None of us is free until all of us are free
This is not hard, people. It is not nuanced. The bad guys last weekend were the ones doing the Nazi salute. Literally. Doing. The. Nazi. Salute. Look at the goddamn picture. If you’ve been on the fence about this, if you’re one of the ones saying “well, both sides,” congratulations!
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The excellent words below are not mine. They belong to attorney, author, and professor Seth Abramson. A few days ago he wrote a compelling Twitter thread explaining how we know that Trump has colluded with Russia. I asked for and received permission to republish that thread here, in longform, in order
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CONTENT WARNING: domestic violence, child abuse, guns, shooting Liberals, we need to talk. We need to talk about how we talk about mental illness and mass shootings. See, the right has a lot to answer for—lordy, do they ever—but we’ve got some growing to do ourselves. To do that, we
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