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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Maybe if I’m a sniveling coward when it matters most people will trust me to lead

DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

A big part of growing up is coming to understand that people in positions of authority are sometimes extremely stupid, actually.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Imagine preaching appeasement in the face of fascism and thinking you’re smart

This is what's utterly bamboozling about Labour right now. There's three things guaranteed to lose them votes: An "austerity lite" financial approach; social conservatism; and refusing to get closer to Europe. So guess which three policy So guess which three policy directions they choose to go in?

If you show up to my house in a Cybertruck asking me to pay for a service, I am going to assume you’re ripping me off and also a dipshit. Sorry.

I haven't revisited Coates' civil war essays for the Atlantic since they were published around 2011 and it now feels like the publication has spent the last few years doing all it can to apologize for publishing something this good in the first place