#Grotesque

Anyone feeling sympathetic towards @FoxNews now that they're on Trump's not-peachy list? Well you can stop that right now. Allow me to take you back to that den of iniquity
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On House floor, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon says she agrees with the calls for unity, but says lawmakers should "come forward in unity to defend the country," not defend an
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This opinion is grotesque and ugly. Being Jewish is not determined by one’s opinions about the modern political nation-state of Israel. It’s entirely possible for Jews to have a historical,
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Just a reminder to all the supporters of outgoing president Trump who actually think he can still remain in office, he does not believe this himself. It's all a show
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10 years ago today, FIFA made a decision which reverberated around the world, and stuck two fingers up at everyone. It gave the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. I wrote
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I'm working on the provenance narratives in very recent sales of Polynesian items right now. Gone are (most) references to "primitivising" assertions (i.e. the headhunting and cannibalism, but I am
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THREAD: Law schools play a central role in the normalization of mass human caging. A few thoughts:https://twitter.com/YaleLJournal/status/1350080294934732800 Yesterday, the Yale Law Journal celebrated the greatest human caging force in mode
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Arbitration was created to allow giant companies with equal bargaining power to settle disputes without incurring expensive court battles. So, when IBM and AT&T struck a deal, they'd agree that
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Grotesque.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1322700188624932869 Video: Trump Supporters Tried to Run Biden Bus ‘Off the Road’ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/video-trump-supporters-tried-to-run-biden-bus-off
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Just looking back to document the sheer insanity of four years of Maga kooks and Resistance counter-kooks in our grotesque failed state. Have to start with these freaks: Then, of
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THREAD: @BillMoyers talks with journalist @JeffSharlet, whose reporting for @VanityFair describes how Trump the orator has turned his reelection campaign into a militant crusade fueled by conspiracy theories and rhetoric
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Let's have a brief conversation about Wisconsin voting with 2 articles that just came out this week. Let's start with this article that explains that 80% of voters who indicated
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The corollary to this is that when you're furious at the bulk of the population for being "apathetic", that's largely because this country is a pretty good place to live
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Raise your hand if you agree that @realDonaldTrump is a traitor Happy Independence Day!"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [humans] are created equal, that they are
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Quick thread on why the third best Christmas film (Gremlins) is so goddamn good I didn't watch Gremlins until last year when Empire (go buy Empire, it is great) made
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One of the most important themes in 'It's A Sin' was about gay/bi people and shame - caused by growing up in a society that saw gay/bi people as would-be
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