Trump really wants to get that pesky wildlife refuge destroyed.

In a last-minute push to achieve its long-sought goal of allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, the Trump administration on Monday announced that it would begin the formal process of selling leases to oil companies.

That sets up a potential sale of leases just before Jan 20, Inauguration Day, leaving the new administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has opposed drilling in the refuge, to try to stop the them after the fact.

“The Trump administration is trying a ‘Hail Mary’ pass,” said Jenny Rowland-Shea, a senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, a liberal group in Washington. “They

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And this has happened:

https://twitter.com/suzanne_moore/status/1328376117900750851

Her profile now says

“She left because she understood the value of defiance”

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Quite the sexist pig, Glenn Greenwald is.

Regardless of one's views on the trans/TERF debate, JK Rowling's victimhood complex is suffocating & narcissistic.

She's one of the world's richest & most famous people, but views herself as a supreme victim because she endures what all public figures endure: harsh criticism. https://t.co/1zjgGQZCWM

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 11, 2020

She had it coming, right? She talked back? She didn’t obey? She refused to submit?

Here's an attempt to explain the British pathologies that caused the UK — and specifically its centrist/liberal media — to become Ground Zero for anti-trans fanaticism. Reading UK websites, you'd think trans people were their greatest societal plague: https://t.co/yPoypdzm1r

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 12, 2020

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Trump has a low opinion of most Americans.

Progress! https://t.co/K0NrpChXuI

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020

Who?

Oh.

https://twitter.com/socalaura/status/1327999582618443776

Tiny as in smaller than most high schools. But good enough for Trump!

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Lisa Allardice talks to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:

The reason for our call is the announcement that Adichie has won the public vote in the Winner of Winner’s award, celebrating 25 years of the Women’s prize for fiction. She won the award, when it was sponsored by Orange, in 2007, for her epic war novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, beating many of the biggest names in contemporary fiction.

The prize that was necessary because the people who awarded prizes kept overlooking women.

She hopes that the election of Biden will usher in a return to public civility. “I’m really excited at the idea that the discourse across the country will not sound like childish name calling. There’s

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Oh goody – another man on a site purportedly for women, raging about a woman who writes something he dislikes.

Remember went J.K. Rowling went fully mask off about her transphobia in June, publishing an essay on her personal website about how she thinks trans women pose a threat to cis women’s personal safety? And how she, the second-highest paid author in the world worth at least $670 million, feels “police[d]” by trans randos on Twitter who don’t like her tweets (and all while failing to mention the concurrent worldwide uprising against the actual police that was just getting started at the time, to boot)? I know! Truly bananas! If I were a multimillionaire who hated trans women,

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Yikes. They go on thinking it’s fake even when they have it.

https://twitter.com/JodiDoering/status/1327771329555292162 https://twitter.com/JodiDoering/status/1327771331920883714… Read the rest

Patricia Marx in the New Yorker last July:

With so many people homebound these past few months, indoors has become the new outdoors. It is where you exercise, digitally chat with friends, and, of course, work. But it is also still the indoors, where you sleep, eat, and putter. This can make for frequent wardrobe changes. Or you can give up and wear the same shredded sweatpants day after day. In April, a Florida circuit judge named Dennis Bailey sent a letter to local lawyers about proper attire during Zoom court hearings. “It is remarkable how many attorneys appear inappropriately on camera,” he wrote. “We’ve seen many lawyers in casual shirts and blouses, with no concern for ill-grooming, in

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There’s always a tweet.

Trump: He won

Also Trump: I concede nothing.

Trump 4 years ago: "Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary and Dems: '[I]t is humiliating. One must be able to lose with dignity.' So true!" pic.twitter.com/QGvThUv0Op

— Jon Hutson (@JonHutson) November 15, 2020

Trump: not losing with dignity.

Early this morning:

He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more! https://t.co/Exb3C1mAPg

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020

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Nicely done.

We delved into the Trump team’s lawsuits and court cases to see what Republican officeholders are giving so much deference to: https://t.co/mT5xr0eGoO

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 15, 2020

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More on the misogyny and murder issue:

The police – waylaid for 18 months by a hoax and having only started to take the case seriously once “innocent young girls” (their words) and not just sex workers had been killed – had shifted the responsibility for public safety on to women themselves, urging them not to go out after dark.

