Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

No one could have predicted…

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

He really is that stupid.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

When we show up, we win.

In my day, never was longer.

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Actual vs. statistical

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  2. 2.

    Lapassionara

    I am so glad for everyone affected that these children are now safe, as is their coach.

    Now, if our nation could care as much about the children separated at the border, maybe this pervasive sadness would lift from my heart.

  3. 3.

    Sam Dobermann

    @JPL: Beat me to it.
    Amazing how relieved I feel.

    Now lets find a cave Trump could fall into. Maybe a Florida sinkhole will get him.

  7. 7.

    Booger

    @Big R: @Wapiti: “Statistical lives” are people understood as part of a statistic; “Identified lives” are those same people seen as identifiable individuals. If you google ‘individual v. statistical’ there are lots of good examples, particularly using movies like “The Martian” as examples.

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    lowtechcyclist

    Chandra’s tweet needs an acronym-to-English translation. I don’t know what ACO is, but FFS = “for fuck’s sake” in my world. Doesn’t seem to fit the context, though.

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    p.a.

    That’s Stalin’s take on it, n’est-ce pas?: one death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

    (Is this apocryphal? IDK)

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