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Will Wall Street turn on Trump — and Elon?

Evening Roundup: March 10

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After Dinner Conversation - Philosophy | Ethics Short Story

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Scala Foundation co-hosts a One-Day Symposium at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, England, July 1, 2025

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Dan Turrentine's Substack

To Shutdown, Or Not Shutdown

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

PODCAST: We Don’t Arrest/Deport People Here On Student Visas Who Peacefully Protest. That’s Not What America Is

Things to read this week (3/10)

Trump's tariffs will not end well

A Day in the Life of a (Beleaguered) Congressional Staffer

"How I Use AI to Plan My Children’s Future and Everyday Life"

Trying to Avoid Pregnancy Permanently

Mark S. Zaid and Jen Rubin discuss ongoing litigation against the Trump Administration

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Chicagomatic - Documenting Edzo's Burger Shop

Op-Ed: Rep. August Pfluger and Rep. Michael Cloud: President Donald Trump showed how Democrats have lost their way

Calling All Ethical Lawyers

The Contrarian covers the Democracy Movement

Destroying Social Security from within

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This was a particularly interesting and surprisingly heartfelt episode with Josiah and Raziv interviewing Ross Douthat about his new book Believe.

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Khanversation #32: Ross Douthat on why you should believe in religion

Andrew Sullivan

Put a chick in it and make it gay!

What Kathleen Kennedy claims to have accomplished at Lucasfilm is a generational transfer of the Star Wars brand to the so-called “modern audience” that supposedly demands stories in which the man gets the dog, or else a gay love affair, or else killed, while the girlboss does everything, taking no moral responsibility for anything, deserving what she receives simply because she was born awesome. Audiences have had enough of it

Matt Osborne

Erika Bachiochi

Not sure I’ve read an essay that more perfectly captures my views of marriage, also nearly 25 years in. It’s terrific —

After 25 years as a wife, I sometimes feel like my whole family has walked through an inferno—and survived. And I’ve come to realize that marriage is too difficult—and deep and important and personal—to be hampered either by sexist stereotypes, or the doctrines of the people who want to smash them to smithereens. Make quilts and pies if you feel like it. Tar the roof. Fix the water pipes. Have the babies and take turns carrying them and feeding them—or send your husband off to work while you stay home making videos of your sourdough journey—however your family works it out. That’s the best thing about marriage: You get to create your own world at the edge of the glacier.

Larissa Phillips

You made it, you own it

You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.

LGB Courage Coalition

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Courage Coalition

New Name, New Logo, Same Mission

Claire the Catholic Feminist

This entire piece is just the best thing on the internet

In the shadow of that hustle I think we can let Meghan have her jam. Sorry, preserves.

Victoria Moss

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Jonathan V. Last

Why did 77m voters choose Trump?

We now have some data comparing the attitudes and values of American voters with people around the world. And it turns out that Republicans align their values very closely with Russia and Turkey, and to a slightly lesser degree China.

Trump’s illiberalism isn’t a bug for Republican voters. It’s a feature.

The Bulwark

New Data: Republican Voters Want Authoritarianism

Elaine Appleton Grant

One way to help resist authoritarianism is to be more deliberate about how we use language and whether it matches our intent — not just what we mean, but how the public understands it. Often these aren’t just different, they’re wildly contradictory. Witness the right’s negative framing of the word “liberal,” for instance. Here’s a way to think more deeply about language. My college political philosophy professor, whom I revered, one day said, “I am a conservative.” Even then, there were startle…

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Deborah T. Hewitt

Feb 27

I could never post this one enough.

LetsGetIntoIt2025

A MUST WATCH! Sen. Jeff Merkley bravely asking what we’ve all been thinking.

You made it, you own it

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William Kristol

The Bulwark

This Isn’t Four-Dimensional Chess. Trump’s Helping Russia.

Rep. Jamie Raskin

I'm hearing great things about this platform and I'm happy to share updates on my work sharing Maryland and the American people here on Substack!

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Anne Applebaum

Feb 13

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

Kevin Ellis

No one is writing like this. No one is getting to heart of MAGA hatred, racism and whiteness bette than Burleigh. Read it. Then go for a walk in the woods.

American Freakshow

MAGA’s Heart of Darkness

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Jonathan V. Last

You really can’t understand our current moment without understanding the history of the American South.

Because you better believe that the bad guys understand it.

Do not miss this piece.

In 1898, America’s first coup d’etat took place as the Democrats of Wilmington, North Carolina issued a “White Declaration of Independence.” They were attacking the coalition of black Republicans and white Populists that had control of the local government in the 1890s, which the old Confederates of the city found intolerable. With their resentment and rage being fueled by white Democratic powerbrokers, two thousand armed men forced out the duly elected government. None were more pleased by this result than their Bourbon backers.

Alan Elrod

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Judd Legum

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Veterans Administration therapists forced to provide mental health counseling in open cubicles

Elaine Appleton Grant

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I’m in front of my screen, reminding myself that the best work stems from connecting, on the ground, with other humans.

To mine for new and noteworthy stories, we have to be on the ground, acting as open-minded witnesses to what’s happening in the world. We need to get in the habit of asking strangers to tell us about their lives.

Elaine Appleton Grant

You made it, you own it

You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.

Brian D Smith

God has no hands but ours.

We are here for a reason. Not by accident. Not by mistake. We chose this time, this place, this life.

But what will we do with it?

The world is loud, full of fear and division. It wants to pull us into its drama, make us forget why we’re here. But we are not here to fight battles that were never ours. We are not h…

Sebastian Raschka, PhD

Jun 8

Ahead of AI

In case you are looking for something to watch this weekend, I’ve put together a 1-hour presentation that walks you through the entire development cycle of LLMs, from architecture implementation to the finetuning stages: