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“For a while they were able to cohabitate in harmony, even though there were always these tensions. Their stance was that Trump could defy political gravity and be a powerful enemy, and they didn’t have to question the strategy of total adherence,” Catie said of the dueling groups. “After
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They presumed they could cynically ride this movement for their own ends. They gleefully lit match after match, and eventually to their horror they managed to set themselves on fire along with everyone else. They clearly incited these events. They saw them spin rapidly out of control. They ended Wednesday
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Arizona State University Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice Ed Maguire told Koerth: “I think protesters on the right, because they view the police as in their corner, they feel a sense of tacit permission.” Tacit? They’re wearing “Thin Blue Line” t-shirts as they storm the capitol. They show
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Even after Trump decisively lost the election, Republicans across Washington went along with him as he spread lies and conspiracy theories, filed baseless lawsuits, and raged when judges threw them out, as they did again and again. When Trump called for a final reckless coup against the constitutional order, many
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At the Capitol proper, protesters covered the West Entrance like ants. If much of the retreating crowd had been hoodies and athleisure, here were men donning helmets, flak jackets, and military surplus gear. They held makeshift shields and had ripped flags from dowel rods to form batons. One man wore
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This is some crazy stuff, right? Like, this is easily the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in this country, and I remember when the “Where’s The Beef?” Lady got her own board game.
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And in this moment, we have, disastrously, discovered the final answer to whether or not it is a good idea to destroy the activist government that has protected us since 1933. In their zeal for reducing government, the Trump team undercut our ability to respond to a pandemic, and tried
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We saw a weird moment when a fly landed on Pence’s snow-white hair—and the vice president did not react at all. No doubt, it’s a conundrum, what to do in such a situation. If Pence had shooed the fly and the fly had refused to shoo, that
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Liberals and leftists take shelter in a counteroriginalism that attempts to make equality an unimpeachable American value, despite all the evidence to the contrary. This article is a great read, an interesting argument for the value of re-thinking the Civil War. This quote stung a little, but mostly because it&
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RuPaul Giamatti on Instagram: “@pattonoswalt made a tweet that showed Trump’s handwritten notes and the caption was simply “Morrissey voice:”. Needless to say, I got…”
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This a great takedown of a white guy mansplaining black history. Note, the author of this piece is also white, and I'm white. After watching Ansari last night, I'm thinking a little more about the circle of white people talking about race. But this piece has
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This is a wonderful piece in The New Yorker, and you should go read every word. Here are my favorite bits: I think we became the party of hemming and hawing and trying to be all things to everybody. And it’s not to say that we need to exclude