What Ta-Nehisi Coates is doing, using his standing in the liberal mainstream to enter rarefied mainstream spaces to speak out on behalf of Palestinians, even though those spaces will be invariably hostile and even perhaps subsequently foreclosed to him, is incredible
Don't know how to explain this, but I was just taken by surprise at the number of 'e's in 'foreseeable'. All I can see are the 'e's now.
The closer we get to November the more I worry about the Harris people running an exceptionally effective campaign to get elected, while the other side is engaged in a broad-spectrum campaign to seize ruling power for the foreseeable future of which getting elected is an optional part of the outcome
one big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that when an R officeholder commits blatant ethics violations their defenders are all "who amongst humanity would not put their fingers in the pot if offered the chance? it's simple human nature" but Democrats are all like "yeah get his ass"
I didn’t think Eric Adams (allegedly) stealing $10m in public funds was bad until I realized it’s the equivalent of jumping the subway turnstiles (capital offense) 3.4 million times.
It's been another fun day of writing out responses, editing them to size, being very pleased with the point I was attempting to make, then deleting them and getting on with other things.
Adams’ identification and favor with the NYPD has been commented on but never got the national treatment it deserves - he’s a unitary executive with a personal army in the biggest city in America, and what’s happening now is legitimately scary. He could ask them to do anything, and they would.
