The media has suddenly decided that it’s a sign of weakness for a presidential candidate to do a joint TV interview with their running mate.
“All the Washington Post HAD WAS its credibility” The Biden administration has been the nail in the coffin for the elite journalism establishment.
i have largely stopped arguing about this on social media because it isn’t fruitful, but this finding gets to why you should be skeptical of theories that try to sideline or excise race from an explanation of the white rural turn toward reactionary politics news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...
Researchers have found that when it comes to politics, Black and Latino residents of rural America differ far less, if at all, from their urban counterparts than do non-Hispanic white residents.
Congratulations to the NYT staffers who went to Columbia on getting to live through a moment when their alma mater and their employer are *both* imploding due to incompetent leadership
I fully expect this comment section to become downright rabbinical on the subject of Star Trek economics.
Yep! The Ten Commandments include specific mandates about how and when believers should worship their God. The Constitution only mentions religion to directly repudiate the government’s power to issue those kinds of mandates.
And experts who warned about this were called "conspiracy theorists" and "blue anon" by Very Serious People
It is incredibly infuriating that all the complaining about cancel culture paved a path to this, where state officials are saying that they are allowed to censor any faculty speech that contradicts them. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
A nationally prominent conservative lawyer, hired to defend the state’s Stop WOKE Act, asserted that what public university professors say in classrooms “is the government’s speech.” The national impl...
i've seen this poem in years past but having recently gotten into looking for frogs it hits even harder (the author is Sam Pink, www.instagram.com/sam_pink_art)
Krugman on X. (h/t LGM.) -- Consider just the economic consequences. Business absolutely relies on the rule of law. (Even when they break the law, they also rely on the security that most people obeying the law provides.)
