Left-wing people have started describing really banal obviously true points as "contrarian" to try to create an unrealistically high evidentiary bar for ideas they happen to find uncongenial or inconvenient.
A UK/EU space race to Mars would be a hilarious outcome of Brexit.
Michael Lambert @MichaelLamberta
So it used to be that when people said "racism" they meant "prejudice" like a mortgage lender decides he hates Black people so he won't lend them money.
Today people (especially younger and better-educated ones) mean something more comprehensive.
Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas
I think it is a little obtuse of Pinker, an actual linguist, to pretend he is not aware of how language change works and that this is what has happened here.
I think if you read @awprokop's profile of Joe Manchin, *the* thing that he wants to believe is that the impediments to progress are roughly symmetrical and that he is a voice of reason brokering bipartisan deals impeded by extremists on both sides.
First Elizabeth Warren becomes a Tight Money Bro, now Teen Vogue?
Time to get progressives into Bitcoin
dylan matthews @dylanmatt
Good, if late
Kaleigh Rogers @KaleighRogers
This is my dream, omnivaxxed
Hanna Ziady @hannaziady
Fun fact: The only known room temperature superconductor -- something scientists had been questing after for decades -- is literally COMPRESSED FART GAS (hydrogen sulfide + methane).
Perfect attendance is the only academic award I ever won, so I am committed to the view that it is good. https://t.co/Gq05ZPfboL
Betsey Stevenson @BetseyStevenson
It would be interesting to see a Republican try to draft a bill embodying the conservative movement view that we should have absolute at-will employment but then with exceptions for anti-vaxxers and allegedly racist speech.
Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan