History will declare them shameful mothers, betrayers of victims of violence, and disgraces to our nation. They broke through the glass ceiling and are wounding other women with the jagged shards.
Musk has told us in no uncertain terms who he is and what he supports. Do you think there is a single bit of wisdom in having one of his robots do your dishes?
Politics as usual will not get us out of this mess because it is politics as usual that got us into it. Trump’s threat has somehow been underestimated by too damn many for too damn long.
What better way for Trump to again evade arrest and prison yet again than invoking the Insurrection Act, creating a national emergency—that only he can fix—and then obstructing a few other things like elections.
This President and each man and woman currently collaborating with him are something of the gravest violence, something fully inhuman, something worthy of disdain.
Venezuela will be like crypto for the Trump family—just bloodier and costlier for you—while bringing about the same returns for an average American, which is zero.
Could there be a better way to distract attention from Trump's crimes (yes, including his presence in the Epstein files) than starting a war? Probably not.
Billionaire cash steers the agenda, military and police power set the boundaries, and religious messaging sells it as virtue, all while taxpayers fund the very system that excludes them.
If Nazis marching through town squares and supremacist politicians and election interference fall beneath your radar, you either intentionally have your head in the sand or it isn’t on straight to begin with—and either is a problem.
There is no persecution of Christians in America. The persecuted are those who belong to disfavored cultures—Afghan or Latino or Black—those who express their sexuality in a disfavored way or speak out disfavored opinions.
The children at Sandy Hook and Parkland and Uvalde and Brown University, and hundreds of other schools in America, deserve better than to become faceless, nameless, storyless numbers added to our perpetual national failure.
Underlying Conservative opposition to universal healthcare is ultimately selfishness: the belief that they are forever living in scarcity, that someone else’s gain must automatically be their loss.