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The closer we get to the minority-majority tipping point, the more the Republicans are going to inflame white racism
To combat a damaging narrative, we must talk about it.
The Republican Party overplayed its hand in Texas
A new abortion fight will mobilize a Democratic Party that has not foregrounded social policies so dramatically since 1965.
For members of Team Horse Paste, the fear is crossing the line from ‘bold independent thinker’ to ‘utter crackpot’
Grifters played on people’s hopes for a quick covid fix and their fear of vaccines, and now their fans are paying the price.
The vaccine debate keeps denying the moral agency of people who refuse vaccinations
Grown Americans know what they should do. They are choosing not to.
GOP paramilitary takeover, sex worker rights, covid lab leak debunked, Roe still alive in 49 states, plus John Stoehr’s week
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Weekend read: Exvangelicals and the limits of evangelical empathy
Really listening becomes impossible when one is already deeply emotionally invested in being correct about “the Truth.”
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Lawlessness is a feature of the Republican Party, not a bug
The five most conservative justices, and their allies in state legislatures, have devised a model for using a procedure called the “shadow docket” to weaponize lawlessness against court precedents they don’t like.
Abortion is virtually banned in Texas. The upside? Roe still rules for now in the other 49 states
Overturning Roe would have affected national abortion coverage and abortion would have been immediately illegal in 13 states.