Nancy Mace has come down hard against what she allegedly says is a culture of rampant sexual misconduct in Washington. Meanwhile, she covers for Trump and argues against the rights of trans people. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
I’ve considered the options, and it’s with great solemnity that I say I think the revision has to be “My Christ is alive/My Knicks in five.”
I wrote about the Trump DOJ’s criminal investigation of E Jean Carroll, a grim merger of two trends: Trump’s weaponization of the federal government against his personal enemies, and the use of the justice system to punish sexual violence victims.
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Even at the pundit level, if what you want is a party that hates trans people and women, that valorizes a kind of rural white masculinity, and that organizes around contempt for all things urban, educated, and liberal… well, they already have that, and maybe you should just be on the side you’re on.
If Republicans can't understand why their agenda is not appealing to ordinary voters, obviously they are out of touch. They need to get out of their echo chamber and visit Real America—Los Feliz, Silver Lake, and Echo Park.
No other solution quite meets the dual demands of theme and meter.
If the Democrats’ job is to simply cede ground to the Republican agenda over and over, you have to start wondering what’s the point of having an opposition party at all.
There are lovers you forget and sandwiches that haunt you for the rest of your life.
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios
Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy