Seriously, it shouldn’t have to be done, but put up cameras trained on these tributes. We KNOW what the assholes are going to do...

Hopefully this leads to more domestic manufacturing capability.

ALL of this backlash against CRT actually makes the point that teaching about racism in school is extremely important in this nation. Because how the hell do you teach history without teaching the fact that racism was literally ingrained in the Constitution when this nation was founded? 

Well the Army compensated for that by sending a disproportionate number of blacks to Vietnam. It all evens out.

Better headline:

Okay, Justice Roberts, tell us again why we didn’t need the Voting Rights Act. Go ahead.

When Mitch McConnell stood up and basically said we will object to anything Biden brings to the Senate. Bipartisanship was off the table. When he let his own members negotiate bipartisan legislation and then told them to go fuck themselves it isn’t going anywhere, he proved there is no such thing. Mitch has been…

The seesaw argument is grade-A BS. If you past popular legislation and people get use to having it, it becomes political suicide to get rid of it. That’s why the Republicans can’t ‘replace’ the Affordable Care Act. If we had free child care, mandatory two weeks vacation, free college, $15 minimum wage, you can’t…

Yes, a bunch of that, but personally, I would have no problem with a governing federal Dem supermajority where various flavors of Dem negotiate and occasionally vote against the rest of the party. It works in several states and seems to be the most likely of the positive responses to the GQP.

I briefly reconsidered my orangutan dig because I knew it was factually inaccurate, but I’m a big fan of The Murders in the Rue Morgue ;)

Unfortunately for the Dems, conventional wisdom says they have to take the beatings to get enough votes in the districts and states that allow them to have enough seats in both chambers to do anything.

The problem with extending an olive branch in the name of bipartisanship is that the GOP will just beat you with it.

The Republicans held a Supreme Court seat open for a year claiming it can’t be done in an election year, then turned around and filled a seat during an election year.[!!!]

Perhaps the problem isn’t so much the filibuster (less so the Mr. Smith Goes conception of it) as the twin problems of the GQP’s descent and the simple fact that the Senate as constituted is incompatible with America’s increasingly federalized governance. That’s not to say that we oughtn’t be rid of it, just that we…

There’s just so much wrong here.

In principle I am not a big fan of getting rid of the filibuster.

The Republicans held a Supreme Court seat open for a year claiming it can’t be done in an election year, then turned around and filled a seat during an election year.

I think some do. Sony has put several barriers up when buying from Sony Direct and it makes sense. Scalpers aren’t buying games and accessories. And even when you consider that scalpers will then flip the console to gamers a gamer that spent $800+ on a new PS5 now has less disposable income to spend other other…

Accordingly, when she was approached to star in Fox’s 9-1-1 spinoff, 9-1-1: Lone Star, she asked showrunner Tim Minear if that character could also be Afro-Latina, explaining exactly what that should look like.

This protest was in West Virginia. Good. How many of the people protesting were from West Virginia? Because that’s the only pressure that matters. The W. Va. teachers unions showed up strong in 2019. Those are the groups to connect with.