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BIZARRE: 2 - What They Never Told You

Deportation Standoff

Plus: Rehiring federal workers, using Signal to orchestrate bombing the Houthis, and more...

Reason

Lawn-Sign Liberalism vs. Supply-Side Progressivism

"Supply-side progressives" like Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are ultimately technocrats, not libertarians. But they recognize that more is better than less and that a good society is not zero-sum.

Reason

‘He should not be in public like this’: Grimes reacts after Elon Musk parades their son around Oval Office

Grimes shared that she was only made aware of the stunt after seeing it online

The Independent UK

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‘A real injection of chutzpah’: Wyden offers a progressive playbook - Roll Call

Bolder can be better, the longtime senator says. His “12 rules of chutzpah” range from making noise to always playing the long game.

Roll Call

How do Democrats harness #DarkWoke?

Democrats’ current approach to political messaging is broken – and party leaders have no conception of how to fix it

The Guardian - US

TikTok executives schmoozed US business leaders at Trump inauguration as app’s future in balance, report says

President has said he’ll issue executive order halting TikTok ban, despite it being signed into law and surviving challenge at Supreme Court

The Independent UK

Luigi Mangione is the median American voter

He’s a highly educated, heterodox, politically homeless moderate – and that fact should terrify us all

The Guardian - US

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Trump nominees turn allies to enemies

Trump believes in rule by fear, but that stokes resentment and possibly even resistance

Salon

‘We are not a serious country’: Congress in shock after Gaetz tapped as Trump’s attorney general

‘God help us,’ Representative Maxwell Frost, a fellow Floridian, posted in response to the news

The Independent UK

Democrats cautiously optimistic after Trump’s ad-libbed convention speech

The performance was ‘first good thing’ for Democrats in weeks after the ex-president dished out insults and lies

The Guardian - US

Cheering From the Press Box

Also: Oppenheimer and Godzilla win at the Oscars, Virginia state lawmakers nuke plans for taxpayer-funded arena, and more...

Reason

The Abundance Agenda Promises Everything to Everyone All at Once

Some progressives want to remove bureaucratic obstacles to growth—in the service of Democrats and big government.

Reason

Americans dislike both Biden and Trump

But the “meh” vote normally favors the incumbent. The trick, one pundit says, is to tout Biden’s legislative accomplishments and remind people of all the terribly unpopular things Republicans have in mind.

Chicago Sun-Times

Oren Cass Notices One of Industrial Policy's Fatal Flaws

Cass says industrial policy will only work if the politicians can put aside political disagreements and partisan agendas. In other words, industrial policy will never work.

Reason

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The Problem With the 'Abundance Agenda'

True abundance requires a minimal state and free markets.

Financial Times

Why chatbots are bound to spout bullshit

Some of what they say is true, but only as a byproduct of learning to seem believable

The Independent UK

Fox News commentator mocked for outrageously blaming slave trade on wind

‘The ships were made of wood, so trees are also complicit’

The Independent UK

Rachel Maddow was panned for praising Tucker Carlson. Now she has a different take

“I think he’s always been exactly who he is,” Maddow says of the Fox News host

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Salon

Supreme Court "originalism" is pure BS

Right-wing justices claim they're delving for true meanings beneath the Constitution. It's another Big Lie

Los Angeles Times

It's that time again! See which titles made Barack Obama's 2022 summer reading list

Would it really be summer without Barack Obama's summer reading list?

The Guardian - UK

Twitter is strictly for the birds: never am I more disconnected than when plugged in

The battles so viciously fought in this digital gladiatorial arena have a nasty habit of spilling over into ‘real life’, says Moya Lothian-McLean, a journalist who writes about digital culture

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: the best podcasts on the conflict in Ukraine

There’s no shortage of excellent analysis of the Ukraine crisis, but there’s nothing to match the contributions of people at the sharp end of it

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