Basically, but not exclusively. That's the % of people in the US that would support the white nationalism option, no matter what. No matter how bad it gets. At any cost.

It's slightly *less* than half of all US white folk, plus some Herman Cains and Kanyes and various other non-white folk.🤷🏿‍♂️

I think Jackson understands her audience, and is writing to assure normal people that, no, you do not have to take a GOP-controlled Court protecting a GOP president seriously. This is grim, thankless work, but it's also the most important part of her job right now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...

ICE is also the fault of a complicit press.

How, where and who did ICE recruit? Why isn't every newspaper in the country devoting themselves to finding out who is in this brand new secret police force that now terrorizes America?

It's the definition of newsworthy. The answer is: they're afraid.

I've now learned: there's one country where the commonsense reaction to wild edgelord speech is "well can't do anything (except maybe give them high ranking government positions or billions in government contracts)" and another country where the common sense is "no literally put that guy in prison"

Dems prepared to do battle with the GOP.

Too many political journalists fall into this weird habit of compartmentalizing Stuff That Happened To Black People and you just can't do that.

It's braided into every part of the nation's history and identity and you can't just skip over it in understanding how we got here or how to respond

Like, we’re in a new Gilded Age, for sure - but instead of Carnegies and Rockefellers who at least patronized the arts and made major cultural contributions, our Robber Barons are brain-poisoned Silicon Valley dipshit aggro-philistines who want to replace human creative output with AI slop. Bleak.