Let this be a lesson to you socialists, populists, and oligarchy-haters: If you insist on going this route, we'll throw everything we have at you -- and hold you below 80% support in your primaries. You are warned.

I am supporting @grahamformaine today because of his passion for opposing war. An honest conversation about the human toll and his journey.

"Because the law is nothing less than the institutionalization of the general will of civil society, it belongs to all and regards all equally. This is the fundamental principle underlying every civilized legal system." compactmag.com/article/there…

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him. In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over. Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed. When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye. She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession. As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him. Rest in peace, professor.

This needed to be said and Platner says it well. Masculinity is not intrinsically "toxic," and there are many ways to be a man.

You can be a tattooed, deep-voiced, "manly" combat veteran who also goes to therapy and shows up for his neighbors. Those two things go completely hand-in-hand. And I think it's important to have people who can show that, instead of a vision of masculinity that's hardened, shut off, and angry.

George Orwell embraced committed, partisan writing in support of democratic socialism. "And the more one is conscious of one’s political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one’s aesthetic and intellectual integrity."

Yeah but the report is really bad — both ignorant and stupid.

Garbage, guttersnipe journalism: He was a "toxic" boyfriend, alleges a Republican activist.

"El mecanismo es más o menos claro. Se asocia la “pérdida de masculinidad” con la degeneración física y, por consecuencia, con la traición política", dice #CarlosMonsiváis en entrevista con José Ramón Enríquez. 🏳️‍🌈 Lee aquí "Monsiváis: Feminismo y homosexualidad" en este #mesdelorgullo revistadelauniversidad.mx/ar…

The oligarchy wants you to worry about the one marital relationship, not the other (which is the one that actually has real material consequences for you).

I know, but we have birthright citizenship and Donald Trump was born here. What can you do?

Maine voters: The oligarchy is going to pour $90 million into a small state to try to deter you from voting for a candidate they hate. Make 'em spend more. Make 'em spend it all.

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Yes, this rainbow is an abomination. Thankfully, Verdurin has a handy Pride month survival guide. INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual verdur.in/inversion/ With Blake Smith, @RogerLancaster, David Moulton @ComradeDoom1, @stephengadubato, @amir_naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez @verdur_in, Travis Jeppesen, @oliver_j_davis, Yotam Feldman @jott2, Marcas Lancaster. While it was, until recently, deviant to promote gay lifestyles, it is now 'problematic' to suggest that not all departures from the norm are in the homosexual's best interest. In the world of coercive affirmation, a new wave of discontent rises among the once-keenest proponents of sexual progress: gay men. Bold and daring, the essays in Inversion reflect on the vicious cycle of debasement, acceptance, sacrifice, and liberation that homosexuality has been stuck in for longer than it wishes to acknowledge. Inversion considers the cultural and political aspects of gay life after homosexuality as it battles with queerness and the allure of a reactionary return, pharmacologically fuelled sexual degeneration, and existential dread. Has the gay man — homosexual, queer, inverted — rendered himself obsolete?

why can't Maine voters nominate a squeaky clean asexual McKinsey sociopath who would wear your skin like a wetsuit if it got them a promotion

Try this instead. “I see that Paxson is afraid of vegans. And he calls himself a Texan! We’re tougher than that. 😂” Or: “Y’all, he’s afraid of vegans. How in the heck is he gonna be strong enough to protect you when China comes for your job?” 3/