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You may have noticed that I don’t spill much digital ink writing about Hunter Biden. That’s because, all along, I have understood this for what it is: a politically-driven effort to smear Joe Biden over the checkered history of his troubled son. Even saying something is “politically-driven” these days creates chum in the water. After all, that is the current language and currency of the right, and particularly of Trump as he faces a growing number of indictments. If Democrats accuse Republicans of going after Hunter Biden for political purposes, the GOP can point to that and say to their own base, “See how this works? If

Since Roe was overturned GOP has gone full religious supremacy

5G Was An Over-Hyped Dud. Prepare For Nobody To Learn Absolutely Anything From The Experience by Karl Bode

We’ve noted for several years how the “race to 5G” was largely just hype by telecoms and hardware vendors eager to sell more gear and justify high U.S. mobile data prices. While 5G does provide faster, more resilient, and lower latency networks, it’s more of an evolution than a revolution. But that’s not what telecom giants […]

The worst of the worst.

Hunter Biden listened to his lawyers, Trump should’ve done the same by Steve Benen

Hunter Biden cooperated with prosecutors, listened to his defense attorneys, and will receive a light sentence. Maybe Donald Trump should've tried this?

As yet another investigation of Joe Biden's son shows him to be a recovering addict, Republicans cling to conspiracy theories that cast him as a globe-trotting gangster

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Plus: Jack Smith Cometh

The president’s son’s investigation was by the book.

Plus: How to Stifle Groups Like the Oath Keepers

Republicans focus on outcomes so that they don't have to grapple with the process.

The Bulwark interview

Plus: Trump’s court date could come as soon as mid-August

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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