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Why The Gaetz Defeat Really Matters
The first step of defiance is the hardest. Senate Republicans just took it.
William Kristol and Andrew Egger
Trump didn’t exactly toss Gaetz overboard. But he instructed Gaetz to jump. And Gaetz did.
Why did Trump tell him to jump? The New York Times reported that four Republican senators were hard Nos on Gaetz—Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and incoming Utah Sen. John Curtis—and that others were ready to join them.
In other words, it was Republican senators who forced Trump to dump Gaetz.
The Crusade against America
Handmaid Fails 3/3
Timothy Snyder
In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale, people very much like Hegseth come to power, oppress women, and turn the armed forces into domestic shock troops who fight a civil war. It is important to see accusations of sexual assault and Hegseth’s persistent polygamy in this light: the notion that women are just objects goes hand in hand with the idea that the real fight for American soldiers is against other Americans.
Misogyny is not the elevation of masculinity but its collapse, both as morality and as politics.
Nothing good comes from fear
Steve Schmidt
There is an enormous credibility crisis at MSNBC caused by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. It will not pass. Breakfast at the Berghof was a shattering event.
Joe and Mika are Americans, and no American should be afraid of their government for acts of conscience, such as speaking up and out. According to one of America’s preeminent media reporters, Dylan Byers of Puck News, Joe and Mika are debilitated by fear.
They went to Mar-a-Lago for fear or retribution when their job required them to demonstrate toughness and courage. They failed in a moment of truth. It doesn’t make them bad people, but it renders them unworthy of the moment and their audience, which has collapsed, according Beyers:
You’re Thinking About Hurricanes All Wrong
Quico Toro, Persuasion
The most up-to-date theories have focused on human emissions, not of greenhouse gasses, but of old-fashioned air pollution: soot, sulfur dioxide, all the gunk that came out of tailpipes and smokestacks in great volumes before the era of catalytic converters and clean air laws.
Alongside the industrial boom of the post-war era, this kind of pollution exploded—wreaking havoc with human health and damaging all sorts of ecosystems. Beyond their nasty health effects, aerosols have a second effect that scientists are increasingly interested in: they reflect some solar radiation back out to space, acting like microscopic parasols to cool whatever is beneath them.
Cooling, not warming.
