#2016

Yikes. Yeah, religious institutions/culture is a real blind spot for liberal centrist types. Not all, obviously (Friedersdorf is good), but most. Hence this, or Cathy Young’s assertion last month that
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Anatomy of a Puff Piece: The “enduring mystique” of kollaborator journalism.The @nytimes Hicks diddler is a tipping-point in an existential crisis.With truth an endangered species, normalizing enablers of an illegitimate
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My #Autistic Son Needs 24/7 Support. And That's OK.We have a good life, because we stopped buying into mainstream notions about what happy families look like. This is going to
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1/ There's a bit to unpack here but China's intended outcome for Taiwan is not annexation and elimination of local independence or even 1c2s 2/ Most serious Chinese planners acknowledge
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THREAD: The news of the pending appointment of retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as SecDef has provoked a complex reaction. Here is a thread of @monkeycageblog posts summarizing relevant security studies
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The Cathedral freaked the fuck out after 2016-17 proved the internet could get its enemies elected and has been working nonstop ever since to make all platforms and popular online
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Let’s be clear: The Republican Party as a democratic institution is dead. What remains is an American fascist mob led by would be dictators. It must be utterly destroyed, though
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McConnell blocked legislation that would make Election Day a national holiday so that people could more easily participate in their democracy (calling the proposal a “Democratic power grab”) /1 he
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After relistening to Drake’s discog, here are my thoughts on every album/mixtape (on streaming) Before this I wanna say drake is my favorite rapper oat so you might disagree with
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This smells money-launder-y to me.GoFundMe Is Refunding All $20 Million In Donations To Build Trump's Wall After The Plans Changed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/gofundme-border-wall-refund-brian-kolfage via @davidmackau
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To analyse the UK/EU deal, you must know:1. Is it of Strategic Sense?2. Is it what normal neighbours would do?The answer, using an objective, evidence-based model, is NO. I'm a
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#GHMCResults To summarize @trspartyonline didn't win a single seat in 13 assembly segments @BJP4Telangana in 6 segments @INCTelangana in 23 segments. 1/n. @bajjiladeva @PulseTelangana @KVishReddy @KTRTRS #GHMCResults polarization in
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THE TRUTH ABOUT MASS MIGRATION, , , & . 1) There are a few important things that need to be understood regarding the UN's Migration Compact and the recent population
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A thread about COVID situation in Israel and why the ongoing mass vaccination is a waste of country's resources and won't provide any meaningful data about the efficacy of the
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In the sequel to "Drones Over Riyadh", here is "Rockets over Erbil" - Thread to follow @WashInstitute https://bit.ly/3ufz1nA  The piece makes a simple point: the complexity of dealing with this
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When the story here is written, they'll go back to the day when Manafort was indicted in 2017 and look back at all the insanely-managed propaganda that was launched in
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