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Endless Bad Faith.
Comparison: You cite Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, then proceed to argue that offering targeted support to historically marginalized...
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Jun 42 min read
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Bees and flimsy bridges.
Comparison: . . . or do we try to build back some flimsy little bridge? Sometimes when we are alone, thoughts come swarming into our...
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May 232 min read
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When Will He Take a Vitality/Vanity Stop?
Comparison: A vitality gap has opened up. The Trump administration is like a supercar with 1,000 horsepower, and its opponents have been...
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Apr 301 min read
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Don't Tell Travolta.
Comparison: Ok. When we talk about DOGE, I think one of the things that's not really well understood is that DOGE is like the government...
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Apr 283 min read
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Can You Gerrymander a Moat?!
Comparison: You’re gonna need a smaller moat On Monday, the first day of the trial, an FTC lawyer claimed that Meta chiefs were aware...
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Apr 172 min read
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Stealing?! Secrets, Red Hot Secrets, Get Your Secrets Here!
Comparison: Can you even call it stealing when it’s this simple? The Trump administration has unlocked the vault doors, fired half of the...
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Mar 271 min read
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Look Closely! One Star? Or, an Entire Constellation?
Comparison: So the best way I've learned to describe it [when an algorithm interprets individual bits of data], and this is almost ten...
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Feb 202 min read
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That's one powerful shredder!
Comparison: . . . 2025 could be a year like that: a time when the basic assumptions about the way our world works are fed into the...
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Feb 201 min read
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Teams not exactly in the same league, sport, or reality. Play Ball!??
Comparison: . . . the 2024 election was not a traditional binary choice between two coherently opposed political alternatives, the...
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Feb 201 min read
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Trust Glue-Trust Grease. If you say so!
Comparison: Trust acts as both glue and grease. It glues together bonds of cooperation, while at the same time it greases the flows of...
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Feb 202 min read
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Percentages, aid, perception . . . Oh, My!
Comparison: [concerning a public opinion poll wherein respondents were substantially off the mark concerning the amount of total foreign...
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Feb 182 min read
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Allemande RIGHT? Is that a thing?
Comparison: Bound by shared ideology, militias are more porous than outsiders would think. Members often cycle between groups like square...
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Feb 142 min read
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Odd exotic critters on the loose?!
Comparison: ‘Trump came down in June of 2015, and for 10 years there’s been no real work done to even begin to understand populism,...
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Feb 91 min read
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What, exactly, is going on in my body?!
Comparison: [a cell in the human body as seen by a scientist:] . . . one can almost imagine that it’s a bit like a backyard pool, with...
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Jan 272 min read
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The Oligarch's Repair (?) Garage
Comparison: Think of the federal government as a car. You might have thought that the [2024] election was like getting the car serviced....
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Jan 272 min read
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Duck! It's the Fourth Quarter!
Comparison: During his first term, Mr. Trump functioned less as a coach calling plays and more as a cantankerous owner demanding that his...
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Jan 131 min read
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Pick the Correct General for your Unwinnable Battle
Comparison: Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don’t want...
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Jan 32 min read
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Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!!
Comparison: ‘I think the equivalent of what Mike Johnson has had to do over the last couple weeks is like trying to eat a live...
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Dec 21, 20241 min read
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No turf for as far as the eye can see.
Comparison: ‘It’s horrible,‘ Jon [Kromenhoek] said about how everything has unfolded. ‘Absolutely horrible. It’s super emotional. I guess...
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Dec 14, 20242 min read
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Hellooooooo . . . anyone here?
Comparison: It felt as if I now lived in my own portable, perpetual ghost town. Former President Barack Obama reflects on the controlled,...
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Dec 10, 20241 min read
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