8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

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This one might be his craziest ever

The Trump campaign is attempting to paint the popular center-left Midwestern governor as a “West Coast wannabe” liberal.

Before shots were fired, people in the crowd knew something was amiss. What happened next was chaotic and over in seconds.

the crazy is about to go off the charts

Death threats have become rampant as MAGA culture twists norms and makes once-marginal forms of violence mainstream.

Comments blaming Biden and the left for the shooting could lay the groundwork for crackdowns on critics of the right.

Among political leaders who have reacted to an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Donald Trump at the MAGA hopeful's Butler, Pennsylvania rally Saturday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) expressed sympathy and relief — surprising some experts. Taking to social media, Pelosi wrote via X (...

We traveled to this bad place together, which means, in theory, that we can still decide to go somewhere else

The Trump rally shooting in Pennsylvania reveals a bipartisan consensus about what constitutes political violence — and who should wield it.

Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.

The shots fired at Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday are being investigated as an assassination attempt of the former

The “mournful, plaintive wail of Irishness” is the soundtrack for both the Kennedy and the Biden stories, in which triumph is always shadowed by calamity. There is in this structure of feeling no easy opposition of hubris and nemesis. There is just, as Obama said to Biden when his son Beau was dying, the awareness that “life is so difficult to discern”—difficult because it does not offer itself in the easy forms of the wonderful and the terrible but confuses the two by conjoining them as twins. The political manifestation of this awareness is not the upbeat rhetoric of the American Dream; it is a politics of empathy in which the leader shares the pain of the citizen.

In black-is-white fashion, MAGA rushes to blame Biden and Democrats for political violence.

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Humanity needs to become multi-planetary before a "supervirus" or "nuclear war" ravages the Earth, Musk said

Survey by PEN America suggests bans nearly tripled nationwide from previous year’s figure

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Elon Musk has had a longstanding crush on Taylor Swift, with his tweet suggesting he could impregnate her the latest in a long string.

Over 100,000 people in France took to the streets in protest against Macron's right-wing prime minister choice. Is this a denial of democracy? The French people are in rebellion, ready for a long battle. #FranceProtests #Macron

A WIRED analysis shows that right-wing stars like Tim Pool and Benny Johnson focused on topics like Elon Musk and supposed racism toward white people in hundreds of videos allegedly paid for by Russia.

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Every time it seems he can’t possibly sink any lower, the billionaire CEO grabs a shovel and starts digging

A record number of advertisers plan to cut their spending on Elon Musk's Twitter next year, according to new research from Kantar.