If you seriously think weâre up against a fascist threat, then we need to organize a popular front. I think both are true. For it to be more than a normal political coalition, by definition it has to include people we think are truly odious. Thatâs basically the entire point.
I could do this all day. Last spring I saw the Ukrainian Modernism exhibit at Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza - all works that had been saved from Ukraine in the first days of the Russian attack. Powerful enough. Next day, I went to Reina Sofia as soon as it opened to see Guernica. We don't learn.
Never forget that George Will wrote a column in 2014 saying that being a victim of rape is a coveted status young women gain privilege from and thatâs why there are so many sexual assault reports on college campuses
There's probably an episode of Veep like this. Or, @thethickofit.bsky.social tho
Not as far to fall as just watching the West Wing and thinking it was all like that.
Hold up here. Did she not throw the paper towel rolls? She was supposed to throw the paper towel rolls.
Vice President Kamala Harris handed out meals, embraced a shaken family and surveyed Hurricane Heleneâs âextraordinaryâ path of destruction through Georgia as she left the campaign trail to pledge federal help and personally take in scenes of toppled trees, damaged homes and lives upended.
Biden and Harris will fan out across the Southeast to grapple with the damage from Hurricane Helene. Biden is heading to North and South Carolina, while Harris is going to Georgia.
