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.

I think I heard this one before: 

I think that’s very true. Conflating liberal democratic values, human rights, etc with capitalism was never a sound proposition.

Wow. That’s wild. I didn’t see how that could get any crazier, but there you go.

Now there’s a way for Roberts to secure the legitimacy of the SCOTUS.

Yeah.  These next few months are going to be such a nightmare.  I wish I could say I’m prepared, but I doubt I am.

Yeah.  I’m no expert on ethics in law, but it seems sketchy as hell.

That’s worrying, but not half as worrying about how many things could go wrong and end the legitimacy of this election. This article from Mother Jones lists quite a few I hadn’t even thought of. It’s absolute villainy that the Republicans aren’t doing anything to secure and validate our elections. Of course, the chaos …

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…

For all the tut-tutting about “defund the police” being bad messaging, I feel like activists using it and right-wingers interpreting it in bad faith should actually be a gift to a skilled politician. “What? No! I’m not doing anything scary and radical, like defuding the police.  I’m simply reducing the tasks and…

Wow.  You know Florida has really put the meth in the alligator when the authors are beating the commentariat to the bugs bunny gif.

“Soulless” doesn’t even feel like a strong enough word to describe the all-consuming vortex of moral indigence that would lead someone to advertise that their actions drove someone to suicide after forcing a confession out of them under duress and over a matter for which they weren’t the accused party. Even if her…

I’m rather fond of this quote from an interview with Devin Nunes, ranking member presently in charge of counteracting the House Intelligence Committee:

Stephen Miller is no longer a virgin?  Then how do you explain why his wife hasn’t devoured him head first yet?

I’ve heard his posture described as, “like a centaur missing his back half.”  I can’t unsee it.

The Invisible Hand demands a blood sacrifice!

We’re doing alright.  Even up here in Litchfield County, where all the crazies live, you almost entirely see people wearing masks and taking things seriously.

Nah, my town isn’t entirely a lost cause. We’ve got a few progressives and couple non-white people here. We sometimes go out on the green and wave signs or hand out flyers at town meetings without getting much flak except some verbal harassment. The vote tallies have us outnumbered about two-to-one, but much of the…

I hope you’ll excuse me for the screenshot. There are a lot of trolls about and I’m presently uncertain of your motives, but I’d still like to give you some benefit of the doubt and respond to your comment in the hopes that it’s made in good faith.

It never ceases to amaze me that there is always a tweet.  Every.  Single.  Time.