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How southern states export the effects of their gun laws, project power and dominate America
America’s “broader public opinion” means nothing to them.
Pity Howard Schultz, the poor billionaire
A Senate committee was mean to him.
Clarence Thomas keeps telling on himself. Are we listening?
He continues to think we’re fools, too.
On ‘big government,’ the GOP has changed its mind
The biggest BFD in politics right now.
The great white cope
Think Trump is damaged? Meet Mickey Mouse’s harasser.
They want to outlaw the abortion pill, but they don’t want liberal states to protect their sovereignty. Guess what?
Rightwing politics presumes there won’t be a reaction.
Blue states are moving to protect abortion rights and trans rights against a red state power grab
The far right refined a common playbook for projecting the power of red states beyond their borders, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
Silencing dissent is the point
The pattern in Tennessee is repeating itself nationwide.
Wisconsin, antiabortion politics and the Republican death drive
The problem isn’t messaging.
Clarence Thomas is telling on himself
And hoping you won’t notice.