so much of what people say of effective strategy to influence politics has nothing to do at all with what works and everything to do with "i'm scared as hell about how the election might turn out and people talking about problems scares me more and i need them to shut up so i can relax"
it's my daughter's birthday and I ordered her a monster cake from Carvel and this is the picture on the website and this is the picture of it in real life. please note: this is not a complaint. if this had been the picture on the website i would have paid more
We already have cities on federal lands with vertical take off/landing vehicles populated by people who make a lot of babies. They’re call Marine Corps bases.
The reason Ta-Nehisi Coates scares so much of America's intelligentsia and commentariat is because when he says that Israeli rule over Palestinians is just another, hyper militarized Jim Crow regime there's basically nothing to dispute. You can see it with your own eyes. This is why everyone is mad.
It is not antisemitic to defend Palestinian human rights. And it’s past time for more American Jews to say so to correct a media that’s lost the thread.
I would like, before I die, to have the United States go back to having presidential elections where I'm not terrified of the potential outcome.
A society in which roughly half of adults want Donald Trump to be their leader is deeply, deeply unwell.
I've said multiple times that watching the last year has been like watching a long, drawn out version of The July Crisis prior to World War I: a dark comedy of the dumbest, worst people in the world doing their level best to make sure an infinitely avoidable war wasn't avoided.
something I think about a lot is that if you accurately describe the existing immigration system to most people they simply don’t believe you about how awful it is there’s obviously a lot of rampant xenophobia out there but some folks who say “just come here legally” have no idea what that entails