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• https://youtube.com/watch?v=ar6UGU_Pa4U&feature=share
  “Anything to make a loser like him feel superior.” Tags: export racism
• The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege – The Atlantic
  "So how strange––how obscene, in fact––that America’s professional class largely reacted to Floyd’s murder not by lavishing so much of the resources spent in his name on helping poor people, or the formerly (or currently) incarcerated, or people with addictions, or the descendants of slaves and sharecroppers, or children of single mothers, or graduates of […]
• How popular is Joe Biden?
  Even before his debt-ceiling deal and recent job news, Biden's net approval rating was up to zero. At the same point in his term, Obama's rating was minus-8. Tags: biden democrats export
• Conservative Americans are building a parallel economy
  "The Right Stuff captured over 50,000 hopeful singles in the two months after its debut, but has barely attracted more since (women are especially lacking)." Tags: gop economics export
• Sen. Tuberville criticized for remarks on white nationalists: 'I call them Americans' – The Washington Post
  Tags: gop racism military export
• May 6, 2023 – by Heather Cox Richardson
  Our modern interpretation of the Second Amendment – and by "our," include the NRA – is very, very recent. The NRA used to support common-sense gun control Tags: guns export
• Jon Stewart: GOP resorts to culture wars because they are out of ideas – YouTube
  Tags: gop gop cowardice export racism culture
• Be Kind, and Be Happier – The Atlantic
  Tags: empathy export
• The GOP's debt ceiling blame game (Heather Cox Richardson)
  "Weirdly, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) at a Senate Budget Committee hearing today blamed Democrats for not raising the debt ceiling themselves last year without help from the Republicans. Kate Riga of Talking Points Memo broke down this argument. If the Democrats had raised the debt ceiling through reconciliation, without Republican votes, Republicans would have insisted […]
• The Child-Gender Debate Needs Better Evidence, Not Punitive Bans – The Atlantic
  Nuance matters Tags: transgender gender export
• What Readers Really Think About Gender – The Atlantic
  One heartfelt *and* logical take from the parent of a trans son, busting a lot of myths Tags: transgender gender export
• The Coming Biden Blowout – The Atlantic
  I'm not as confident, but Frum raises an interesting five-point plan that the Republicans SHOULD have followed. But they didn't. Because they're cowards. And, perhaps, because they've realized they've lost every intellectual argument since Clinton was elected, so they need the Trump pizzazz to win. Tags: trump gop gop cowardice export

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