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The people pushing for this on a religious basis deserve as much derision as the conservative justices who voted for it. Early Christians did not have physical churches to gather

Trump's transition team was a disaster and now he's trying to sabotage Biden's. Some excerpts from Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk about the Trump transition below. Christie had to explain

We already empathize with Trump supporters on policy. We want them all to have healthcare, to make a living wage, to have a fair and equal justice system. We don't

GOP men love demonstrating their total ignorance of the female reproductive system in public. (I'd feel sorry for their wives, but they voluntarily married these dopes.) Pregnancy is very much

The logic hole here is big enough to drive a monster truck through, but par for the course economic "thinking" from the right. In less than an hour, free markets

Tempted to just mute "cancel culture" going forward. But some supposedly people are failing to distinguish between ideas that are not discussed in the mainstream because they were discredited eons

Just switched to Fox to watch the Rushmore event and it's predictably bonkers. Median attendee age looks about 62, no masks or social distancing. Also shouting USA in unison, which

One of the dumbest things about this is how it utterly misunderstands media in general, but particularly the history of media and how newspapers worked pre-Internet. Lotta tech people in

PSA for Harvard grads too incurious to find out what fact-checking means: fact-checking means verifying falsifiable evidence. Like the spelling of your name or the date you were born or

There's an inferiority complex thing going on here, too. The conspiracists obsess over what Dems, which they view as a monolith embodied by a coastal elite minority of liberals, think

I am a giant James Bond fan and my 4 year old is (kind of) watching Casino Royale with me right now. Commentary so far: Bond jumps from one giant

I live in an 8 story apartment building and some of my neighbors are healthcare workers who are already at risk. We have a downstairs neighbor (young, white, male, childless,