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Nearly all American history can be understood as an argument over two words in its founding declaration's most famous line - over whether its self-evident truths applied to all people or just some of them. The throughline connecting the Confederacy to today's right wing is...

Ah yes, the perennial struggle between those who always want to critique power and never exercise it, and the rest of us who kinda have opinions on both of those things.

The Pitchbot has escaped containment

So it will become like the average College Republicans group chat.

Methla cybermuck

Favorite film in haiku: Hungarian count Caught in a love triangle He crashes and burns

The dynamic is that anecdotalists were very mad when polling averages revealed that anecdotes were subpar predictors for election results and then they were very happy when 2016 offered a reminder to everyone that polls themselves were subject to errors and so maybe anecdotes were just as good?

Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.

Sure, a lot of white Americans were so convinced that he's not black that in a backlash they elected an unrepentant white supremacist after him.

Shot / chaser

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

The Donald J Trump Award For Outstanding Excellence In The Field Of Standing Normally

Sen Ossoff is making some good trouble.

Gender-affirming care for MAGA women. Also is that Kristi Noem in the middle row on the left? I can barely even recognize her because even the after shot of her is mid, um, transition.

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

The white evangelical movement split in the 1970s so those who hated civil rights, especially for women, could boost right-wing Republicans. Talarico is reclaiming the movement for the others, and it is a very different thing indeed. Jimmy Carter v. Jerry Falwell.

The thing about narcissists in power is that everyone around them learns to play to it. Whoever pitched the bill to him led the argument with how this affects the PGA tour and "everyday golfers".

Congress is abdicating its power of the purse in real time. It's the most important Article I power it has, and like the power to declare war, Congress seems willing to let the executive just walk all over it. The framers perhaps never anticipated that it would just voluntarily hand over its powers.

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

kinda hard to sneak an f-bomb in there without effing up the poetic meter

Great example of how even non-ideological outfits like AP sanewash this regime. Buried inside this article is a GOP senator and even this admin's own GAO (Govt Accountability Office) plainly saying that it's illegal, yet the headline puts it as "uses rare authority". 🙄 apnews.com/article/trum...

Even Floriduh Man is like "hold on now, this shit is getting too crazy!"

I know I live in pop country (after spending a decade in Cokeville), but in two decades out in the Northwest, I've only ever heard "pop" a handful of times, usually from an old timey person, and as "soda pop" instead of just "pop".

The inimitable @mikegrunwald.bsky.social has an exceptionally well written oped on the disastrous proposal from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to give companies carbon credit for cutting down trees.

The accounting problem is that harvested wood products get treated as storage regardless of what happens downstream. Once a protocol credits the removal at harvest, the incentive runs ahead of any verification of permanence. Brazilian forestry would feel this quickly.

We need a compound word to describe this👇🏽. I dunno, seems like a useful combination. Can we have some German morphologists working on that please? Danke schön.

I'm no campaign expert, but this doesn't sound like a winning message if your constituents are farmers who are particularly sensitive to diesel and fertilizer prices (on top of tariffs on their two main exports).

Last month, the Pentagon fired the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes. Two opposite headlines this morning show the results were swift.

Please listen to the trans people in the places where they are most targeted. They won’t all agree. But listen to them.

At this rate, I'm guessing he regularly sends out pictures of his bowel movements, bragging about how he didn't even need toilet paper because it was the perfect consistency.

The true test of a commander-in-chief is to win wars that aren't even wars to begin with, like eating your war cake and having it too.