Category: politics
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Week of 2025-0406
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Week of 2025-0330
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Week of 2025-0316
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Week of 2025-0223
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Missing the point on court packing
This is the sort of idiocy that keeps us mired. The Republicans haven’t resisted “nuking” the “independent judiciary” out of respect for the Democrats’ restraint. I promise you, now that independent judges have thrown speed bumps in the path of the MAGA/fascist/cultist horde, we will see bills to purge the judiciary. But if the Democrats…
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Family Values
{Editor’s note: Whoof, this is an oldie that’s just sat in my Drafts for — seven(!) years, for no good reason.} As predictable as the rising of the Sun, a figure on the right has assailed same-sex marriage equality as an “assault on families”. I am so tired of this. You know what undermines families?…
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FB Recap: Social Media and the Body Politic
Here’s the thing. This week we’ve learned about massive breaches of trust and the evils that the superconnected Internet can bring. But we’ve also seen truly inspiring and uplifting photos that speak to real change — and not only would we never have seen these pictures without social media, the protests and rallies would never…