Rogue Presidents and the Impulse Behind Trumpism
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Happy Oktoberfest! It’s hot here in Zinzinnati, and while the wildcard race heats up for both the Guardians and Reds, there’s a lot of great baseball left to be played. Enjoy it, baseball fans.
Ayman Soliman, a beloved former children’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area… was released from ICE custody yesterday. (Asawin Suebsaeng, Rolling Stone)
Think Anew, and Act Anew: A New Deal for the 21st Century… A broad proposal for the Anti-MAGA Coalition, from Michael Wood.
Call Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension exactly what it is: government censorship. Anthony Fisher at MSNBC.
Has liberalism become pathological? At Flux, Toby Buckle on how John Rawls made liberalism too weak to defend itself, and whether ‘reactionary centrism’ is an accurate term.
Matt Labash… On the Murder of Charlie Kirk.
This week’s comment prompt: What’s one race you think is a sleeper upset? (Can be a pennant race or a political campaign.)
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Jim, THANK YOU for elevating Ayman Soliman’s story. We need to hear about every one of our neighbors caught up in the improper dragnets of an overreaching government. ANY innocent person detained without real cause is a clear sign of government ignoring our Constitutional protections. Cincinnati isn’t the biggest city and the imam’s case not the most egregious- it’s important for Americans to be informed of all these violations of our civil rights and civil order. We believe in law and order and this ain’t it!
Hi Jim Swift! You answered your phone off duty, enjoying a cup of coffee, and got me, Erica.
I was trying to get to Substack subscriptions
w/o all my personal info flashed upon the screen. I got there. Thanks!
As to the sleeper, he's wide awake: Zoran!
Extremely intelligent, a natural speaker, very appealing (translation: good-looking) and he's for
all of us.
I mean, what' s the problem? Even Democrats
shy away from him. They are jealous.
Zoran has the solution: share. SHARE.
(Sharing is not Socialism.) I learned to share in
Kindergarden!
The fat cats have all the money and a lot of it is
stolen from us. Cuts in every institution that
helps us get by. Low wages, no universal health
care, meagre health insurance, layoffs, firings,
wierd retraction of vaccine availability,and a monopoly of AI.
Given all of the above, who wouldn't vote for
Zoran?