Or take Covid. Why has the entire GOP radicalized against figures like Tony Fauci and behind RFK's nutty ideas about the "dangers" of the Covid vaccine? Because they don't trust the institutions we've developed as a modern society to generate actionable truths. This is beyond irresponsible.

Or take Vance's take on "economists." "They" have been entirely wrong in the past, hence we should just trust the intuition of a corrupt NYC billionaire heir who's never read a book to make decisions about the economic fate of the nation. Great idea dude. That'll work. Cue Art Laffer's napkin.

“Vance’s sentiment isn’t new, but his comments in the debate on paid maternal leave (or lack thereof) were a new frontier in his universal disrespect and loathing for women who he sees merely as vessels for childbirth.”

Forced birth advocate believes paid maternity leave should be a choice

It's the only issue where JD Vance thinks a woman's opinion matters.

Over on X, #MAGA#FuckTrump

Special counsel Jack Smith said in a 165-page filing to a federal court Wednesday that former President Donald Trump laid the groundwork for criminal conduct ahead of the 2020 election.

Special counsel contests Trump immunity, says he’s charged as an ‘office-seeker, not office-holder’

Special counsel Jack Smith said in a 165-page filing to a federal court Wednesday that former President Donald Trump laid the groundwork for criminal conduct ahead of the 2020 election.

Donald Trump the criminal defendant. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump and Vance’s mass deportation plan would lead to a humanitarian (and economic) disaster and concentration camps, according to a historian of concentration camps. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

Trump’s Massive Deportation Plan Echoes Concentration Camp History

Trump’s language about immigrants “poisoning” the U.S. repeats past rhetoric that led to civilian detention camps, with horrific, tragic results

As I work my way through Special Counsel Smith's brief on immunity, this paragraph strikes as the single best evidence that Trump *knowingly* made false statements, which would be enough to convict if the case is allowed to go forward.

When you’re definitely not a communist

Early last week, Donald Trump made a Truth Social post falsely claiming that Democrats were using UOCAVA (overseas voting) to cheat in the 2024. Our team unpacked where those rumors come from — and how they mislead — in a "rapid" research post: uwcip.substack.com/p/examining-...

Examining rumors that Democrats are trying to commit voter fraud via the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA)

This "rapid research" post unpacks the genesis and spread of these rumors.