Update: Oh hell yes

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The people of Iran aren’t free. Iran can now charge tolls. The nuclear material sits EXACTLY where it did, in the same amount, since June. The regime is still in place with a younger ayatollah. Iran still was launching missiles, now with more money to rebuild.

Period

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

I was relieved to see that (as of now at least) most of the comments under this article eloquently support the plan and are critical of the premise of this piece.

For me, this headline is a great antidote to the accusation during the election that Mamdani was promising things he couldn’t deliver on. The guy in this headline is getting things done! I get your point, though! Nobody uses “sharp elbows” as a compliment.

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE IS HEALTH CARE.

Thank you to the NY Attorney General’s Office for affirming our community.

Emma Frost!

The strategic implication of the data in this article is that Dems should be fighters first and foremost, and make tactical ideological consideration downstream of that, because they just don’t move as many voters and don’t resonate with disengaged folks. Seems they agree with me on that!

🤷🏼

BUT I DON’T WANNA! 😭

Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment

Good news: He’s so bad that it’s breaking through to people who aren’t even paying attention (but still vote)

It sure does seem like there’s a higher crime rate among ICE agents than there is among the people they’re going after.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

*If.

I feel this.

Amazon's Melania Ad Strategy Backfires In LA The city of Los Angeles has rerouted buses that advertise 'Melania' after vandals defaced movie posters and billboards promoting the controversial documentary.

Amazon’s $35 million ad campaign for ‘Melania’ might be getting fans to the theater—but it’s also inspired a wave of vandalism so significant that Los Angeles has changed its public transit schedule to protect its buses

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

The bad news is that it appears CBS News has fallen.

The good news is that independent media has been ready for this moment.

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Headline from 2016: "Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk."

Never gets old.

Every few years I dig up that piece and re-send it to my colleagues that I used to work with when it was first published and you could share pieces like this over your company’s email system because it was the 90s.

Kamala Harris’s nomination at the 2024 Democratic National Convention was both unusual and historic. Not only was she the first woman of color to be nominated for the presidency by a major party, but she also emerged as the party’s choice without having competed in any nominating contests, an outcome made possible by Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the candidacy. National nominating conventions are important opportunities for parties and candidates to draw media attention, and this coverage shapes the political impact of conventions. This was especially important in 2024, given the shortened nature of the Harris campaign. Using a sample of newspapers and TV news programs, we find that the media over emphasized controversial issues such as the war in Gaza and immigration while under emphasizing other substantive policy areas such as the economy. In addition, the coverage tended to amplify attention to so-called “women’s issues” and downplay Harris’s patriotic appeals. These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported, with important implications for public perception of the campaign and Harris’s policy priorities.

"These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported" hmmmmm
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This month's bonus episode is about Zohran Derangement Syndrome, the dangerous malady infecting newsrooms across the globe.

Post from Pete Buttigieg that reads: It's a bad deal. Everyday life - making it better and more affordable - must always be our bottom line. For months, I’ve been hearing from people bracing for their health insurance bills to skyrocket - so much that some will lose coverage altogether. Some say they simply haven't even opened their letter yet, dreading the bad news. Any deal that fails to address this directly is a bad deal.

Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.

Hi @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social! If you vote for this horrible deal, I will spend the next 4 years making sure you are both primaried and retired from the US Senate.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

Beautiful, wistful, eloquent breakdown of the NY Times’s bad-faith pretense of journalism.