one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.

A thing that kills me about these posts is that when they believed there was a pandemic they ABSOLUTELY wanted others to take care of them. They railed against antimaskers and cheered for healthcare workers. And the second the threat to them, personally, lessened, they became diehard libertarians?

*cat and *bug

Basically, their effort to portray Autism as preventable and curable is part of a larger project to eliminate anyone they see as costing society more than they contribute. And, short of that, to push those costs fully onto families and off of the state.

One thing that today is illuminating in a fundamental way is that political violence is only seen as bad if it affects one part of the population: White men of privilege.

Immunocompromised children are entitled to safe access to public education and yes that requires herd immunity-inducing vaccinations and precautions against respiratory diseases like Covid and yes that requires a tiny bit more effort, like building a wheelchair ramp requires some concrete.

War dot gov is basically Homer changing his name to Max Power.