This is why I thought she would have been a better pick for AG. 

Meanwhile, there’s absolutely no certainty that federal lawmakers will extend the $600 per-week unemployment benefits that expired last Friday. So naturally, experts expect the number of Americans facing homelessness to climb even higher, especially in states hit hardest by the pandemic

News media in the US, particularly television news, began its decent into almost complete bullshit in the 70's when it turned from primarily being seen as a “public service” to being in service of the station’s bottom line. Add to that the Vietnam war, the lesson of which to the news media was that if they wanted…

Many Republican/conservative lawmakers tend to be very competent and evil. But what do you expect when their entire platform is based on people not giving a shit about what happens to someone else.

American political culture as a whole has been shifting right as the Republican party has been straying further and further off the right-wing deep end. Wasn’t it 2016 where the idea was floated to water down the Dem platform on abortion? And now this? The only thing we can hope for at this point is that the…

Wow. It is almost like Republicans want government to fail at every level. Who would have thought!

I have this problem on mobile and I don’t know who is responsible for it, but reading these websites on mobile is the most fucking horrible user experience one can have.

The thing is that people are acting like we should have known everything about how to handle this virus from day one, completely ignoring the fact that the world had never seen COVID-19 before. When it popped up in the US, it had been a thing for maybe 4 months, 5 months tops. Information about how transmissible it…

Not sure how much more anti-American you can get than deliberately stoking hatred between Americans while also ignoring, and exacerbating, a pandemic that is on track to kill hundreds of thousands, if not topping a million, Americans before this is all said and done. We know who is anti-America, and it isn’t the ones…

Ya, they surely don’t care. But when it comes right down to it, it may as well be intention if you are engaging a behavior when you know what the outcome is going to be. They know what the outcome is going to be if they ignore any other options without, at the very least, enforcing health precautions as a condition.*…

I like to tell people that what the Republicans are doing with their COVID-19 response is basically taking a scatter gun approach to killing who they don’t want around: Poor, minorities, liberals, Democrats, basically anyone who believes in equality. They’ll sacrifice their own (and many of their own will gladly fall…

In Texas, a “right to work” state, teachers can be fired and lose their license to teach if they strike.

Trump to America’s Schoolchildren: Haha, You’re Gonna Get Sick!

Any shred of hope I had that Republicans would do the right thing in the face of a severe national crisis evaporated when they refused to keep mask wearing from becoming a political issue instead of working to make it the public health issue that it is. Republicans are willing to let hundreds of thousands of Americans…

Americans are insanely short sighted by default. And I’m not going to qualify this statement by saying “some Americans.” The short-sightedness of Americans is deeply cultural and effects most aspects of life, from economics to politics to popular culture.

This COVID-19 is certainly a pain in our collective asses. That much is certain. But as I was reading this all I could think was, damn, our physiology is pretty fucking amazing.

“Only old people and people with weak immune systems have died from it,” he said. “If you eat fattening foods, don’t work out and don’t take care of your body, it is going to be hard to fight it.”

It has become really, really easy to spot the assholes in our communities now.

I can guarantee you one thing, if the demographics of the pandemic were flipped (i.e. it disproportionally affected white communities instead of minority communities), this country would have been shut down, and kept shut down, until a vaccine was developed and widely available.

Conservative pundits and politicians have already begun to suggest that any surge in covid-19 can be attributed to the uprisings and protests over police brutality, which have grown into a national movement