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It’s just so hard to not see the American electorate as a bunch of morons. We see this again and again, where people will vote on a single issue that they want but then will also vote for the politicians who will do everything possible to overturn those votes. We’ve seen this with both marijuana […]

The Long Lakota War

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On January 18, 2021

Nick Estes has a typically good piece placing the resistance of Nick Tilsen and other Lakotas to Donald Trump’s visit to Mt. Rushmore in the context of the long struggle of the Lakotas for the B

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What a Country

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On August 10, 2020
I’m reading this op-ed from a few days ago saying the U.S. should do a hard lockdown, get control over the virus, and then start over. I’m both nodding in agreement and wondering…what country do these people think we live in? To successfully drive down our case rate to less than one per 100,000 people […]
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The Party of Lester Maddox

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On June 6, 2018
Lester Maddox became governor of Georgia after threatening black students with violence if they tried to eat at his restaurant. Well, the GOP is taking over that mantle and it’s hardly surprising this guy is from South Dakota, which as we discussed the other day, is shockingly racist and yet doesn’t receive much attention for […]
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