Mehdi Hasan - @mehdirhasan · 1:39 PM · Jan 14, 2022
It begins...

New Virginia Governor Youngkin to Lift School Mask Mandate, Change COVID Policies
Virginia’s next governor, Glenn Youngkin, said he will lift the state’s school mask mandate and change other COVID-19 policies after taking office Jan. 15.
If you vote for the @GOP, you are voting to make ( Read more... )

This is the natural result of @GOP pro-plague politics, and why we have the worst COVID-19 numbers in the world.
InMinivanHell - @inminivanhell · 9:08 AM · Jan 8, 2022
Thomas Apollo went to a mobile clinic in Tustin, CA to protest covid vaccines. After calling employees “murderers” he assaulted them. Punching numerous staff members, leaving one ( Read more... )

Gonna talk about Harry Reid for about half a second, maybe as part of an essay that's bubbling in my head about bad faith and the Republican Party, but also in the Democratic Party, because holy hell was Harry Reid good at bad faith.

What got me thinking about it was electoral-college shenanigans and thinking about the 2000 election - or rather, ( Read more... )

Another small Twitter essay, of course.
Reuters Fact Check -
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Jesus fucking christ this idiocy. Also, Twitter broke my reply chain, so to see it all, you have to start here, most of the way down, then scroll up.

Matt Lewis - @mattklewis - 7:35 AM · Dec 6, 2021
Now, I'm not going to suggest there is a perfectly straight line from Clinton to Donald Trump. But perhaps when the public rejected good men like Dole ( Read more... )

This shithead, right here:

Daniel Darling - 11:24 AM · Dec 1, 2021
Whether or not you are pro-life like me, you can't deny that the pro-life movement, since 1973, has introduced a moral vocabulary that can't easily be waved away: a human life, at the smallest and most vulnerable state, has dignity and worth. 2/2

Perhaps predictably, I got angry:

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The way to keep your bar from becoming a Nazi bar is to bring down the hammer the instant even one of them shows up.

I just had to do that on a mailing list I host - we host a bunch, mostly for clubs and not-for-profits - against QAnon antivax horseshit.

Not havin' it.

Just not.

I told the poster, I'm not gonna try to get through to you, I'm not gonna ( Read more... )

The Bad Guys Are Winning, a pretty good article in The Atlantic on how autocratic regimes have formed a sort of syndicate backing each other, and the complete abandonment of any pretence that autocratic rule improves lives. It's all about looting.
Also posted to ソ-ラ-バ-ド-のおん;
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The GOP won some elections today, eleven months after trying to overturn the last elections through force.

The flat-out fact that the GOP tried to overturn the last election by any means necessary - through fraud, farce, and force - has had absolutely no negative impact on their electoral fortunes. There has been no penalty, no cost, no downside ( Read more... )

Another Twitter essay, this one on the national right-wing money going into local school board races.

There's a rightist effort going to distance from or leave the National School Boards Association, keying off their letter asking for help with "threats and acts of violence against public schoolchildren, public school board members, and other... ( Read more... )