I actually do think innocent amusements and mindless joy in times of barbarism are themselves barbaric as well, sorry
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NYT: Moderate Democrats Increase Their Clout
For much of the midterm campaign, progressive Democratic insurgents commanded the spotlight in the fight to wrest control of Congress, defeating establishment incumbents in primaries, drawing enthusiastic crowds and promising to reorder their party’s priorities and remake American politics once they got to Washington.
But the path to Democrats’ sweeping victory this week, when they seized control of both chambers of Congress, was paved overwhelmingly by moderates who had spent months persuading voters in Republican-leaning states and competitive congressional districts that they could be trusted to govern and would deliver dissatisfied voters a practical alternative to President Trump
nytimes.com/2026/11/04/us/po…
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You can preorder the book here through the Ebb Books website:
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What are you thanking Sinwar for? The Gaza Strip is reduced to rubble, both political parties responsible for that are as powerful as ever, and the bombs continue to fall. And what have we done? A few tents on college campuses? Surrendered ourselves to the dominant culture?
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saw this at the MOMA and sat down on the bench in front of it and i was just staring at it enamored and a woman walked up and looked at it and then at me and sat down next to me. And we were just staring at it together for a few minutes it felt very special
We’re definitely in an Islam and Arab moment in the polls, all while the inferno in the Gaza Strip continues. The world is dejected, it’s not me
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We just returned the party that killed around 500k Palestinian to legislative power with no consequences or changes. Just what Sinwar was dreaming of I’m sure.
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A profoundly American thing is thinking your living in unprecedented times every two years and that history just might not apply to you this time
through it all, the face of the world never alters. this newest remains, in every form, the same. it is the eternity of hell.
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“I wondered whether music might not be the unique example of what might have been […] the means of communication between souls.”
— Proust, The Captive
(trans. Scott Moncrieff et al.)
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he definitely had reasons to hate marx, but i'm not sure i would take at face value the political critique of the man who attributed directly to marx aspects of the SPD marx himself was very critical of, and also enmeshed him into his paranoid antisemitic worldview:





























