(It will not be “Aunt Karen,” despite what you read on Twitter.)

I feel the same is also true with regards to ageism. If classrooms full of children were dying en masse rather than entire nursing homes full of elderly people there would be overnight mass mobilization and political consensus to do whatever is necessary to stop the disease. People didn’t care because, at least in the…

I seriously believe the MSM has been trained to submit to 45's behavior—they’ve normalized every horrendous action he commits. They’re terrified of losing “access”, so they do whatever he demands and give him all the air time in order to maintain what they perceive as a relationship when really they’re just being…

They have “no place” in the Republican Party for the same reason I have “no place” in my house for new kitchen gadgets; all the available space is full of the shit I already have.

Diving into insane conspiracy theories right now is a defense mechanism for the right wing. When you can’t exist in the actual reality, you have to invent a fake one to deal with the cognitive dissonance. And the further you need to retreat, the crazier that fake reality gets.

As a neighbour to your North, I just can’t understand how everyone in the US  is armed to the teeth, but the likes of a Tom Cotton never catch a bullet. 

This is one of those moments where the phrase “class war” becomes as literal as it can get. It’s also the moment where the governing class’ typical strategy to deflect from class warfare (namely, divide and conquer) becomes as transparently obvious as it can be.

I’ve posted elsewhere here that I’m in grad school for my MPH and currently taking a class on public health law. My professor noted in a lecture that the public backlash against quarantine is upending centuries of legal thought and decades of academic instructions, since quarantine has always been looked at as almost…

What he does in terms of trying overturn the results depends on how badly he loses. If it’s a blowout like in 2008 where Biden wins states like Arizona, Montana, Georgia, etc. there probably isn’t much he can do. If it’s close like in 2000 he will try and get a redux on Bush v. Gore.

Yes, this. I was just listening to the timeline of the pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, SD — the CEO knew that there was an outbreak among workers, but he spoke with investors and said that the virus would have “no impact” on the company.  Then the GOP governor said that “99%” of the workers got it from their own…

“Remember when...”  I look back on those days fondly as an era of dignity and decorum!

That’s how the market works. It doesn’t think ahead. It can’t prepare for emergencies. It reacts. That’s why it needs oversight and that’s why society shouldn’t revolve around it.

I don’t know how to feel when I see statements like yours.

It’s already been happening:

Not enough white sauces! I need to know which blue cheese or ranch dressing is the best.

Not enough white sauces! I need to know which blue cheese or ranch dressing is the best.

It will be Hurricane Katrina in multiple states at once.

I was going to chime in a say exactly this. I work for a local health department. We have already made plans and are ready to go. (we’ve also had plans in place for years for things like this, they were last implemented during the H1N1 outbreak, but are updated yearly.) The state health depts are also monitoring things…

I am shocked...SHOCKED...that Claire Lower is not the author of this article ;-P

Square’s good now, and Jupiter House is rebuilt though I haven’t been there yet. 35 is still a giant mess, as are the roads around UNT. City of Denton’s favorite activity is to figure out what alternate routes people use during major closures and close those off too.