Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

You can’t love your country only when you win.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

After roe, women are no longer free.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Good lord, these people are nuts.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update (International) – Tuesday/Wednesday, March 10/11

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  1. 1.

    Cermet

    Leave it to the Saud’s to make racism front and center during a pan epidemic.

    Read that the virus targets not just the lungs and intestinal lining but possibly the throat and liver (!) Ugh, hope the later isn’t correct!

    So the US has gotten mostly spared so far – we aren’t in the clear by any means but the longer and slower the rate of infection, the better our health system can handle this threat.

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    Andrew Johnston

    Today marks six weeks on this almost empty campus. It’s a lot of time to ponder things, but lately they’ve been petty ones.

    Petty things like this: Like many people here, I’m a sort-of a writer, have a few publishing credits including some SFWA stuff but nothing stellar. Back in December 2018, while in exile in one of my then-employer’s understaffed satellite offices, I wrote a story about a disease outbreak in central China. In the story, the POV character searches for information on the whereabouts of a woman he hasn’t heard from since – we later discover – the area she’s in was declared a quarantine zone.

    The story doesn’t focus principally around the disease itself, but the transmission of information – the POV character spends most of his time communicating with the AI avatar managing his friend’s page on a Facebook-like internet service. The information is intentionally fragmentary and mostly hinted at, and both the protagonist and the reader are left to sort out what’s going on through a miasma of conspiracy theories and censorship.

    So nothing relevant, is what I’m saying.

    I loved this story to death, enough to spend a good chunk of last year shopping it around to a whole bunch of both speculative and mainstream publications, all of whom wrinkled up their noses at it. Had one of them deigned to accept it, it would have been going to press right about now. But hey, I’m sure what they did opt to buy is equally topical.

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