Thomas Zimmer“Polarization” Is Not the Problem. It Obscures the Problem.
We need to be a lot more critical towards the pervasive #polarization narrative as the central diagnosis of our time.
New episode of “Is This Democracy”
Meredith Conroy
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Hi! I’m a political scientist and @fivethirtyeight contributor 👋 I don’t work at Amazon. I’m just bad at this 🐱
Ann LiptonWow. WaPo digs into why the South has the lowest credit scores in the country (adding to individual consumers' borrowing costs, freezing then out of credit at all). The answer: Medical debt. Because the South didn't expand Medicaid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/
Josh PutnamNEW AT FHQ: How Much Will Democrats' Primary Calendar Change Away from Iowa Affect the Overall Process?
https://www.frontloadinghq.com/2023/02/how-much-will-democrats-primary.html
https://www.frontloadinghq.com/2023/02/how-much-will-democrats-primary.html
Eric Gonzalez JuenkeMajority of white New Yorkers polled said the Civil Rights movement had gone too far and claimed reverse discrimination against whites. Poll was done in 1964, a year before the Voting Rights Act gutted Jim Crow laws in the South.
Mirya HolmanExcited to see my piece w @efarris out at the @TheConversationUS
Sheriffs who see themselves as ultimate defenders of the Constitution are especially worried about gun rights
Please read this important column by @perrybacon.
Every sentence hits hard because it’s true - an unsparing dissection of an outrageous situation.
America needs a racial reckoning. And it has to start with policing. A few thoughts:
(Thread 1/)
https://masto.ai/@perrybacon/109767100572675304
“American policing needs to change dramatically. And it's a shame those making that case in the summer of 2020 have been subsequently ignored or sidelined.”
Perry Bacon Jr. (@[email protected])
American policing needs to change dramatically. And it's a shame those making that case in the summer of 2020 have been subsequently ignored or sidelined. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/28/tyre-nichols-memphis-police-killing-reform/
Mark Copelovitch“The Trump Enablers Dance On”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/the-trump-enablers-dance-on
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Counterpoint: The Trump [& the far right authoritarian party] Enablers are inside the house:
https://mastodon.social/@mcopelov/109696027390354766
https://mastodon.social/@mcopelov/109747017617536263
https://twitter.com/mcopelov/status/1562140087051341824?s=12
https://twitter.com/mcopelov/status/1534526626616299524?s=46&t=o1qpHMrNJp_yOH4IwO7ijw
https://twitter.com/mcopelov/status/1559741043989512192?s=46&t=o1qpHMrNJp_yOH4IwO7ijw
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https://apple.news/AdZAzUBqpQhi50bmmqaE0bQ
This from the article is exactly right: “…it’s like the writers are anticipating viewers’ inherent disgust with young Indian women and trying to beat them to the punchline.”
This is also how Tina Fey writes about white women. Make a joke out of how much our society hates women. I think there’s a balance that can be struck where it draws attention to the injustice, but I can see how that can also fail and instead just double down on the misogyny.
jbouieMissing from this analysis of rural resentment at Democrats is any attempt to square the contradiction between the feeling that rural whites lack representation and the reality that our system gives them vastly outsized representation relative to their numbers. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/opinion/rural-voters-republican-realignment.html
@efarris I sat by someone once who scrolled the fox news feed all flight and i could just feel his blood pressure rising.