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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 40m

I think we do observe and experience it. When Dorothea considers lashing out at her pathetic husband Casaubon, but doesn’t, Eliot writes "she felt something like the thankfulness that might well up in us if we had narrowly escaped hurting a lamed creature."

But I’m sure we just disagree on this.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 1h

I disagree. Dorothea is a great character:

"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4h

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 4d

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 23h

The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown.

Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
-- Me

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 1d

The New York Times: “Some say Trump was President on January 6, some say Biden. The truth for many Americans depends on one’s vantage point.”

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Both the more long-term rot and the very recent decay, perfectly captured: Thiessen has been producing disingenuous reactionary garbage for years at WaPo - that, in fact, was his entire mission. But until recently, excellent people were also writing opinions for them. They're gone. His ilk is left.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 3d

And a step below even that is the belief that a president who kills civilians in fishing boats in the Caribbean without due process is somehow worthy of the prize.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 3d

Colombia’s President Says Boat Bombed by U.S. Was Carrying Colombians

www.nytimes.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 3d

Columbia’s president: “Indications show that the last boat bombed was Colombian with Colombian citizens inside it. I hope their families come forward and report it.”

The US is basically killing foreign civilians in international waters without due process. Seems like this should be a bigger story.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo: “And [the Catholic Church] knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."

Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected

In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.

www.npr.org

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 4d

Today on "Interesting Times with Ross Douthat," we talk with a nutjob who "believes America should be a Theocracy." Interesting times, indeed. Thank you NYT for expanding the Overton Window!

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 4d

I heard an interview of Ro Khanna, who scolded Dems for talking about Trump's fascism. "Look at Churchill," Khanna said, "he wasn't talking about fascism all the time."

That's literally what Churchill did before the war. He was viewed as a crank until it was time to actually fight the fascists.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 4d

FFS, Trump and the GOP have been playing this shell game with the American people since 2016. No serious journalist should allow them to continue saying this nonsense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/tari...

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 4d

The US bombing campaign of Yemen under Trump led to the deaths of 224 civilians between March and the end of the campaign in May 2025.

It’d be like when Kissinger won and it was said that “political satire became obsolete.”

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 4d

Though I can say that a Chicago winter makes Boston feel like Miami.

John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 4d

I lived in Chicago for several years. I’ve seen winter temperatures there of 40 degrees below zero with the wind chill. The residents drink shots in the bars till 4 AM & eat lots of pork products. Chicagoans are a lot tougher & heartier than coastal elites. Trump may not want to mess with them.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

Longtime Apple veteran Willy Hodges is quite upset about Tim Cook bowing to fascists & removing ICE-related apps from the app store.

My Email to Tim Cook

It's once again time for Apple's CEO to deliver action as lofty as his language

substack.com

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 5d

“They make a desert and call it peace.”—Tacitus

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 5d

It's very revealing that Trump supporters see anti-fascists in Germany, during the 1920s and 30s, as the BAD guys.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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