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A lot of people assumed the coked-up aesthetic of the RNC was a mistake, but I'd argue that it's quite deliberate. That kind of overstimulating presentation is par for the
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For me, one of the most convincing arguments for defunding to the police is that the police are actually pretty bad at preventing crime. Nowhere is this more obvious than
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This essay gets at why I often feel uncomfortable identifying as a “survivor” instead of as a “victim”. I don’t like the implicit assumption that I’m somehow stronger or better
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This kind of bouncing around, constantly declaring one thing and then declaring the opposite days, even minutes later, is all perfectly understood by survivors of domestic violence. These are tactics
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Boy, the fact that people talk about Kanye West as a joke more than as an artistic genius who has gone off the deep end is a sure sign of
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I suppose the most predictable thing about the coronavirus would be that people would start to believe it's here to punish people for doing things they don't like. It's really
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This is too wildly specific to be an accident. Like, they did not just happen to use the same symbol to demonize leftists that Nazis used.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/18/trump-campaign-runs-ads-with-marking-once-used-by-n
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I’m sad to see that Minneapolis protests are turning into riots. But the police are at fault. They deliberately tear gassed peaceful protesters in clear hopes of escalating this to
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Trump’s latest antic — tweeting a threat to kill Democrats — is definitely an effort to distract from his failures. But that doesn’t mean that we should just ignore it.https://www.salon.com/2020/05/28/yes-trumps-twitter-threats-agai
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The fact of the matter is Amy Cooper is continuing to lie to the public, like she lied to the police. She clearly didn’t feel threatened. Watch the video: She
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This is why it was important to listen to women (though a lesson that won't be learned). I can tell you that a lot of men that other men perceive
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Trump has never really abandoned his belief that, as long as there’s no testing, he can conceal all the illness and death.https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/08/trump-birx-coronavirus-test/ A couple weeks ago, people started to wonder
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