Didn't we all learn when we were like 6 that the way a bill becomes a law is that it gets approved by a majority in the House and Senate and then gets sent to the President to sign, and that if any one of those steps fail, the lonely little bill doesn't get to be a law?
For @StevenBeschloss and all the other esteemed writers, journalists and historians who think it's strange that a bill can only become a law if a majority of members of Congress approve it, and that we're now living in some sort of new dictatorship because this one didn't:
This former Warren surrogate says that the failure of Democrats to secure a majority of votes to pass their bills in the Senate -- what he calls a "veto" -- means we now live in a "racist dictatorship."

Who is the racist dictator?

Can't get that "just a bill" song out of my head and I harbor deep resentment toward those who made me post it by pretending like it's some aberrational act of tyranny that the bill they want can't become law until they have 50 votes. Just no denying that this song is powerful.

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20 Dec
Absolutely everything Democrats are doing with the BBB bill -- the unfulfilled promises, blame-shifting, excuse-making, the general loser ethos -- is what they have been doing without pause at least since I began writing about politics 16 years ago. Not one thing has changed.
There is no political faction in any country I've covered as a journalist that more worships their political leaders than Dems in the US. They revere them like teens revere pop idols. And they are thus never blamed, can't fail, can only be failed, etc.

That it's all Joe Manchin's fault, that the Good and Compassionate Democrats would have done such great things for America's poor and working class if not for this sole Bad Senator, is the game they always play. Here's what I wrote in Salon in *2010(:

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20 Dec
More Americans have died of COVID in 2021 than 2020, even though Biden had the benefit of universally available vaccines and improved treatments.

Fortunately for Biden, all 2020 COVID deaths were blamed personally on the president but none in 2021 is.

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19 Dec
Very good reporting by @AzmatZahra showing once again how reckless was the Obama-and-Trump-era use of US drones to routinely kill large numbers of civilians, including children, followed by false government claims and almost no accountability.
Note: the key documents were long marked "classified' or "secret" until NYT obtained them through FOIA requests and lawsuits.

Assange is currently imprisoned and being prosecuted by the Biden DOJ for publishing documents very similar to these, as the NYT & many others often do.
Meanwhile, the NYT Editorial Board finally got around to condemning the Biden Admin's prosecution of Assange, but did so in the most mealy-mouthed way: avoiding use of his name in the headline, heaping praise on Biden's "courage," and even offering justifications/mitigation.
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18 Dec
Count the dogs
For those asking about the other dogs: one of Brazil's most devoted animal rights advocates, Luisa Mell -- visited today and she got the full tour.

Uma das mais dedicadas defensoras dos direitos dos animais, Luisa Mell - nos visitou hj pra conhecer nossos animais.
The least orderly but most joyful part of our house -- with Luisa Mell.

A parte menos organizada, mas mais alegre da nossa casa -- com @luisamell.
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17 Dec
The isolation, lockdowns, quarantines and the ruptures of connections to community ushered in by COVID policies is causing a vast mental health crisis in the US, so severe that therapists are turning away large numbers of patients needing counseling:

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Meanwhile, the leading cause of deaths for Americans ages 18-45 is not COVID. It is fatal drug overdoses: by far.

One reason is the increase of fentanyl, but another is the isolation, loneliness and loss of purpose from COVID restrictions.

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Early in the pandemic, I interviewed 2 experts on depression and addiction: @johannhari101 and Andrew Solomon. They both warned that even short isolation periods -- a few months -- could severely exacerbate the mental health crisis. It's now 2 years.

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16 Dec
Like most Freddie deBoer essays, his latest -- on the structural failings of the Dem Party and US liberalism -- is brilliant. Using @chrislhayes as his avatar, he argues Dem elites are petrified to engage in self-critique, thus fixating only on Trump:

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As deBoer correctly notes, the Democrats never really accepted Hillary's 2016 loss. They never engaged in self-critique. It became off-limits for Dem media stars to do anything other than blame Russia and racism for everything, leaving them stuck and hated:
DeBoer uses Chris Hayes as his illustrative example because he compares his once-insightful pre-MSNBC Nation columns to the partisan hackery he does now -- whether because he's forced to or wants to or some combination. Like most Dems, his whole world starts & ends with Trump:
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