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@jtccarroll Here it is: plus.flux.community/p/obsessed-wit…

Donald Trump tapped into deeper American pathologies. His opponents need to realize this, @jtccarroll writes. Link in next.

Pam Bondi’s DOJ abandoned 23,000 criminal investigations in shift to immigration Even investigations into fraud and abuse were dropped plus.flux.community/p/pam-bondis-d…

Eddie Dalton isn’t real, but what does that mean? Computer-generated soul music is taking over the internet, raising questions about where humans think art lives plus.flux.community/p/eddie-dalton…

Dobbs v. Jackson was just the beginning of the reactionary assault on women @SusanRinkunas joined @mattsheffield to discuss the right's sprawling effort to eliminate birth control, abortion pills, and women’s rights as a whole: plus.flux.community/p/dobbs-v-jack…

As Trump's illegal attack on Iran goes sideways, Democrats must fight further war funding The case for Democrats opposing budgetary support for more mayhem in the Middle East (and very possibly beyond) is overwhelming plus.flux.community/p/as-trumps-il…

Democrats are on an election win streak despite having a badly damaged brand, what’s going on? Americans seem like they're being contradictory, but the numbers show that fighting Donald Trump harder is the main thing voters want right now. plus.flux.community/p/democrats-ar…

Judging has always been a political profession. But after the Warren Court, the liberal legal establishment deluded itself into thinking that judges were objective gods in black dresses. It was a huge mistake. Elie Mystal and I discussed: plus.flux.community/p/legal-formal…

Despite condemning Trump's unauthorized attack on Iran, some congressional Democrats are talking about funding it. This would severely undermine their moral credibility with voters and would be a political disaster as well, @jtccarroll writes: plus.flux.community/p/assenting-to…

Plunging U.S. into illegal war with Iran, Donald Trump reminds us he's the true menace to our country In his half-hearted attempts to sell war with Iran, Trump sticks to a stale authoritarian script plus.flux.community/p/plunging-us-…

Epstein files show a financier obsessed with excluding women from science and tech "No really smart women – none" plus.flux.community/p/epstein-file…

Why big tech billionaires are trying to make dystopian science fiction into reality The Nation’s Jeet Heer on how Thiel, Musk, and Bezos are animated by Heinlein, Rand, and Campbell plus.flux.community/p/why-big-tech…

Instead of watching Trump lie and ramble for an hour tonight, you should watch, listen, or read the latest Theory of Change episode in which @jeetheer and I discuss how tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel have literally based their politics on sci-fi novels: plus.flux.community/p/why-big-tech…

The federal occupation of the Twin Cities, and residents' valiant response, shows that a determined opposition to Trump can change minds, rally an anti-MAGA majority, and clarify the stark conflicts our nation faces. New from me at @DiscoverFlux: 1/ plus.flux.community/p/after-twin-c…

Thinking outside Schrödinger’s cat box: Reality as quantum Oxford University quantum physicist Vlatko Vedral joined us to discuss his new book proposing to deprecate the Copenhagen paradigm plus.flux.community/p/thinking-out…

Financially struggling Americans have no interest in participating in a political system that’s failed them Sociologist @Daniel_Laurison discusses new research on why many low-income people don't vote plus.flux.community/p/financially-…

All the king’s masked and anonymous henchmen: In the Trump administration's elevation of lawless federal agents, we can see a parallel denigration of the meaning of American citizenship plus.flux.community/p/all-the-king…

The START nuclear weapons treaty is expiring this week, but Trump doesn’t seem to care. Even Russian president Vladimir Putin has proposed extending it for an additional year. plus.flux.community/p/the-start-nu…

Don’t trust Trump's fake interest in ‘de-escalating’ ICE tactics Caught red-handed overseeing authoritarian horrors on Minnesota streets, the president is desperate to evade accountability — and preserve maneuvering room in his war on blue states plus.flux.community/p/dont-trust-t…

Trump’s threats against Europe are uniting the continent against the U.S. The American president has stopped menacing Europe over Greenland, but leaders on the continent are having to retool under the realization that the U.S. is now a rogue state plus.flux.community/p/trumps-threa…