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Enabler in Chief
On September 23, less than two weeks before he tested positive for Covid, Donald Trump made explicit what has long been implicit: he will not accept defeat in the presidential election. Asked whether he would “commit here today for a peaceful...
Marco Lopez
“for William Barr, Roe v. Wade, not slavery, is America’s original sin”
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Airtable: Organize anything you can imagine
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Pack the Court, Save the Vote
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to entrench minoritarian rule without the consent of the electorate.
9 ways to reform the Supreme Court besides court-packing
The Supreme Court threatens American democracy. Here’s how to stop it.
Late Bloomers
Picasso’s greatest works came early but Cézanne’s came late. Why do we equate genius with precocity?
Marco Lopez
Maybe it just shows that many of the greatest works aren’t works of genius. But anyway it’s a nice piece.
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Science has been in a "replication crisis" for a decade. Have we learned anything?
Bad papers are still published. But some other things might be getting better.
Marco Lopez
“Laypeople without a professional background in the social sciences are able to predict the replicability of social-science studies with above-chance accuracy,” the study concluded, “on the basis of nothing more than simple verbal study descriptions.”
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It's Not 'Court Packing.' Don't Be A Moron and Call It That.
I wrote this tweet because I thought I would become apoplectic when I saw that some Democrats were referring to...
Florida extends voter registration deadline after website problems
Florida residents now have until 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday to register to vote online or in-person.
WATCH: Sheldon Whitehouse masterfully exposes right-wing conspiracy to rig the courts
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) laid out a vast right-wing conspiracy to stack the courts to benefit a handful of billionaires. The Rhode Island Democrat showed how the deeply conservative Federalist Society, Judicial Crisis Network and Donors Trust...
The Sunday Read: ‘David’s Ankles’
A writer’s obsession with the flaws, reproductions and potential collapse of Michelangelo’s masterpiece.
Outside Podcast: Dispatches: Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? on Apple Podcasts
Show Outside Podcast, Ep Dispatches: Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? - 30 Jul 2019
Three Cheers for Socialism
In the late modern world something like socialism is the only possible way of embodying Christian love in concrete political practices.
Deconstructed: A Look at the 2020 Congressional Landscape on Apple Podcasts
Show Deconstructed, Ep A Look at the 2020 Congressional Landscape - Oct 9, 2020
Trump Doesn’t Know Why Crime Rises or Falls. Neither Does Biden. Or Any Other Politician.
The billboards started popping up around Minneapolis in June. “Uptown reels after gunfire, bloodshed.” “Multiple shootings in metro area overnight.” Referencing…
Marco Lopez
"Crime" became a code word used to harness white voters’ racial fears and resentments while affording protection from charges of racism. Regardless of crime levels, Americans report feeling less safe in neighborhoods where more young black men live.
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MikeTyson and Paul Holdengräber: Undisputed Truth | 11-12-2013 | LIVE from the NYPL
LIVE from the NYPL | Recorded live at the New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum, on November 12, 2013. Boxing champion, Broadway headliner, felon—Mik...
Marco Lopez
MikeTyson and Paul Holdengräber: Undisputed Truth | 11-12-2013 | LIVE fr... youtu.be/sb1krIZJ7JQ via @YouTube
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GPS Tracking Reveals the Secret Lives of Outdoor Cats
We track sharks, rhino, and bears, so why not Boo Boo Kitty, Peanut, and Pumpkin?
The Long Island feline residents volunteered—or more accurately, were volunteered—by their human companions to participate in a domestic cat movement study as part...
Marco Lopez
“Without the motivations of food and sex, most cats seem content to be homebodies," openculture.com/?p=1081901 via @openculture
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