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Author of Love & War: How Militarism Shapes Sexuality & Romance (Columbia Univ. Press, 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title) http://amzn.to/1vid3eQ
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The Institute for Art and Ideas (UK) asked me to write a Valentine’s Day piece for the IAI News. I prefer the title I myself gave it: “Love Is Cursed by the Gender Binary.” Anyway, here it is.

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Dating Nietzsche: Love vs Power
<p><em>Romantic love, often celebrated as one of life's greatest treasures, can also be a treacherous terrain fraught with tension and conflict. But why does this paradox persist? Inspired by Nietzsch...
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He scammed over 1,000 people, most of whom were not wealthy - veterans, farmers, teachers, nurses, small businesses owners. Some lost everything. But he’s a rich Republican, so Trump let him get away with it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“Republicans in”
Here are the first 2 words of that post.
Congress and the supreme court gave their power away to Trump, everything that comes next falls squarely on their shoulders.
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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New video: "WEAK Trump FALLS APART in REAL TIME"

click below to WATCH👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd6gwaviKUo
WEAK Trump FALLS APART in REAL TIME
Adam Mockler
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Steve Cousineau, The New Yorker
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Holiday carolers protest kidnappings at Home Depot by Trump’s goons
November 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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What an actual journalist would have written
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.

Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Pete Hegseth, brimming with contempt for the Geneva and Hague Conventions, which were, of course, largely written by the United States. He's both a buffoon and a man with serious criminal instincts.
Hegseth included the below in a chapter titled “The Laws of War, For Winners”

It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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There is literally no reason for the military to be in D.C.
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Republicans have been doing this dirty trick for decades. No doubt this clearly illegal activity will be investigated by Trump's DOJ lackeys.
Skullduggery? 7th District mailers with no attribution or return address going out to Democratic Nashville voters, listing the incorrect date for Election Day.
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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A breathalyzer test urgently needs to be administered to Pete Hegseth.
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
It's basically a kamikaze presidency
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Good to know that Rubio hasn't finalized the sale of his soul.
Republicans in Congress now saying exactly the same thing that US allies are saying: Sec Rubio is being undercut by people with unexplained connections to hostile foreign powers, and the result is a clown show.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Republicans in Congress now saying exactly the same thing that US allies are saying: Sec Rubio is being undercut by people with unexplained connections to hostile foreign powers, and the result is a clown show.
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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A suitable question for the day. On the other hand, it's self-selecting. Axios would feel honored to play a central role in Russian influence operations if it can. That's their business model.
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
How to admit your boss has a crackpot tariff fetish without saying it.
WELKER: If tariffs help consumers, why is the administration rolling them back?

BESSENT: You know how much you weigh. You get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number and we look at everything. We try to push down the things we can control.
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
November 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I never believed in the concept of an “Alpha male” until now.
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Vladimir Putin personally oversaw a resource heavy operation to influence and or recruit Peter Thiel over a period of over a decade. In the end, Putin deemed the operation a success. When Thiel was recruited, he became pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine in their conflict. And instantly, so did JD Vance.
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Here's one from 2016. Boy! this has been going on for a long time!
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM