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There are very few days when I have been embarrassed to be an American. Today is unfortunately one of them.

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It takes a lot to put me on AOC’s side. But she’s absolutely right here.

submitted 13 days ago • 41 comments

Wrote about the cultural value of having outlets for edginess that don't lead people down rabbit holes of reactionary politics. smol.news/p/edginess-o...

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

While I have no great love for billionaires, they aren't the reason you don't live inside of a Polo Ralph Lauren ad. This lifestyle was always an aspirational fantasy of wealth and privilege that was only ever available to the very few.

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

Winning the Catholic Church, Old Glory, Football, etc in the culture war

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

JD Vance’s master plan to increase the birth rate of the US is to destroy the welfare state and the department of education making childcare and education as expensive as humanly possible. Got it.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

JD Vance will really be like "you believe in loving thy neighbor? That pales in comparison to my strategy, loving my family first" and then not love his family.

submitted 23 days ago • 185 comments

I'm still mad about Ken Klippenstein's article from yesterday. You can't be any kind of leftist, or even just left-of-center liberal, and look down on government bureaucrats. All social programs depend on dedicated civil servants. We can't get anything done without them

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submitted 28 days ago • 98 comments

Calls and text messages have flooded me in the last 72 hours from friends and colleagues in Sierra Leone and elsewhere: Are my meds going to be cut off? Am I going to die? I don't know what to tell them. I don't know what to tell anyone. Hope is my whole jam, but I feel very distant from it.

submitted 33 days ago • 102 comments

If Trump has cut the entire federal budget, what exactly is the argument for staying a cohesive union again?

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments