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If the Republicans take the Senate, that’s it. No more SCOTUS nominees for Biden
The only way to avoid this is to win states like North Carolina.
Not all men, but all women
It doesn’t take “all men” to force us into eternal vigilance.
GOP to white midterm voters: we’ll save you the effort of competing with people who are putting in twice the effort.
What the Times’ value-free vernacular tells us.
The Republicans want judges to define ‘Black’
We’ve been here before. It was bad then. It’s bad now.
A radical third of the country dictates the terms of democracy
It is entitled to use political violence.
Wages are dampening inflation, not supercharging it
But status quo elites blame workers. They demand more “discipline” with higher interest rates and higher rates of unemployment.
The Republican’s danse macabre
Yes, even if they suffer, too. It’s frivolous and terrifying.
SCOTUS ignores its own rulings to keep executions going
A death row man ate his own eye. Justices said whatevs.
In ‘correcting’ GOP metaphors, liberals reveal their denial
Democrats and liberals just have to keep on keeping on even when, or especially when, keeping on keeping on is exhausting.
John Fetterman and the last consequence-free stigma
How to slander 61 million Americans.