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Florida hill country son, Chesapeake roots. Administrator, old-school Episcopalian, Calvinist, Democrat, traditional liberal, Latin Americanist &c.
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I think a lot of people don’t realize how insanely pervasive and coercive the early 2010s “the only way to make it as a young writer is to publish insanely confessional, raw online essays about your darkest secrets and trauma” culture was.
Conservative schismatics really think they've got something on the rest of us with that whole "global" framing
“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
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white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
www.nytimes.com
Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….
one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
Eric Trump: "If he wasn't heaven-bound, he wouldn't have been alive after Butler. If he wasn't heaven-bound, that flag wouldn't have folded up like a perfect angel right above his head. If he wasn't heaven-bound, if he wasn't meant for this purpose, he wouldn't have beaten Hillary."
