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Devorah Blachor
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Author of 'The Feminist’s Guide to Raising a Little Princess', novels, humor. Working on a new book and also a time travel machine
https://www.devorahblachor.com/
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"Whether you’ve moved to autocracy because of a military coup, or because a racist populist trampled over the norms of decency, or because your senators were too cowardly to do their job by impeaching a traitorous buffoon, it's tough."
How to Transition From a Democracy to an Autocracy
Transitioning from democracy to autocracy is challenging for anyone .  Whether you’ve moved to autocracy because of a military coup, or because a r...
buff.ly
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“50 thousand low income, working class Americans will die every year.”
October 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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I spent four years chronically Tr*mp's Reign of Errors. I feel your pain. 🫠
Genuinely would prefer for these pieces not to be aging so well
"Whether you’ve moved to autocracy because of a military coup, or because a racist populist trampled over the norms of decency, or because your senators were too cowardly to do their job by impeaching a traitorous buffoon, it's tough."
September 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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as i consider which media outlets i want to give my money to, this one just got higher on the list. i already give NPR my money ;-)

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/upd...
Updated Trump Administration FCC Guidelines for Late-Night TV Hosts
“ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel off air for Charlie Kirk comments after FCC pressure.” — New York Times - - -The FCC has long held that “the public interes...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
There might be some confusion over what "Free Speech" means at the moment, so here are some helpful FCC guidelines for Late Night hosts. My latest on @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/upd...
Updated Trump Administration FCC Guidelines for Late-Night TV Hosts
“ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel off air for Charlie Kirk comments after FCC pressure.” — New York Times - - -The FCC has long held that “the public interes...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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“You could easily call Julie Brown the hero of this story, along with Epstein’s victims, who continued to speak out and seek justice.”
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: A Quiz
1. Were Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein friends? A. I don’t know. B. If by “friends” you mean that the two men partied together at Mar-a-Lago, tha...
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July 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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How dare you assault my privacy in this yurt?
July 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I’m the Private Messaging App Signal, and the Trump Administration Is Ruining My Brand
_“ The unofficial version of Signal used by Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has been hacked.”_ — Reuters - - - Want to hear something interesting? If you’re a messaging app trying to market yourself as the “gold standard of private communications," the last thing you want is to be in the news every day because some Fox News host is too dumb to understand how privacy works. That’s just a little free info from me, Signal, the messaging app you’ve probably been reading about lately thanks to a bunch of high-level government pinheads who think that the MMR vaccine is composed of fetus debris and gay powder. These corrupt and over-coifed pillocks are ruining my brand. My whole thing is supposed to be privacy, which is my main selling point. Not that I sell anything—I don’t even have ads or collect meta data, which is why I’m superior to anything that the Meta dipshit produces. But you’d never know that now, would you, because these galumphing Trump admin clowns have absolutely obliterated my image with the kind of staggering incompetence you usually see only from mating giant pandas and Heinz Doofenshmirtz. My creator actually goes by the name Moxie Marlinspike, I shit you not. That’s how seriously we take the principle of secrecy. Everyone who created, develops, or maintains me literally calls themselves “privacy advocates” on their LinkedIn page. But just like _Water-_ , _Gamer-_ and _Pizza-_ , I’m a fucking Gate now, which is the exact opposite of privacy. It’s like if, instead of hiding out in Cornish, New Hampshire, J. D. Salinger had started a livestream podcast about how to hit on teenage girls. Before this scandal broke in March, the biggest story about me was on the 7.34.0 version rollout, which meant I could support Arm64 processors like Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus. Yeah, that was an actual news item you never read, because it wasn’t a war in Yemen. Now I’m in the news every day. Instead of thinking of me as “that excellent, discreet messaging alternative,” you’ll forever associate my name with the shadiest ineptocrats to ever work in DC. And this is the same city where Marion Barry smoked crack and Kissinger orchestrated a fascist coup in Chile. The damage to my brand is incalculable. I used to be hugely popular among journalists working with anonymous sources. But what anonymous source is going to go anywhere near me now? If you were some high-up whistleblower, the last thing you’d do is message a journalist on an app strongly associated with JD Vance. Do you even know what “E2EE” means? It’s end-to-end encryption, which is what I use, and it means that only the sender and recipient should be able to read your messages, and _not_ Jeffrey Goldberg. And here’s the biggest irony. I have an open-source design that allows anyone to inspect my code for vulnerabilities, which means I’m as transparent as I can possibly be. In other words, the exact opposite of this Cabinet, where lies are as popular as bootlicking, adultery, and Kid Rock. Whenever I think I’m out of the news cycle and can finally separate myself from these blundering twonks, they keep pulling me back in. I didn’t even know I had a less secure knock-off version, and even worse, that it was hackable. Yet somehow Mike Waltz did, and here we are. This whole thing has been disastrous. It’s almost as if my competitors cooked this scandal up, orchestrating a failure on such a colossal scale so that anyone considering me changed their minds, instead keeping their shitty, user-data stealing, ad-heavy, privacy-compromised apps. Wait a minute. Is this you, Mark? This has “Meta dipshit” written all over it. Screw you, asshole. You won’t get away with this. I mean, you probably will, because that’s the vibe nowadays. I just hope that sometime in the future, when people talk about Signal, they’ll remember my cutting-edge technology, my Double Ratchet algorithm encryption, and my commitment to protecting user privacy. But who am I kidding? They’ll probably just think of incompetence, arrogance, and .
www.mcsweeneys.net
May 6, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Please read this important post from the messaging app you’ve probably been reading about lately thanks to a bunch of high-level government pinheads who think that the MMR vaccine is composed of fetus debris and gay powder. @mcsweeneys.net @signal.org www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
I’m the Private Messaging App Signal, and the Trump Administration Is Ruining My Brand
“The unofficial version of Signal used by Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has been hacked.” — Reuters - - -Want to hear ...
www.mcsweeneys.net
May 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The most corrupt President in history - and he does it all out in the open
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump crypto soars as US president offers dinner to top holders
The meme coin's website says its 220 top investors will be invited to a gala event with the president.
www.bbc.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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This administration’s entire project is The Lost Cause Strikes Back
“A statement about the legacy of John Brown, who hoped to start a revolt by enslaved people in the run-up to the Civil War, was removed from a page on the website of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia.”
April 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/
April 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people.

Blazing your own path for the W

👏👏👏👏👏
April 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Time to speak up
March 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.
Kristi Noem refused to say who financed some of her travel. It was taxpayers who were on the hook
An Associated Press analysis of recently released travel records found more than $150,000 in expenses tied to Noem’s political and personal activity.
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March 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Good morning.
Rumeysa Ozturk is still in government custody this morning for writing an op-ed in a college newspaper.
March 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?
March 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM