California’s governor offered Texas a deal: you give up on your gerrymander, and we won’t enact ours
The Texas governor and legislators refused
They put their gerrymander through without their citizens having a chance to vote. CA went to the voters for approval
You don’t have to pack anything, if you’ve got money to burn. But most people don’t
If it was a police officer who was down, they wouldn’t have waited
That should be the standard: is it too dangerous to go in after one of your own?
“How old was Mary again when God impregnated her?”
Maybe this is pure trolling? Or maybe it’s just the stupidest fucking thing any smug bastard has ever posted on the Internet
Hormonal birth control is poison for women’s minds and bodies?
I wonder how many people actually believe this
Not being skeptical about the damage these white Christian nationalists are causing. Just wondering about the scope of the problem
We agree that military officers can, and in fact must, refuse to carry out illegal orders. But the military has no constitutional role at all in removing a president from office, whether by impeachment or the 25th Amendment
Gun-worshippers
I don’t want military intervention to remove him. If they stage a coup, there’ll never be an end to them
Haven’t seen any yet. On my list
Judeo-Masonic, you say?
Well, in that case, your claim’s airtight. I’m sold
Let me be the 49th person to say, he’s got a narrow window of sobriety at 8 am
CHATGPT HAS SPOKEN
YOU HAVE FIFTEEN SECONDS TO COMPLY
I mean, it’s an airtight argument
CHATGPT HAS SPOKEN
YOU HAVE FIFTEEN SECONDS TO COMPLY
It’s an airtight argument
Prosperity gospel is a plague: on worshippers, American society, the planet
Well, to be fair, the Pontiff *has* traditionally been regarded as the globe’s pre-eminent law enforcement officer
What kind of a man promotes this fantasy of himself?
I was a little uncertain about the authenticity until I saw Melanie sleeping in the bed next to him. AI
We’re talking high school classrooms. As a teacher, I can tell you: there are always primates chattering away in the corners
Hat tip
Just wait ‘til the teens start getting philosophy lessons from their personalized interactive AI mentors/enablers, Maximus from Gladiator and Leonidas from 300
Surely that duo will come preloaded with the rigorous tenets of Cicero and Plato
Or their AI life coaches, Bad Bunny and Doja Cat
The military doesn’t want a draft, and the political consequences for reimposing conscription would be ruinous for any administration that tried it
I’m not worried about this for my nephews or my students. Unless we somehow end up in, say, a protracted war with China, there won’t be a draft
If you’re trying to persuade, say, young women who are hostile to feminism, attitudes towards the causes and meanings of sexual assault are pretty deeply entrenched
They might be more receptive to the financial and career freedoms - however limited - that were won for them by an earlier generation
It’s more rhetorically effective in a comparative instance to refer to the credit restriction than to rape laws
It’s because of people’s visceral reaction to the subject of rape. If you’re going to turn your reader’s attention from a feel-good space mission to gender inequality, a smaller step
Less worried about the tool per se than I am about the moral defects of the people who control it and the neurochemical vulnerabilities of its consumers
Citizens United just keeps giving
After watching the Challenger explode live, I don’t tune in for launches or re-entry anymore
Don’t know how you do it when you’ve got a whole other level to deal with
We will tear that thing down
Ah, the Auld Alliance
Trump managed to be both Hitler and Neville Chamberlain in the same negotiation, an unprecedented feat
(Wish I could take credit for that one)
Michael Clayton, amen
The others are all fine choices