I’ve been shouting about this for years. Murders started going up in the *spring* of 2020, well before George Floyd was killed. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

What you have to understand about Romney is that he's very sincere about opposing Trumpian corruption and autocracy, he just thinks that, on balance, the destruction of American democracy is less bad than expanding Medicaid or abortion rights. It's not even hypocrisy, just a useless set of values.

"I should be allowed to kill the people who annoy me" is the most foundational belief in the reactionary American mind. There are a LOT of right-wingers celebrating Mangione and Penny because they hate healthcare bills and homeless people. You're not gonna build M4A out of that, sorry.

one of Bernie's greatest strengths and greatest weaknesses was his ability to attract low trust anti-system dipshits. strength because there are A LOT of those people, weakness because a lot of them ended up in his campaign

soo hungry need to find my wife and head to pf changs

most people don’t realize that having a readily available, even kinda-accurate answer to “how many Asian women under 40 with a college degree live in Pomona” is a world-historic achievement that requires an industrial scale, heaven & earth moving effort. it is on par with CERN. not hyperbole.

low key the most egregious condescension is this idea that conservatives do not have agency and are not making choices but are purely reactive and have no mind of their own