in Texas when she asked a homeowner if she could count on his support in the upcoming election. Then the fun begins.

KNOXVILLE man sucker-punched outside the white nationalist group meeting Greg Bovino and others are attending

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

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I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

A swan couple reunite after being apart and their greeting ritual says it all. Necks stretched, wings flapping, calling out just for each other.

This past weekend, senior LDS Church leader D. Todd Christofferson did something that has become surprisingly rare: He made an unapologetic moral argument against gambling. I wrote about the religious leaders pushing back against the sports-betting boom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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An extremely important oped, as destroying separation of church and state is central to the Catholic Integralist believers on Supreme Court. Secular democracy is heresy. Note Leonard Leo and his Becket Fund NGO are primary in this SCOTUS erosion of democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...

As Senator Kennedy chomps on his Coo-Coo Puffs.