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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · Sep 3

Issue 55 is here! It's a very special edition of Current Affairs, with every article devoted to animal welfare.

We’ve recruited leading scholars and activists to lend their voices in this issue, but we’ve done it with the signature Current Affairs satirical and artistic flair.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 10h

We’re huge admirers of @levernews.com, which is why we’re delighted to be partnering with them! They’re offering Current Affairs readers an exclusive deal: 50% off your subscription to The Lever and a free copy of the Master Plan e-book.

👉 Click the link: the.levernews.com/current-affa...

Master Plan | The Book

Master Plan reveals the gripping inside story of how extremists and tycoons orchestrated a system of legalized corruption in America.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 11h

October 14th, 2025 ❧ Current Affairs News Briefing

🦩 Ceasefire-ish in Gaza
🦩 Texas troops in Chicago
🦩 U.S. bails out Argentina

And much more!

currentaffairs.org/briefing

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 16h

Obama is rewriting history. He trashed single-payer because it would cost jobs in the for-profit insurance industry.

A good interviewer would have the quotes at the ready and confront him when he tries to suggest it was purely about a lack of support.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 16h

Again: ill-informed comedians should not be interviewing politicians.
Maron lets Obama get away with saying he didn't push single-payer because he didn't have the votes. In fact, at the time Obama said he opposed single-payer because it didn't "build on our traditions."

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

It's an absolute embarrassment for Democrats that Donald Trump has shown more interest in ending the killing in Gaza than Joe Biden did.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

If you are going to platform Fuentes in any way, it is unforgivable to treat him with kid gloves or set aside his neo-Nazism.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ris...

The Rise of Nick Fuentes Should Horrify Us All

A neo-Nazi is trying to fill the void left by the failures of the two major parties. Unless Americans are offered a visionary alternative, Fuentes’ toxic ideology may flourish.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Nick Fuentes is a psychotic fascist who openly admires Hitler, denies the Holocaust, and says that rape is "so not a big deal." But you'd never know any of that by reading this simpering GQ profile, which treats him as a kind of edgy internet curiosity rather than a deranged Nazi.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

spot the manufacturing of consent

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Empathy is a powerful force indeed, which is why we must stick up for it when it is being attacked by those who seek justifications, whether divine or secular, for treating others abominably. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-rig...

The Right’s Latest Culture War Crusade is Against Empathy

Blessed are the unfeeling, for they shall inherit the GOP. Books, sermons, and tweets now warn that “toxic empathy” is destroying civilization.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk must keep empathy at bay, because the moment he allows himself to empathize with his trans daughter, he will be confronted with the realization that he is a horrible human being. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-rig...

The Right’s Latest Culture War Crusade is Against Empathy

Blessed are the unfeeling, for they shall inherit the GOP. Books, sermons, and tweets now warn that “toxic empathy” is destroying civilization.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Allie Beth Stuckey, an anti-abortion advocate and Fox News regular, in Toxic Empathy, is clear on why she doesn’t want people imagining the experiences of others: they may end up supporting progressivism. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-rig...

The Right’s Latest Culture War Crusade is Against Empathy

Blessed are the unfeeling, for they shall inherit the GOP. Books, sermons, and tweets now warn that “toxic empathy” is destroying civilization.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Empathy just means trying to understand how other people feel, to use the power of our imaginations to see things from their perspective and try to grasp what they might be feeling and why. How could anyone possibly object to this? www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-rig...

The Right’s Latest Culture War Crusade is Against Empathy

Blessed are the unfeeling, for they shall inherit the GOP. Books, sermons, and tweets now warn that “toxic empathy” is destroying civilization.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Blessed are the unfeeling, for they shall inherit the GOP. Books, sermons, and tweets now warn that “toxic empathy” is destroying civilization.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-rig...

The Right’s Latest Culture War Crusade is Against Empathy

Blessed are the unfeeling, for they shall inherit the GOP. Books, sermons, and tweets now warn that “toxic empathy” is destroying civilization.

www.currentaffairs.org

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