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Bladee’s Redemptive Rap

Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg, better known by his pen name Novalis, died at the age of twenty-eight. During his short life, he was prolific enough to cement his. The post Bladee’s Redemptive Rap appeared first on First Things

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Another Requiem in Minneapolis

Another Requiem in Minneapolis The personal misery of a police state is hard for language to capture. The Russians are better at it than we can pretend to be during this ragged Minnesota winter of our ICE occupation. Well, their experience is so much longer, deeper. Czarist prisons, the Soviet Terror. Their decades, even centuries; our recent months. We do share a relentless climate, the biting winters of Moscow and the steppe, our brutal winds sweeping across the plains to the old northern r...

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Is Trump about to rig the midterm elections?

The election offices of Fulton County were raided by FBI agents yesterday morning. Fulton, in the state of Georgia, was at the heart of Donald Trump's claims six years ago that he’d won the 2020 election (he didn’t). Why are ballot boxes of archived votes now being removed from the premises? Is this still about a six years ago old grudge? Or does it presage Trump's plan for the November midterm elections? We speak to the Commissioner on the premises who watched the action unfold before her ey...

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