I’m a political independent. But I don’t want to lose my health care. I don’t want the planet to suffer more than it already has because of global warming. I don’t want to see more victims of police brutality, because I can put myself in the shoes of those whose lives are put at risk. And I don’t want armed militias roaming the streets when I go out for dinner and a movie.
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In three short months, some white Americans have grown so impatient to “get back to their normal lives” that they’re willing to sweep the image of a man being brutally suffocated under the rug. How long, it must be asked, have Black Americans been waiting to get back to a normal life?
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It’s the height of irony that Donald Trump, who has railed against the evils of “identity politics,” has mastered it so completely. He’s tapped into fear among certain segments of the population that they’re losing their identity as the dominant force in these United States.
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You saying you could kick LeBron’s ass in a UFC fight is kind of like him saying he could kick your ass in a game of one-on-one. Or Beyoncé saying she could kick your ass in a singing contest. Or Neil deGrasse Tyson saying he could kick your ass on a physics test. Or, if you insist on talking about fighting, Tyson Fury saying he could kick your ass in a boxing match. All these things are undoubtedly true, but they’re so patently obvious that none of these people would bother saying them.
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Comparisons of Republicans to Nazis have been popular in some quarters, and I’m going to make one here. But it’s not a moral comparison, it’s a tactical one. Republicans are doing the same thing Hitler did when he took over one European state after another — after pledging not to — and British leader Neville Chamberlain let him do it. Instead of satisfying him, it made him more aggressive.
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In light of the Washington team’s new name, I thought it would be fun to come up with a list of the silliest, most absurd nicknames in professional sports.
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