Science Fiction’s Wonderful Mistakes ( newrepublic.com )
The great novels of the 1960s remain enjoyable because they got everything wrong.
We now live in a world in which the right-wing media sets the national agenda. The mainstream media follows. ( newrepublic.com )
Going way back in time, we had only a mainstream media—the Times and the Post and the Associated Press and the major networks. In the 1970s, after the famous Powell Memo, wealthy conservatives began funding their own media. For most of the last 50 years, even as the right-wing media grew, it remained clear that the mainstream...
Evangelicals created the Bless Every Home app which maps the personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” ( newrepublic.com )
x-posted from https://mbin.grits.dev/m/privacy@lemmy.ml/t/74740
Trump Apparently Has a List of Things He Loves About Adolf Hitler ( newrepublic.com )
In his new book The Return of Great Powers, which comes out Tuesday, reporter Jim Sciutto interviews several of Trump’s former advisers. All of them stressed that Trump regularly lavished praise on authoritarian leaders around the world, calling Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “fantastic,” Chinese President Xi...
The Supreme Court Ruling the Right Is Using to Eradicate Transgender People ( newrepublic.com )
“Are You Still a Marxist?”: Republican Senator Goes Full McCarthy ( newrepublic.com )
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy resurrected the Red Scare on Thursday, reminding everyone that McCarthyism never really died—just fell into a bit of a coma....
Georgia GOP Plans to Use Women’s Rights Bill to Allow More Hate Crimes ( newrepublic.com )
GOP Congressman Says Dead Palestinian Babies Aren’t All That Innocent ( newrepublic.com )
Republican Representative Brian Mast is questioning the innocence of babies killed in Gaza.
Flaubert versus the World ( newrepublic.com )
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
The Child Tax Credit Is Back From the Dead ( newrepublic.com )
The Polls Prove It: Many Republicans Love Fascism ( newrepublic.com )
It Will Be an Election Unlike Any We’ve Lived Through. Are the Democrats Prepared? ( newrepublic.com )
The animating concept behind the Trump campaign will be chaos. This is what history shows us fascists do when given the chance to participate in democratic political campaigns: They create chaos. They do it because chaos works to their advantage. They revel in it, because they can see how profoundly chaos unnerves...
The Comforting Lie of "Climate-Friendly Meat" ( newrepublic.com )
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Republican Government Shutdown ( newrepublic.com )
Mere weeks after the House GOP tore themselves apart over their inability to pass a funding bill, they’re back at it again.
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now. ( newrepublic.com )
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.
Rich People Are the Big Barrier to Stabilizing the Climate ( newrepublic.com )
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Outdoor Workers Are Climate Victims ( newrepublic.com )
How extreme weather could unite the environmental and labor movements
New Explosive Roger Stone Video Dooms Donald Trump’s Main Legal Defense ( newrepublic.com )
The video was filmed before the election results had even been announced.
Should Climate Protesters Be Less Annoying? ( newrepublic.com )
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Marjorie Taylor Greene May Have Sent Hunter Biden Nudes to a Bunch of Minors ( newrepublic.com )
MAGA Pushes New Conspiracy to Prep for Trump Losing Biden Debate ( newrepublic.com )
Pathetic Trump Already Trying to Weasel Out of Debating Biden ( newrepublic.com )
After agreeing to two debates with Biden, Donald Trump seems to be trying to set up an excuse to escape the whole thing....
Anti-trans Missouri A.G. can now access trans people’s medical records ( newrepublic.com )
A judge ordered Planned Parenthood to hand records of transgender care over to Andrew Bailey....
Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. ( newrepublic.com )
It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household....
Conservatives Plan to Ban Abortion and Cut LGBT Rights Starting Next January ( newrepublic.com )
Project 2025’s 180-Day Playbook is a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise.
