Category: Politics
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Standing By
Watching the five-year-long car-wreck as my country acts like an increasingly grotesque parody of itself, until its inevitably tragic conclusion
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Bespoke Dissidence
An essay by Gregory Thompson intelligently and compassionately rejects the lie of far-right manufactured victimization.
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You remember. It’s that thing with the feathers.
Finally seeing Biden/Harris’s victory confirmed is such an odd feeling. I’d almost forgotten what hope felt like.
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Fool me once
After five years trying to give Trump voters the benefit of the doubt, I think I’m finally done with that nonsense
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It’s not difficult
A reminder from Amber Ruffin to stop giving a pass to so-called “casual” racism
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Civics for Cynics
How to distinguish between healthy frustration with the political process, and arrogant, selfish, laziness
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What happens next
No, we can’t fix everything with one election. But I wish we were hearing more about how to keep this from ever happening again.
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Notes on Being a Decent Human
Lecturing Americans to show sympathy for Trump is like lecturing someone going through chemotherapy to show sympathy for their tumors.
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Does He Even Know He’s the Heel?
Looking for voices of reason in the middle of America’s most successful kayfabe administration
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Little Space Tate
You can’t spell “Unctuous toadies Giving up any semblance of integrity and Abdicating any responsibility to their students and their country” without UGA!
