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Greyhound/cat dad. Central PA. My personal views do not reflect my employer, because they are not mirrors or the calm waters of a beautiful lake in some cheesy AI art.
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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 6 hours ago • 85 comments

Ok, but real talk? The sort of low-engagement persuadable Trump voter you need to flip is not going to sit through a serious policy argument, and would not understand it if they did. “He’s calling himself a king” they can understand. So run with it.

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

Yeah but Jon Stewart said we are all overreacting about the fascism stuff...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

white nationalist men are too emotional to be in charge

submitted 4 days ago • 4794 comments

HE SAID HE WAS ABOVE THE LAW YOU FUCKING COWARDS

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

And you know who you are...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

America Goes From Nazi Punching To Nazi Coddling first-draft.com/2025/02/17/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

One of the actions here is to support actions even if you’re skeptical that they’ll work. I feel that way about many of the rest on the list. Which is why I like this list. There isn’t a clear path now. Risk time on that which may fail. Really.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

This week: Will Leitch on Eagles fans, Bob Mann on writing your Congresscritter, and the usual nonsense. Music by The Beatles, Ike & Tina Turner, Count Basie, Donovan, Joe Cocker, Warren Zevon & George Clinton, Oscar Peterson, and Cheap Trick.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Posting "But it won't accomplish anything!" doesn't accomplish anything.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

The 45-Year Path To Here first-draft.com/2025/02/14/t... my post on how we ended up in this mess.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

If you support any of this, you’re honestly just a terrible person. People’s lives are being upended and destroyed. For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die—yet some are celebrating.

submitted 8 days ago • 619 comments

Blame It On Mitch 2.0 first-draft.com/2025/02/13/b...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 9 days ago • 316 comments