the most shameless woman this town has ever seen

this is such a stupid take and emblematic of a lot of critiques i have of all-or-nothing leftists. god forbid an elected official puts out a respectful professional statement about the death of a colleague, i guess??

There is no reaching across the aisle with Republicans and has not been for twenty years. They have committed themselves to refusing to do anything of use. The *only* thing that matters is getting enough Democrats in office to actually pass things.

What we need are people who are, bare minimum, not going to care about some shit-for-brains dying far too late for the amount of harm he did the nation. Every single Dem who thinks Graham *deserves* professionalism given his capitulation to outright fascism is either an idiot or someone who cannot be trusted to consistently uphold rights.

And not for nothing, being able to work across the aisle is still a valuable skill. The senate just passed a bipartisan bill to make housing more affordable as of July 11, 2026. This would not have happened if all Democrats refused to work with/be civil to Republicans.

PBS and NPR were never beholden to the US government.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created so that the US government could fund public media without public media being influenced by the government. It was a private non-profit funded by the government, not a part of the government itself. This is by design. This was a good thing. It meant that even small local TV and radio stations, could afford to create media for the public good, without government influence.

This meant TV and radio stations for poor communities. For non-english speaking communities. For rural communities. For minorities. It meant that free and accessible media could be created for everyone, even if the government didn't like it.

That's why conservatives defunded it.

Because if they couldn't control it, and if it helped the people they hated, then they would have to destroy it. Do you really think that a fascist government would defund their own propaganda machine?

Not only is the idea that PBS before being defunded was propaganda wrong, but ignores the fact that defunding it is going to have long-term negative effects on vulnerable communities.

And when that person doesn’t take the bait, they get treated like they did something wrong by pursuing their own happiness, and this becomes especially fucked up and unfortunate when the people who have an agenda of unhappiness learn and misuse social justice terminology in order to use them as tools of manipulation.