What’s the price of conducting actual journalism in the USA? What’s the price of going against what those in power want us to believe? You get fired if you point out the State of Israel is operating an open air prison as Marc Lemont Hill did. If you report on a dossier that exposes that our president is compromised,…

I agree with your assessment, but let’s not call this a ‘purity test’. That phrase has fast lost any meaning, and now seems to apply to any standard that any Democratic politician is held to.

Bingo. They use guns, gay marriage, abortion, etc. as the carrot to put in front of the horse. The cart behind, meanwhile (which the horse refuses to see), is utterly overflowing with money.

How ANYONE could look at the bumbling fuckwit that is Gary Johnson and think “That guy deserves my vote” is mindblowing.

The oft-assumed connection between the financial crisis and the far-right hasn’t held up well to scrutiny, particularly given the far-right has been drawing heavily from educated and relatively well-off classes. The idea that their base is primarily working class doesn’t mesh with the reality. Even in Europe, you look…

Well the problem is there’s superficial change and there’s structural change. The definition of “liberal” vs “illiberal” democracy in modern political science aren’t always naturally intuitive to people who grew up on American-style civics lessons (where terms are muddy and misused constantly) because there are a lot…

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I . . . don’t disagree. There is a weird, reverse-both-sides-are-guilty dynamic to blaming the Democratic Party in this situation for its failure of tactics, when in reality there were no tactics that really could have saved them in this situation. McConnell is absolutely determined to ram Kavanaugh through by any…

I agree with that. And I’d add to that inequality/tax evasion - thanks to tax havens - which can only be solved on the international stage.

fun fact: I have a close family friend who attended one of Trump’s weddings (I guess maybe Ivanna?). he was the date at the time of someone who had... whatever connections you needed to get an invite. he said it was the most overt display of pointless, tasteless expenditure he’s ever seen, and yet the food wasn’t even…

The NRA should be up in arms about this!!

Agree we live in a society where many people are shitty to each other and it’s not just straight men vs. women. I have a male friend who was basically raped by a woman he had dated casually a couple times. He was recovering from a broken ankle and she came over to his place and got him really drunk, then gave him BJ…

Patriarchy has always hurt both men and women. And men who have been abused should absolutely speak up about it, and people should pay the consequences for being predators. It bothers me a bit that you state “compartmentalization” for why men die earlier, which seems wholly unsubstantiated. First of all, heart disease…

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US allies are seriously disturbed by this, btw - there’s renewed calls to reassess military and trade agreements with the US, and to potentially reach out more to China, because it’s obvious that under Trump there would likely be zero of the traditional cooperation that existed under every other leader. It shows how…

I work in a foreign government, and I can absolutely guarantee this happens - politicians and high level civil servants do this when having negotiations with each other, for goodness sake, of course they massively over prepare for meeting the President of the USA. Trump, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to give a shit,…

This may cheer you up: Maine SoS Matt Dunlap (who is the real deal and I wish he’d run for governor) this week has sued the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity — Kobach’s corrupt little voter-suppression venture that Trump quickly set up — for essentially being a bogus, partisan effort that is…

I get why the justice system has to be objective, but I am not a court of law. I’m an individual who has to sometimes make difficult choices to protect myself or other women. I’m not obligated to be impartial. I’m going to err on the side of believing victims because, the unpleasant truth is,men actually do this shit…

The core of Democratic monetary policy is still center to center-right, leftover from the “Third Way” Clinton era re-calibration, so I’m not surprised they’re making this argument. The gap between the now nearly extinct moderate Republicans and most Democrats on this stuff was never large, it was more a matter of if…

Well, there’s always the front cargo “door” on the C-5 Galaxy and the US military has a bunch of them: