Is the 'Right-Wing Dark Money' in the Room With Us Right Now?
taylor lorenz claims republicans spent decades engineering a "powerful media ecosystem" to steal our attention. in reality, democrats just coasted until they lost
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Abundant Delusion Sep 8
I snuck into the atlantic, home of the "abundance" movement, and argued the entire thing was doomed to fail
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Ezra Klein Doesn't Understand How Immigration WorksSep 3
ezra klein, radley balko, and the new york times claim ice is "eviscerating" due process, but a close look at immigration law reveals they're wrong
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Age of BallsAug 21
pirate wires #145 // DOGE staffer fights off a mob and sparks a national conversation on violence and virtue, the presidential medal of freedom, and celebrating what this country needs — balls
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Reactions to Trump's Debanking Executive OrderAug 12
trump has basically ended biden's debanking operation, and he just issued an e.o. taking banks further to task — but the real culprits, still unaddressed, are the regulators
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Cornell Rigged a Faculty Search to Exclude White Applicants, So I'm Taking Legal ActionAug 1
cornell ran a secret hiring process to secure a predetermined “diversity hire,” violating federal civil rights law and shutting me out of the career i'd spent decades preparing to enter
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Globalize the Inmate-fada: How Zohran Could Let Thousands of Prisoners Walk FreeJul 25
nyc's rikers island prison complex is set to close in 2027 with no replacement, meaning a future mayor mamdani will be in a position to enact his abolitionist agenda by default
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Free Mexico!Jun 12
pirate wires #142 // a new founding myth emerges from the smoldering remains of waymos, rioting gives way to alternate reality, media fragmentation, and our future will be policed, or it will be gated
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“It Was Chaos” — The LA Riots, a Firsthand AccountJun 10
arson, looting, and police getting pegged “in the face with a brick,” a portrait of the "rebel faction" that overpowered this weekend's protest
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DOGE: A ReckoningJun 10
what the agency has actually accomplished (so far) and where it's heading
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Right Wing Civil WarJun 6
pirate wires #141 // elon musk’s relationship with donald trump dissolves, the tech and populist right enter open conflict, and the fate of american industry hangs in the balance
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More American Than AmericaJun 3
from seasteading to charter cities, and can democracy be saved? do we want it to be saved? a conversation with patri friedman and kelsey piper
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