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On January 14, 1963, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel gave the speech “Religion and Race,” at a conference of the same name that assembled in Chicago, Illinois.  There he met Dr. Martin Luther King and the two became friends.  Rabbi Heschel marched with Dr. King at Selma, Alabama in 1965.  The sp...

Blacks were denied freedom by virtue of their skin color and their special history and struggle deserves special recognition

The new anti-Trumpers

The internet has allowed independent creators to thrive, finding niche audiences for everything from nudes to salad recipes. But it’s also spawned silos that incentivize propaganda.

Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit Users by Mike Masnick

Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subreddits as something not worth paying attention to resulted in many subreddits extending their protests indefinitely, Huffman apparently thought it would make […]

Trump’s Second Indictment, Part III: Trump Confessed. Now let’s bust a few myths. by Teri Kanefield

Part I: Trump’s Second Indictment (Over the Cliff Notes) is here. Part II: Trump has been indicted on federal criminal charges and his case was assigned to Aileen Cannon. Now what? is here. Welcome to Part III. *  *  * After Trump’s arraignment, he gave a speech in which he said, “Under the Presidential Records …

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What Does the Commandment about Parents Really Entail?

The fifth type has been me more than I care to admit…

Reddit Blackout Crashes The Site As Reddit Users Realize They’re In The Power Position by Mike Masnick

On Monday we wrote about the changes that Reddit was making to their API pricing, causing some services to shut down, and leading thousands of subreddits to choose to blackout (some temporarily, some indefinitely). Apparently, all those sites going private resulted in… Reddit itself falling over. According to Reddit, the blackout was responsible for the […]

Don't look now, but the big guy just popped a number in New Hampshire.

Plus: Revisiting the Flight 93 election

The American College of Pediatricians gained outsize political influence in recent years, promoting views rejected by the medical establishment as scientific fact.

There’s a lot of good news happening. Plus: Asa, the good Republican.

A failed motion to censure Rep. Adam Schiff reveals widening cracks in the GOP

Music Publishers File (Somewhat Weak) Copyright Lawsuit Against Twitter by Mike Masnick

To be honest, I’m somewhat amazed that more copyright lawsuits haven’t been filed against Twitter yet. There have been multiple reports of how the company’s DMCA takedown response systems have been broken/ignored since Musk took over. Without looking for it, I’ve seen full length high def movies show up in my Twitter feed (including movies […]

Exceptions to save the "life of the mother" are largely meaningless.

Being president for all the people. Even the ones who are never going to vote for you.

The Republican megadonors don’t seem to have any idea of who they actually need to reach to move the needle in the primary.

The former president was not interested in attempting to negotiate a settlement in the classified documents investigation, three people briefed on the matter said.

Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? by Bloonface

I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, and have been doing so full time for about six months, following Elon Musk buying Twitter (since on principle, I decline to give Elon Musk money […]