The "article" here should be "why do so many people in rural areas believe things that are easily provably false?" as opposed to "why are we so divided?"

It's almost like the former might give you the answer to the latter.

Arrests of people with no criminal record surged by 2,450% in Trump’s first year.

This was driven by increases in tactics like “at-large” arrests, roving patrols, worksite raids, and re-arrests of people attending immigration court hearings or ICE check-ins.

damn if they didnt cook with him though

We got really into the idea of Ingrid taking a severed job out of financial obligation to her family but then the ‘innie’ version of her learns that these people arnt worth the time of day and is trying to fight her other version for their priorities

some favorite pages:

-miklan’s clothes being not just an armored knight but dirtied noble clothes underneath

-the rings byleth’s S support partner changing depending on if they’re noble/commoner (and that they chose it to match byleth’s eyes)

-silly manuela and hanneman doodles

I’ve not spent a lot of time on it today because I don’t think “democrats suck” is the main takeaway of “a republican president just fucking kidnapped the head of state of a foreign country” but it remains manifestly clear that schumer and jeffries are unfit for leadership and need to go

balthus in general is a strong contender for funniest fire emblem character

And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.