Tag: politics
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McCarthy’s Mess, or Obstructionism Comes Home
Couple things: (1) obstructionism strikes within it’s own home! (2) this could be a deliberate monkey-wrench maneuver. (3) We do need an investigation of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and our Afghani allies must be brought over and granted citizenship.
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Journalists take note: THIS is how to handle a combed-over narcissist
The NY Post article on that walking comb-over’s little announcement last night is absolutely brilliant.
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Further Notes on the Second Amendment
Three more thoughts on the Second Amendment as a sort of epilogue to my neurodivergent and philological interpretation of it (‘On Commas and Guns’)
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I think I just realized why Donny With The Combover kept those documents… It’s not good news.
Why did he keep so many sensitive documents when he surely knew the FBI would end up getting a warrant and searching his residence? I just had a thought about this that makes more sense to me than anything else I’ve heard or come up with myself.
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I Must Be Confused, or How to read a pie chart: Water Edition
Is it you or is it the systems: water edition.
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Worrying
Setting out some anguish over what has happened to what would’ve been Bernie Sanders’ base of support.
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The mystery isn’t whether Biden is popular; the mystery is why anyone thinks he would be.
This poor guy wanted to be president for over 30 years, gets it, and then becomes one of the least popular presidents in recent history–to no real surprise at all.
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Mr. President: is this an emergency or not?
“Let me be clear: climate change is an emergency.” “As president, I have the responsibility to act with urgency and resolve when our nation faces clear and present danger. And that’s what climate change is about.” “It is literally — not figuratively — a clear and present danger.” Either it is or it isn’t. But…
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Anyone for Lysistrata? Or, Towards a sex-strike for abortion rights, via Aristophanes’ Comedy
Proposing a sex strike for women’s rights, esp. reproductive care, following Aristophanes’ model, Lysistrata
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Is It You or Is It The Systems?
An intervention: stop blaming yourself for systemic problems! Instead let’s remake the systems together!
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Demonizing Oligarchs Won’t Win Elections
Let’s be clear: the times when progressive actions could circumvent the legislature have now ended. In the face of persistent obstructionism by republicans elected to Congress, Obama turned to executive actions and he did what he could with what he had. (For the record, it has not escaped my memory that Donny with the Combover…
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Alito’s “Ordered Liberty,” or, the masks donned by fascists
Historical inquiry is no different from scientific inquiry. I’m an ancient historian saying this, and one particularly fond of the man who first applied the emergent principles of scientific inquiry (those still used to this day in so-called ‘Western’ science) to the study of our species and specifically to a scientific inquiry into the causes…
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Considerations for the Future
I am a white gay queer male. What business could I have in politics? I’m placing a lot of emphasis on the white male to the detriment of everything that makes me something else. But I’m also genuinely tired of white-washed politics. But I am also absolutely done with this system. And I know that…
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