Why, when you take DEI away, do we get the most mediocre white folks in place. There are smarter, more experienced legitimate white journalists than Weiss or Dokoupil, more experienced people who could be secretaries of defense, HHS, homeland security. Why are all the people so mediocre?

In the past I found my mistake was applying my value system to the fascists and adjacent players when viewing their actions. They lack shame, don't care about hypocrisy, and are only intent on dominance.

our billionaires and libertarian think tankers whine incessantly about every feckless regulatory action but the fact is the country is too corrupt to function and has been for a very long while

It is amazing the level of destruction right-wingers will undertake for money

Never underestimate the ignorance of a non-multi-millionaire Republican voter.

In our district none of the 4th grade boys made the honors program. The district planned to cancel honors & do something for the boys. An attorney quietly explained all the ways they were breaking the law. It was nothing to take something away from the girls in order to help less studious boys.

Will you settle for my version ( I rarely swear)
Paul Ryan is one of those idiot white boys who thinks he earned everything , while he was handed everything in his life.
He's actually never taken a stand in his life. (in this way, he's a male version of Susan Collins).

Heritage Guide to the Constitution? Must have been quite short:
Step 1: Buy gasoline
Step 2: Buy matches
Step 3: Put Constitution on ground
Step 4: Douse with gasoline
Step 5: Light match

It's good that he's doing this

but also

"your actions have weakened the ability of the storied Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies to promote the rule of law" could 100% be a line from ROBOCOP. Like, imagine a future so dystopian that Ed Meese is a symbol of justice.

“I could justify mass roundups of other minorities and throwing them into concentration camps with no legal process whatsoever. At anti-Semitism, though, I draw the line.”

He left due to the attacks on Jewish people.
He's Jewish.
he didn't give a fig about the attacks on women and minorities, until it came to an attack on him
no props.

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.

Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

The line between life and death for so many animals is staffed by a small unheralded army of people, mostly women, who donate their time and sweat making the word a less cruel place

The issue with Brooks is that he’s being writing columns defending Epstein associates without disclosing his conflict.

No amount of evidence will ever satisfy these people—Kennedy, Makary, Bhattacharya, Høeg, Prasad…

They are operatives. Their entire careers have been built on peddling bullshit.

Never let them back into polite society.

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