With the midterms fast approaching, and the prospect of both houses of Congress, as well as several statehouses, potentially flipping, Republicans across the country are becoming increasingly desperate. And, as you might imagine, this desperation is manifesting itself in truly terrible ways. In Texas, with the young, dynamic Beto O’Rourke gaining momentum, Ted Cruz has […]
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School shootings, the delay-and-do-nothing right, and those who blame women for “the destabilization of the sexual marketplace”
I’d wanted to write about something else entirely tonight, but then I stumbled across the above tweet, and it sent me tumbling through the looking glass, into a pitch-black world of toxic masculinity and weaponized insecurity, where women, having been debased to the point of no longer being considered human, are seen merely as instruments […]
Betsy DeVos v. Dwayne Wade
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which shut down in the immediate aftermath of last month’s mass shooting that left 17 students and teachers dead, recently reopened. And, today, there was news that the students had received two distinguished guests, one of whom talked with them at length about their experiences, and the other, who, refusing […]
Putin announces a new weapon capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to Florida, and Trump responds by attacking Alec Baldwin
Meanwhile Putin is standing on stage in Moscow, talking about how he could drop a nuclear warhead on Florida. — Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) March 2, 2018 Saying “no missile defense system will be able to withstand it,” Valdimir Putin, this past Thursday, informed the world of Russia’s new hypersonic Sarmat ICBM. Standing in front of […]