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Remembering this story from 8 years ago, about the differing values of rural & urban people. One reason I remember it is that every single factual assertion made by a rural person in the piece is false.

submitted 5 hours ago • 27 comments

It is difficult to imagine any circumstances in which the assassination of one democratic lawmaker and the attempted assassination of another is not fascist violence, calculated to suppress political resistance to a fascist project. At this point I am not going to try.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

I will hold the line on this. Right-wing violence has far more support, materially, institutionally and ideologically, in the U.S. than left-wing violence. There is no both-sidesing it.

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

This is the lede. There is a woman on camera in charge of a lot of people with guns. She says they are going to liberate a domestic population center from democratically elected officials and violate too many laws to count in the process. I have zero time for anything else.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Kristi Noem Attempts To Relieve Tension From Negative Press By Squeezing Stress Dog

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

Alright, at this point I’m pretty sure about this: The federal government legally cannot take over the national guard and tell it to do stuff without involving this man in some way, and he should explain whether that has happened or not. Stop telling protestors to do and tell us what you’re doing.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

I'm teaching a course on the American Revolution this fall, and so I've been thinking a lot about the coming 250th anniversary celebration and how it compares and contrasts with the bicentennial celebrations of 1976. For example, consider this Declaration of Economic of Independence from 1976.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

submitted 18 days ago • 140 comments

new pope! *crowd goes wild* American pope! *crowd boos* woke for an American! *crowd goes wild* bad on protecting abusive priests! *crowd boos* hates JD Vance! *crowd goes wild*

submitted 40 days ago • 218 comments

"Woke" -- changing norms through social pressure -- is not, contra the reactionary centrists, another form of tyranny. It's the *alternative* to tyranny. It's new norms winning through the marketplace of ideas. The alternative is what we see now: enforcing norms via the threat of state violence.

submitted 41 days ago • 41 comments

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

submitted 53 days ago • 68 comments

MADISON, Wis. – Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and other publications reported that Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan apparently attempted to protect a defendant from ICE agents trying to detain that defendant. (1/6)

submitted 55 days ago • 44 comments

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/scient...

submitted 54 days ago • 18 comments

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

submitted 55 days ago • 521 comments