Andy Funk

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There is simply no reason for this. Putting spiteful politics ahead of your constituents' basic needs is abhorrent. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/... #hunger

A mom struggles to feed her kids after GOP states reject federal fundswww.washingtonpost.com In her rural Oklahoma town, Tabitha Shinn calculates down to the penny for groceries for her three teens but still must rely on giveaways from a food pantry.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.

Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.

By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:

She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.www.nytimes.com In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.

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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

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Re-upping for no particular reason the-looking-glass-1.ghost.io/ten-commandm...

Anatomy of a Christian Nationalist Strategy: Ten Commandments in Louisianathe-looking-glass-1.ghost.io The Ten Commandments mandate is a means of gaining acceptance for the core belief that America should be governed according to "biblical law."

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please sign my petition to post the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition on the wall of every Louisiana classroom

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The kid was returning a BB gun to a mall, which is not something that carries the death penalty last I checked. The man—who was a danger—decided the child—who was in danger—was a danger. He was encouraged to do this by our dominant cultural narrative. www.the-reframe.com/cruel-luxuri...

Cruel Luxurieswww.the-reframe.com Those who insist that we all as a society pay the cost of a serious problem they are creating, just so that they can imagine themselves to be the solution. Things we could never afford and should stop...

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ICYMI: I wrote about the responses to the Trump verdict – an alarming reminder of the politics of revenge that defines the American Right today. They are out for bloody retaliation, all dressed up as “patriotism.” Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵1/

The Right’s Politics of Revengethomaszimmer.substack.com The responses to the Trump verdict offer an instructive – and alarming – reminder of what defines the American Right today: They are out for bloody retaliation, all dressed up as patriotism

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Notice how MAGA conspiracy theories can never be proven false. When new info comes in that cuts against them -- such as Hunter being prosecuted by Biden's DOJ -- the theory is just enlarged. So now the officials who prosecuted Hunter are part of a cabal protecting the Bidens.

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Going on eight years and I'm still coming to terms with how many people are so completely divorced from reality. These Republicans don't even trust each other. It's conspiracies all the way down.

This story is bonkers and is reminder that inflation, prices, foreign policy, etc, don't mean a thing to millions of people who are basically trapped in a simulation and are now completely unable to comprehend reality. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/u...

A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lieswww.nytimes.com Cindy Elgan has overseen elections in rural Nevada without incident for 20 years, but now even her neighbors wonder if she’s part of “the deep state cabal.”

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Everyone needs a picture of J. G. Hertzler (Martok) holding a gay bat'leth on their timeline today. Glory to you, and your chosen family!

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I wrote about our nation's cult of supremacist bullies, who we're constantly told are better than we think, even as they prove themselves worse than we can imagine. The moral emptiness of moral authority they demand, and how their pig president reflects it. www.the-reframe.com/not-better-b...

The Moral Authoritieswww.the-reframe.com Our country's self-professed moral authorities haven't only failed to be as good as they claim to be. They've proved themselves worse than many of us are able to imagine.

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“I proudly know nothing about the matter, but I will nevertheless weigh in to scold both sides for being so extreme” not only gives you about all you need to know about Friedersdorf - it’s also the pure essence of vacuous, arrogant centrist punditry. A piece of art.

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The contemporary GOP in one headline

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Every article about Red Lobster filing for bankruptcy is "ha ha endless shrimp, what did they think would happen" and then buried ten paragraphs down is the usual:

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had to check the date on this post to see if it was from 1971

We're now up to 21 jurisdictions (20 states + New York City) reporting measles cases so far this year, already more than all of last year (19 states + D.C.) CDC totals 131 measles cases reported to agency through May 2, 2024, up from 128 last week www.cdc.gov/measles/case...

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Fantastic piece - maybe the best I've seen on the coverage dilemmas that mainstream media outlets face and how they are failing to meet the moment newrepublic.com/article/1813...

Top New York Times Editor Offers Stunning Defense of Coverage of Trumpnewrepublic.com Why asking our media to get it right on Trump’s threat to democracy is not remotely the same as being in the tank for Biden

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This is my flashlight, this is my gun, one is for shooting, no wait a sec.

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I know it's obvious that Trump changes positions on a dime and how it's mystifying that his cult doesn't care, but picking all this apart is a fool's errand. They stick with him because he channels their diffuse anger about their lives at other Americans. But it's worse now: /1

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