Recently met our incoming county councilor--a Salvadoran immigrant himself--and he said as he's been door-knocking, he keeps hearing from voters how eerily quiet the streets are. Kids are not out playing. I said, "Yes, we have a thousand Anne Franks, just in our county alone."

There's just this constant: "You must pretend that you are at a ladies' tea party even in the midst of a massacre, which is by the way your fault because you're not tea partying with enough daintiness and reserve. Doilies shall be thy only weapon against cannons." Fuck that. And hooray for Ossoff.

Got asked this all over again in February, replied: We are facing such horrific brutality. Politeness is not really the problem. I think we got into this situation in part by a lot of people in the mainstream thinking it was more important to be polite than to call things by their true names.

Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?

David Brooks is a proven liar and a cheater who has never run for elected office. Jon Ossoff is running for reelection in the purplest of states. He does not need anyone’s advice, least of all from a reactionary centrist who paved the road to hell we’ve gone down for decades.

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I didn’t step foot in my hometown (Fort Collins, Colo.) for 20 years and two weeks until this March. It was great to see it with outsider’s eyes and find a lovely town! And also I will never go back!

Every time a ruling happens, when your response is "they won't comply," you're just helping them. Stop it. The end.

Yayyyu love Madeline eps

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

I don’t want to downplay threatening emails. I’ve gotten them, and it’s scary and it sucks. But come the fuck on. The attack on Rep. Omar was more recent than all of these.

Do my eyes deceive me, or does this article that mentions the assassination of Charlie Kirk, who was not an elected official, not mention that Rep. Ilhan Omar was physically attacked less than 10 months ago?!?!?!

Cuban Americans in power don’t yet realize that Cubans are the primary victims of third-country removal. Hell, a certain Cuban American former senator is rubber-stamping it! They might think their proximity to whiteness will protect them from this white supremacist government. It will not.

“…the Supreme Court has effectively ratified third-country removal of the sort that Gakou faces…”

Russia is also supporting Iran against us. This guy is the biggest asshat on the planet.