Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Ari Cohn

“The debate over algorithmic content recommendation has been going on for years. Lower courts have almost universally held that Section 230 immunizes social media platforms from lawsuits claiming that algorithmic recommendation of harmful content contributed to terrorist attacks, mass shootings, and racist attacks. When faced with the question in 2023, the Supreme Court declined to rule on the scope of Section 230 — opting instead to hold the claims of algorithmic aiding and abetting at issue would not survive either way. But there’s an important question that usually gets lost in the heated debate over Section 230: Would such lawsuits be viable even if they could be brought?” (11/24/25)

https://www.thefire.org/news/you-cant-eliminate-real-world-violence-suing-over-online-speech

Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato

“I’m reading through a book by the American philosopher Idris Robinson, The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer, and it has been helpful to my thinking about where we go from here. The dichotomy of constituent vs. destituent power also helps to explain my broader criticism of the professional-managerial class and its politics, so I thought it might be good to share a few words. Nothing defines the professional-managerial class quite like their tendency to give maximum credence to anything uttered by the ultra-elite who actually rule our country. There is a tendency in the PMC to attribute epistemic and moral authority to this ultra-elite.” (11/24/25)

https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/destituent-power-and-the-task-of

Source: The Atlantic
by Jonathan Chait

“The Heritage Foundation, which has stood for decades as the intellectual crown jewel of the conservative movement, has been convulsed in an ugly public spat over the organization’s approach to anti-Semitism. Employees and visiting scholars are resigning from and revolting against the think tank over its defense of the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist and anti-Semite who has gained prominence in MAGA circles. The conflict has exposed the degree to which previously forbidden bigotries have penetrated the heart of the Trump-era Republican Party. It has also revealed a somewhat different, yet related pathology: the brain death of the conservative movement.” (11/24/25)

https://archive.is/mXPwr

Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen & Ryan Cooper

“One way of looking at Donald Trump’s plan for the Affordable Care Act, which has leaked out and was expected to be announced this week, is that it’s a surrender. (The fact that ‘strong congressional backlash’ has delayed the announcement fits this analysis.) While stopping short of making Democratic enhanced subsidies for millions of insurance exchange customers permanent, it does extend them for two years, similar to a bipartisan outline introduced last week. And while there are changes to the subsidies, some are relatively more benign than expected. One of the main goals of the enhanced subsidies, established in 2021, was to universalize affordable insurance and avoid the ‘cliff’ effect of cutting off aid at a particular income level. The Trump proposal restores that cliff but sets it much higher. Prior to 2021, the cliff was set at 400 percent of the federal poverty level. The Trump plan raises that to 700 percent.” (11/24/25)

https://prospect.org/2025/11/25/trump-obamacare-plan-affordable-care-act/