But when I typed in “Michael” to tag this post, Bennett’s name doesn’t even crack the top-four suggested Michaels.
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This is refreshing and hopefully his ideas are picked up by the eventual nominee (let’s be honest, at the moment he doesn’t have much of a shot, but I could be wrong). Trump’s lack of acknowledgment of Tribal issues has led GOP politicians across the nation to overlook the needs of the original inhabitants of this… Read more

Good Charlotte
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This is pretty offensive bad faith, because the traditional prison system and the immigrant detention system are two sides of the same coin and the same “well, they’re a “bad person” so they deserve whatever happens to them” impulse animates both. Read more

They need to pay the protestors they harmed first: Read more

The two Spider-Men pointing meme but both are white colonizers.
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Those last two paragraphs really hit home for me (the whole piece did, too.) Read more

I’ve been making an effort to understand how these people’s brains work, and it all kind of makes sense given their upbringing and bubbles and where they get their “news”. Read more

Axios: New poll*  shows that homework is “stupid” and “ineffective” Read more

Ooh. story time! Read more

As a long time Gawker refugee, my first reaction was that McGrath needed to explicitly lay out her policies and detailed approaches to imporving the lives and businesses of Kentucky with a measured and syustainable approach. Read more

“further left,” and “more progressive” than anyone else in Kentucky Read more

When I was younger I did time as a reporter in DC (thank god those days are past) and what I found most perspective-altering about the whole experience was realizing just how alien the idea of maintaining an adversarial relationship with power was to basically everyone I met. With rare exceptions, they all shared… Read more

A White House correspondent who resembled a young William Shatner (and didn’t want to be named) took a gulp of beer and said that the night felt like “the end of a battle, or a decent game of rugby, where at the end of the day you shake hands.” Read more

Thanks for covering this topic; it’s something that needs a reckoning in the US (similar to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada, though there are some issues with that too). Read more

Private prison bullshit aside, this must really suck for the families of those inmates. Visitation now requires traveling from Kansas to Arizona??
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Private prisons are legal slave plantations. Kansas wants to sell humans to Arizona for their slave factories. Read more

I appreciate the response. Fair enough. Read more