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Martin Luther King Jr would have understood that the line connecting Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump runs through Dixie
The American south as mini-Russia.
John Stoehr
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Gerrymandering, SCOTUS, vaccines, immigration, slavery, 'Pandemic Politics' and more
The week that was.
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To these Republican justices, mass death is okie-dokie
The administrative state, however, is not.
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Can we stop the spread of misinformation? It’s too late
"The reality is pretty dire. There's a serious epistemological crisis going on, and that's going to require systemic change.”
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We suspected that rightwing politics caused mass injury and death. A new book proves it
When partisanship subsumes everything, people die. Period.
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America has rejected fascism before
The 2020s are similar to the 1940s.
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This is how the Republicans are whitewashing the J6 insurrection out of existence
And how the Big Lie became so easy to believe.
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Trumpism is rooted in valorous visions of medieval Europe. Those visions are wrong
The medievals were more practical than the fascists think.
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Lies are bad. A press corps enabling liars is worse
Propaganda works when reporters fear telling the truth.
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The insurrection never ended
The Republicans are reviving American apartheid.
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In politics, a lie is true if no one opposes it. That's why Democrats struggle. They must create ‘an infrastructure of democracy’
There’s no alternative for people vulnerable to propaganda.
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Democracy takes hard work
But we can't do it without you.