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The new Times expose on Ukraine is shocking, horrifying, enraging. Everyone involved with this caper needs to be sent up the river
💌: Sharing a bit of my heart today. Can we have a nonpolitical church in these times? How about a nonpartisan one? This letter is free for all to read.
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It’s ironic that Matt chooses this movie to review considering that it was this example that I used to compare his style of discourse with the right-wing, where unacceptable ideas aren’t so much addressed as “screened” and dismissed.
These kind of defensive-dismissive rhetorical postures, seen in Matt’s late stage leftism and 2000s era e…
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We live in an age of despair, unsurprisingly, for we have set up an array of circumstances most conducive to it. Consider contemporary society and what it is ordered towards. You may surprised to contemplate just how many areas of modern life lead people down dark pathways of lonely despair.
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Looks like our ‘fact-checking’ friends in the corporate media are coming for Substack again. Be warned!
What a splendid piece of writing—go with it, it’ll take you places you don’t expect.
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Good grief this is a fantastic article. As a mom of a teen son, I can confirm the talk of college is on the decline.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is aaaaaall over the news but the race I care most about (and am already discouraged by) is our local school board race. I’m so frustrated at what I believe will be the outcome, and I’m struggling with anger at my community. Talking more about this soon in this week’s letter. I’m a sinner. So are they. Blah.
I just got back from teaching my class and every word of it this is true, this is no exaggeration. He is writing from an American university but it is exactly the same in Canada.
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“You fast, but Satan does not eat. You labor fervently, but Satan never sleeps. The only dimension with which you can outperform Satan is by acquiring humility, for Satan has no humility.”
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Insightful as always, but unfortunately I fear that the excellent Aaron Renn maybe too late, likely by decades.
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It’s a big day at The Free Press.
Tyler Cowen, Jed Rubenfeld, Matthew Continetti, Batya Ungar-Sargon become columnists. And Coleman Hughes brings his podcast to our shop.
Though it was more of a GOP fumble than a Democratic win…the end result is still the same: The 36th Senate District in northern Lancaster County now sports a Democratic Senator, the first since the late 1880’s. (And that guy, John S. Hoover, never actually got sworn into office.)
James Malone, who will instantly own the best beard in the upper chamber once he gets sworn in, beat the Republican nominee, County Commissioner Josh Parsons, by about 482 votes. Turnout, 29%, was low by Lancaster standards - though in Philly you often don’t even get that % turnout in a primary.
It’s clear that given their predilection towards mail-in voting, Democrats now start with a leg up in special elections here , especially those, like this, held on an odd date (March 25th - not on a regular Primary day). Malone began election night with a 5,300-vote margin once mail-ins were tallied, which Parsons could not overcome as the Election Day results came in.
It’s also clear that this was more of a Parsons problem than a GOP at-large problem…
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This man is a hero. We need more senators like him.
Judge Susan Crawford: "I gotta tell ya, as a young girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never imagined I'd be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won!"
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A searing takedown of Tulsi Gabbard, our top intelligence official who is casually amplifying Russian state media:
CONGRESSMAN JIM HIMES: Do you think it’s responsible for you, as head of the intelligence community, to retweet posts from individuals affiliated with Russian state media?
GABBARD: That retweet came from my personal account.
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