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The Heartbreaking Bad Faith of Roger Waters

The Heartbreaking Bad Faith of Roger Waters

The older, richer, more cynical dog offered counsel to the younger, greener, more idealistic dog, and I sat in my car and listened and heard the words of every adult I knew in that senior dog, and I knew I was the younger dog. I dreaded becoming his jaded, hopeless

Everyone Is Tired Of All This Woke Shit

Everyone Is Tired Of All This Woke Shit

I like to imagine chronically online Republican staffers in frenzied meetings with lawmakers, begging and pleading with them to use the barely-coded power of “woke” in every social media post and cable TV interview and stump speech and press release and congressional address. Keep saying woke, these internet-addicted staffers say,

Our Low-Simmering Civil War

Our Low-Simmering Civil War

There’s too much good TV for there to be a real, all-out Second American Civil War. Until the never-ending stream of fantastic shows – and movies and video games and whatever other media serves as your soma – dries up, there will be no war between brothers (and sisters). No matter

Wisconsin's Right-Wing Coup Is About To Be Undone

Wisconsin's Right-Wing Coup Is About To Be Undone

It's going to be so fucking sweet to see the right wing's best-laid plans go to shit in Wisconsin. Liberal justices on Tuesday night took control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the first time since 2008. Janet Protasiewicz’s runaway victory over crybaby right-wing judge

These Democrats Are Running Roughshod Over Republicans With No-Faith Politics

These Democrats Are Running Roughshod Over Republicans With No-Faith Politics

You would think providing food for children would be a bipartisan issue, or even a nonpolitical one. You would, of course, be wrong about this. Making sure kids get food every day was the goal of Minnesota Democrats when they took it upon themselves to pass legislation providing free school

The Parental Rights Movement Is a Fascist Trojan Horse

The Parental Rights Movement Is a Fascist Trojan Horse

Our politics will never recover from COVID. The COVID-19 pandemic was the first time in modern history Americans were asked to make sacrifices for their fellow citizen, and the request turned millions of otherwise-normal people into raving mad lunatics, driving them headlong into the nation’s ascendant fascist movement – a

There Is No Anti-Wokeness Without Bad Faith

There Is No Anti-Wokeness Without Bad Faith

Unless your friends and family have been vacuum sealed and protected against the brain-altering venom of the Culture Wars, you know “woke” has, quite tragically, become a catchall term for anything a conservative doesn’t like. Anything that scares or annoys a reactionary is woke. Women fighter pilots flying jets