Speaking of kids, you might want to play today’s episode of @ButWhyKids whether you’re a child yourself or not! Featuring the awesome @ayesharascoe of @nprpolitics fame. “Why Are We Still Talking About The Election?” https://t.co/VMz8oudUyf #vtpoli#Election2020#kidslisten
“If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us—leave us the fuck alone! Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records.”
-- Kurt Cobain, liner notes for "Incesticide" (1992)
It's so infuriating that there's *so much money* in the world & still so many ppl living in poverty. Folks are really out here spending millions of dollars cheating their children into college while some ppl can't find food for their kids at night. It's all so profoundly immoral.
There is a lot in this ad, but the main thing I’m trying to remember is if I’ve ever seen a political ad in which a man presents his physical strengths and political ambitions as partially derivative of women who came before him. (Both Giffords and his mom)
It is so strange to me that much of the press is framing the shutdown as a stand off between two sides who need to compromise when only one of those sides is actually demanding anything and the other has already voted to reopen the government with no strings attached.
With every passing year, I give more credence to the centrality of social media in our horrendous social and political moment.
We are, all of us, becoming addicted to the dopamine rush provided by regular opportunities to hate, bully, and excommunicate.