rough prediction of where we're headed: 1) no filibuster reform -> no voting rights protections 2) last Dem bill passed is infrastructure/welfare thing ~25-50% as big as promised 3) huge Republican wave in 2022, democracy abolished in most swing states 4) second Trump term
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I don't have a take on the lab leak debate (from what I can tell there is no good evidence either way), but the question "why didn't people trust Tom Cotton" answers itself
we already see how media mega-consolidation has throttled creative production. Disney couldn't even make a paint-by-numbers Star Wars trilogy that didn't suck
area rich guy is convinced his expertise in money hoarding makes him a super-genius in all other fields of human endeavor, news at 11
"The gap between the GOP and the White House is unbridgeable. And the time for pretending otherwise is up." - @EricLevitznymag.com/intelligencer/…
@EricLevitz if these utterly foredoomed negotiations were meant to show Dems tried, a ten-fold smaller movement toward their position is more than enough nymag.com/intelligencer/…
back in them days I used to do the occasional appearance on CNN, but that stopped permanently after I wrote those stories. wonder why vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/h…
number 4 here is driving me most crazy. looking down the barrel of a full blown constitutional crisis and Dem elites are still prioritizing completely unjustifiable handouts to the donor class
let me comment briefly on the Sicknick news, as Glenn (in his characteristically magnanimous and fair-minded fashion) has asked for it washingtonpost.com/local/public-s…
the reason I assumed Sicknick had died due to the Capitol putsch was a) that's what had been reported b) it seemed highly improbable that an otherwise-healthy 42 year old would die of a stroke by *sheer coincidence* after brawling and getting maced
I should note this this evidence is not dispositive. autopsies are not an exact science - 2 different autopsies found 2 different causes of death for George Floyd, for instance nytimes.com/article/george…