Some Republican state legislators in Florida, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Texas have lost their minds – they’re pushing legislation to protect drivers who attack protestors with their cars.

And Catherine Rampell for The Washington Post does not mince words:

[T]here’s plenty of blame to dump on President Trump for emboldening white supremacists and for encouraging violence against peaceful protesters. But to treat him as an aberration in encouraging violence against protesters — in particular, liberals and people of color — is flat wrong.

The moral rot in the Republican Party runs deep…. These politicians are not fit to serve the public, in any level of government.

The Republican Party is morally bankrupt and for some reason the electorate keeps letting them write checks.

I am a responsible person, so we moved as quickly as we could.

– Catherine Pugh, mayor of Baltimore

Not all heroes wear capes.

Jonathan Taplin in an Op-Ed for The New York Times:

We have an obligation to care about the values of the people who run Google, because we’ve given Google enormous control over our lives and the lives of our children. As the former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris points out, “Without realizing the implications, a handful of tech leaders at Google and Facebook have built the most pervasive, centralized systems for steering human attention that has ever existed, while enabling skilled actors (addictive apps, bots, foreign governments) to hijack our attention for manipulative ends.”

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

– Lyndon Johnson (via Michael Eric Dyson)

Kevin Roose for The New York Times:

It’s unlikely that any alt-right protest will make a dent in the bottom lines of multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley behemoths. But by forcing these companies to take sides in an emerging culture war, these activists have already achieved a kind of perverse goal. They have found a new punching bag, and they have proved that in the hyper-polarized Trump era, there is no such thing as neutrality.

What a time to be alive.

Kevin Roose for The New York Times:

It’s unlikely that any alt-right protest will make a dent in the bottom lines of multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley behemoths. But by forcing these companies to take sides in an emerging culture war, these activists have already achieved a kind of perverse goal. They have found a new punching bag, and they have proved that in the hyper-polarized Trump era, there is no such thing as neutrality.

What a time to be alive.

Netflix is all like, “duh.”