the Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the US! its watershed spans NY, PA, WV, MD, DE, VA, and DC!!! this travesty leeched toxic chemicals into the food, water and land for millions of Americans and the US GOVT HID IT FROM US FOR MONTHS!!!!!!
2001 would not have been surprised because my dad was a first amendment attorney and so I know how vital groups like Twisted Sister and 2 Live Crew were to preserving freedom of speech in 1990.
If Anthony Edwards came out and said โwe are not taking the court until ICE is out of our stateโ he would be the most beloved athlete since Muhammad Ali
I respect @ezraklein a lot, but this is dead wrong and frankly a baffling thing to say.
Charlie Kirk was the *epitome* of our modern brand of poisonous politics. Ezra tries to make the point that he went around to college campuses to debate people. And that's true, for a very tortured version of the word 'debate'.
But Charlie Kirk was not trying to build bridges. He was not trying to reach a common understanding with his opponents in the way that Ezra himself does. He was not operating in good faith, and his goal was not respectful two-way conversations where both sides can grow and change.
Kirk's goal at his college 'debates' was not to find experts on tricky issues of culture and policy and then have a Socratic dialogues and learn from them. His goal was to find a purple haired nineteen year-old sociology major with more feelings than sense, and then dunk on them. He wanted to farm clips he could use on social media to make his opponents look ridiculous, and he was good at it. When I think about how social media has changed politics for the worse, Charlie Kirk and his style of engagement is one of the main protagonists.
We live in a heavily polarized era where the parties hate each other more than they have in decades and political violence is on the rise. And while it might be distasteful to say it directly after he was murdered, Kirk was one of the people driving that hatred and that polarization. He taught his audiences to hate and fear their opponents. He egged on the public's worst and basest instincts. He flirted heavily and repeatedly with the idea of political violence.
It should obviously be said that none of that justifies killing him. Anyone who advocates for political violence is no friend or ally of mine. But for a man who wrote a book called "Why We're Polarized" to look at Charlie Kirk and say that he practiced politics the right way is delusional.
Ran into Micah Nori downtown this afternoon on the way back from a team lunch today! Awesome dude!
SO excited about the start of the season.
@Timberwolves Wolves(almost) back!
@RebelTaxi Honestly, these are kind of important historical documents. This is how so so many of us learned about the culture of these periods. It speaks to what the most important movements to a particular demographic were at a particular point in time. What a gift!