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I'm pretty sure the answer is shortly after September 11, 2001. As best I can recall, the first time I saw this locution was in the context of how the body of a "contractor" had been hung from a bridge in Fallujah or someplace like...
Author: Paul Campos
The Former Guy tried to fit some pro-vax rhetoric into his standup act last night, and it predictably bombed: Former President Donald Trump was booed at a rally on Saturday.
Probably the most important rule of conventional media discourse in this country is that an accurate description of the contemporary GOP is not possible, because such a description would be.
Josh Marshall has a terrific piece, which provides a nuanced take on exactly why the people who write long-form think pieces for fancy liberal(ish) magazines have been so outraged by Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan. He points to the countless claims from such people that "there...
There's good and bad news on the COVID front. In regard to the latter, the three-day moving average for COVID deaths in the USA is now up over 1,000 again..
For a second there, I was afraid there was a terrorist incident at the Capitol. https://twitter.com/TomLynch_/status/1428422055125524487 https://twitter.com/TomLynch_/status/1428416739331686401 Where do these people get their ideas? https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1428415924974071821 Mark Zuckerberg says "cha-ching!"
I know nothing about Afghanistan, but this is a blog sir: (1) I don't understand why people are treating the instantaneous collapse of the Afghani government and army as some sort of argument against Biden's decision to abide by Trump's negotiated agreement. Isn't it just...
The essentials of this story are now being repeated several hundred times per day all across America: A few weeks ago, Lydia Rodriguez thought her body was strong enough to.
The government recommendation is that everybody who is fully vaccinated get a booster shot eight months after becoming fully vaccinated (so eight months after the second Moderna and Pfizer shots,.
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Thoughts and prayers, big guy: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday, the governor’s office announced in a release.“Governor Abbott is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, in good health, and currently experiencing no symptoms. Everyone that the Governor has been in close contact...
The buzzword acronym in much of the corporate and educational world is DEI, which stands for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. A whole cottage industry has sprung up around this concept,.
This is an interesting-looking preprint, involving a massive -- more than five million responses -- survey of the US population, conducted in collaboration with Facebook, in regard to shifting attitudes.