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Politics
On the doom loop, the Never Trump optimists, and the uncomfortable maths of where we actually are
Politics
Sarah Longwell is among the sharpest political operators working today. She is also, on this particular question, wrong. Dead wrong. Part 1 of a three episode arc
Music
Enjoy this ripping cover by Ally the Piper
Politics
The $1.7 billion slush fund isn't just corruption. It's proof that the founders' whole architecture rested on something they assumed would always be there and isn't anymore.
Politics
The pundit class' insistence that 2026 will be a wave year, and that Trump's flagging approval is a lock is not that comforting.
Tech
Why doesn't Tech unionize? It isn't difficult to suss out, but you have to look at it in context. This is the start of a weekly series about the "why"
Music
Favorite of the newsletter, Lari Basilio is back with a new guitar, and moar strings. See how she puts them to use.
Cinema
Noir is a deep genre, and while it is by definition gritty, there is a sub-class that truly embodies the grittiness, and the ethos. Poverty Row is an apt description.
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Closing out, the accident that created what we call the middle class is about over. Sure, politicians will pontificate, but neither party is willing to do the work to keep it going.
If you think that the Democrats are the party of the middle class, you're fooling yourself. But since the 1980's they've gotten on the gravy train, feeding at the trough with the Republicans
Listening to the latest TNL this AM got my hackles up. The question of why aren't more people mobilizing really spiked my cortisol.
At the start, it wasn't a Republican or a Democrat issue, it was a plutocrat capitalist issue, and they think in multi-decade time spans. It pays to have patience
The Middle Class. It resonates, and it is almost a God given American right, but what is it really? Act I of 4 on the Middle Class.
People keep waiting for the moral shock that turns the tide. That's not how this works anymore. And there's a reason Republicans aren't losing any sleep over it.
This didn't happen last week. This took fifty years of careful, deliberate work. And the man who did it went to his office every day in a nice suit and called it jurisprudence.
Favorite of the blog, Gamazda is back with another stellar transcription to the piano, this time taking on Chop Suey. Tasty!
Enlargement, rubber suits, mediocre plots, the creatures and SciFi schlock delights, and creates angst that aligned with public concerns of the era
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Biden tried the restoration thesis. Here's what it taught us.
