I think this might be a self selected sample though. The people who choose to go to university may just be more open to new things, hence more likely to be liberal. This makes it sound like leaving small hometowns is transformative but that hasn’t been my experience on the whole.

They saw the word “Roman” and that was that.

I mean, seeing as the US tourism industry is pretty much solely based on natural wonders (many of which are public lands, state, or national parks) they want to extract from and decimate, they kinda have to kill the industry.

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

The crowd behind him barely looks like they are paying attention, definitely not enthusiastic about what he’s saying.

I didn’t even notice that it was people and not men until I read her rant. Jesus.