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Keep your hands on the wheel: What's real — or a distraction — about Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony
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Post-Roe polls: Midterm support for Democrats soars after Supreme Court strikes down abortion access
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The other cancel culture: How a public university is bowing to a conservative crusade
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Legal expert uses Ohio State wrestling scandal to school Jim Jordan on Jan. 6 “hearsay evidence"
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Our summer of misogynist rage: Toxic men unleash a wave of violent threats aimed at outspoken women
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What Cassidy Hutchinson told us — and why we should have known it already
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As an institution the American mainstream news media failed by normalizing Donald Trump and the Republican-fascists. They are continuing to do so with all this talk of being "shocked" and "stunned" by their perfidy and Jan. 6 and the coup. My new :
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The fury unleashed on Cassidy Hutchinson is just the latest development in what is turning into a summer of misogynist rage.
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Indicted Colorado clerk cries "fraud" after losing Republican primary by 15 points
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Ginni Thomas said she “can’t wait” for Jan. 6 interview. Now her lawyer says it’s too “stressful”
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"The entirely predictable campaign of threats and lies aimed at Hutchinson is part of a larger pattern of vicious misogyny that is coming to define the summer of 2022." —
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Legal expert uses Ohio State wrestling scandal to school Jim Jordan on Jan. 6 “hearsay evidence"
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Amid *gestures arms widely* all this, I wrote a personal essay for about eating disorders, purity culture and peaches.
If you need a break from the news and are in the headspace for it, I'd love if you gave it a read.
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"Hutchinson is everything that triggers the fragile egos of fascist thugs: A young, pretty woman who disobeys them." inn
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What Cassidy Hutchinson told us — and why we should have known it already
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Birth control access could be next for SCOTUS to roll back: "There's no doubt Griswold is at risk"
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Border crackdown makes death a constant risk for undocumented migrants entering Texas
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Despite right-wing narrative, "hardening" schools is taking the easy way out
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Judge temporarily blocks Texas AG Ken Paxton's plan to immediately enforce pre-Roe abortion ban
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"Only Murders in the Building" returns with a lovable stab at familiarity
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Donald Trump is the leader of a political crime family, today's Republican fascist party. Trump is their Godfather. The boss. The boss and his lieutenants are apparently intimidating witnesses
I explained last year .
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#January6thCommitteeHearings
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Everything is fucking hard and mindblowing today and every recent day. But please take a beat and read this short essay by that is not on the news cycle at all and yet is still incredibly relevant to the theocratic fuckery of it all
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“Hutchinson is everything that triggers the fragile egos of fascist thugs: A young, pretty woman who disobeys them,” writes.
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An unexpected consequence of Roe v. Wade: Howard Stern for president?
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"Smash capitalism" to "release your job," what "Downton Abbey" & Beyoncé can teach us about progress
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Cassidy Hutchinson's surprise Jan. 6 testimony exposes the violence that fuels Trumpism
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Daily Harvest faces its first lawsuit following widespread recall of Lentil + Leek crumbles
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Trump has a meltdown on Truth Social after Cassidy Hutchinson's bombshell Jan. 6 testimony
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Hutchinson's testimony is credible because it adheres to two things about Trump we know very well:
1) He's a violent bully.
2) But he is also a coward who fears jail, so he only assaults people when he thinks he can get away with it.
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That Trump imagined himself at the head of an armed army of red hats like some knock-off Mussolini is, sadly, too easy to believe. The man really brings a bad reality TV aesthetic to his brand of fascism.
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My take on today's testimony, which was as explosive as promised: Trump has a mind meld with his followers, because they're both so enamored with violence. And that's why January 6 played out how it did.
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Criminologist Gregg Barak explained to me that Donald Trump is a criminal mastermind. Now more proof of the Trump crime boss and Republican-fascist party and witness tampering.
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Mick Mulvaney warns ex-aides after "explosive" Hutchinson testimony: “I don’t think she’s lying”
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John Eastman runs to Fox News to beg for donations after avoiding Jan. 6 testimony
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The coup attempt is more proof that Donald Trump wants to be a king. An American dictator and tyrant. Utter contempt for democracy and the rule of law. Violent. If Trump returns to power he will seek revenge on all who opposed him. #January6thHearings
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