You have great content, and deserve not to be greyed. I say this in all sincerity, and not as a suck-up. Happy you got out.

By the end of day tomorrow, hopefully this ass’s downfall (or eventual comeuppance) is secured. I take nothing for granted, other than his continued misanthropy and pathological lies.

Minnesota resident (not native Minnesotan). Went to undergrad in Iowa during the 1996 and 2000 campaign seasons, and I will vouch that Iowans claiming superiority....ugh. There are nice things in Iowa. But not superior. Claims of Iowa progressiveness in particular are highly overstated/overrated.

There is this, but it’s kind of a known system flaw. One that can/could be approached and handled differently on the back end.

Hey, all: going to cut to the chase, but the optics on this (particularly in light of heavy criticism of pieces in the past 1-1.5 weeks) are not good vis a vis timing and what seemed like the targeted greying of critics. Critics/dissenters do not equal trolls.

It’s almost as if there’s a stunning lack of empathy, sympathy, understanding that building a ”common good” might be a good thing.

No corn really in that part of the state—mostly dryland wheat and sorghum are crops of choice. But I like the cut of your jib, here.

A thousand stars for your final sentence. White, very left, boomer-age coworker initiated a discussion this morning that essentially amounted to this. She fully admitted that white privilege in left-leaning voters—particularly among medium to well-off boomers—completely stifled forward momentum for equity in US…

Damn. I’m sorry. There is too much of this seemingly-purposeful reduction of certain voice types (if you will) since Gawker became no more and Splinter arose.

I applaud you for this

Technical note: a 20-year-old is not a child prodigy. WMA and Nannerl are disapprovingly nodding from their graves.

By extension I would like to see Iowa held to account for its shitty, continuous support of far-right Republican candidates during the caucuses.

Hear motherfucking hear

Republican women: unable to empathize, sympathize, or manage root-cause analysis + arrive at conclusions logically. News at 11.

Shame—but unsurprising—that Meghan uses thoroughly debunked talking points about Ellison and Farrakhan. Ellison disavowed him years ago, and has had to denounce Farrakhan repeatedly in the MN AG race because his competitor can’t stop making false statements.

Take it from a sex machine: you sound very high-maintenance. And not in a good way.

Except for all the other remaining percentage of time that they’re pleased as punch about being violent fuckers with mass-murdering fuckhead fantasies.

Oh how preciously adorable that Bill can sit comfortably and tweet/opine about hoaxes. Reading that someone is propagating that the bomb threats are hoaxes is enough to make me want to throw my laptop in an act of rage. I fucking LOATHE that every act of violence is shrugged off/brushed aside as a matter of course.

God, I remember that. I’ve been lurking here far, far too long.

When did those go away?!? Granted, my comment in surprise gives you an idea of how long it’s been since *I’ve* paid attention. But those were fun when I read them and the twice ever I commented.