This tells you how terrified Trump, Brendan Carr, and Bari Weiss are of James Talarico.
So much for “free speech absolutists” when it comes to someone who knows how to speak to Americans with heart and guts.
Bravo to Colbert.
Kyiv is in total blackout,
as are many parts of Ukraine.
No water, no heating, no electricity.
Severe frost outside.
This is the result of constant russian attacks.
Thank you to those few who still care.
My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some things of those things #Thread
*If* this is the spiked @60Minutes cecot episode, it confirms what we all suspected: We (the United States) and El Salvador committed significant, and inhuman, human rights violations, and got it wrong in 50-90% of the cases.
As a country, we need to hold the executives who made these mistakes and decisions accountable.
We didn’t need to do these deportations savagely, and we knew — and some folks even applauded — the fact that these individuals would be abused in CECOT.
A disgraceful chapter for America.
Send all available weapons to Ukraine, especially long range ones to hit Russian launch sites and energy infrastructure to deter Putin and save Ukrainian lives. Stop protecting a terror state's cash over innocent lives and European security. The war is here. Fight or lose. 🇺🇦
@caityweaver Oh, your writing is so beautiful. It conveyed your heartbreak and gave me a new, lost friend in your dad in just a few minutes. Sending love to you and your family.
I think we are all losing our minds.
Let me float an idea I haven’t heard.
What made us a poweful wealthy and largely decent society was a kind of tasteful hypocrisy if you will.
We had regulated markets and trade which we called “Free Markets”. We had somewhat public spirited cronyism which we called “Capitalism”. We had a party-managed republic we called a “Democracy”. We had a Senate while somehow proclaiming “One man, One Vote”. We had a million restrictions on what could be said frictionlessly at scale and who has that privilege, and yet we openly claimed we had “Free Speech”.
It’s all sort of mind blowing. It never made complete sense. At least to me.
At it’s absolute best, our whole thing was a tasteful managed hypocrisy.
And that hypocrisy creaked along and worked for us. But it doesn’t play well on the internet.
So now we are trying to go back to an imagined consistent system to resolve that hypocrisy. Which can’t be done. I wish that weren’t true…but I’m afraid it is.
If no one else will say it, I will. I think the crazy compromises and checks and balances at least need to be revisited. They were always somewhat comically hypocritical. Granted. But the new search for ideological purity may doom us even more quickly.
One man’s opinion.
From my new post. "I recently concluded a 39-year career as a professor of journalism at NYU. Here I’m trying to explain my next job, and the logic behind it." https://t.co/XPytd3eqLd
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