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—John Stoehr
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Death-threat squads harass voting administrators out of their jobs, clearing way for election theft. It’s a slow-motion coup
“They’re playing the long game.”
Why politicians dawdle when it comes to regulating Facebook
It is the linchpin of a digital universe where it is always election season.
I’m not buying Adam Schiff’s bullshit. Neither should you
Why is the congressman taking advantage of ignorance?
So much depends on respectable white people. We need them to see sadism is the GOP’s point
There is no middle way. There is no neutral position.
Federal judge stops Texas’ abortion vigilante law after dismantling it in written opinion
Robert Pitman is your new favorite person.
Merrick Garland thinks he’s being neutral in the face of Trump’s crimes. He’s wrong. He’s being complicit. Make him know it
We are not facing a “full-blown constitutional crisis.”
How the right wing uses the Constitution and the Supreme Court to squeeze liberty out of Americans they don’t like
The right to harass, intimidate and threaten whomever they want.
After one big failed coup, the GOP has regrouped to launch countless mini-insurrections
The right wing has cynically declared war on easy targets like teachers and nurses in the hopes they will quit out of fear or frustration.
Your neighborhood sociologist: You are not an algorithm
It’s time to “disrupt your feed.”