"Donor's Trust is a gigantic identity scrubbing-device for the rightwing."
"It doesn't do anything. It's just an identity scrubber."
This only makes sense if you regard making charitable contributions as a hostile act.
Which, I guess, you could if you were prone toward wildly uncharitable and conspiratorial thinking. And, given what we're watching, I don't think you can rule that out.
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Plenty for a conservative not to like in Michelle Obama’s speech, but it was masterful nonetheless.
It was billed as uncharacteristically partisan, and it was. And it was a culture war speech, with sins of omission in the first half and commission in the second. But those are blemishes in an otherwise tonally refreshing appeal to universal values. Voters respond to that.
If your assumption is that general election voters who recoil from partisan warfare are conflict averse, and actually resent ideological witch hunts and desire racial rapprochement (which they do), this is the kind of stuff that moves you.
The City of Philadelphia halts all arrests related to narcotics, theft, burglary, vandalism, prostitution, stolen cars, fraud, and existing bench warrants.
At a time when people are feeling very insecure, this seems like an incredibly bad idea. google.com/amp/s/www.inqu…
A reason to read @AndrewCMcCarthy’s “The Progressive Prosecutor Project”
The performative garment-rending over "All options are on the table" re: Venezuela is too much to bear. They all say that, as they should, even when it's a bluff. Obama admin repeatedly used the phrase re: Iran, when you know that all options most certainly weren't on the table.
Hate to tell you, folks, but an admin that says "there's no military option in Venezuela" could be forced to reverse itself if there is an implosion of a state rich with oil, weapons, and drugs that becomes a haven for terrorist networks and incubates a refugee crisis.
No one wants deployments in Venezuela. Believe me, it wouldn't be pretty. But, yes, you have to be prepared to contain a crisis. That's responsible statecraft any admin would pursue. And everything this admin has done re: Venezuela makes that *less* likely.
Threading a few of the promotional op-eds I wrote with themes from #Unjust, which drops tomorrow (pre-order today! bit.ly/NoahRothman)
A selection from the chapter in #Unjust on the philosophy of modern social justice activism, which diverges from Rawls in ways that would render it unrecognizable to an earlier generation of activists: "The Attack on Luck" via @commentarycommentarymagazine.com/articles/the-a…