{"id":25735,"date":"2020-09-26T00:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T07:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25735"},"modified":"2020-09-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T08:00:00","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-the-thing-with-feathers-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25735","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, The Thing With Feathers Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. There Is Only One Way Out of This Crisis: Expand the Court | The Nation<\/a>
    \n“Win the Senate. Win the White House. Pass a bill expanding the court. That is how democracies work. And if Republicans win in the future and pass a different bill and add even more seats, so be it. That is also how democracies work.”<\/li>\n
  2. Kidnapping: A Very Efficient Business | by Anne Diebel | The New York Review of Books<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. GOP Leaders Are Using Weasel Words To Avoid Rejecting Trump\u2019s Attempted Coup | Washington Monthly<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Does Anyone Really Change Their Votes? – POLITICO<\/a>
    \nAmong many other tidbits: Some independent voters are more partisan than the partisan voters.<\/li>\n
  5. Opinion | Correcting the misinformation about Breonna Taylor – Radley Balko, The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. How Democrats Are Preparing for Postelection Chaos – The Atlantic<\/a>
    \nIn 2000 Republican thugs took to the streets to stop votes from being counted, while Al Gore stayed above it all. That won’t happen again.<\/li>\n
  7. What Joe Biden Can Learn From Jimmy Carter – The American Prospect<\/a>
    \nArguing that we need to greatly expand the number of judgeships, which used to expand with the population but haven’t in decades, causing courts to be seriously overburdened. And also a chance to restore some of the Carter-era diversity in who gets to be judges that Trump and others have undone.<\/li>\n
  8. Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in \u201canti-intellectual times\u201d<\/a>This Judith Butler interview – in which Butler adroitly and politely identifies and deflates the anti-trans assumptions hidden in the interviewer’s questions – is a joy to read.<\/li>\n
  9. Christian Kroger employees sue for being forced to wear a heart on their uniform. They say it\u2019s gay. \/ LGBTQ Nation<\/a>
    \nThe heart has like three colors on it, so they’ve decided it’s a rainbow, I guess?<\/li>\n
  10. Democratic insiders set up a ‘war room’ to quickly kill the filibuster<\/a>
    \nI find it interesting (and hopeful) that Harry Reid is now on the “kill it” side, although I wish he’d come to that conclusion 11 years ago.<\/li>\n
  11. Legend of Korra is on Netflix: A look at its messy, complicated legacy – Vox<\/a>
    \nI love Korra, but I have to admit that Avatar was a better show, mainly on the strength of better writing.<\/li>\n
  12. Why You Should Trade Body Positivity For Fat Acceptance<\/a>
    \n“…body positivity has forgotten its radical and political roots from when it first started as the fat acceptance movement.”<\/li>\n
  13. Policing Is the Wrong Tactic for a Disease That Preys on Inequality<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Supreme Court: Why did liberals win so often in a conservative Court? – Vox<\/a>
    Of course, if they succeed in getting a new justice seated to replace RBG, it’ll all become much easier for them.<\/li>\n
  15. The Black American Amputation Epidemic<\/a>
    \n“‘So what happens when a patient comes in and can\u2019t afford a procedure that\u2019s limb salvage? They eventually lose their limbs. They\u2019ll present back to the emergency room with a rotten foot.’ And a surgeon would have no choice but to amputate.”<\/li>\n
  16. Opinion | A \u2018Safety Net\u2019 That\u2019s a Kafkaesque Mess – The New York Times<\/a> And an alternate link<\/a>.
    \n“Looking at the mess facing S.S.I. recipients who try to work, one feels that a terrible mistake has been made. But history tells a different story: this Kafkaesque nightmare was a deliberate choice.”<\/li>\n
  17. Black Homeowners Face Discrimination in Appraisals – The New York Times<\/a> And an alternate link<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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