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@discoverflux@masto.ai · 6d ago

Legal formalism distorted liberal politics and handed the Supreme Court to the radical right.

The Nation’s Elie Mystal joins @mattsheffield@mastodon.social to discuss how the left misunderstood that jurisprudence is inherently political--and usually conservative.

This error is the root reason that Ruth Ginsburg did not retire when she should've and why Barack Obama didn't fight harder to get his final SCOTUS nomination.

https://plus.flux.community/p/legal-formalism-distorted-liberal

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Mar 09, 2026

Despite condemning Trump's unauthorized attack on Iran, some congressional Democrats are talking about funding it.

This would severely undermine their moral credibility with voters and would be a political disaster as well: https://plus.flux.community/p/assenting-to-trumps-insane-iran-war

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Mar 06, 2026

How the sex, drugs, and rock and roll counterculture fell in love with Donald Trump and Jesus

Aaron Rabinowitz of the "Embrace the Void" podcast discusses ‘high weirdness’ and why so many of the hippies were actually just conservative anarchists https://plus.flux.community/p/how-the-sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Mar 04, 2026

How you think about minds influences how you view the world

@yoginho@spore.social and @mattsheffield@mastodon.social discuss how digital computing metaphors cannot capture what biological minds are https://plus.flux.community/p/how-you-think-about-minds-influences

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Mar 02, 2026

Plunging U.S. into illegal war with Iran, Donald Trump reminds us he's the true menace to our country

In his half-hearted attempts to sell war with Iran, Trump sticks to a stale authoritarian script: we are beset by evil enemies that he alone can vanquish via violent retribution https://plus.flux.community/p/plunging-us-into-illegal-war-with

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Feb 26, 2026

Epstein files show a financier obsessed with excluding women from science and tech

"No really smart women – none" https://plus.flux.community/p/epstein-files-show-a-financier-obsessed

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Feb 17, 2026

Financially struggling Americans have no interest in participating in a political system that’s failed them

Sociologist Daniel Laurison discusses new research on why many low-income people don't vote https://plus.flux.community/p/financially-struggling-americans

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Feb 16, 2026

AI content is here to stay, laws and norms need to change accordingly

Large Language Models are enabling the non-rich to get cognitive assistance, but they’re also enabling junk and manipulation. Political leaders everywhere have to step forward. https://plus.flux.community/p/ai-content-is-here-to-stay-laws-and

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Feb 15, 2026

All the king’s masked and anonymous henchmen:

In the Trump administration's elevation of lawless federal agents, we can see a parallel denigration of the meaning of American citizenship https://plus.flux.community/p/all-the-kings-masked-and-anonymous

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Feb 15, 2026

Robert Kennedy’s MAHA cult is making America sicker: A new scientific establishment is attacking evidence-based medicine https://plus.flux.community/p/robert-kennedys-maha-cult-is-making

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Feb 09, 2026

The START nuclear weapons treaty is expiring this week, but Trump doesn’t seem to care.

Even Russian president Vladimir Putin has proposed extending it for an additional year. https://plus.flux.community/p/the-start-nuclear-weapons-treaty

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Feb 06, 2026

Donald Trump has never been more unpopular than now, but Democratic leaders are so paralyzed by their obsolete view of politics that they are reluctant to capitalize on it.

https://plus.flux.community/p/donald-trump-is-more-unpopular-than

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Feb 06, 2026

Christian right groups launch new coalition to ban marriage equality

Reactionary religious groups plan to leverage Republican Supreme Court majority to overturn same-sex marriage rights nationwide https://plus.flux.community/p/christian-right-groups-launch-new

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Feb 05, 2026

Don’t trust Trump's fake interest in ‘de-escalating’ ICE tactics

Caught red-handed overseeing authoritarian horrors on Minnesota streets, the president is desperate to evade accountability — and preserve maneuvering room to keep escalating his war on blue states https://plus.flux.community/p/dont-trust-trumps-fake-interest-in

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Feb 02, 2026

Trump’s threats against Europe are uniting the continent against the U.S.

The American president has stopped menacing Europe over Greenland, but leaders on the continent are having to retool under the realization that the U.S. is now a rogue state https://plus.flux.community/p/trumps-threats-against-europe-are

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Jan 30, 2026

Don't believe the president's talk of deescalation in Minnesota — violence against citizens is the inevitable by-product of a war on blue America conducted under cover of immigration enforcement

https://plus.flux.community/p/president-trump-owns-the-state-terror

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@discoverflux@masto.ai · Jan 18, 2026

America is lonely by design: A meditation on how the American Dream dissolved into an isolation nightmare https://plus.flux.community/p/america-is-lonely-by-design

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