As we all try to figure out what is going on and who is "winning," I thought this piece might help. My latest in @BulwarkOnline
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I've always loved huge paintings and great miniatures. Both transport me into a different frame of mind. Baltimore artist Jill Orlov's work does that. Can't help on close inspection but reflect on materials, themes, puzzle of how it all came into being. https://t.co/F025FPtI6g
Broadcast news mostly ignored Kamala Harris’ proposal expanding Medicare to cover in-home health care for 15 million seniors, with just 35 seconds of coverage over two weeks https://t.co/nDiCJdFKzK
“Trump sees the armed services as yet another entity to be misused for his personal benefit, damaged and then discarded just as he has with his bankrupt businesses, the evangelical Christian churches and the Republican party.”
"The photo of a grinning Trump giving a jaunty thumbs-up over these patriots’ graves is an indelible image of narcissism risen to the point of sociopathy," writes former Trump administration official. https://t.co/HnNDuaIlct
So many levels of delusion here:
- Professor Granny can take a sabbatical because she can AFFORD to & has the ABILITY to
- Wife doesn’t take extended leave because oh she’s making a CAREER
- Dad doesn’t take leave cause WHY?
-It’s CAPITALISM not NEO-BLAHBLAH-LIBERALISM nimrod.
NEW VANCE AUDIO: In an interview from 2020, JD Vance agrees with a podcast host who says having grandmothers help raise children is “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female.”
He also agrees when the host says grandparents helping raise children is a "weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman."
Did the early 1990s break American politics? @DavidKlion in August @BooksandtheArts on John Ganz's When The Clock Broke and the chaos and excesses of an era when history was supposed to end. https://t.co/MUmgzhtAjx
Brilliant essay on why the “weird” messaging is a step in the right direction. Also: “creeps,” “stalkers,” “religious wackos,” and “phonies” fit the schema.
One thing lost in "childless cat lady" brouhaha is the more substantive claim Vance said he was making.
Vance said his point was that Dems are "anti-family & anti-child."
What nerve. Look at the parties' actual policies to see which is "anti-family" 🧵
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Again, Republicans competely ignore history--and reality--in thinking the Democrats violated some law or principle in picking Harris to represent them. It's how parties work.
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“I care deeply that the American people have an entire picture of what is at stake in this election. And where we are right now, after that debate, is not giving us that picture,” says historian @HC_Richardson.
“It is my expectation, following the Supreme Court’s recent decisions, that that balance may be restored. But if it isn’t restored from the higher reaches of our government and from the media, the American people sure better do it themselves.
“Because we have five months to make sure that we get to the 250th anniversary of the American republic. And if we don’t come out right in November, we’re not going to make it.”
Watch our full conversation here.