Jonathan Springer

Millsaps College

[Dan Carlin @HardcoreHistory]

I wonder how many Americans who consider themselves politically aware could pass a civics test about how our government is supposed to function. I wonder how many Americans who ostensibly talk about politics as part of how they make a living could. Our anti-education/anti-knowledge culture has come for our constitutional society. And people who consider themselves "patriotic" celebrate dismantling the very aspects of our Framer's work that those exquisite-minded guys were most proud of. Co-equal branches of govt and checks and balances. Not bugs...but this system's greatest features. We are a politically hypocritical society and this will cost us. Can you imagine if the Biden/Harris/Hillary Clinton crowd were doing and saying the sort of things Trump is saying now? How many of you Trump fans would be ready to take to the streets? "That's what the 2d Amendment is for Dan"...how many times have I been told that by the "defenders of our Constitution"? For 40 years you've been saying it to me! So...it's only a problem if THEY'RE doing it? One side gets a pass at assaulting the constitutional wall that protects us all, and the other doesn't? How many of you would say "they're only joking" or "don't worry, it's a negotiation position" if Kamala Harris said these things? Serious question. You'd be just fine with it? No big deal? And I'm sure the right-wing talker's ecosystem would be too? All of this is going to come back to bite us. All of it. We are shortsighted, propagandized, political hypocrites. And we simply refuse to apply the same standards to both sides.
And while I'm ranting: half of this problem is the fault of the Democratic Party. I've never seen such a toothless, feckless, directionless, passion-free group of poor political candidates in my life (and I was of voting age in the Mondale/Dukakis years). Only their most radical wing shows any passion or life at all...and that's the group that absolutely, positively can't win a general election.
When the great historian in the sky writes about this era the "other party" in a two-party system deserves a ton of the blame too. Everyone over 70 years old in that party should resign right now. What Trump is trying to do in our system now is exactly what the Founders designed safeguards to prevent. And that's why Trump is targeting the safeguards.

[yammi @sighyam]

NEW Moo Deng POV just dropped

[g @garlandrg]

The plan? We create a lemonade that can kill you to drive brand awareness by capitalizing on millennials’ existential dread

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Rep. Nadler: "The resolution states that all anti-Zionism is antisemitism. That's intellectually disingenuous or factually wrong…The authors if they were at all familiar with Jewish history & culture should know about Jewish anti-Zionism that was + is expressly not antisemitic."

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

For the record: cops aren’t supposed to kill guilty people either.

[Jonathan Springer @Jspringer159]

You should never have to rely on the good will of CEOs in capitalism for basic human rights.

[Deadspin @Deadspin]

Dick’s Sporting Goods offering employees more access to abortions than SCOTUS https://t.co/prSsQNv8l9

[Jonathan Springer @Jspringer159]

A concept album about the highs and lows of therapy, feminism, and trans rights was not the Kendrick i expected but the Kendrick we needed

[Charles W McKinney, Jr. @CharlesWMcKinn2]

First up: Roe.
Next up: Affirmative Action.
After that: Brown.

Watch.

[Kasie Hunt @kasie]

Important to remember: Overturning Roe vs. Wade will impact Americans with the fewest resources, not the wealthy or well-connected

[DeKaylin Metcalf @dkm14]

Therapy should not have a bad connotation

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

My bipartisan bill with @SteveDaines would ban Members of Congress from trading and owning stocks.

[Jonathan Springer @Jspringer159]

@nickel_arora miles

[Ross Jackson @RossJacksonNOLA]

Sean Payton thanked New Orleans before AD did.

[Aaron Ernest @TheTrackMamba]

Me going to sleep knowing I don’t have to watch Eli Apple in coverage on 3rd and long

[Former Congresswoman Val Demings @RepValDemings]

Women do not owe anyone an explanation for their medical choices.

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

Houston, Texas

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

btw if MLK and anne frank hadn’t been killed, they’d both be 93 today (younger than betty white). i think it’s important to see pictures of them in color as a reminder that “history” was not very long ago

[Jonathan Springer @Jspringer159]

Empty words while he and the rest of MS gov do everything in their power to deny each of these things

[Governor Tate Reeves @tatereeves]

"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Smitty Werbenjagermanjenson @MarTheMortal]

Folks coming back to work from covid after being quarantined for only five days

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

Our sweet prince watching the Bengals win their first playoff game in over 30 years