I am entirely unconvinced by RCV. I think people weigh their choices very differently when they’re in the booth pondering the top two.

can we do that???!?!?!?!

Sad news about Joy Reid’s show, I agree. But her replacements, Symone Sanders-Townsend & Alicia Menendez, who will co-anchor w Steele, are hardly conservative. C’mon Mr Ali, you’re only telling part of the story. Context is everything, right?

It's like decades ago, when racist whites filled swimming pools with concrete, or closed down rec centers entirely, rather than integrate them. Hurting themselves as much as anyone, just to prevent Black people from having access to any public good. And huge % of whites were OK with that!

Higher ed isn't perfect, but it's one of the principal areas where we can at least model what a more just and sustainable future might look like. But Christopher Fuckin Rufo and like-minded mediocrities, in a convulsion of frothing racism, want to nuke the whole thing for that very reason.

Racism is a terminal cancer, but a whole chunk of this country's population would rather die a slow, painful death, rotting from the inside out, than accept treatment. It's a death cult, and should be treated as such.