Vance has been more active lately. Coincidence?

O come, holy aneurysm!

Which is NOT the case in a well-functioning society.

Say you’re middle class without actually saying it.

They care a lot about deflecting attention from their pedophile.

Yeah, so where are all the trans gold medalists before the ban was put in place?

The leaders of the civilized world (so-called) should jointly announce that any annexation will never be recognized and will lead to crippling sanctions. Same goes for continuing the genocide.

First, Clippy, now Spunky.

Also Krasnov’s job is to sabotage the US economy and destroy its soft power.

All part of the War on Science.

Authoritarians hate anyone who knows more than they do. And that’s just about everyone.

About as much as the amount of tea in Lipton instant tea.

Taxing in proportion to externalities is sound policy.

They’ll never bite the hand that feeds.

If you want real independent media, look at outlets that don’t take corporate funding.

Both PBS and NPR are biased in much the same way as the rest of US corporate media is. They use the same both-sides tactics, they never question neoliberal economic assumptions, they almost always buy into the bipartisan imperialist consensus. That’s because they’re largely funded by large corporations.

ordered extrajudicial assassinations of American citizens

Authorized the killings of Americans who were enemy combatants in (for example) Al-Qaida camps. Not at all the same thing.

This is another instance where you need to focus on what Trump does, not what he says.

So they’ve militarized the police to the point that it’s simply impossible to overpower it.

More violent authoritarian regimes have been overthrown by people power. Don’t fall into the learned helplessness trap.

He’d be great for a remake of M, except for the expressionlessness.

To kill Palestinians.

Typical Trump “solution.”

If data is collected that can be used for blackmail, it will eventially be used for that purpose.