Germany began automatically granting birthright citizenship to eligible immigrant children born after 1/1/00. Study finds that "immigrant youth who acquired citizenship at birth are substantially less likely to engage in criminal activity, with estimates indicating a 70% reduction in crime."
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
Look it's vitally important that Democrats embrace this guy who 80% of the country has never heard of & who's disliked 2:1 by people who have heard of him.
Not by coincidence, "white supremacists are the Republicans Party's constituents and they don't want it pointed out" is the real reason why those of us who study and teach it are losing our jobs.
I know I'm always harping on about this but it really is corrosive to public life that our major media institutions are run by people who do not know how evidence works and cannot distinguish between a real social trend and something their algorithm feeds them on tiktok.
"we are both traitors to our class"
because: bsky.app/profile/shar...
No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.
its absolutely incredible watching people not realize the stakes watching DOJ being weaponized against SPLC and not realizing that its basically an existential fight for the republic now
There are two main differences to me in a lot of what blue states are currently doing:
1) they are putting it to the voters. that alone means something.
2) most of them have FIRM time limits. it's basically, "fine we're gonna do an end-run around your cheating for as long as you keep cheating."
Let’s say as Reagan so GOP may understand “peace through strength“- unilateral disarmament is foolish (this is true also for PACs btw)
most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters
these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators
This is called warrior-aristocracy and it's a parasitic form of existence that we need to forcefully replace with a culture of public service.
PDs should be run by the state govt, not by the local govt. Homicide/rape/kidnapping, public order offences, and traffic should be entirely specialized.
Eventually you get to the point where reading becomes woke and gay because women do it, and at that point there's really not much that can be done
It’s like the God of the Gaps…the Masculinity in the Gaps
The impression I get is that anglosphere masculinity is simply becoming increasingly restrictive as women get a better shot at more and more things. Because it's fundamentally negative in definition, the more equal women get, the less space masculinity has to occupy. And well, then you get this shit
RESULT... in Coral Gables, FL: The city has overwhelmingly voted tonight to change timing of its local elections to November.
Part of an effort we're seeing nationwide to get higher turnout in local races.
It was one of my 40 races to watch in April. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
I'm sure everyone is impatient... but we're basically on Fairfax County time at this point.
Virginia's biggest county (by far) has hundreds of thousands of ballots to report, & this is a massively blue county. That's the story at this moment.
Hegseth has just proudly announced on Twitter that flu vaccines will no longer be mandatory for US Servicemembers.
Before The Regime took power, the DoD correctly said that vaccine refusal is a national security threat.
Do people know the original use of “ghetto” was sixteenth century Italian neighborhoods where Jews were forced to live — and segregated from their non-Jewish neighbors — by law? I have no idea how it became associated with Black American urban neighborhoods (aside from the obvious “segregation”)
Anyway it’s always interesting when people act like Jewish oppression in Europe begins and ends with the pogroms and the Third Reich (with maybe a quick stopover for the Spanish Inquisition) with no acknowledgement that for centuries Jewish lived in gated neighborhoods with curfews
From what I'm reading, "tricked into" isn't as accurate in framing as "harassed beyond the point of being asked to leave them alone while accusing them of harming their own child."
Here’s the 5th Circuit’s opinion openly and directly defying an on-point Supreme Court precedent that prohibits the display of the 10 Commandments in public school classrooms.
Shameless defiance of SCOTUS, but we’ll see if the supermajority cares. txvalues.org/wp-content/u...
The theory of the case -- that the SPLC defrauded donors by promising to "dismantle" hate groups while secretly paying informants inside said hate groups, a tactic that it has carried out for nearly half a century -- is completely absurd.
The best way out of political gerrymandering isn’t one-sided disarmament, it is multi-member districts, but we’re never going to get there if one party thinks it can gerrymander while the other won‘t.
Go “Yes”
Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
Guys they’re charging SPLC with wire fraud on the theory that it was a knowing material falsehood which induced donors to donate for SPLC to say they were “dismantling” hate groups while also paying informants in said groups, which DoJ is saying SPLC thereby funneled money to said groups
If Trump always TACOs he wouldn't have attacked Iran in the first place.
The meme generates a false sense of certainty about the delusional flailing of an erratic sociopath.
