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Sean @laegern.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
I'm here. I decided to clean out past posts and reposts, which makes it look like I'm inactive. I'm still on here reading as much as I always have, although I've slowly stopped posting and reposting.
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
For the new issue of Bookforum, I reviewed Joshua Green's "The Rebels," which represents the mainstreaming of the left’s narrative on economics, as told through the rise of Warren, Sanders, and AOC
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Oh Say AOC
Joshua Green’s chronicle of the Democratic Party’s left flank – David Klion
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Glen Jackson @glenjackson.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
"I Don't Know If Most People Even Know What Party Is In The Senate Majority" AOC explains the value of accountability, excoriates Senate Democratic leaders for shirking oversight obligations & lays out a vision for a more fearless party @brianbeutler.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
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"I Don't Know If Most People Even Know What Party Is In The Senate Majority"
AOC explains the value of accountability, excoriates Senate Democratic leaders for shirking oversight obligations, and lays out a vision for a more fearless, effective party
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza In my homeland, where we used to cook and celebrate together, my relatives are eating animal feed to keep from starving. A heartbreaking essay by Mosab Abu Toha.
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My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza
In my homeland, where we used to cook and celebrate together, my relatives are eating animal feed to keep from starving.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
The Biden admin is crafting plans for a sustained military campaign targeting Ansar Allah (the Houthis) in Yemen after 10 days of strikes failed to halt the group’s attacks. Admin officials acknowledge they can identify no end date or provide a time estimate for the campaign. Gift Link Below:
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As Houthis vow to fight on, U.S. prepares for sustained campaign
U.S. officials say they don’t expect operations in Yemen to last years, but they acknowledge it’s unclear when the Houthis’ military capability will be eroded.
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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Milei just sent this draft law to Congress - Article 1 is all that matters, it demands that Congress give him plenary powers over all areas of national life for an extended period. End of doubts: this guy is trying to construct a dictatorship and must be stopped drive.google.com/file/d/19Kkq...
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Ley de Bases y Puntos de Partida para la Libertad de los Argentinos.pdf
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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Milei and Bullrich have lost their fucking minds. Here they are in the Federal Police control room looking at (in command of?) the operation to close down the demo, they're acting as if the country was at war
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Because I reviewed a thing today that casually asserted democracy would be better off without the votes of ignorant voters, I apparently must repeat: it is not just a segment of voters who are ignorant of important stuff, it's *everyone*--which should lead to reexamining assumptions about knowledge
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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Francis finally loses patience with this asshole. Am sure a successful second career as a far-right youtuber awaits him www.ncronline.org/news/pope-fr...
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Pope Francis axes firebrand Texas Bishop Strickland, darling of right-wing Twitter
The Vatican announced Nov. 11 that Pope Francis had effectively fired Texas Bishop Joseph Strickland, a firebrand prelate who called synodality "garbage" and endorsed a video that attacked Francis as...
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
The wife of newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson runs a counseling business that advocates the belief that homosexuality is comparable to bestiality and incest, according to its operating documents.
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Mike Johnson's Wife Runs Counseling Service That Compares Being Gay To Bestiality, Incest
The newly elected Republican House speaker and his wife, Kelly, have long intertwined their political and business lives.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
White House scrambles to repair relations with Arab, Muslim Americans
 Biden’s comment that he has ‘no confidence’ in civilian death toll provided by the Gaza Health Ministry incensed some community leaders
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White House scrambles to repair relations with Arab, Muslim Americans
The president’s comment that he has “no confidence” in the civilian death toll in Gaza provided by Palestinians incensed community leaders.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
The Biden administration is urging Israel to rethink its plans for a major ground offensive in the Gaza Strip and instead to opt for a more “surgical” operation using aircraft and special operations forces carrying out precise, targeted raids on high-value Hamas targets and infrastructure.
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U.S. urges Israel against Gaza ground invasion, pushes surgical campaign
Washington’s advice to mount “surgical” operations instead contrasts with the public U.S. backing of an Israeli military campaign.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Some important news on Biden administration policy. wapo.st/478TD3n
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
For @nplusonemag.bsky.social, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways
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Have We Learned Nothing? | David Klion
There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and w...
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Rarely have I said yes as quickly or enthusiastically to an assignment as when The Baffler asked me to review Marty Peretz's memoir
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Everybody Hates Marty | David Klion
Martin Peretz still has something to say—but is anyone listening?
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