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The smoke is proof that no one is truly alone
Evidence of “the interdependent web of all existence”
We need gun control, not perverse legal precedents
Criminalizing ordinary people in impossible situations is grotesque.
Josh Hawley is not insecure about his manhood
Insecurity is sincere. He’s never sincere.
Manhood doesn’t require an argument in favor of it, but dominance does
Josh Hawley keeps arguing.
After 29 straight months, why does job growth continue to ‘surprise’ us?
We’re thinking as if we still lived in the 1970s.
The GOP can’t stop won’t stop hating the poor for their poverty
With the debt-ceiling deal, the poor will suffer twice as much.
On student loans, McCarthy didn’t get what he said he got
Even so, it’s why some Democrats voted against lifting the debt ceiling.
The new debt ceiling deal reflects a permanent feature of democracy in these United States
The Republicans stand behind it and punch it in the kidneys.
How small towns in America weaponize Memorial Day
They use national memory to stop local change.
He received mercy from a system he sought to destroy
Stewart Rhodes’ lawyers seemed shocked by his sentence.