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you are seriously underestimating how much Democrats currently hate Republicans. You have to remember Biden won 2020 because he promise a return to normal which was VERY attractive during fucking COVID. Now its "we want Republicans dragged to hell"

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In 21 days, we have the opportunity to elect leaders who will put a check on Donald Trump's callous, corrupt, and incompetent administration. Let me introduce you to some of them:

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Taking the MARC from Kensington to Baltimore today! Thank you to my council member @natalifg.bsky.social @actfortransit.bsky.social and @govwesmoore.bsky.social for making this happen. More and better transit options improve quality of life and grow the economy.

a. slight of hand, a rich guy buying his favorite restaurant to keep it open is still doing private equity, pe companies like bain are evil but that's not what i was talking about b. this is the same shit people said about bezos buying wapo (through his private investment fund, Nash holdings)

1) Barkan says after 2020 debate "Trump absolutely steamrolled" Biden 2) Barkan points to Telemundo "poll" to support his position 3) Telemundo "poll" wasn't a poll. It was just unscientific Twitter clicks. 4) Barkan claims Twitter polls are valid. Guy was a journalism professor!

notably, the Times persisted in employing Bari Weiss for so long and with such unconditional credulity that she was forced to engineer her own Self-Cancellation just to finally move on to her next big grift keep that in mind when considering their “standards”

I think functionally all of the post-resignation coverage that was about him rather than Cambridge was excessive (e.g. this poisonous review of a book nobody is going to buy - why)

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

The same people that wore bandaids to the 2004 RNC to mock John Kerry's Purple Heart he received in Vietnam

I cannot stress this enough - the side claiming to “protect children” are now posting the names of children they claim to be trans, photos of those children to help people identify them, and the name of the school they attend. It is impossible to overstate the level of danger for these children.

There are issues that do not have two valid sides. Drunk driving. Hunting humans for sport. Vanilla Ice. This is such an issue. Good god, they’re bragging about being straightforwardly evil. Trans women and girls, of any age, simply are not human to them.

Trump’s Media company—which includes Truth Social—posted just $1.7 million in revenue last quarter and a net loss of $238 million. Wow.

Bernie Sanders, a sitting US Senator and former presidential candidate who has served for decades in Congress, had zero responsibility for vetting Platner? You can't be serious

Democrats should never do anything to constrain Trump, because it might have the perceived side effect of giving cover to Susan Collins

Oh good, I was hoping someone with a podcast would weigh in

One of the biggest weaknesses of whataboutism is it falls apart if people (like AES for example) are consistent in their principles.

setting aside the 3-5% percent of people who would argue over the cheese content of the moon, most people don’t wanna argue over timetables and how much we should spend to have good buses, they wanna argue about Cars and Gender.

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

today's centrist shitlib take: I totally get people having really strong feelings in the primary and I will not criticize anyone who says "If that person gets the nom, I'm not voting in November." But in November, anyone who doesn't vote for the non-fascist against the fascist? Fuck you.

I cannot get over them hiring that 22 year old white lady to write about Black voters. And she called them dumb! And they published it! And put it on social media! Like they were proud of it!

BIG DEAL on voting rights this morning: Governor Spanberger just restored the voting rights of some 60,000+ Virginians. Her move reverses Youngkin's abrupt decision in 2023 to end automatic voting rights restoration, which brought Virginia back to a system of default lifetime disenfranchisement.

This is one thing I learned spending a decade in the trenches as a reproductive health reporter. Women aren't especially sentimental about unwanted pregnancies in the first twenty weeks or so. They don't feel bad about abortions. They just don't, no matter what Hollywood implies.

It's important to understand that the "heartbeat" you hear in early ultrasounds is actually created by the machine, not the embryo. But crisis pregnancy centers lie to patients about this. www.npr.org/sections/hea...

Josh Hawley has a law degree from Yale. He know that "no honest person pleads the fifth" is a lie, and he understands why it's a lie. But he also know that the audience he's performing for doesn't know that and doesn't understand it, and he values the performance over his own honesty.

I don’t know enough about modern sampling methodology to have much of an opinion but I will note: Quinnipiac uses old fashioned random digit dialing with human interviewers. CNN’s survey uses a high quality online panel. Both just found Trump’s approval at a record low. Iran War restart is going bad

"The problem is that poor people have to spend a lot of time traveling to supermarkets with decent stock" I'd love new bus and train lines to make it quicker to traveler and to incentivize businesses to come into a neighborhood. But you need state approval and funding for that.

Well the media sure has, so just follow their lead and continue to kiss Trump's ass so people who don't care about America's promise or values can continue to undermine both. Makes sense. Thanks NPR!

2/ Adams’ group, The Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness, has raised $7.7M since 2016. FLAG publishes books like the Student’s Constitution and Freedom vs. Socialism. But I found that very little goes to K-12 kids. Instead, a lot goes to… Nick Adams. And his mom.

You know... this is also why dsa is bad at foreign policy.

The White House Correspondents Dinner is a great example of institutional accommodation to Trump and its payoff - which is a loss of credibility. Trump will no longer be mocked there, but will instead attack journalists both with his speech and using government power.

I'm sure it's been said already but it's deeply ironic the cops don't just shoot people in the head when it comes to a murderer, who invented shooting people in the head

sure if you phrase it as "cut foreign aid" instead of "break the law" it sounds relatively benign that says more about you than about what they did to USAID also fuck this guy with his grudging acknowledgement that "some of" USAID was valuable

The White House corruptly and illegally cancelled grants for states that voted against Trump. I know this sort of thought exercise is tiring, but imagine if a Democratic president cancelled grants only for states that voted against them. There’d be wall-to-wall coverage and impeachment hearings!

Going out of his way to make some bullshit promise about arresting the President of a foreign country when he absolutely did not have to feels like it qualifies a bit

Part of building a modern science framework was to get away from science and arts to be part of a corrupt grift. Patents are democratically examined b/c you can’t bribe your way to excellence.