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Code Switch

I fell asleep once to tips on working out in my apartment, you know, during the pandemic, and woke up 45 minutes later with YouTube autoplaying a video of Jordan Peterson decrying wokeness. And IRL, it is pretty unremarkable to go into like a bodybuilding gym or CrossFit box and see thin blue line flags all over the walls.
— Code Switch

2w ago

Fresh Air

How Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought the culture wars to the military

Usually Secretaries of Defense do everything they can to protect the military from our divisive politics and those culture wars. Hegseth was really the first Secretary of Defense I've seen in my lifetime who invited that into the Pentagon, and made it a central plank of his identity and leadership.

3w ago

Semafor

How The Democratic Party's Favorite Lawyer Is Growing A Liberal Media Empire

I think the legacy media is not equipped to deal with um uh a politics where just like one side is just like wrong like one side is just like saying things that are preposterously untrue.

4w ago

Book of the Day

Sen. Raphael Warnock argues that progressives should bring spirituality to politics

My faith is not a weapon, it's a bridge. And what I offer in the book is not a condemnation, but an invitation, even with those who are my political opponents.

3mo ago

Pivot

Is Apple's Budget Laptop Brand Suicide? | Pivot

It's the extremes that present a threat to society. And the two things that are probably most important to avoiding a strong man or a strong woman uh from either side of the party are very boring

7mo ago

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