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David Faris
David Faris
@davidfaris.bsky.social
Prof. of Politics @rooseveltu.bsky.social, writer @thenation. Author, IT’S TIME TO FIGHT DIRTY and THE KIDS ARE ALL LEFT. Chicago, in the Medium Bucket. Dad, husband. The alarmists were right. Views are mine alone. https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris
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Had re-activated Facebook to help hire babysitters and do marketplace stuff but even that feels gross now. What a nightmare.
If you haven't been following the new Meta terms discussion, according to their new terms, anything you post and anything on any site you link to, even if it isn't your site, they will be claiming the right to use to train their "AI" as of October 30th.
New piece up @thenation.com about how the attacks on Saudi Arabia are just one more unintended consequence of the disastrous Iran War.
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The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
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Every single story about what the destructive collision between AI and our phones is doing to us is somehow more depressing than the last.
Another thank you card you can address to John Roberts.
A growing network of American high schoolers and young adults are helping to arm some of Mexico’s most powerful and violent cartels, according to law enforcement officials, trafficking experts and students interviewed by The New York Times. nyti.ms/4hNkx86
Flipping the North Carolina legislature would be incredible. Great thread here.
Assuming a uniform national shift from 2022, here is my estimate of what gains Democrats could make in state legislatures. Right now they take AZ, WI, MN, MI. PA Senate likely. Some others in striking distance. Vibe coding caveats apply.
The coordinated campaign of claims about how the US has normalized Hormuz and thus has won the war isn't convincing anyone. Not only is the military operation unsustainable, it isn't addressing the cascading series of bottlenecks and shortages caused by the ongoing crisis. New for @thenation.com
Come into the hopium den with me, @maryharris.bsky.social and @lizzieohreally.bsky.social. Great fun to be back on What Next!
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I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
My super awesome wife Sheerine Alemzadeh is publishing a book on December 15th, a labor of love called "Survivor Genius: A New Vision for Ending Gender-based Violence." I've read it and it is really amazing. Please consider a pre-order, 10% of proceeds would go to @healingtoaction.bsky.social.
The political environment right now for the GOP is like what would have happened in 2020 if Trump himself had created Covid in a lab and unleashed it on purpose.
With President Trump at record unpopularity, Republicans are facing an even bleaker midterm political landscape than they did eight years ago, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. (@aedwardslevy.bsky.social) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260923
What is taking shape out there is potentially the biggest blowout election of the 21st century and there might not be more than a handful of truly safe Republicans in the Senate. New for @thenation.com
While it's in some ways welcome to be relieved of Trump's weekly, market-manipulating pronouncements about Iran "begging" for a deal that's just around the corner, his newfound disinterest in ending the war is colliding with the gathering risk of further disasters. New for @thenation.com
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