The dominant discourse on this website after Election Day was to essentially concede the Senate to the GOP. And yet the 11th Black Senator ever was elected in the heart of the Confederacy pretty comfortably in the end. This was great! lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/01/the-rev
And of course R.I.P.
And, yes, gotta have Otis
Not that this is big news but it is really staggering to contemplate how much of the greatest popular music in American history comes from artists from and/or based in Georgia
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For some reason New York Magazine has decided to hire the dude who wrote the novel about using the power to stop time to take women's clothes off to write up a wholly evidence-free conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID
This is 1)the second paragraph, and 2)dispositive reason for this thing to have not been published
Hawley, Cruz et al. are using literal Jim Crow logic. And don't take my word for it, they're using the infamous panel that gave Republicans the presidency in exchange for ending Reconstruction *as their affirmative model*:
The theory of Hawley, Cruz, et al. is that urban voters, disproportionately voters of color, must be disenfranchised so that white rural voters whose candidate lost don’t feel disenfranchised. That’s it. These 12 Senators are flat-out enemies of American democracy.
Congressional Democrats *actually support* $2,000 checks, and there is absolutely dispositive evidence that congressional Republicans don't give a shit about deficits; portraying the former as phony and the latter as authentic is a choice, not an accident
"Sidestepped." Oddly, no claims about "political theater" in McConnell refusing to hold a vote and speciously claiming he's open to new negotiations with the congressional term a few days from expiring