the first rule of Dunning-Kruger club is you don't know you're in the Dunning-Kruger club

because it turns out that facebook memes are not reliable sources of information about how anything works

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so the solution to gun violence in the state with the highest incarceration rate in the country with the most imprisoned people in the world is to put more people in prison for longer.

long sentences in inhumane prisons for minor crimes is what is turning your kids into hardened criminals, moron

it's more brazen and indiscriminate, but warrantless wiretaps and the disappearing of American citizens to torture camps are arguably more extreme norm violations,than what we've seen so far from Trump

carrying the torch

large candy or small potato? this is important

my local pink pistols group has been blowing up since the election, if that says anything about how the numbers might be trending

it's solid, and infuriating, and terrifyingly of our time. not just the medical quackery, the whole model of smug, epistemologically unmoored grifters being elevated above and denigrating conscientious experts, to predictably disastrous results. completely avoidable misery pursued with abandon.

read the room

Now a bunch of right-wing dipshits have taken over the archives of USAID. My prediction: they're going to go through the agency's emails and other communications and pluck individual sentences and phrases out of context, to make them look sinister.

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trailing commas too pls

on top of everything else, what does she think mood stabilizers do? because it's not that

and that respectability is exactly what Murdoch bought in order to lend false legitimacy to the right wing propaganda delivered in the same paper.

he's done this all over the world for decades, the newsroom can't pretend not to know their work supports Murdoch's project.

hawking religious iconography to captivated adherents is the oldest grift in the book