But on 25 October, with her boyfriend away in London on a CND march, Lea decided she would not stay at home. She went to the pub to plan her 21st birthday party and after a few drinks walked through Leeds University’s Headingley campus to get her bus home. It was then she was approached by a man who

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Joan Smith on Peter Sutcliffe and misogyny:

I am so angry, all these years later. When I heard that this insignificant little man had died, more than four decades after he ruined the lives of so many women, the anger and hurt came rushing back. I remember it as though it were yesterday: the fear we lived with in the north of England, the suspicion about neighbours and colleagues, the sense that we couldn’t rely on the police to protect us.

We couldn’t even rely on them to catch him, even though Peter Sutcliffe was hardly anyone’s idea of a criminal mastermind. He spoke to the women he targeted, letting them hear his Yorkshire accent and see his

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Benjamin Wittes on Trump’s Tantrum:

There exists no law or rule that compels a president to acknowledge the legitimacy of his defeat—or even the fact of it—except in the very limited sense that he has to vacate the office.

And he doesn’t have to do that until January 20. Until then he can tantrum his wee socks off.

So yes, the president is allowed to sulk. He is allowed to be the sorest of sore losers. He is allowed to once again display before the entire world the complete triumph of ego over patriotism, of self-interestedness over public-spiritedness, within his heart. There is, actually, nothing to do about it if he wants to play it this way; there is

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The mass-murderer of women Peter Sutcliffe died in prison yesterday. Women everywhere braced for more reporting that focused on him instead of the women whose lives he stole. The Yorkshire Post got it right.

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Today I learn that there’s a group called Zero Tolerance. Of what? Violence against women.

Zero Tolerance is a Scottish charity working to end men’s violence against women by promoting gender equality and challenging attitudes that normalise violence and abuse.

Good, good. (Mind you, in these troubled times, we need to be careful to say sex equality, but that’s a detail.)

We work to end violence against women through tackling the root cause of this violence – gender inequality. [sex equality]

We began in 1992 with a groundbreaking and radical Edinburgh-based poster campaign. The campaign successfully brought the issue of violence against women out from behind closed doors and into public consciousness by asserting that violence

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https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1327407356192448513

Another one of those “Just a reminder that bullshit bullshit bullshit” tweets.

Just a reminder that "biological sex" is not a neat, tidy binary and the emergence of "biological sex" as a legal category is recent and exclusively for the purposes of excluding trans people from legal protections.

— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) November 13, 2020

Yeah. Nobody ever heard of it until the invention of trans.

Abigail Shrier’s book is a dangerous polemic with a goal of making people not trans. I think of all the times & ways I was told my transness wasn’t real & the daily toll that still takes. We have to fight these ideas which are leading to the criminalization of trans life again.

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Oops. He almost accidentally conceded.

Trump seems to be on the cusp of saying "the Biden administration," but catches himself and says "time will tell" pic.twitter.com/6QaZV9TFOq

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 13, 2020

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I think there’s a misunderstanding.

https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1327299859804729345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1327299859804729345%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Flive%2F2020%2Fnov%2F13%2Fjoe-biden-donald-trump-election-result-coronavirus-latest-updates

“My body, my choice” doesn’t mean you can for instance use your body to punch or kick or stab people. It doesn’t mean you can use your body to grab other people’s groceries or puppies or umbrellas. It doesn’t mean you can risk infecting other people during a lethal pandemic.

This nitwit shouldn’t have been “proud” to tell her colleagues that masks are oppressive. She should instead have thought about how oppressive a bad case of Covid is.

In Georgia, she claims, people don’t care if they infect others. That’s unfortunate at a time when the virus is roaring upwards.

The United States reported another record one-day spike in Covid-19 cases as the

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The law and order party, let’s not forget.

WH Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany, appearing on Fox Business as Trump Campaign Adviser, on whether Trump will attend President-elect Biden’s inauguration ceremony:

“I think the president will attend his own inauguration.” pic.twitter.com/uHTDneIiXx

— The Recount (@therecount) November 13, 2020

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Ah yes, disdain for the idea that slavery was something of a mistake on the part of the people who colonized what became the US. (The forcible colonization also a mistake btw.)

Biden endorses our new national religion on his immigration website.https://t.co/4ZuxSw6VhO pic.twitter.com/aFUmrvHUU7

— James Lindsay, full varsity (@ConceptualJames) November 13, 2020

“New” – it’s not new. As many wiser heads pointed out.

https://twitter.com/JamesFallows/status/1327243644735250432

Also, this one:https://t.co/OxXdDfRuMf

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 13, 2020

He looks young in his photo but he can't possibly be young enough to think calling slavery "America's original sin" is some new woke thing can he? I've been hearing that for decades.

— Chris (@ChrisXSC) November 13, 2020

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