November 2016
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Some lists *crawls into file cabinet, shuts drawer, does not come out* we’re identifying criminals by their ethnic heritage in our headlines now, great @DLind Here’s the full alert: pic.twitter.com/m1ZnLuLXX9 — Matt Ford (@fordm) November 28, 2016 Shit on your Steve Bannon profiles, especially the chin-stroking ones asking whether Bannon meant the whites or just…
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Stop LARPing the resistance. This is not your favorite D&D campaign. This is about appointments, about the Democratic party being run from the middle of the country and not the coasts, about calls to Senators and Congresspeople’s offices. It should be boring. Donald Trump doesn’t believe ANYTHING except that all the money should be his eventually.…
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A reader sent this to me in response to this op-ed and I thought I’d put up the reply I sent him here since I’ve had this conversation with a few people: Dear Sam Thank you for writing your article about why US white evangelicals would vote for Donald Trump and the incredibly serious issues…
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The pearl-clutching hysteria over people who say outrageous things on TV distracts from policy, which is where people’s rights and lives are taken away from them. 1. Women and minorities are trapped in low-wage, no-benefit, variable-hour hourly jobs to a disproportionate degree. 2. Speak kindly, directly and with intention to everyone, but especially people who…
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-Everyone I talk to feels misunderstood. Everyone. Sometimes that’s justifiable and sometimes it isn’t but it’s true across a lot of different divides. I feel misunderstood, too, but that’s less important to me than it was. -I’ve lost a lot of optimism but perhaps that’s a good thing. It’s not the same as despair. I…
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