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This is why we need lists of DHS employees to enter the public record. These are people who should never hold down a respectable job for the rest of their lives.

This sort of weaponized cynicism and nuclear whataboutism is also how Putin tries to keep 140 million Russians from hanging him.

Berkeley has figured out that you can just do things that are good and people will be happy.

The right is equally committed to upholding the same norms they expect us to uphold.

This is really unfortunate but I'm sure Fox News is going to discipline her just like a bunch of universities fired faculty and staff for posting verbatim Charlie Kirk quotes.

There's only one real answer...

The liberal democracies of the world need to start treating the authoritarian right like the existential threat that it is. Once this tumor metastasizes, it'll take generations to cut out -- if we even survive at all.

The problem of a politics that promotes a worldview of secret cabals conspiring to take things from you in a zero sum world of scarcity is that your movement will invariably attract a large portion of people with severe, untreated mental illness.

I would not trust my money to a Nazi who is high AF every second he is awake, but you do you.

Louisiana stole my tax refund from last year, but that's OK because they needed money to just give to Mark Zuckerberg.

Fascism requires a robust bureaucracy and it's fortunate that the most competent administrators are both the hardest to replace and also the first to defect if you threaten their future livelihood and freedom.

"Hold up, let him cook...."

It'd be interesting to see polling questions about who respondents blame for stuff like food prices, gas prices, housing costs, etc.

You could always just find some sport you like and do that to stay in shape, except as you get older, you have to do supplementary exercises to prevent yourself from getting debilitatingly injured doing said sport.

Was gonna get a used Chevy Bolt this summer instead of a used Tesla but now, I really need to figure out how to sneak a BYD up from Tijuana.

In America, mass transit is widely considered to be an alternative of last resort for the extremely poor rather than a safer, cheaper, cleaner and more efficient means of moving people around a metropolitan area.

As a funny aside, here are the issues that the Cato Institute uses to figure out which state is the freest. See if you can spot "Not being forced to carry a rapist's child" on this list.

One of the biggest ironies of American life is that the states with the highest levels of gun ownership are also the worst for civil liberties. Like if the 2A was really the ultimate check against tyranny, why do women in chud states have to rat-line themselves out to enjoy basic bodily autonomy?

Cutting all federal contracts with Elon Musk's companies must be a priority for the next Democratic-held Congress. Severely curtailing that man's influence and wealth is literally a matter of national security.

Was thinking it would be a funny bit to make my academic website LinkedIn coded. "Rockstar social science ninja using the power of AI to deliver key data insights to public policy executives. Passionate about academic publishing and delivering key insights to tuition paying stakeholders."