“It was shocking to me to see prominent people, not just bots, defending, condoning, mocking, celebrating gun violence. Two things can be true: The health insurance system is broken and must be fixed, and also gun violence and murder is wrong.”

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Trump is trying to appoint an FBI Director who wants to imprison journalists—and this is the front page of the New York Times.

Opinion | The modern Democratic party is dominated by smug, wealthy pseudo-intellectuals.

by David Brooks and Caitlin Flanagan

A Brief History of The Art of Conversation is Dead

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A story that is far, far more important than Biden's pardon if we're talking about crime and justice in America

My take on the Hunter Biden news is that trump has proposed creating a network of concentration camps to deal with the undocumented millions in our country

Democrats complaining about Biden's pardoning of his son really tells me how deeply many are misjudging the danger and urgency of this time. We need the president to use his current power to push back in every way possible now, including FBI background checks on these reckless nominees.

When you're christmas shopping be sure to get a little something for yourself

"Since reconstruction" is such a funny caveat. Just a quick little reminder that we briefly forced the South to behave like a civilized country at gunpoint.

My rule of thumb for being online in 2024 is that every bit of data you generate is being logged, recorded, and analyzed by corporations and political actors attempting to calculate *exactly* who you are, what motivates you, and how they can sell you products or ideas that make them wealthier.

My three-year-old was reading the Atlantic when she turned to me gravely and asked “Daddy, why is America fascist now?” And when I told her “Because a trans person said Latinx at an Oberlin student Senate meeting,” she started crying.

everyone on this app demanding bookmarks makes me picture a mob outside of a Barnes & Noble

I think that’s what stung the most. To see a highly qualified woman who’s worked in ALL THREE branches be deemed “dei” and “incompetent” lit a fire in me that I can’t explain.

I joke about “medieval peasant brain,” but actually I think medieval peasants might’ve taken it as a sign when a massive fucking plague came during Trump’s presidency.

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