Jul 182025
 

Yesterday, I hope everyone who is willing and able found a protest to join, and did so safely (and had a great sign. And got home safely.) The Senate passed the bill to kill public radio and television, and sent the bill back to the House.

This story, newly released by The 19th, took a lot of time, multiple lawyers, even more proofreaders, and an unknown (but definitely non-zero) number of fact checkers to put together. I don’t know how alone I am in this, but I have a tendency these days to look at , for example, the UK, Germany, New Zealand and others and think they are ahead of us when it comes to eliminating misogyny. This story makes me seriously question whether anyone at all is at all ahead of us. That’s ugly, but we need to know the truth.

Other than the remark about Joe Biden’s intentions, which no one but Joe really knows, but I seriously doubt Hubbell’s guess, this is a real problem and good advice. I’m not sure exactly how an unimaginative person can be expected to acquire imagination (though I’d guess it isn’t something that can be done quickly, least of all instantly.) But we can learn to listen to people who have it without shooting them down as fantasizers.

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