If I worked on the Hill, I'd make my little throw-away "it is what it is" line be something to the effect, "well, treason's punishable by death."

Just keep repeating that all the time, indifferent to the occasion or fit.

I call it "Planting a Seed."

I find the current political situation impossible to parse except as a global community of shithead gangster bosses doing odious favors for each other. Domestically and internationally, that's the only ideological through-line. Bossism, fascism, sure, but finally it's just Epstein Island everywhere.

Many of the employees I've talked to share the public’s anger, which NYT might realize if they bothered to talk to anyone outside management

Hope his ambulance was in network

Use this to realize that you've been a frog slowly boiling in ever more heated water for almost a decade now when it comes to trans issues.

there's this class of writers whose entire brain has been consumed by petty resentments against social groups and fads they find annoying or unfamiliar, and can't recognize they're chasing the same emotional kick that feeds the far right, they're just still in the plausible deniability stage

Screaming into the void here, but I don’t understand why there aren’t plans to form form American Left-Populist party, maybe a Labor party. The democrats clearly want to be center-right neocons and have only served to create space for the far right. Abandon this farce, create something new.