I’m interested to see how it all goes down the line. I’m not as skeptical of his school as I’d be of most charters precisely because it isn’t trying to disrupt the system (that techbro speak is getting so old). If some of the parts work they should be rolled out more broadly.

Honestly, I’ve never been a big fan of this group. They had one of their trollish protests where they were mocking pagan deities as “dead” which was just tone deaf and crude. Their actions get a lot of attention that good faith efforts don’t, and sucks the oxygen out of the room for religious minorities who aren’t…

Private prison companies should be outlawed. GEO group may have lobbyists and lawyers but the whole industry is predatory and that’s something more and more people are seeing.

I look forward to the announcement of Wilayat Kansas, while Daesh studies all the various weapons technology they can make from corn. 

Trump can’t help himself, he doesn’t think strategically. If he sees someone he thinks is loyal to him he acts. Best case scenario Kobach wins the primary and gets trounced, but even if that doesn’t happen a damaging primary campaign pitting more moderate GOP types against Trump’s base would be very helpful to…

They were worried he would make a huge issue and distract from other issues, which may have been more damaging that a Republican win (if that’s what happens). It was a stupid risk averse choice, but the logic behind it is sound even if I personally think it was a terrible decision.

“Right Wing Socialism” is an actual coherent political ideology. It’s related to all the current far-right populism. It hinges on nationalist conceptions foreign to left wing socialism. It goes all the way back to Bismarck co-opting parts of the socialist platform and repackaging it with nationalism. It’s not really…

“Hitler was a liberal” is spouted ten thousand times a day by far-right trolls who have neo-Nazi friends, but aren’t comfortable with the label.

He’s really one something that’s for sure.

Fox, as a corporation, doesn’t. I expect neither do most of their “talent” and executives. But some of the more traditional reporters at Fox do, and Fox loses what little legitimacy they have without them. There are real journalists there, serving in roles where the partisans would still be a step too far even for Fox…

0% chance this slides. If there’s one thing various media outlets will come together over, it’s this. I don’t remember all the details, but they all came together when the Obama administration was trying to put Fox in the doghouse. There’s some meaningful solidarity there, partisanship aside.

Really this sort of bait-and-switch shouldn’t be legal. The intent is to gaslight people. But since money is speech according to the rich companies and people who astroturf these sorts of campaigns I expect it’ll be awhile before there’s a chance to rein it in. 

Even one DMV per county can be pretty rough on some people. Especially in states where crossing the county can be an hour drive and the DMV is stuck off of a highway out of the way.

Not that I’m surprised by this, but the Brennan Center checks their bloody work. This deserves way more press than it’s likely to get. A lot of people dismiss think tanks and partisan activist/pressure groups as “biased”, and in most cases they are, but the good ones do really solid research with a clear methodology.…

Honestly, it’s gotten to the point where if it’s on when I turn on the tv, still on Cartoon Network from Adult Swim the night before, I just leave it on. It’s right in that genre of absurdist humor I’ve loved since my parents showed me Monty Python as a kid. 

No, they’re all older. 

This is false. He HAS apologized for the tweets before, and the broader shock jock act in general. There’s an interview for Guardians of the Galaxy 2 that covers it. 

YES IT FUCKING MATTERS if he means it or not.

Which is less horrid than shit Cernovich says all the time, so why the fuck are we letting him be in charge of the standards here?

What he was doing was an act. The edgelord act was part of the persona he put up, and was encouraged to do.