Unfortunately, because “resigns in disgrace” is a value judgment, while “retire” is not. Simply saying “resign” would have been better, but so it goes.
Journalism has challenging ethics & in most cases any value judgments have to be left to the reader.
A little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens is set to expire, and we’re worried some Democrats could join the GOP to reauthorize this civil liberties disaster.
Urge your Members of Congress to vote NO on any legislation that reauthorizes Section 702.
And yet again, you ignore that Alex Pretti would still be alive bsky.app/profile/thej...
By all means, please do share what you mean by “move to the right”.
B/c “blowing up USAID” isn’t a thing that any Dem candidate has ever even hinted at doing.
Biden’s candidacy also “moved to the right” and yet he’s the most progressive president of my lifetime.
Not only would USAID still exist, but Alex Pretti would still be alive, among others that have been murdered in cold blood by ICE.
It’s telling that you seem to be quite alright with Pretti’s murder by ICE.
And? That doesn’t change whose responsibility it is to choose the candidate that is going to do the most good things & least bad things.
The Dem Party doesn’t actually control who are candidates for office; anyone can run as a Dem. We have open parties in the USA.
Be the change you wanna see.
Your unwillingness to measure those bad things against each other, and recognize that there is a spectrum of bad, with “bad things under Harris” being less bad than the current bad things under Trump, is quite ridiculous.
What evidence do you have that Harris would have flagrantly broken the law?
Are you actually serious? Yes, I’m sure USAID would still exist. The fuck are you even on about? There wouldn’t have been a DOGE, nobody would have shredded the federal gov’t, the Presidency would still be obeying the law & the Constitution.
Good grief, what you even on about?
Objectively a victory for the pro-Palestinian bloc that J-Street has gone from being the center-left rearguard against any and all substantive criticism of Israel to relenting on one of the most perverse elements of the US-Israel relationship, which is unlimited, unconditional, free military aid.
Considering the way we’ve sandbagged sustainability projects like running power from Québec, wind power off-shore, and building more trains, no, we do not take climate seriously.
I’ll consider us serious when we stop letting NIMBYs block progress & light the world on fire.
*whispers* paying attention to the transit/land use/housing space could've told you the Northeast wasn't particularly serious about hitting these goals years ago
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If they charged what Somerville does ($40/yr) they could add a few million to the budget, even assuming some of those permits stop being issued as a result.
"Boston does not charge for residential parking permits. And despite a budget deficit of almost $50M, the city has no plans to change that. Boston has 120,051 residential parking permits & there's no limit on how many permits one household can have."
Boston chooses to be congested, dangerous & loud
That’s b/c it’s doesn’t actually say or talk or put things together.
It’s a probability machine. It turns out words into mathematical tokens, then compares those other tokens, then returns something that probably matches what you asked it.
Sometimes this is super useful! Sometimes not. 🤷🏻♂️
Manhattan's West Village is the poster child for how historically preserving the buildings in high-demand neighborhoods eventually displaces all but the richest people.
Case in point: a mansion created from two adjacent Bank Street townhomes will sell for more than SEVENTY MILLION DOLLARS.
Yeah, I want it better for everyone, too.
Unfortunately, now it’s _worse_ for everyone.
You keep blaming the Dem Party, when you yourself said that voters are the ones who have agency & choose.
The Dem Party doesn’t pick the president, we the electorate do.
The responsibility is ours.
So by all means, keep telling me & everyone else you think the destruction of things like USAID don’t matter, that Trump saying he’ll commit genocide just because doesn’t matter.
None of that would have happened under Harris. But here we are instead with the worse outcome.
It’s telling that, rather than actually engage with what I’ve said, you’ve decided to throw stones & insult me by suggesting I’m an asshole who doesn’t care about others.
Had Harris won the presidency, Alex Pretti would still be alive, as would millions of others. USAID would still exist, etc.
😆 No, actually, they don’t. I’m personally unaffected by Trump’s antics. Don’t presume to guess my motivations.
My trans friends & family are directly affected, and I care deeply for the plight of Palestinians, Iranians, & Lebanese folks.
Don’t be an ass.
Chat, is it good to have your boss threatening the pope a couple of months before your book on why you converted to Catholicism is due to be published?
Exclusive: Mayor Mamdani's DOT is planning to eliminate car traffic on one end of Grand Army Plaza, reconnecting its famous arch to Prospect Park. free link:
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It's Black Maternal Health Week, and my office is releasing a guide on the rights of pregnant women.
In Massachusetts, the rate of life-threatening complications during labor among Black women is twice the rate for white women.
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You’re gonna need a source, like I provided, to back that assertion.
Why are you arguing against having a less murderous & harmful gov’t? Like, seriously, what are you trying to accomplish?
I’d much rather have a president who obeys the law & is able to be influenced & pushed into different actions than one who shreds the law & is committed to authoritarianism.
I prefer a president who doesn’t have ICE murdering people in the street in cold blood
I had a long-time assumption that it took extreme & violent means to overthrow an authoritarian and restore democracy. Likely because of how much we are taught about WWII history.
But time and again, its elections. No bunker suicide required. Just ordinary people peacefully voting.
Remember the @pewresearch.org data on the decline in Israel's standing in the US published last week? We asked them for the crosstabs which they graciously shared with us, and we're publishing for the 1st time.
Bottom line: total collapse of Israel's standing among young Americans across the board.
IBEW wouldn’t be signing Biden’s praises if he’d taken mgmt’s side. Like, you’re not gonna believe the fucking _union_ about this?
Come on, be real.
And yet, ICE & CBP were obeying the law & Constitution back then. I vehemently disagree w/ Obama & Biden’s immigration policies, but immigration enforcing obeying the law & not terrorizing everyone is wildly different from what the Trump regime is doing.
Why are you committed to ignoring that?
Harris ran on continuing his platforms, which were the most progressive of any president in my lifetime.
And no, not only would he not have supported that, he was asked & declined, as multiple presidents before him had as well.
Why are you OK with things being worse than they were?