I thought about this a lot over the weekend— the “why now” question; the best I can think of is a combination of your explanation- with widespread horrible and taped (the latter is key) police response to protests— this hasn’t “blown over” as shitty as it is because Law Enforcement keep reinforcing the need for real…

Every time I see that douche I have to remind myself his last name isn't Boingo like Oingo-Boingo no matter how much he seems like a 25 cent super ball of stupidity, resentment and rage

Thanks— that does help; I do wonder if Minneapolis can do the —”shift to county force” bit— unlike Camden it Minny feels (and I could totally be wrong) like it’s probably a bigger entity than the surrounding county authority— that said [and I’ll allow there are definitely shitty Sheriff’s Departments and deputies] at…

There is a set of US Nuclear power/weapons deaths that probably should be more widely accounted for and named (it would also fit within the focus of the original article) - - Uranium mining related deaths on Navajo populations in the American Southwest.

Right but in part they did this by hiring more police officers which makes it kind of confusing

Of all the founders Franklin slots in the easiest to the present-- he’d be that first gen tech bro who’s still serially monogamous (though not with the creepy age difference stuff- his writings are TMI clear he didn’t really discriminate based on age). 

Fair. Deism was also a much bigger thing— the enlightenment version of “I’m spiritual not religious”*

Given that they’re all Republican County Chairs maybe that should be noted in the headline— not calling out that this is very specifically a one party thing* contributes to the fallacious “both parties are basically the same” bullshit that helps suppress turnout as well as feeding third party vanity campaigns.

That Cotton is perhaps the most prominent China hawk in the Senate makes this especially rich. 

I mean, you’re being facetious but the Times did run an excerpt from Mein Kampf in 1941.

Fuck, I don’t even think Palin lives in Alaska any more. 

Strom’s a legitimately interesting (though odious) figure-- I love when people use him to prove how racist the Democratic Party was without addressing that he and his boys literally hated the National Democratic Party so badly that they ran him as a Third Party Candidate -- in the 40s!

This. Though to be fair civic deism-- if not that specific example-- does go back to the founding-- the whole “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” bit and all. 

Shit, Trump couldn’t even do that-- like I’m no fan of W or Reagan but try to imagine Trump giving the speech at Ground Zero shortly after 9/11 or the national address Reagan gave after the Challenger exploded-- you can’t even picture it in your mind. 

Well yeah.

False piety is normal but most pols or fuck most humans at least have enough empathy to fake it to some degree-- Trump can’t even do that. 

Eh Dean Baquet is a person of color and he's not exactly distinguishing himself from Bennet

She’s who Collins cosplays at being but she’s still a Republican, just a moderate one (who the AK GOP base tried to purge)-- her real claim to fame is one of the most legitimately impressive electoral feats of the past few decades-- becoming the only write-in candidate to win Federal office in history after losing to…

If anyone had any doubts as to how the military would react if Trump loses and tries to stay and/or orders the military to intervene on his behalf- the Mattis essay and the way the current SecDef sounded in an interview today should put those doubts to rest. The brass (Esper isn’t among them but clearly is influenced…

This.