I like AOC, I think she is smart and correct more often than most. And I thought she answered poorly and looked unprepared. Does that dim my support? No. But it seems like an area she will do more thinking in, going forward. & no, it’s not nearly the mindless garbage that comes out of Trump’s mouth.
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
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The thought that she believes this is disturbing.
If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.
Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ
And here we go: more actions he's not empowered to take. bsky.app/profile/josh...
more of this messaging from Dems, pls.
An excellent podcast in general, and a great episode with you.
“But crucially,the person to whom I am speaking can only understand what I am trying to say if they do the converse:if they see past my individual words and have a sudden intuition of more unified, coherent idea that I had in mind and was trying to communicate”
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Oh no! Trump will think, I wanted to save money, but by doing this people could suffer, that’s bad. I’d better fix this. People’s wellbeing is especially important to me.
I think it’s very very clear that the level of misogyny does not particularly lag behind the level of racism demonstrated by this administration.
It is a non-stop source of amazement how invisible misogyny remains to white men, who even now--after the highly respected Coast Guard Commandant was fired for being female & turfed out of her home with 3hrs notice--STILL write about MAGA & the purges of the federal gov as driven only by racism.
Seems to me that this is exactly correct – and exactly consistent with MLK’s 1967 comments re “unregenerate segregationists who have declared that democracy is not worth having if it involves equality.”
Daily reminder of who Musk is:
Peter Goldsmith • 1st Professor, University of Illinois at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3h • G Today is a dark day when once there were so many winners. SIL, the Soybean Innovation Lab, will shutter its doors as of 4/15/25 as all USAID funding has ceased. Today I had to let go of a staff of 30. These individuals are not only unique experts in the field of tropical soybean, but also close colleagues and friends who are now unexpectedly out of work. The land grant system now loses 19 crown jewel Innovation Labs, across 17 states, that delivered high and measurable impact on very little investment. U.S. soybean farmers lose one of their best tools to expand their markets and U.S. standards globally. Local economies in emerging markets lose soybean as an incomparable engine growing wealth, prosperity, and economic development. International security is a loser, as local populations now fall back into poverty, unrest, and migration, due to greater food insecurity. U.S. influence loses as Innovation Labs operate on the ground in direct collaboration with hundreds of local businesses, organizations, and governments building strong and lasting friendships. Today we all lose. It is a shame. Innovation Labs like SIL are an investment for good on so many levels. You and 53 others 17 comments
The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.
Well that’s something.
The Washington Post ed board once said Elise Stefanik was participating in the "sabotage of democracy." It said she "spread treacherous disinformation" and had "permanently stained" herself.
Now it endorses her, saying she lacks "disqualifying deficiencies."
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Using “foil” squarely positions Trump as Snidely Wiplash.
Well thank you. I will read more about it. What is your view of it and of consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics and so on. I’m not well versed in moral philosophy, to say the least.
You just couldn’t put it off any longer, could you?
“Ironically” I just checked the other day if you were on Bluesky.
I’ve been in here for a while, but it’s was pretty nowheresville until very recently.
If our system depends on an informed electorate, and the electorate is commonly uninformed, there is a problem. But it’s also a problem if ignorance, crassness, dishonesty, and wealth are considered to be a good combination in a president.
Well, how about mistreating the animals while they’re alive? Vegetarian and omnivore could agree that treat if the animal while they’re alive, and how they are killed is important. I would say, a cow grazing on a pasture all of its life has had a better life than one confined inside in a small pen.
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“So RFKjr. Thinks he’ll fight PhRMA by stopping NIH from researching cancer & infectious diseases for 8 years? It will just get underpaid public-serving scientists to go to PhRMA. The losers will be sick Americans who need unprofitable research.”
I want to say you had me at jazz, but really black mountain college is what sealed the deal.
Dinah Washington?
It wouldn’t be better if we all end up in such a state. The South has been a massively negative influence on the US since 1800. Slavery, Jim Crow, & they’re still disenfranchising Blacks; disempowering women & families in general; hamstringing any legislation toward a civil society. I’m done.
Fully agree. So it’s got to always be, let the state go, but offer free transportation and monetary rewards for anyone who wants to move to a non secessionist state.
Do the original and the translation become public property at the same time?
Yeah. Millions of people’s blood on his hands. Nobody was debating that. I was asking why he as bad or worse than Hitler.
That was the point I was interested in hearing explained.