Hey, fam, are we still doing "this is the future liberals want" jokes? pic.twitter.com/pVHBRAOICL — Dirk Lester (@Dirk2112) April 21, 2019 it’s easter in the USA baby pic.twitter.com/dZlsYnWfVZ — atlas slugged ? (@generalslug) April 21, 2019 Easter Sunday is the Evangelical Solstice. It’s the day when professed values are the furthest away from lived values. …
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Muellergate Open Thread: All the President’s Minions
It's not exactly poignant but it's really striking the way that, except for a handful of devoted dimwit lifers, everyone in Trump's actual orbit plainly holds him in the lowest possible regard. — David Roth (@david_j_roth) April 18, 2019 At least the Nixon people put a little effort into it. — Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) …
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Petty and Small (Open Thread)
I wish every eligible voter in America were granted a week of paid leave on the condition that they’d use that time to read the Mueller report. I’m only half way through it, but I feel sure that if everyone read the report, 73% of us would rise as one and demand that Trump and …
Butter Lamb Tutorial
What in the hell is a butter lamb? That’s what I asked the first time I heard of it. See this article for details — tl;dr version: it’s a lamb carved out of butter that is an Easter dinner tradition among Polish-American Catholics in Buffalo, New York. I am neither Polish-American, nor Catholic nor an …
We Must Turn The Country Around
I attended a symposium on authoritarianism a week or so ago. Two of the presentations implicitly compared Trump to Adolf Hitler and Hugo Chavez. The parallels are striking. Jay West, retired from teaching Russian history at Middlebury College, spoke about Nazi Germany and the temptations of fascism, something that naturally accompanies Russian history. Charles Shapiro, …
Excellent Reads: The Washington Post Takes Much-Deserved Victory Lap
Taylor Swift as the redacted Mueller report: a thread pic.twitter.com/tOk0B9Gdly — Capital J (@ohcauseshesdead) April 19, 2019 Book critic Carlos Lozada: The Mueller report is that rare Washington tell-all that surpasses its pre-publication hype. Sure, it is a little longer than necessary. Too many footnotes and distracting redactions. The writing is often flat, and the …
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Warren throws down the gauntlet, stomps it into the mud, squirts lighter fluid on it, sets it ablaze
Thank you, Elizabeth Warren: Mueller put the next step in the hands of Congress: “Congress has authority to prohibit a President’s corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice.” The correct process for exercising that authority is impeachment. — Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 19, 2019 The severity …