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CrowdSource 8.18.2025

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Tattoos Are Virtuous

Kristina Tabor Saccone on memory and body art.

Aug 16 •

Kristina Tabor Saccone

Where's the Resistance?

Trump federalized DC's police this week. And everyone collectively shrugged.

Aug 15 •

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Numbness is Popular

Euthanasia and anesthesia.

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Believe for Your Own Sake, Not for "the West"

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We are against consensus. // An ideas collective and debate platform co-founded by Damir Marusic and Shadi Hamid.

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Damir has a new big idea, and Shadi has questions.

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Is there any way out from this?

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Men Without Women, and Vice Versa

Mankeeping. Heterofatalism. Missing males. We cover it all.

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CrowdSource 7.28.2025

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Jeffrey Epstein, Russiagate, Stop the Steal and other myths.

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Are you truly free if you always have to watch what you say?

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