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Capitol Punishments

The week’s highlights (and low-lights) from the Wisconsin Legislature and beyond.

Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.

Capitol Punishments: Another pointless dogpile on Mandela Barnes

Democrats who play into asinine talking points about Barnes are doing Republicans' work for them.

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Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.
Capitol Punishments: To hell with small tweaks

Democrats are failing to rise to the moment, because they don’t understand it.

Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.
Capitol Punishments: Stop equivocating about anti-Asian violence

Gaslighting from police and other institutions just compounds the trauma of recent attacks in Madison.

Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.
Capitol Punishments: What Gableman tells himself

The sexist streak in Wisconsin’s increasingly expensive and unhinged election investigation.

Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.
Capitol Punishments: Giving power away to Grothman and Gallagher

Why do two of Wisconsin's outlandishly bad Congressmen have no Democratic challengers?

Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.
Capitol Punishments: WILL’s war on trans and non-binary kids

The right-wing lawsuit factory is shocked, shocked, that anyone would threaten the same people it's been relentlessly targeting.

An illustration shows a notebook, large tear drops, and lightning against a white background speckled with black dots and textured red circles. Illustration by Maggie Denman.
Capitol Punishments: A generation of tactical school nightmares

Those of us old enough to remember Columbine need to stop passing down the horrific burden of mass shootings.

Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.
Capitol Punishments: Manufactured outrage formula

A week of sinister tantrums over FDA inspectors and public university funding.

Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.
Capitol Punishments: Density vs. the dense

Please just let us have some (yes, bland and imperfect) goddamn housing.

Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.
Capitol Punishments: The tip of the spear

A post-mortem for abortion complacency.