A minor quibble with real policy implications: Reconstruction, when it was being fully implemented, worked quite well, the problem was much more the backlash, the falling support and the discontinuation of the policies

I believe this is H.R. 8452 [1] (introduced 7/20/22) with a slightly higher appropriation.

Fuck off

This is great news, no matter what the shitheads say.

I spent my Saturday night making homemade nachos and catching up on White Lotus Season 2

Of course, others have pointed out that Franken would have been a massive liability during confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh—also very publicly accused of sexual assault—which took place within months of Franken’s resignation.

I don’t think she honestly wants to be anything other than on camera.

Georgia has become the second largest kale producing state in the nation (behind California) so when Bayer CropScience began to choose farmers to highlight in 2015, the company decided to pick a kale grower rather than a producer who specializes in a more traditional commodity. With the stories of nearly a dozen…

So, given the 22nd Amendment, this is Trump admitting he lost the election he keeps pretending he won. “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, [...]”

Seems to me a distinct possibility that states could arrest someone who’d received or performed an abortion the minute they crossed back out of the Federal lands. 

Yea, but on the other hand, since control of the Senate isn’t at issue, are Republicans in Georgia really going to be all that enthused to give their vote to a very bad candidate? We’ll see soon enough...the state republicans shortened the time for the runoff bc of what happened to them last time. They think the…

Poor Raphael Warnock will now have to win FOUR elections for one seat in only two years. I support the idea of runoffs in principle, but this is a bit insane. Good luck to him.

So she supports the abortion ban, just not for herself.

just think how giddy the anti-choicers are at this point. They got what they wanted and now “sluts” are dying or in danger of dying.

Don’t blame me; I voted for Cabbage.

Concept: Art critique of art vandalism is 100% gold.

This. The Left objects to the FBI being discriminatory in their choices about investigation, prosecution, etc.; the Right objects to the FBI not being discriminatory enough.

“If this was not the most perfect death penalty case, then why do we have the death penalty at all?” - I can’t help but feel she’s absolutely right, just not in the way she intended.

538 isn’t displaying any polls that should be read as anything more than a tossup (which coincidentally is the consensus forecast). Are you just noting some polls had him slightly higher or are pointing to something else?

“it’s just a terrible thing that people can make statements like that” - Crap like this from Trump is so rich, that I’m surprised it doesn’t rank higher than him on Forbes’ listings