They’re my parents.

unpopular opinion guy

i think it is actually totally fine if urban areas with their higher density populations and higher levels of education have a proportionally greater say in national politics than less-dense and less-educated rural areas

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Worth repeating today:

A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

I also resent the implication that FDR never made morally ambiguous compromises with bad people.

Motherfucker you JUST did a kindergarten photo op with Barack Obama

All of his political capital comes out of pretending unreliable progressive voters are the actual base of the party.

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted over alleged use of paid informants in extremist groups | CNN Politics The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday over a discontinued program that used paid confidential informants to penetrate white supremacist and other organizations, Acting Attorney General ...

This is entirely politically motivated to eliminate an organization that has historically fought neo nazis and the KKK. What an absolute disgrace.

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Yes. Yes. Yes!

They’re just bigots. Being poor doesn’t absolve people from being evil.

I’ve tried so many times to make sitto happy. Can’t do it. I love love love cooked kibbeh tho

Mislabeling civilians enemy combatants and then slaughtering them ought to be a war crime. It’s SOP for the IDF.

kibbeh nayyeh - a Levantine dish of raw ground meat (lamb), bulgur and spices

Kibbeh nayyeh. I dig tartare and carpaccio, but I just can’t handle the slimy texture or the risk of raw ground meat.

Your reframe to “fix your hearts and live” is so generous and needed.

Basically, this is a politically important debate because the appearance of law constrains our politics.

a man wearing a baseball cap is smiling in front of a sign that says good work ALT: a man wearing a baseball cap is smiling in front of a sign that says good work

Incredible

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
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Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

this is a good example of what I mean when I talk about some democratic politicians making unions magical wish fulfillment entities rather than simply another political stakeholder that can be a force for good but also is at risk of being captured by reactionary forces

it's tone as much as anything; he presents it as an optimistic, "we're all in this together and we're going to do great things!" as opposed to the paranoid, pessimistic, "they're after you and you should be angry."

Dude...did you even read the Inflation Reduction Act? And when asked "why invest so much in rural 'Red' areas" Biden replied, "they need it the most."

I'm on high-speed internet Obama gave us, on insurance Obama & a Dem Congress made sure I couldn't be kicked off of, in a house bought w/a USDA loan Clinton streamlined for me, by a river myDem senator guaranteed water rights for farmers from, watching farms go up for sale under Trump admin failures

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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Pretty tired of this mindset that it is us, the normal people that don’t fall in love with awful candidates, that are even *partially* responsible for people falling in love with awful candidates

As the father of a middle schooler I have seen the rebellion against AI forming there — even using “that’s AI, bro,” not indicating something is literally AI, but that something is metaphorically so — it’s sus, it’s bullshit, it’s bad weird

Im still pretty skeptical of its widespread use, but its got some applications. The question "if the paths to prosperity dry up whats the point of all this?" gets at the core of the anxiety imo. Capitalism seems to be eating itself. We're gonna have to come up with a diff system or have chaos.

people really don't like it when the rich and powerful tell them that their expectations for the future should be permanently and drastically lowered, is another way of putting this

Americans elected the only new yorker alive who has never set foot in a bodega bsky.app/profile/atru...

there's a lesson here about "centrist" meaning actual policy vs "centrist" meaning "unwillingness to wield power independent of policy". no one will learn it though