Hamstrosity

the answer has been all along "some of the local orgs are crazy and some of them are great, the national orgs are pants-on-head ludicrous, good luck figuring out if your local org is full of sleazebos or basically cool people who will caucus w/ Dems", WNY is hashtag blessed luckily

So if I'm understanding this correctly, the DSA's national political committee is going to force DSA LA to rescind their endorsement of Nithya Raman unless she gets on Zoom with them in the final days of the campaign to talk about Israel....

How is People’s magazine doing better coverage than most legacy media? people.com/former-miss-...

Someone should ask him who invented the numerals he uses to count tapeworms in his sewage milk.

Well played

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

one of the really useful takeaways from fukuyama's political order books is a clear conceptual understanding of what corruption *is* in its fundamental nature. and the answer... is patronage networks organized on personal connections! corruption is *inherent* in these discretionary systems!

i think cities should enable development according to impersonal rules and then levy impersonal taxes on land to pay for impersonal social services free_speech.png

looked at in longer perspective, it's striking how much this resembles the premodern system of exclusion, rents, and personalist connections, which was--and this part's important--radically worse than the modern system of impersonal rules and general taxation

Judge Rules DOJ Unlawfully Fired Comey's Daughter...

I wonder if Trump will talk about Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s ass at his rally in MS today?

Yes: everyone was preparing how to manage the aftermath of the war they very much weren’t winning.

I think Garland perceived his job as being the responsible adult in the room whose role was to resist pressure to lock Trump up. But when Trump was guilty of multifarious offenses ranging from treason to fraud to child predation, this turned Garland into Trump’s de facto protector.

Huge event. Failed Jared Kushner/Trump luxury hotel project planned for Belgrade played a role in starting expanded protests against Vucic.

bluesky and politics discourse in america generally lives in the eternal now. it is occasionally good to step outside of one's time and see the world in longer view: even this shall pass, though not without loss.

pundits are basically bored by the idea that these democratic candidates are not meaningfully behind with black voters and so are trying to conjure a controversy into existence

So I'm more positive on AI than a lot of people here and... I do not understand using this example at all? This... does not seem like a useful way to use AI. I can easily come up with 3 words to describe my kids and would never trust AI to do so accurately.

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

A day late, but this is one of the first images taken of Earth from space. Ever. It was acquired from an altitude of 105 km (five times higher than the previous record) eighty years ago, on 24 October 1946, with a 35 mm camera mounted on a V-2 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range.

the only good cheesecake factory discourse:

This is really strong reporting. And you see how people can both embrace the advantages of power (1.5x pay, determining how others live) and hide from the reality, pointing community members' kindness as a response to the quality of his character rather than as a harm reduction strategy.

christ

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

They have nothing.

if mutual aid is the metric of political power then then catholic church is the most powerful organization in existence

The thing is, making fun of the Cheesecake Factory decor aesthetic just says you’ve been in a Cheesecake Factory.

Acton is now the number one candidate on actblue for the weekend

i know we are beyond a literacy crisis because i just saw a video of Charlie Sheen saying “people don’t read enough”

"The party left me. I used to be a Democrat, but know that Obama has made fun of Trump for making the White House look like a dictator designed an over-the-top chain restaurant I favor starving African children and bringing measles back"

correct. it's wild to remember that so much of this could have been stopped cold by 5 or 6 people deciding they cared about our society. and their whole thing could be stripped down to the studs by dealing with maybe 70 guys

VP Kamala Harris: For the last year and a half, we have been pissed. We've been depressed, angry, frustrated, feeling alone, hopeless, powerless. That phase where we felt hopeless and powerless is over.