He was also spineless in the face of public unions and drove up pension deficits to an unsustainable degree. I'd take Jerry Brown or Newsom over Davis.

New IVP poll for California Governor; Becerra jumps ahead. Link to details about this poll ivn.us/posts/breaki...

Sure there are real use-cases for crypto: it's fantastic for oligarchs, money launderers, criminal cartels, terrorist groups, and totalitarian states like North Korea - it makes *their* operations much easier.

*hear

Everyone just assumes these arguments are solid because they here it a hundred times.

There are legitimate reasons to dislike AI, but a lot of the arguments being made are purely being made because of an echo chamber Ggenerative AI is not a large user of power today datacenters use about ~2% of power globally) and water use (again, datacenters use small amounts).

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

- Harry Truman

As Trump proves often, the reverse of this is also true.

It’s amazing how much you can fuck things up when the only thing you care about is getting the credit.

The Crusaders were happy to kill Christians too.

Leaked Memos Reveal Just How Much the Supreme Court Has Betrayed the Constitution All in service of its corporate patrons.

The Robert's Court is corrupt. Never forget it.

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'appear' is the key word, he's not genuine. Shortly after this they murdered 10's of thousands of kids, look up Iranian President Raisi: The Hanging Judge.

This is purely cynical.

No, but he's not being genuine either, Khomeini had no problem murdering thousands of kids, he's no humanitarian.

Khomeini also murdered tens of thousands shortly after, he's not humanitarian so we should look on this as a cynical ploy to split support in the US rather than real solidarity or care for marginalized people.

Paging Jill Stein, Chris Hedges, Glenn Greenwald, Aaron Maté, Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, George Galloway, The Grayzone, Tulsi Gabbard, Russell Brand, Matt Taibbi, Michael Tracey, Noam Chomsky....

The Strange Death of Orbánism Franz Pokorny

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

Why is that?

Greenwald is a Russian asset, part the faux-left Russia cultivates along with many others.

Hunter has a MBA and worked a major financial services company, $600k for a Board of Director position is not excessive.

Please enlighten us.

Hunter Biden traded on his fame, and is now a reformed addict, that doesn't make him a terrible person.

Beautiful. That's an equisetum (aka Horsetail), an ancient plant 100+ million years old.

Meh. They made some token gestures, won major concessions on tariffs and successfully kept the Asshole out of Apple's business. Not every business can be or should be part of the resistance.

Aerosols Now.

It is evident to anyone paying attention that even today's ~1.5° C warming is catastrophic, and we have no pathway below this, for centuries.

Our top priority should be to bring the planet back into energy balance. Aerosols are not a solution, but can buy us time.

Trump and Trumpism is not forever, and the US under different leadership will be reliable again.

Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

Arrogance to achievement ratio approaches infinity
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He sure did, and most of it wasn't signing bills, Biden's super-power are the teams he brought together and how he lifted them up. It was an administration that was both extremely competent and looked like America.

Fair enough, but the IRA bill was absolutely transformative, driving massive increases in clean manufacturing here in the US and putting on the path to a robust climate program.

A partial list of things Biden accomplished, not my list, but you get the idea:

Bottom line is: We cannot trash the Dems 24/7 and expect to win in November.

And those who make a sport of attacking Dems, regardless of their professed ideology and beliefs, work for the Right.

I'm not speaking of AOC or Sanders, I'm speaking of the general population.

AOC is great because she's evidence-based, smart and studies so she knows it's not the issue isn't the Dems selling us out, but rather the Dems simply don't have the power to do the things we all want them to do.

The problem isn't that Dems are insufficiently pro-social, the problem is that they've never had the power to do any of the things we ALL want them to do - and the left holds the key to that.

Over the last 25 years, the Dems have had power for only 2 brief periods (in 2009 and 2021) and in both, they passed an absolute flood of pro-social legislation - something the left is almost entirely ignorant about, preferring to believe Dems are complicit.

The anti-establishment left and mainstream liberals have mostly the same values and mostly want the same things. However, the anti-establishment left have been manipulating into thinking that's not so, preferring to attack Dems rather than fight the Right. It's why we are here today.