I mean, I know Boston isn’t going 100% right now, but the Knicks are up 21 at half. Absolutely DOMINATING the boards. Getting second-chance points left and right.

I am ready for these playoffs

Holy shit, this fucking team.

I agree, man. This team at full health could win a ring this year. Seen enough to believe that.

But I think, even without Randle, they can still at least make a competitive second round run. Maybe more?

Today's The Pulaski Institution roundup:
-Scotland's anti-hate speech law draws fire from Rowling, other transphobes via The Washington Post
-Wisconsin Supreme Court to lose key liberal justice via Wisconsin Examiner
-A review of White Rural Rage via The Daily Yonder
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I have become verb, destroyer of worlds

The whole crew at The UnPopulist are doing great work. Berny Belvedere and co are building an essential outlet over there

A definitive refutation of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and J. D. Vance's relentless lies about noncitizen voting by Walter Olson.

Only at The UnPopulist

theunpopulist.net/p/the-rights-b…

What do Patton Oswalt, Eric Edelman, Imagine Dragons, Bill Kristol, Alyssa Milano, Mona Charen, J.J. Abrams, and Peter Wehner have in common?

They agree that Congress must let Ukraine win. Read the letter:

cnn.com/2024/04/10/opi…

This is unsettling. I asked historian Daniel Ziblatt if previous examples of conservative and financial elites allying with authoritarian and/or fascist movements should help us understand today's corporate elite accommodation with Trump.

His answer:

newrepublic.com/article/180564…

“Trumpism requires that we think fantastically. This is not so easy. Even for many pessimists, it is difficult to truly contemplate disastrous outcomes.”

Read my new ⁦Arc Digital⁩ column on the need to entertain the worst versions of a Trumpian future arcdigital.media/p/can-you-imag…

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Today’s newsletter:
-Abortion access in rural New Mexico via NMDailySource

-Retirments in Wyoming legislate an opportunity for GOP hard right via WyoFile

-Canada’s carbon tax convoy via Canada's National Observer

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Thanks Greg Sargent!

This piece is also a pretty unequivocal endorsement of the work being done by scholars like Ruth Ben-Ghiat and outlets like The Bulwark to directly confront the dangers of this moment

Something Greg also does every day on his podcast.

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My newest Arc Digital column: on Jonathan V. Last’s Trump 2028 hypothetical and the need to peer into our dark futures

arcdigital.media/p/can-you-imag…

My newest Arc Digital column: on Jonathan V. Last’s Trump 2028 hypothetical and the need to peer into our dark futures

arcdigital.media/p/can-you-imag…

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It can't happen here. Someone'll stop him. Right?
Maybe not.
In @Arcdigi, Alan Elrod argues that supporters of US Constitutional democracy should imagine some dark scenarios—enemies of democracy sure are—and face the possibilities to head them off in advance
arcdigital.media/p/can-you-imag…

“Trumpism requires that we think fantastically. This is not so easy. Even for many pessimists, it is difficult to truly contemplate disastrous outcomes.”

Read my new ⁦Arc Digital⁩ column on the need to entertain the worst versions of a Trumpian future arcdigital.media/p/can-you-imag…

Thanks Greg Sargent!

This piece is also a pretty unequivocal endorsement of the work being done by scholars like Ruth Ben-Ghiat and outlets like The Bulwark to directly confront the dangers of this moment

Something Greg also does every day on his podcast.