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  1. Trumpcare will probably kill thousands. That\u2019s neither uncivil nor alarmist to say.<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Better Suggestions for Democrats who want to Win Elections | Noah Berlatsky on Patreon<\/a>
    \nAnd see also Noah’s followup post,     Love the One You’re With.<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. AP Analysis: Gerrymandering gave Republicans advantage in House, state elections<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Democrats are still obsessed with Jill Stein. They should start obsessing over nonvoters instead.<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. KING: 2 Supreme Court rulings must change to end police brutality – NY Daily News<\/a>
    \n“As long Tennessee v. Garner<\/em> and Graham v. Connor<\/em> stand as law, police brutality will be protected. That’s the bottom line.”<\/li>\n
  6. Prosecutors are the ones most able to hold cops accountable.<\/a>
    \nWhich makes it a shame that they have so little motivation to ever hold cops accountable.<\/li>\n
  7. A liberal think tank just released its own proposal to fix Obamacare – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Jean \u201cMoebius\u201d Giraud on drawing from the work of other artists, from life, and from photos\u2026 \u2013 Ragged Claws Network<\/a>
    \nBrief, but he makes really good points.<\/li>\n
  9. Texas Couple Exonerated 25 Years After Being Convicted of Lurid Crimes That Never Happened<\/a>
    \nIt was a Satanic Panic case. So painful to read about.<\/li>\n
  10. Bridging the Inferential Distance on Desexualization | Thing of Things<\/a>
    \nSexual attraction and oppression.<\/li>\n
  11. After the president\u2019s tweet, I must withdraw my support for everything but his agenda – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Professor fired after defending blacks-only event to Fox News. – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. The Texas Supreme Court just gave a big, fat middle finger to same-sex couples<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Web host agrees to pay $1m after it\u2019s hit by Linux-targeting ransomware | Ars Technica<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Fresh trans myths of 2017: \u201crapid onset gender dysphoria\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Here are all the ways Jeff Sessions is wrong about drug sentencing – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nAnd here’s an     alternative link.<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. California Single-Payer Organizers Are Deceiving Their Supporters. It\u2019s Time to Stop.<\/a>
    According to this article, the CA legislature literally cannot enact single payer, because of the stupid ways the CA tax laws are set up. It would require a ballot measure.<\/li>\n
  18. Watch this person makes a pancake that looks like a human skull – YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. You Say You Want a Single-Payer System: The Canada Health Act<\/a>
    \nA brief nutshelling of the principles behind the Canadian health care system.<\/li>\n
  20. Julia Serano, Transfeminist Thinker, Talks Trans-Misogyny – The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Debunking \u201cTrans Women Are Not Women\u201d Arguments \u2013 Julia Serano \u2013 Medium<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. Fareed Zakaria Says Blaming Immigrants Is the one Thing Right Wing Populists Share – The Atlantic<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. Data on Campus Censorship Cases | Thing of Things<\/a>
    \n“I\u2019d strongly advise against drawing any conclusion from it firmer than ‘censorship of both liberals and conservatives occurs on college campuses, and conservatives probably face more.'”<\/li>\n
  24. (13) Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start The Fire (Historically Accurate Almanac) COMPLETE – YouTube<\/a>
    \nA fan video to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” with historic footage provided for each of Joel’s over 100 references. Weirdly fascinating.<\/li>\n
  25. BREAKING: Tom Price promises to provide healthcare to millions of undocumented immigrants!* | ACASignups.net<\/a>
    A Trump official is counting undocumented aliens as Americans who Obamacare failed to cover. I agree, I’d love to see them covered.<\/li>\n
  26. Anita Sarkeesian’s astounding ‘garbage human’ moment – Polygon<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. Muralist Odeith Crafts Engrossing Illusions | Hi-Fructose Magazine<\/a>
    \nThat’s one of his works at the top of this post.<\/li>\n
  28. A top scientist was asked to downplay facts by EPA chief of staff. | Grist<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. Survey: Just 5 percent of economists believe Trump\u2019s big tax promise – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nThat promise – that tax cuts pay for themselves – is not a Trumpism, but something accepted as true (at least in public) by virtually all high Republican officials.<\/li>\n
  30. Health Care Premiums Have Gone Down Under Obamacare \u2013 Mother Jones<\/a><\/li>\n
  31. The Supreme Court\u2019s double standard for qualified immunity cases – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nInteresting look at a debate between Supreme Court justices.<\/li>\n
  32. Chris Pratt Doesn’t Think Regular Americans Are Represented | The Mary Sue<\/a>
    \nTo be fair, Pratt later took his comment back.<\/li>\n
  33. No-Platforming Only Helps The Person Being No-Platformed Spread Their Message – The Unit of Caring<\/a>
    \nWorth reading, and I partly endorse this. But the evidence she’s talking about seems to be about violent no-platforming, not no-platforming in general.<\/li>\n
  34. The Democratic Party: Labor’s Frenemy – Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money<\/a><\/li>\n
  35. Jeff Sessions and the Odds of Imprisoning Innocents – The Atlantic<\/a>
    \nReforming criminal forensics is essential to reducing the number of false convictions. But Sessions wants to stop reforms.<\/li>\n
  36. Fun with the nasal cycle<\/a>
    \nWhy we have two nostrils.<\/li>\n
  37. Supreme Court unanimously overturns North Carolina\u2019s ban on social-media use by sex offenders – The Washington Post<\/a>
    And I unanimously agree.<\/li>\n
  38. Are Democrats Ready to Push Medicare for All? – Rewire<\/a><\/li>\n
  39. “Medicaid-for-all” vs. “Medicare-for-all”. – HealthCommentary<\/a>
    This author argues that Medicare for all is better.<\/li>\n
  40. Medicare-for-All vs. Single Payer: The Impact of Labels | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n
  41. Veiled Lives? Muslim women, headscarves, and manufacturing Islam – Girl w\/ Pen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n