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For members of Team Horse Paste, the fear is crossing the line from ‘bold independent thinker’ to ‘utter crackpot’
Grifters played on people’s hopes for a quick covid fix and their fear of vaccines, and now their fans are paying the price.
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The vaccine debate keeps denying the moral agency of people who refuse vaccinations
Grown Americans know what they should do. They are choosing not to.
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Why do the people who desire bans on abortion desire bans on vaccine- and mask-mandates? The connection isn’t 'freedom'
They accuse pro-choice Americans of being evil as means of covering up the barbarous flesh-eating reality of their larger political project.
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Will vaccine mandates spark right-wing violence? Maybe, if the authoritarians believe what they say. Most don’t, though
Violent rhetoric is a feature, not a bug.
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‘This is what freedom looks like in America today’
Freedom demands rejecting the GOP’s bad faith.
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America’s elites are inherently vulnerable to bad-faith arguments. So the pandemic is getting worse, not better
USA Today’s editor-in-chief claims to be answering "a higher calling."
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School board member in rural Kentucky: 'I have never experienced so much hate'
School boards are inundated with disinfo as delta variant spreads.
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I had Tuberculosis. My experience with the public health system taught me ‘personal responsibility’ isn’t enough to protect society
For covid, time for sticks, not carrots.
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It's hard to believe the GOP would sacrifice kids to maintain rule by white Christian men
Believe it, though.
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ICE and the Border Patrol consume $20B a year, but have not made us safer. Just the opposite
The threat is not coming from outsiders.
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Prepare for a permanent pandemic
Abnormal politics means no return to normal.