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Jay Kuo

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Created 10 Feb 2021

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Why Does Everything Feel So Awful? And What Should Democrats Do About It?
06 Dec 2021 • about 3 hours ago • 4 min read • 29 4
There’s a psychological phenomenon called “loss aversion” that can help explain why Democrats remain in a terrible funk and why the GOP smells blood. Simply put, human beings would rather not lose som...
Jeffrey Clark Will Plead the Fifth. What That Means and Doesn’t Mean for the Jan 6 Investigation.
03 Dec 2021 • 7 min read • 60 3
Image courtesy of MSNBC After the January 6 Committee unanimously recommended criminal contempt charges against former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark for outright refusing to answer their q...
Stacey Abrams Is Running for GA Governor. And That Has National Implications.
02 Dec 2021 • 3 min read • 69 7
Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images Yesterday, she made it official: Stacey Abrams, whose legendary organizing and get-out-the-vote skills were instrumental in handing the Senate to the Democrats in Jan...
A Public Twitter Feud Begun By Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Part of the Great GOP Unraveling
01 Dec 2021 • 4 min read • 52 4
AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin The famed unity of the GOP is beginning to fray—and quite publicly. Over the weekend, a new member of the GOP House caucus, Rep. Nancy Mace (...
Unpacking Tomorrow’s Big Abortion Case: Fetal Viability, Undue Burden, and Roe v. Wade
30 Nov 2021 • 3 min read • 26 3
Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images Tomorrow, the Supreme Court, with a new 6-3 conservative majority, will hear the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. At issue is Mississippi’s ban on all abortio...
Omicron Variant Conspiracies Are Already a Thing on the Right
29 Nov 2021 • 2 min read • 66 6
Screen capture from Fox & Friends It took less than a day from the announcement of a new and potentially dangerous Covid-19 variant—officially named “Omicron” by world health authorities—before right-...
Happy Thanksgiving
25 Nov 2021 • < 1 min read • 141 23
I wanted to give thanks today to the readers here, who ask excellent questions and have shared and referred this newsletter to so many. It is a joy and a privilege to have a receptive and constructive...
Something About the Rally at the Ellipse before the Capitol Attack Doesn’t Add Up.
24 Nov 2021 • 6 min read • 81 6
Photo by Reuters There’s something that’s been bothering me as news reports continue to trickle out from sources within the planning group for the January 6 rally at the Ellipse that preceded the atta...
The January 6 Committee Already Has Some Interesting Goods on Alex Jones.
23 Nov 2021 • 5 min read • 77 7
Photo by Jim Bourg / Reuters On Monday, the January 6 Committee issued another set of subpoenas, bringing the total now to 40. Among the individuals served was conspiracy theorist and ally of the form...
Could Two Senators Sink Build Back Better Entirely? It’s Possible...But Also Unlikely.
22 Nov 2021 • 6 min read • 33 2
Photo by Greg Nash With the House narrowly passing its version of President Biden’s ambitious Build Back Better (BBB) social safety net and climate change legislation, all eyes are now on the Senate w...
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