There’s been a lot of chatter that Trump is tired of Bolton, but at the same time there’s a lot of that chatter for nearly everyone, even spineless types like Mulvaney, so it’s hard to say for certain. 

Busing was always the “this is a complicated and problematic policy but the best way after exhausting a thousand other options denied by white racism and their political allies” choice. It was not the primary choice. It did a good job, for a time, of desegregating schools. Eventually busing largely failed too, as the…

When they’re drummed out they just go back to lobbying or Heritage (or similarly useless ideological outfits). Most of the people who have left his administration, those who haven’t joined some PAC or campaign arm for him (which is how he rewards loyal followers who were forced out for scandals/corruption, a lot of…

There’s such a confluence of bigotries here. Misogyny, anti-immigrant hate, anti-Muslim bigotry, outright white nationalism, and in a few cases fairly unsubtle white supremacy. Every vile ideology of the far-right is now essentially the mainstream right, as shown by how few in the GOP are willing to speak even soft…

Seems like Republicans will confirm him, there will be some scandal either relating to his history as a right-wing ideologue or as a lobbyist, he’ll lose all real influence in the administration, and then a few weeks or months later Trump will give him the boot, like he always does.

I’ve seen some of that, my grandparents took one wondering if the family stories about Native American blood were true (the results weren’t super conclusive, my grandmother probably has a statistically significant amount but I don’t) or things like that, but I see a lot of people going into this blank and treating it…

Yeah, I think that’s a misread or a mistake. Looks to me like she’s praising her for not sugar-coating it. 

A few of them are outright supporting it. Perdue from Georgia was one. My rep, Andy Harris of MD was another. They’re terrified to contradict Trump because in right-wing media the slurs he’s using are effectively a daily occurrence. I think they know most people find it abhorrent, but they also know the rabid base…

This is smart, both in substance and in PR/optics. When the President screeches bigoted things about you it’s tempting to punch back, and sometimes probably the right response, but I think this time taking a more measured root, making broad appeals, undercuts his smears best. Racists will still think you’re…

Wasn’t a literal example, I didn’t want to discuss her results here. I’m fairly certain it was a sample problem anyway.

I read a lot about how fragile the GOP was during those fights. That was definitely something that was discussed. The level of open warfare within the party was a lot higher. They were already consistently running primaries against each other, for one, and that’s without talking about some of the stunts on issues like…

Swing voters do exist, they just are a far smaller fraction of the electorate and not worth significant investment in most elections. But in a high polarization environment they’re even less relevant. The people who might switch parties will probably do so near the last minute based on highly personalized reasons that…

Of course the cop who is actually trying to deescalate and concerned about civilians around him gets a gun pulled on him. It’s so very America that a good cop behaving correctly would get threatened.

On one hand, I’m exhausted and mostly furious with the risk-averse Democratic leadership that still think it’s the ‘90s and that “appealing to Republicans” is a necessary electoral strategy. It ignores mountains of evidence, from political science to the daily experiences they as career politicians ought to be able to…

My background in history, including reading aDNA papers and discussing issues of ethnicity in the archaeological and historical record, absolutely informs my view here, which you so defensively have claimed I don’t understand. I’m not a geneticist, but I do read enough genetics papers to understand how population…

Approximations. Educated, well, I’d dispute that given it relies on genetic essentialism that people in the aDNA world reject, as well as historians and archaeologists.

Different companies of course have different proprietary sample databases too, meaning people get different results from two companies. Usually not wildly different, but I’ve seen different enough to raise the question of the entire methodology.

They’ve been burying those reporters under promoted segments for their “HillTV” nonsense and filling their executive suites with folks from the worst right-wing outlets. Their trendlines are going a bad way. 

I suspect that is not measuring their total output, including their significantly right-wing “HillTV”. I’ve also seen that site have wildly implausible claims one or twice in other situations, so I’m not sure I think their methodology is strong. 

I dismissed a single troll I’ve already interacted with who wrote out a lie, but thanks for vindicating my point. Who is letting your ilk out of the greys?