Finished Battle Cry of Freedom—incredible book, surely the best single-volume account of the Civil War, it's more than earned canonization. So remarkable to make a 900pg book this detail-rich & yet still obviously a condensation of an even larger knowledge base
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It’s a res publica, not a democracy, say people who support the wealthy demagogue ruling without the senate or popular assembly and suggesting paying the army from private funds.

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

talk about a type

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

I don’t disagree with this analysis —- but every prosecution is political. You know how many nutty prosecutions there are based on less evidence? (Coughing in cop city protestors)

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Given the now fifth U.S. strike in the Caribbean, reposting my recent essay in @justsecurity.org.

There’s a word for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.

www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...

Dem staffers tell the people you work for that if they use the words 'across the aisle' or 'bipartisan', we're all gonna remember this shit come election time

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

👀 “Ms. Brockman was taken to the ground, battered, handcuffed and her pants were pulled down exposing her bare buttocks. No one should be treated like that in this city, in this country, or anywhere else in the world." - Brockman's attorney

This story re WGN employee is not going away.

Sums it all up

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

You will very rarely see this type of identity politics named and condemned as such bsky.app/profile/atru...

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.

Some ceasefire.

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

JUST IN: The 3rd Circuit *denies* a push by national GOP to reconsider ruling on misdated mail ballots in Pa.

Judge Emil Bove may have cast his first vote here in dissent of the decision -- and plans to write about it later. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For the goldfish-brained politicians & pundits who were handing it to Donald Trump over the weekend, it’s critical to understand Trump thinks his job is done, especially re the surviving Israeli hostages, and he could not care less if Israel uses or contrives any reason to resume hostilities

🤞!

let's hope so!

Unless the book tells us what this was about, I'm not interested...

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in ACTUALLY IMPORTANT NEWS:

is the ceasefire in the room with us??