Michael-Patrick Harrington's Blog, page 24
July 14, 2021
The New Pornographers return!
July 12, 2021
Justice for Hunter Brittain
Why Al Sharpton and Ben Crump are taking up the case of a White teen killed by police The Rev. Al Sharpton and Ben Crump are taking up their first case involving a White person who was killed after being shot during an encounter with a police officer.
July 10, 2021
Biden & Afghanistan
Opinion: The worst speech of Biden’s presidency CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen argues that President Joe Biden’s speech defending US withdrawal from Afghanistan was peopled with straw men and littered with false assertions.
July 8, 2021
The Republican Party Finds a New Group to Demonize
The Republican Party Finds a New Group to Demonize
The recent wave of anti-trans legislation follows a decades-long pattern of the GOP targeting those they think lack the numbers or votes to properly fight back.
The Republican Party Finds a New Group to Demonize The recent wave of anti-trans legislation follows a decades-long pattern of the GOP targeting those they think lack the numbers or votes to properly fight back.
Critical Race Theory
“I think that the panic over CRT can be seen as part of this underlying anxiety about the status of White Americans in a changing country.”
“Critical race theory is not anti-patriotic,” Kimberlé Crenshaw told CNN’s Jason Carroll. “In fact, it is more patriotic than those who are opposed to it — because we believe in the 13th and the 14th and the 15th Amendments. We believe in the promises of equality. And we know we can’t get there if we can’t confront and talk honestly about inequality.”
Analysis: The engineered panic over critical race theory, explained Republicans have disfigured CRT -- an academic frame that scholars have been using in graduate-level courses for decades to interrogate how the legal system entrenches racism -- into a catchall to describe things they don’t like.
July 3, 2021
Breaking
Watch Bill Hader & Kristen Wiig try not to break while they “interview” Tay Tay in an SNL sketch.
If you’re a dog person…
…you’ll probably think this pooch is cool and funny:
June 30, 2021
The Who
Just because the Who rule…
Unbelievable…
Bill Cosby to Be Released From Prison After Sexual Assault Conviction Overturned Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacates 2018 charges against Cosby, citing trial error and previous prosecutor agreement June 24, 2021
Cecily Strong
Was this Cecily Strong’s swan song on SNL? It was an amazing performance at the end of Weekend Update.
