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Eli Pariser • 🏘️ 🌐 Your town’s online group matters more than you think
In another timeline, Yarvin might have remained an obscure and ineffectual internet crank, a digital de Maistre. Instead, he has become one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers, an engineer of the intellectual source code for the second Trump Administration. “Yarvin has pushed the Overton window,” Nikhil Pal Singh, a history professor... See more
Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
Armed with a small portable speaker and microphone, Franklin Sims was surrounded by hundreds of protesters hanging on his every word during multiple demonstrations over the last month.
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He speaks about a lack of accountability within city government, particularly on the part of Mayor Robert Garcia. He speaks about the... See more
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StoryCorps and Braver Angels
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
With Kamala Harris now poised to become the Democratic Party nominee, there’s a renewed sense of optimism about the future of American politics. But one person has never let his hopes dim: David Hogg.
The Parkland shooting survivor and “March for our Lives” founder has now created Leaders We Deserve, a political... See more
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