This is my absolute favorite genre of the spineless Republican, when Trump says something outrageous that is absolutely dominating the news cycle, and all these high profile, prominent politicians, all of whom have communications teams, pretend they haven’t heard about what a president of their own party said. Bonus…

I’m not saying Biden needs to make “Defund the Police” like a central part of his platform, or even a part of his platform, period. He also doesn’t necessarily need to disclaim it either. “Defund the police” actually isn’t some new, poorly thought out thing. People have been talking about defunding and abolition for…

it’s better than nothing

I don’t think denouncing “defund the police” is going to be particularly critical to his victory. 

I think abolitionists would probably respond that your focus on those sorts of “worst case” scenarios is misplaced. The U.S. has an extraordinarily high number of well-armed, fairly well-trained (at least in combat situations) police officers, and that hasn’t prevented the U.S. from being an outlier, in the wrong…

The GOP, for decades, has been painting every Democratic policy proposal as radical, leftist, anarchist, etc., and Democrats have for decades fallen into the trap of preemptively trying to fight back against that Republican messaging instead of just putting forward good ideas and fighting for those ideas. It is time…

Former vice president Joe Biden does not believe police should be “defunded,”

I appreciate the Democrats moving forward with something, but this seems awfully unambitious all things considered. Chokeholds were against NYPD’s policy when Eric Garner was murdered by one. I’m not entirely sure why the prohibition on no-knock warrants is limited to drug cases—no knock warrants really only make…

I’d like to say “life comes at you fast” but Bennet has basically been running wild over the Times op-ed page for four years. He hid behind the idea of “intellectual diversity,” but whatever intellectual conservatism looks like, it sure wasn’t to be found in the conservatives on the NYT editorial page under Bennet.…

Natasha Vargas-Cooper? Is this the same person who asked whether someone who had sex with a person who couldn’t possibly communicate consent was *really* a rapist?  Shocking they would have a terrible take on plenty of issues.

I’m not sure an NDA would cover a public apology, and even if it could be construed to do so, who would sue the NFL over publicly apologizing to Kaep?  Kaep?

arguing that this mass grassroots uprising against police brutality and white supremacy is actually some sort of top-down conspiracy coordinated by wealthy elites

In addition to the brutality, there is also the blatant dishonesty—even knowing that they are surrounded by video cameras, police are routinely misrepresenting what is going on (here, they said the guy tripped and fell, which kind of leaves out an important detail). I hope the news media, which is now the target of…

Right.  People in authority never abuse their power to harass people who haven’t done anything wrong.

It kinds of reminds me of a small segment of my fellow progressive screaming about how police didn’t beat the shit out of Dylann Roof when they caught him, when the framing should be that nobody should be getting the shit beat out of them by police.

What do people think makes a protest effective? Effective protests always requires some element of perceived danger to the comfort of powerful people. And that will frequently involve some threat of disorder, destruction and possibly even violence. If people in power know protesters are just going to show up, with…

I dunno, I haven’t really seen much state polling. But it is difficult to imagine a 7 point popular vote win for Biden resulting in an electoral college victory for Trump (see here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/17/20868790/republicans-lose-popular-vote-win-electoral-college). 

“But what has prompted Murkowski’s inner turmoil?”

Generally speaking, I think if you really cared about and were opposed to the various injustices built into the machinery of the criminal justice system, you wouldn’t become a part of that machinery—a prosecutor, a cop, etc. So, while I’d like to leave room for police officers on an individual basis there is room for…

This is a good start. Now we need to start arresting the tens of thousands of white supremacists dressing up in riot gear and hauling around military style weaponry who are terrorizing protesters on a routine basis (while attempting to mask their identity to avoid consequences).