And the local GOP as well.

You have the right to do whatever you are told to do or be homeless.

Immediately after World War II, when we helped rebuild Europe and established NATO and the UN to prevent another giant clusterfuck in Europe. Also, when the Soviet Union fell in no small part thanks to the triumph of American soft power. That’s the short and simple answer, anyway.

This is such a bad moment for human rights and China knows it. With everybody turned inward from Covid-19 and nationalism either insurgent or ascendant in the rest of the world, there’s really nobody to stop them ending “one country two systems,” waging a campaign of genocide against the Uighurs, and projecting their…

Flow chart is flawed because its based on personal risk. It says “you or the people you are in contact with” but people won’t interpret that beyond their household. So it doesn’t cover this part:

I cannot wait for all the statues of that bitch to come down.

Sometimes it’s just easier to leave it on if I know I’m going to need it, like when I leave someplace and get in the car but I know I’m going to another place.

It starts with the example set by the Boomers and perpetuates from there. I once saw an interview with Jay Leno where he was asked if his obsession with old cars was bad for the planet. His response was “I have faith in human ingenuity to come up with a device or some technology to solve the climate change problem.”…

(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…

Watch more 1970s movies. They didn’t fuck around.

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…

Hell yes, there’s an anti-conservative bias out here. It’s called reality.

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.