This is important for one really big reason. If we don't pass the John Lewish Voting Rights Act, everything we want to do is at risk in the future as Republicans are already chiseling away at people's right to vote and will do so more aggressively with Trump's court picks.
So if you want Student Loan Forgiveness or Zero Interest Student Loans, Free College, Universal Health Care, Living Wage Jobs, Zero Carbon, Environmental Sustainability and the entire laundry list, you need to help us secure our voting rights and elections into the future.
We already have essentially minority rule in many states and minority over-representation in the Senate and Electoral College that we have to ensure that democracy has a chance against all the efforts to subvert it that are already in place.
And of course, they do, since Social Darwinism is a corruption and misrepresentation of Darwin's theory and the subsequent science that are part of what we understand about evolution. After all, Social Darwinism despises cooperation which ignores that cooperation is essential to
the survival of many species such as ants, bees, and humans. If the human species spent the last millennia doing rugged individualism in the style of Texas and Colorado mayors, we would have long disappeared. We cooperate and help each other. We are a community-organized species.
As I see the Republican party get ever more detached from reality, it is obvious that there are some benefits to the "smoke-filled rooms" of the past. Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, is raking in the cash in small donor contributions and sees no need to moderate her views
The Dems also benefit from small-donor contributions but without a radicalizing extremist propaganda army like FOX, OANN, Epoch Times, Breitbart, Sinclair, and so on, we are not ruled by a lunatic fringe who are constantly lied to.
Instead, without that radicalizing influence, the authoritarian, anti-democracy left gravitates to the Greens, the DSA, and other Marxist splinter groups. They make claims about taking over the Dems but compare the success rate of Justice Dems to Run For Something.
Back in the 60s, the Republicans realized that the facts were against them and began a campaign of pressuring the media that continues to this day. Spiro Agnew, the criminal vice-president, led the charge advised by Roger Ailes. notable-quotes.com/a/agnew_spiro.…
Since then, the media has always crafted stories around certain frames that seem written in stone. Democrats are bumbling and ineffectual. Republicans are strong, effective, and powerful.
They continue this frame even though 43 Republicans are so weak, ineffectual, and cowardly they cannot stand up to a disgraced and corrupt president who sanctioned their murder if that's what it took for him to stay in power.
So the first Trump lawyer's argument is if you impeach Trump for sedition, Republicans might impeach Democrats for what? A blow job?
Second Trump lawyer was so fucking racist, I shut him off.
Honestly, if Trump's defense is basically "I'm gonna make an argument you can't refuse." like some mafia don, are Republicans going to cave to extortion as a legal defense?
Students concerned about their tour leader and mentor using the most blatant of racist epithets and speaking of minoritized people in degrading ways are not vigilante bullies. Nor are the people who reported it more widely. Nor are people disgusted by NYTimes original response
Here's the thing about epithets. We all know they are unacceptable. For someone to make the choice to use them is a knowing, deliberate assertion of power. You don't accidentally say some racist epithet unless you are comfortable with saying it.
Sexist epithets, society has a high tolerance for them and we are not at the point where people lose their jobs for saying pussy, bitch, or cunt. Dehumanizing women is still wide-spread. Insulting men by calling them an anti-women epithet is widespread. I hope that will change
So a couple years ago at Mercado, a Latin-American market with several Latin American food carts, I had ajiaco, a Colombian chicken and potato soup. It was so delicious, I have never forgotten how unique it was thanks to the herb guascas that is in it.
I looked in the Mercado grocery store for guascas, but they didn't carry it. There are a couple Mexican groceries in my neighborhood, but that's not their cuisine. On 1/25 it occurred to me they might have it on Amazon. Success. So I ordered it and chose Amazon Wednesday delivery
I didn't notice that meant 2/3, not 1/27. So I have been impatiently waiting. I found a recipe online that looked right. So, it arrives Wed. On Thursday, I buy the ingredients I didn't have on hand. I get home, so excited and read the REST of the recipe and discover the chicken