Why I Am Thanking Bill and Hillary Clinton Today 🙏🏽 In today's First Draft, I discuss how *some* centrist Democrats are standing up to GOP Islamophobia against Abdul El-Sayed, while others shamefully bolster it. Also, RIP Patrick Stewart, aka Captain Picard.

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The NYT reporter who did the Alaska hit piece did a long sympathetic story on rural white Republicans facing California Dems’ new House map. It barely mentions the many more new GOP gerrymanders—mostly targeting Black & Latino Dems—at the end. Many other examples, like this sexist portrayal of AOC

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We are approaching the end of the hype cycle, so my fear at this is slight as the financing collapses and nearly all of these projects are abandoned and existing DCs reduce capacity. Banks are apparently already dubious. Stockholders are punishing the major public players this week too.

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If you want to understand how bad things are in America, the comic strip Crankshaft is doing dark realistic political criticism this week. No, I'm not joking. (from the creator of Funky Winkerbean.)

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how it feels to hit my pen in the bathroom at the movie theater

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